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Curriculum Vitae - Marja Mikkonen

Date of birth: 5.12.1979

Address: Aleksis Kiven katu 58 a 21, 00510 Helsinki, Finland

Email: marjamikko@hotmail.com

Phone: +358 44 5051279

 

Education

2007

Master of Fine Arts

Finnish Academy of Fine Arts

Department of "time and space"

Assesment: Accepted with honors

2003

Bachelor of Arts

Turku Arts Academy / Turku Polytecnic

Department of Performing Arts, "Crossing Borders in Performing Arts"

Assesment: 5 (assesment range from 1 to 5)

Solo exhibitions

- Päivän Hulluus, Gallery Huuto, Helsinki 2006

- Prinsessoja ja Pikkusiskoja, Cafe Mansikkapaikka, Turku 2001

Collaborational exhibitions

- Make your own shadow, Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester 2006

- Spring Exhibition of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Fafa Gallery, Helsinki 2006

- Sokerina pohjalla / Rauma Art Museum, Rauma 2006

- Kenossa 1 / Gallery Välivuosi, Helsinki 2006

- ANTI- Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio 2005

- Bull’s Eye, Kaiku-gallery, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki 2005

- Bull’s Eye, Swell Gallery, San Francisco 2005

- Greetings, Kaiku-gallery, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki 2005

- Traces of Le6me Mois de La performance, Gallery Powerhouse La Centrale, Montreal 2004

- The Last Escape, Gallery Titanik, Turku 2003

- Crossing Borders exhibition, Studio Hyäryllistä, Turku 2000

- Manifesti, Manilla, Turku 2000

Festival participations (film distribution separately below)

- Stuttgarter Filmwinter, film and media festival, Stuttgart 2008

- Taiteen Tiet, site-specific art festival in Salonseutu, church of Teijo 2007

- ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival, site-specific art festival in Kuopio 2005

- Shining Bodies, performance art festival, Cable Factory, Helsinki 2005

- Laitama, site-specific art festival and performance art event, Helsinki 2005

- Le6me Mois de La performance, performance art festival, Gallery Powerhouse La Centrale, Montreal 2004

- Welcome Gold, performance art festival, Open Space Gallery, Berliini 2004

- Pimeä, urban site-specific art festival, Helsinki 2004

- Là-Bas, performance art festival, Oulu 2004

- Post-male, performance art festival, Forum Box, Helsinki 2003

- OX1, sound art festival, Oxford 2002

- Koneisto, music and art festival, Turku 2001

- POLIS, festival of art happening in urban space, Turku 2001

- EXIT , performance art festival, Cable Factory, Helsinki 2001

- Poikkeustila, performance art festival, Cable Factory, Helsinki 1999

Other solo and collaborational performances and music performances

- Art Contact, live art event, Helsinki 2007

- Potlatch, experimental music festival, Helsinki 2006

- Fluxee, live art event, Tehdasteatteri, Turku 2005

- Opening of the Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki 2005

- Greetings-exhibition, Kaiku-gallery, Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki 2005

- Potlatch, experimental music event, Helsinki 2005

- Fluxee, live art event, Tehdasteatteri, Turku 2004

- Art Contact, live art event, Helsinki 2004

- Galleria Sauna, Tukholma 2004

- Stammtisch, performance event, Berliini 2004

- Là-bas, live art event, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki 2004

- Distro, music event, Lava / Kulturhuset, Stockholm 2002

- Potlatch, experimental music event, Helsinki 2002

- Tampereen Teatterikesä, theatre festival, Tampere 2002

- Down by the laituri, music and art festival, Turku 2001

Filmography as director

Rondo 2006

Short film, duration 8'20''

Written and directed by: Marja Mikkonen / Cinematography: Sini Liimatainen / Editing: Hannele Majaniemi / Scenography: Tuomo Truhponen / Sound: Sakari Luhtala / Music: Taneli Tuominen, Hermanni Ylitepsa, Robin Ellis / Actors: Jaana Pirskanen ja Hermanni Ylitepsa

Kuningatar 2006

Video installation

Directed, performed, filmed and edited by Marja Mikkonen

Ketchup 2004

Video installation

Directed, performed, filmed and edited by Marja Mikkonen

99 Years of My Life 2003

Short film, duration 33'

Written and directed by: Marja Mikkonen / Cinematography: Sini Liimatainen / Editing: Azar Saiyar / Sound Design: Jussi Vuola / Music: Marja Mikkonen, Jussi Vuola, Antti Tolvi / Animation: Veera Luhtala / Actors: numerous

Novy Roku 2002

Short film, duration 22'

Script: Marja Mikkonen, Azar Saiyar, Joonas Kiviharju / Editing: Azar Saiyar and Joonas Kiviharju / Actors: Marja Mikkonen, Tuomo Truhponen

Filmografy as actress

- Katsotaan mitä tulee 2004

short film, duration 25', written and directed by Joonas Kiviharju

- Salmiakkiabduktio 2003

short film, duration 25', written and directed by Joonas Kiviharju

Filmscreenings

2008

- IndieLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

2007

- Zinebi, Bilbao, Spain

- L'alternativa, Barcelona, Spain

- No Words, Bolzano, Italy

- ISFF Rio de Janeiro Short Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

- Nordic Shorts: New Short Films from Finland, Scandinavian House, New York, USA

- ISFVF / 6th Beijing Film Academy International Student Film & Video Festival, Beijing, China

- Rakkautta & Anarkiaa, Helsinki, Finland

- Nordisk Panorama, Oulu, Finland

- Malmö Filmdagar, Malmö, Sweden

- Seoul International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea

- Westsidefilms Short Film Festival, Valletta, Malta

- Expresión en Corto, San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuto, Mexico

- Festival de Cannes, Cannes, France

- Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä, Finland

2006

- Kettupäivät, Helsinki, Finland

- Golden Lion Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan

2005

- Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide, Australia

- Festival Némo, Pariisi, France

2004

- Up-and-coming Film Festival, Hannover, Germany

- Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany

- Festival International du Court Métrage à Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France

- Festival de Cannes, Cannes, France

- Curtacinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

- Premieres, Moma, New York, USA

- Mediawave, Györ, Hungary

- International Festival of New Cinema and New Media, Montreal, Canada

- Granada International Film Festival, Granada, Spain

- Indielisboa, Lissabon, Portugal

- Curtas, Vila do Conde, Portugal

- Kasseler dokumentarfilm- und videofest, Kassel, Germany

- Courtisane, Gent, Belgium

- Trnfest, Ljubljana, Slovenia

- Cinema Tout Ecran, Geneve, Switzerland

- L'Alternativa, Barcelona, Portugal

- Invideo, Milano, Italy

- Haugesund Film Festival, Haugesund, Norway

- Cork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland

- Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech

- Northern Lights Film Festival, Gateshead, United Kingdom

- Belfort International Film Festival, Belfort, France

- Aye Aye Film Festival, Nancy Lorraine, France

- Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland

- Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä, Finland

- Rauma Blue Sea Film Festival, Rauma, Finland

- Espoo Ciné, Espoo

Prizes

For 99 Years of My Life

- Deuxieme Prix (ex-aequo) Cannes Film Festival / Cinéfondation, France 2004

- Best Experimental Film Mediawave – Another connection, Hungary 2004

- Team work award Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Festival for expanded media, Germany 2004

- Audience award Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, Spain 2004

Funds

- FFF (Finnish Film Foundation), travel fund, 2007

- Finnish Embassy in Brazil, travel fund, 2007

- FFF (Finnish Film Institute), fund for film distribution costs, 2007

- FFF, fund for cultural export: for the printing of the brochure and poster of Rondo, 2007

- AVEK (Organization of funding audiovisual work in Finland), travel fund, 2007

- AVEK, post-production fund for Rondo, 2007

- Finnish Academy of Fine Art, fund for gallery rent, 2006

- AVEK, production fund for Rondo, 2005

- Finnish Academy of Fine Art, travel fund for a 4-memberes group, 2005

- Art Council of Finland, travel fund, 2004

- FFF, fund for film distribution costs, 2004

- FRAME – Finnish fund for Art Exchange, travel fund, 2004

- Finnish Embassy in Lissabon, travel fund, 2004

- FFF, travel fund, 2004

- Art Council of Finland, travel fund, 2003

Residencies

- Residency of the Arts Council of Uusimaa, Helsinki / Berlin, August 2004

- Residencial working period of two weeks in the biennial Le 6me Mois De La Performance / Montreal, October 2004

Works bought to collections

- A & B, C-print on MDF, 60 x 80 cm, collection of the Finnish Academy of Fine Art, 2006

- Short film 99Years of My Life, the archive of InVideo Milan-festival, 2004

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