Tiirinen, Mirkka | Artist Register – Artists’ Association of Finland

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b. 1969

Visual Artist

Residence: Helsinki

Contact information

Email: mirkka.tiirinen@gmail.com

Artist's Statement

All existence and human life still amaze me. I observe experiencing of life, feeling the experience, different standpoints in life and existence, different truths and realities. What kind of reality do we believe in or want to believe? My works are connected with each other in some respect, as in living organism every particle is connected as a whole. At first small fragments may seem to be separate, but in the end they form continua. I feel like an explorer who attempts to survey unknown ways of being, unknown districts and languages. Telling about those entities may give more joy, hope or understanding for the listener – and maybe wake up or remind to listen to life again, openly, without made up theories, humbly before the versatility of existence. What is human’s place in all this, in this infinity?

Everything in life is breathing and changing. Likewise I want to use different materials and techniques that seem to fit the best for each work. I mingle with and about abstract and figurative art, without forgetting language and symbolism.

Mirkka Tiirinen

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Mirkka Tiirinen
born 1969
lives and works in Imatra, Finland

EDUCATION / ARTIST TRAINING

2004—2008
South Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design (Imatra, Finland), Bachelor of Culture and Arts, Specialisation of Painting

2007
Russian Academy of Arts, State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education, Repin State Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of St. Petersburg, Russia, winter term

2007
Saint Petersburg’s Center of Visual Arts, Project Academia: course of drawing, composition and art history, St. Petersburg, Russia

2005
Summer course of painting together with Russian Academy of Arts, Lahti University of Applied Sciences (Institute of Fine Arts) and Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design

2000—2004
University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, Institute For Art Research, Drawing Department
Additional Education

2008—2009
Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Design, Specialisation in Art Pedagogy

1989—1996
University of Helsinki, Master’s degree, General Phonetics; University of Tampere, Department of Speech Communication and Voice Research

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Artist of the Month, Artotheque of Harjavalta

2011 Gallery Pihatto, Lappeenranta

2011 AVA Gallery, Helsinki

2010 Artotheque’s Artist of the Month in Imatra, Lappeenranta, Kotka, Kouvola, Karhula, Kuusankoski; Art Link, regional project of Arts Council of Southeast Finland, Artists’ Association of South Karelia and Artists’ Association of Kotka

2010 Emil Cedercreutz Museum, Harjavalta, invited

2010 Gallery Gjutars, Vantaa

2008 Muuntamo, Kokemäki

2006 Castle Hotel Rantasipi / Imatran Valtionhotelli, Meeting and Congress Centre, Imatra

2006 Imatran Tietotalo, Imatra

2006 Sõru Muuseum, Emmaste, Hiiumaa, Estonia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Artists’ Association of South Karelia New Members, Gallery Pihatto, Lappeenranta, Finland

2011 Dream Pictures, exhibition of the Union of Finnish Art Associations (SKjL), juried, invited, curator Samuli Heimonen, Saarijärvi Museum

2010 From Another Reality, Art Photography from Southeast Finland, Imatra Art Museum

2010 South Karelia Regional Exhibition 2010, Photography Centre of Southeast Finland, Lappeenranta

2010 Haihara 10 – Home, Haihara Art Centre, Tampere, invited, juried

2009 Risk Group, Cable Factory, Puristamo, Helsinki

2007 Stockfors, Pyhtää

2004 Cygnaeus Gallery, Helsinki

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008 article 'Todellisuuden uudelleen luomisesta' ('About Recreating Reality') by Mirkka Tiirinen in art publication Taide 5/08, pages 36—37.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Finnish Painters’ Union, aspirant membership
Artists’ Association of South Karelia
Kuvasto ry, copyright administrator