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About the Work Marja Pirilä’s atmospheric series “Like a Breath in Light” casts a spell on the viewer. The images present Finland’s lake Nässijärvi in the many moods of natural light.… Read more
Intro Bio Exhibitions
1957 | Born in Rovaniemi, Finland |
Studied at the University of Helsinki and the University of Arts and Design, Helsinki, Finland | |
Lives and works in Tampere, Finland |
2010 | Art Award of The Arts Council of Pirkanmaa, Finland |
2008 | Werstas Award, Finnish Labour Museum, Tampere |
2002 | State Art Prize, Finland |
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland | |
The Finnish State Art Collection, Helsinki, Finland | |
Art Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina | |
City of Turku, Finland |
2015 | Marja Pirilä. Carried by Light, Almlof Gallery, Malmö, Sweden |
2014 | Carried by Light, TR1 Kunsthalle, Tampere, Finland |
2013 | Milavida, Gallery Katve, Artikum, Rovaniemi, Finland |
2013 | Interior/Exterior, Nordic Light Festival, Norway |
2012 | Herbarium, Gallery Ibis, Vaasa, Finland |
2011 | Speaking House & Interior/Exterior, Gallery La Chambre Claire, Rennes, France |
2010 | I am, Gallery Heino, Helsinki, Finland |
2007 | Speaking Light, National Centre of Photography, St. Petersburg, Russia |
2005 | Interior/Exterior, Finnish Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia |
2002 | Interior/Exterior, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland |
2001 | Interior/Exterior, Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy |
2015 | Within/Without, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, USA |
2014 | Nature and More, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany |
2014 | Poetics and Light, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
2013 | Photography into Art: Hannula & Hinkka Collection, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland |
2012 | Mazzano! – 20 Years for Art, Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia |
2011 | Bodies, Borders, Crossings, Governors Island, New York City, USA |
2011 | 5. Triennale der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany |
2009 | (De)konstruktionen, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria |
2007 | Mapping the Unknown, Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany |
2005 | To Look or to See, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland |
2004 | Facing East, Bournemouth Photography Festival, Bournemouth, UK |
2004 | Contemporary Finnish Photography, House of Photography, Prague, Czech Republic |
2003 | Photography & Video Art from Finland, Center of Photography, St. Petersburg, Russia |
2001 | Time in Mazzano, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland |
1999 | Light, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland |
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