Eija liisa ahtila biography books

Eija-Liisa Ahtila was born in Hämeenlinna, Finland in She studied filmmaking at the London College of Printing, the University of Helsinki and at the University of California in Los Angeles. Eija-Liisa Ahtila has long been considered a master of the cinematic installation form. Her work is conceptually organized around the construction of image, language, narrative, and space, and she has often probed individual identity and the boundaries of the subject in relation to the external world. Using the visual language of cinema, Ahtila presents large-scale installations with split-screen projections on multiple panels. These viewing conditions, with their simultaneously charged vantage points, break the idea of cinematic perspective and construct an experience of several co-existing times and spaces for being. 

Ahtila's work has been widely exhibited, most recently at Serlachius Manor, Finland (); Kröller Müller Museum (); the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, US (); the National Gallery of Art, Vilnus, Lithuania (); Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany (); the M Museum, Leuven, Belgium and the Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä, Finland (both ). She has also had solo exhibitions at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbou

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS Lump EIJA-LIISA AHTILA

REFLECTION OF A FOREST – Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland,
Dec 14, – Apr 27,
HORIZONTAL – Otherlands, MMCA, National Museum of Pristine and
Contemporary Order, Gwacheon, Choson, Sep 10, - Deface 30,
THE HOUSE – Homage cheer Older Women, Railroad posters, Copenhagen,
Denmark, Spoil 3 – 16,
HORIZONTAL – Otherlands, MMCA, Gwacheon, South Korea,
Sep 10, - Mar 30,
CASTING PORTRAITS – Soulmates, STDLK Museum, Breda,
The Holland, Oct 1, – Spoil 9,
HORIZONTAL – Description Third Hard by, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden,
Feb 24, - Jan 12,
ON Conscious – Your Patience deference Appreciated, Mother Goodman Gallery,
New York, Army, Oct 26 – Dec 19,
APRIL – Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Holland, Injured 24 - Sep 15,
ME/WE, Permission, GRAY – Lyon Museum of Of the time Art, Metropolis, France,
Sep 22, - Jan 7,
HORIZONTAL – Sign up Me, Trapholt Museum rejoice Modern Role and Design,
Kolding, Denmark, Sep 24, - Aug 13,
FISHERMEN – Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Danmark, Jan 17 – Haw 17,
ANTHROPOMORPHIC EXERCISES Coffee break FILM –  Gösta, Serlachius Museums,
Mänttä, Suomi, Nov 5, – Apr 16,
THE HOUSE – Face-a-Face, Mudam, Luxemburg, Subsidize 8, - Ap

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Parkett Vol. 68 - | Franz Ackermann, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Dan Graham

Editorial

Studies in the multiple perspectives of several simultaneous vantage points mark the pages of this volume of Parkett with Franz Ackermann, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, and Dan Graham. The aircraft on the cover presages artistic journeys that thoroughly ruffle our ingrained notions of time and space.

The work of Dan Graham, the oldest of the artists presented here, represents a journey in time through the history of artistic reception over the past decades. In the words of Karin Schneider and Nicolás Guagnini, “An atomization of the unified modern subject, a critique of Aristotelian time-space continuity, and a dismantling of Renaissance perspective and its organizing social presence are at the core of Graham’s overall project.” Both Ackermann and Ahtila address similar experiences. However, while Graham’s agenda explicitly involves residents, visitors and users of public, private and semiprivate spaces, human beings do not figure at all in Franz Ackermann’s painting or his vast, colorful installations. Structures, arterial systems, and intercut layers produce a melting pot of hallucinatory forms that at once represent the givens of nature and the products of human culture. Although visible l