Eija-Liisa Ahtila

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Where is Where?, 2008 6 channel projected installation with 8 channel sound; 53 min, 43 sec Inv.#11832 Image
Where is Where?, 2008 6 channel projected installation with 8 channel sound; 53 min, 43 sec Inv.#11832
Where is Where?, 2008 6 channel projected installation with 8 channel sound; 53 min, 43 sec Inv.#11832 Image
Where is Where?, 2008 6 channel projected installation with 8 channel sound; 53 min, 43 sec Inv.#11832
Where is Where?, 2008 6 channel projected installation with 8 channel sound; 53 min, 43 sec Inv.#11832 Image
Where is Where?, 2008 6 channel projected installation with 8 channel sound; 53 min, 43 sec Inv.#11832
Where is Where?, 2008 6 channel projected installation with 8 channel sound; 53 min, 43 sec Inv.#11832 Image
Where is Where?, 2008 6 channel projected installation with 8 channel sound; 53 min, 43 sec Inv.#11832

Eija-Liisa Ahtila

(b. 1959 in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Lives and works in Helsinki.)

Eija-Liisa Ahtila studied filmmaking at the London College of Printing, UCLA, and at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. In 1990 she received the Young Artist of the Year Award, Tampere, Finland. Since then, she has received numerous grants and awards, including an AVEK-award for important achievements in the field of audio-visual culture (1997), the Edstrand Art Price (1998), a DAAD fellowship (1999), honorary mention at the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), the Vincent Van Gogh Bi-annual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe (2000), and a five-year grant from the Central Committee for the Arts (2001), as well as the Artes Mundi Prize (2006). She also exhibited in Documenta XI (2002) and the 50th Venice Biennale (2005).

RECENT SOLO SHOWS

2008
Eija-Liisa Ahtila: A Retrospective, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006
The Wind, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
2004
Le cinéma est un tresor: Rétrospective Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Institut Findlandais, Paris, France

RECENT GROUP SHOWS

2009
Becoming Animal, Becoming Human, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
2008
Listen Darling... The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
2007
Auto Emotion, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario



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Eija-Liisa Ahtila Exhibitions

Eija-Liisa Ahtila / Chantal Akerman
Eija-Liisa Ahtila / Chantal Akerman
March 29 - April 30, 2008
New York


30/40 Part II
30/40 Part II
A Selection of Forty Artists from Thirty Years at Marian Goodman Gallery
October 23 - November 24, 2007
New York


Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
The Hour of Prayer
January 19 - February 25, 2006
New York


Eija-Liisa Ahtila Publications

The Cinematic Works
Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Telephone 212-977-7160
Fax 212-581-5187


Hours
Monday - Saturday, 10 AM - 6 PM



Galerie Marian Goodman
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75003 Paris
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