
Person
Mika Taanila
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 22, 1965
- From
- Helsinki, Finland
Mika Taanila is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Helsinki. His films have been screened at several international film festivals such as TIFF Toronto, IFFR Rotterdam, Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Clermont-Ferrand, Karlovy-Vary, Midnight Sun Film Festival, IDFA Amsterdam and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. Taanila’s moving image installations have been shown at major international group shows, such as Venice Biennale (2017), Aichi Triennale (2013), Documenta (2012), Shanghai Biennale (2006) and Berlin Biennale (2004). Solo shows include Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, Bologna (2020), STUK, Leuven (2018), Kiasma, Helsinki (2013–14), CAM, St. Louis (2013), Badischer Kunstverein (2008) and Migrosmuseum, Zurich (2005). In 2015 Taanila was awarded The Ars Fennica prize.
Images
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Failed Emptiness. Time
Hermaphrodites

Return of the Atom
Vanishing

Failed Emptiness

Tectonic Plate

Monica in the South Seas

Failed Emptiness. Place
Six Day Run
My Silence

Sad Song of the Hard-Edge Transition Wipe Markers

The World

The Future Is Not What It Used to Be

A Physical Ring

Verbranntes land

Bad Vugum – From B To V

The Zone of Total Eclipse

Branches