Her work reflects on the perception and categorization of reality and on structures of communication and patterns of behavior of organisms and environments.
Anna works with sculpture, sound, moving image, bodies and electronics to create sculptural media installations and performances. These speculate about the certainties and the unknown as well as about the shifting definitions of truth, and our affiliations to it all. She approaches each of the mediums involved through the lens of the performative. She stages objects, images, scenes or sequences for the viewer to confront or to enter, fostering the illusion of enactment, existence and presence in the inanimate.
Her work filters and recreates phenomena and circumstances. Drawing from social and natural sciences as well as systems of belief, she considers the properties of materiality, the modes of coexistence and the cycles of appearance and disappearance.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 “Staged Circumstances and Piles of Things”, Amos Rex, Helsinki (FI)
2023 “Moment”, Serlachius Museums, Mänttä (FI)
2019 “Hideouts”, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki (FI)
2018 “The System”, Sinne Gallery, Helsinki (FI)
2017 “Staged”, Pori Art Museum, Pori (FI)
2017 “Reproduced”, Galerie Anhava Project Room, Helsinki (FI)
2017 “Reincarnation Failure”, Harmaa Gallery, Turku (FI)
2016 “Phenomenal”, Forum Box, Helsinki (FI)
2015 “Works” Pleiku Gallery, Berlin (GER)
2015 “Related to Glory”, Babelkunst Gallery, Trondheim (NOR) / Huuto Gallery - Jätkäsaari, Helsinki (FI)
2013 “This Gallery is too small for me”, Alkovi Gallery, Helsinki (FI)
2013 “The Living in Three Acts”, Cable Gallery, Helsinki (FI)
2012 “Goddamn Mind Changer”, Huuto Galleria, Helsinki (FI)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Nested Realities - Act 2 II, Pro Artibus Foundation - Elverket, Ekenäs (FI)
2022 Nested Realities - Act 1 I, Pro Artibus Foundation - Elverket, Ekenäs (FI)
2022 “Dance! Movement in the Visual Arts 1880-2020”, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki (FI)
2022 “Menstruous Wonders”, Borås Art Museum, Borås (SE)
2022 “ARS22”, KIASMA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (FI)
2022 “Muutoskoht(i)a”, Vantaa Art Museum, Vantaa (FI)
2022 “Subterranean”, Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki (FI)
2021 “RG0022” project by Paolo Ciregia, Italy (IT)
2021 “Supernatural”, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu (FI)
2020 “Jenny and Antti Wihuri collection”, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi (FI)
2020 RG0022, online exhibition
2019 “Shared dreams, Heino Art Foundation collection“, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu (FI)
2019 “There is a hole going through our planet”, Rio Hondo Art Gallery, LA (US)
2019 “Human Era”, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä (FI)
2019 OpenART Public Art Biennial, Örebro (SE)
2018 “Human Factors”, Watermans Art Center, London (UK)
2018 “No Ordinary Moments”, EMMA Museum, Espoo (FI)
2018 “Hive Mind”, Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn (EE)
2018 Pyhäniemen Kartano summer exhibition, Hollola (FI)
2017 “Turku Biennial”, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku (FI)
2017 “Augmented Reality”, Nörrkoping Art Museum, Nörrkoping (SE)
2017 “Return Flight”, Max Estrella, Madrid (ES)
2017 “Lehmä pitää viedä jäälle, jotta se tanssii”, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld (GR)
2017 “Augmented Geology”, KARST, Plymouth (UK)
2017 “Greetings from Suomi”, Fiskars summer exhibition, Fiskars (FI)
2016 “Transportable altar with a divinity”, Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki (FI)
2016 “Saastamoinen collection”, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo (FI)
2016 “Alive and well”, Showroom Berliini, Berlin (GER)
2016 “Hikiset Päivät”, Haihatus summer exhibition, Joutsa (FI)
2016 Villa Roosa summer exhibition, Orimattila (FI)
2016 “Collection Exhibition”, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (FI)
2016 “EMAP, Art for a time of urgencies”, Ewha Womans University, Seoul (KR)
2016 “No sabemos volver solos”, Matadero, Madrid (ES)
2015 “Cinematic Senses”, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki (FI)
2015 “Pori World Expo 2015”, Keskusaukio, Pori (FI)
2015 Purnu summer exhibition, Orivesi (FI)
2012 “Within” short film co-directed with Johanna Ketola in “Personal City”, Muu Gallery, Helsinki (FI)
DIRECTED PERFORMANCES
2015 “Show” performance-video installation, Sinne Gallery, Helsinki (FI)
2014 “Ventriloquized” performance-video installation, Mad House, Helsinki (FI)
2011 “Within” performance & film project co-directed with Johanna Ketola, Spielart Festival, Munich (GER)
2010 “In & Others” dance performance, Zodiak, Helsinki (FI) and Festival Mapa, Pontós (CAT-ES)
2008-09“The Happiest” dance performance, Cable Factory + on tour in theaters (FI, CAT-ES)
PARTICIPATION IN PERFORMANCE ART EVENTS / PERFORMED IN THEATERS
2016 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art Theatre, Helsinki (FI)
2015 SINNE, Helsinki (FI)
2015 AAVE - Alternative Audio Visual Event, WHS Theatre, Helsinki (FI)
2014 Esitystaiteen Markkinat, Zodiak7 Angakoq, SIC Gallery, Helsinki (FI)
2012 SíM Gallery, Reykjavik (ISL) / Gallery Yks Keppi, Helsinki / Esitystaiteen Markkinat, Zodiak, Helsinki (FI)
2011 Fira Tàrrega, Tàrrega (CAT-ES)
2010 Festival Mapa, Pontós / Divendres Contraban, Teatre Jardí, Figueres (CAT-ES)
AS A VIDEO ARTIST FOR THEATRE DANCE PRODUCTIONS
2007-09 “Sold Out” choreographed by Eeva Muilu, Zodiak, Helsinki (FI) + on tour (FI, FRA, CRO, NED, JPN)
2007-08 “Bodies in Construction” directed by Harriet Abrahamson, Folketeatret, Copenhagen (DEN)
2006 “Electronic City” directed by Egill Pálsson, Viirus, Helsinki (FI) + on tour (FI)
2005 “Lucy is Skating” directed by Chris af Enehjelm, TEAK, Helsinki (FI)
2005 “Idiots” directed by Sasha Pepelyayev and Erik Söderblom, TEAK, Helsinki (FI) + on tour (EST, SE, DEN)
AS A DANCER FOR OTHER CHOREOGRAPHERS
2006 “Lick and Drop” choreographed by Eeva Muilu at TEAK, Helsinki (FI)
GRANTS
2019 TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre Finland, five years working grant for 2020-24
2019 KONE Foundation, project grant
2019 SKR, The Finnish Cultural Foundation – Central fund, project grant
2019 TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
2018 SKR, The Finnish Cultural Foundation – Uusimaa Fund, one year working grant for 2019
2018 Oskar Öflund Foundation, project grant
2018 Greta and William Lehtinen Foundation, project grant
2018 TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
2017 AVEK, The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture, project grant
2017 FRAME Visual Art Finalnd (FI), travel grant
2017 TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
2016 TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
2015 TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre Finland, three years working grant for 2016-18
2015 KONE Foundation, project grant
2015 Samuel Huber Art Foundation, project grant
2014 Helsinki City, project grant
2014 TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre Finland, one year working grant for 2015
2014 TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre Finland, international project grant
2014 TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre Finland, artist in residence grant
2014 TAIKE - Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
2014 FRAME Visual Art Finalnd, travel and production grant
2013 SKR, The Finnish Cultural Foundation, 6 months working grant
2012 AVEK, The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture, project grant
2012 Alferd Kordelin Foundation, project grant
2012 Finnish Art Society, working grant
2011 Arts Council of Finland, project grant
2011 Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region, project grant
2011 Helsinki City, project grant
2011 Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
2010 Zodiak - Center for New Dance, project co-production
2010 Festival Mapa, project co-production
2010 Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
2009 Arts Council of Catalonia, project grant
2009 Arts Council of Finland, project grant
2008 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, project grant
2008 Arts Council of Finland, project grant
2008 Arts Council of Catalonia, working grant
AWARDS / PRIZES
2023 William Thuring designated prize
2015 AVEK award
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Finnish National Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art
Helsinki Art Museum
Saastamoinen Foundation
Amos Rex Museum
Pori Art Museum
Heino Art Foundation collection
Wihuri Foundation
Borås Art Museum
MEMBERSHIP
MUU Artist Association
AV-arkki
Kuvasto – Visual Artists’ Copyright Society
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2021 ISCP, New York (US)
2020 ISCP, New York (US)
2017 A.I.R Blekinge, Ronneby (SE)
2016 El Ranchito, organized by HIAP Finland at Matadero, Madrid (ES)
2015 Pleiku Gallery, Berlin (GER)
2014 LKV, Trondheim Artist Collective, Trondheim (NOR)
2012 SíM- The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik (ISL)
2011 WHS studio, production residence, Helsinki (FI)
2010 Festival Mapa, production residence, Pontós (CAT-ES)
EDUCATION
2006-09 MFA - Master of Fine Arts Degree from Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Time and Space department, Helsinki
2004-06 Non-degree student in Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Time and Space department, Helsinki
2004 Exchange student in University of Art and Design, Art department and Media Lab, Helsinki
1999- 06 Courses in contemporary dance in Barcelona and Helsinki
1999-04 BA - Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona UB, Sculpture department, Barcelona
1997-99 Olot Art School, Olot