Avoimet opet! Päivi Takala: Peeling and Building Painting

Who are the teachers in the Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts? An open lecture series presents our expert staff during the spring, Tuesdays 22.1., 26.2., 9.4. and 7.5. at 18.00 in the Exhibition Laboratory, Merimiehenkatu 36. Free entry. Refreshments will be served.

26.2. Päivi Takala: Peeling and Building Painting

In her lecture, Päivi Takala will wander around her artistic practice.

Works by Päivi Takala (born 1970) are included in leading public art collections, such as HAM Helsinki Art Museum, the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, the Saastamoinen Collection, the Sara Hildén Art Museum and the Malmö Art Museum, and in private collections both in Finland and abroad. Her works have been on show in recent years in numerous group exhibitions at venues including Art Museum Riga Bourse (2017), Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum (2017–2018), Galleri Thomas Wallner (2014 and 2013) and EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art (2017 and 2013). Last autumn her solo show Renovation was seen in Galerie Anhava.

Päivi Takala has been a lecturer in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Arts Helsinki since 2014.

Avoimet opet! open lecture series

22.1. Stig Baumgartner: What do you mean, abstract? (in English)

26.2. Päivi Takala: Peeling and Building Painting (in English)

9.4. Suzanne Mooney: Fragments and Other Incomplete Things (in English)

7.5. Harri Monni: The construction of unknown (in English)