Päivi Takala’s (b. 1970) works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, including at Galerie Anhava in Helsinki, Galleri Lars Olsen in Copenhagen, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Museum Riga Bourse, Rovaniemi Art Museum Korundi, Aboa Vetus Ars Nova in Turku, and Galleri Thomas Wallner in Simris. Her works are included in many important Nordic public collections, such as the HAM Helsinki Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Saastamoinen Foundation, the Sara Hildén Art Museum, and the Malmö Art Museum. Takala has worked as Lecturer in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki since 2014.
PÄIVI TAKALA
Born 1970 in Lehtimäki, Finland
Lives and works in Helsinki
EDUCATION
1994–1998 Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
Freie Kunst, Malerei
Meisterschülerin
1990–1996 University of Art and Design Helsinki
Department of Art Education
Masters of Arts
1989–1990 University of Helsinki, Department of Art History
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 My Precious, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2021 Birdlife, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2018 Renovation, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2015 Paper on Painting, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2013 Torso, Turku Art Museum, Studio, Turku
Smoke on Paper, Galleri Lars Olsen, Copenhagen
2012 Vanitas Series, galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2011 Memento, Gallery Bourouina, Berlin
2010 Lume, Taidesalonki Husa, Tampere
2009 Background, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
Windowseat, Gallery Bourouina, Berlin
2008 Outside, Gallery Thomas Wallner, Malmö
2007 Näsänen, Euro, Takala, Forum Box, Helsinki
2006 Grip, galerie Anhava, Helsinki
2005 Gallery Bakeliittibambi, Helsinki
2002 TM-Gallery, Helsinki
2001 Gallery Bakeliittibambi, Helsinki
2000 Nelimarkka Museum, Alajärvi
1999 Gallery Bakeliittibambi, Helsinki
1998 Gallery of the Helsinki Fine Arts Academy, Helsinki
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Magical, Kumma, Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio
2024 Toivonoja Summer Exhibition, Nastola
Ihmisen Paikka - Ars Häme ry summer exhibition, Hämeenlinna
2021- 24 Collection, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö
2022 XXVI Mänttä Art Feetival, Mänttä
Arvoitus, Purnu Summer, Orivesi
2022-25 Touch, Saastamoinen Foundation´s Art Collection, Emma, Espoo
2019 Nurinkurin, Korundi, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi
Jaetut Unet, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu
2018 Ihmisen Kuva, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa
2017 The State of Art, The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
With Seven-league Boots. Stop-Finland: Works from the Kiasma Collection,
Art Museum Riga Bourse, Riga, Latvia
8th Turku Biennial, Aboa Vetus Ars Nova, Turku
Constellations, Exhibiton Laboratory, Helsinki
2015 Touch, Saastamoinen Foundation´s Art Collection, Emma, Espoo
2014 Polyfonia II, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris; Sweden
2013 Events in Nature, Saastanoinen Faundation´s Art Collection, Emma, Espoo
Polyfonia, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris; Sweden
Seven´th Wave, Wihuri Foundation´s Art Collection, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma
2012 Seven´th Wave, Wihuri Foundation´s Art Collection, Taidehalli, Helsinki
2011 Silent Wishes, Gallery Oksasenkatu, Helsinki
2010 New Impressions, Gallery Bourouina, Berlin
2008 The Real Thing, Malmö Konstmuseum,Malmö
Third Beijing Biennale, Peking, China
What´s up, Gallery Bourouina, Berlin
Simple Mind, Fiskars
2007 Unbelievable, but true. New works from collections, HAM, Helsinki
2006 Artist and Spectator, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere
Purnu Summer, Orivesi
Järvenpää City Art Museum
ARTWORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finlan
HAM, Helsinki Art Museum, Finland
Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, Emma Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Kumma Museum, Kuopio, Finland
Heino Art Foundation, Finland
Swaljung Collectiion, Helsinki, Finland
Vexi Salmi Collection, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland
The Finnish State Art Collection, Finland
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foudation Collection, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
Nelimarkka Museum, Alajärvi, Finland
Paulo Foundation, Helsinki, Finland
OP Pohjola, Helsinki, Finland
Private collections in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland
AWARDS
2009 William Thuring Award, Fine Arts Association of Finland