CV
TUIJA ASTA JÄRVENPÄÄ,
Education:
Gerrit Rietveld Academy for Art and Design, Amsterdam 1990-95
ROTKO Institute for Arts and Crafts, Rovaniemi 1988-1990
Aalto University, exchange, Helsinki1993
Workshops:
A.P.E. -Art -Philosophy & Ecologie / Seminar & Conversation avec Timothy Morton, Betonsalon Paris, 2015
PUBLIC SPACE URBAN RELATIONS ART WORKSHOP / Casino Luxembourg -forum d á rt contemporain, Luxembourg, 2002
PEPINIERES ART FORUM / Graz, Austria 2003
YDI -Young Design and industry / Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam 1992
Artist Residencies:
a i r NIEUW en MEER, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2022
AGA LAB -Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2022
RATAMO Printmaking and Photography Centre, Jyväskylä, Finland, 2021
CAPACETE artist residency program as Finnish Cultural Foundation laureate, Rio de Janeiro,Brazil, 2020 (postponed...)
KUNSTHAL GENT - The development programme 'Permanently Practising' with Saddie Choua, Gent, Belgium, 2019
SMALL PROJECTS GALLERY, Nordic A - I - R -program, Tromsø, Norway, 2018
VILLE DE PARIS guest artist at Cité internationale des arts as Pepinieres europennes pour jeunes artistes -laureate, Paris, France, 2003
Memberships:
MUU -Artist Association
DODO -Urban Environmental Association.
Recognitions:
NATURA PENTAGON -winning entrance at the "Viiskulma Art Competition", Lahti, Finland 2020
FREDRIKA'S MORNING -winning entrance at the "Runeberginkatu Street Mural Competition" Helsinki, Finland 2020
BARONESS'S ROSE GARDEN -winning entrance at the "The Kujala Waste Centre Art Competition", Lahti, Finland 2017
Grants:
OLGA and VILHO LINNAMO FOUNDATION, 2020
FRAME publication grant, 2019
AVEK grant, 2018
Arts Council of Finland 2006, 2007, 2017, 2020, 2021
Niilo Helander Foundation 2016
Finnish Cultural Foundation 2006
National Council for Design 2004, 2006, 2016
Arts Council of Uusimaa, 2003, 2013
City of Paris 2003
Agenda:
WMN'S Salon, FORMULAS -Che si puo fare?, DEAR VIRGINIA, I'M LOOKING FOR A ROOM
Independent installations + events + happenings, selection:
DEAR VIRGINIA, I'M LOOKING FOR A ROOM, an exhibition at the Kallio Library, Helsinki, 2020
LECTURE BY MAI ZETTERLING, an exhibition at Pesrpektiv Gallery, Tammisaari, Finland, 2020
FATIMA MERNISSI INSTITUTE, a presentation at Kunsthal Gent, Belgium, 2019
DEAR VIRGINIA, I'M LOOKING FOR A ROOM, BUCHI, a presentation at the Small Projects Gallery, Tromsø, Norway, 2018
IT TOOK PLACE ON THE BEACH UNDER THE SUN, a performance and an installation, Festival Concreto, Fortaleza, Brasilia by Saddie Choua&Tuija Asta Järvenpää, Festival Concreto, Fortaleza, Brazil 2017
I<3YAHYA HASSAN performance, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris 2015
RUE DE RIVOLI proposal for a street event and installation, Paris 2015
JEE OFFICE project office for or ecological, ethical and aesthetical designmanifestations, exhibitions, cliental work 2008-
ALL U NEED IS: design manifesto at Ornamo window gallery & webpage,Helsinki 2010
CAFE KEMIJÄRVI -Portrait of a Place, an exhibition at Kemijärvi Artist Recidensy, Lapland 2009
RUSAKKO INDEPENDENT urban guerrilla events, Helsinki 2005 -07
SITE SPECIFIC performance, Amorph! -Festival, Helsinki 2006
MARRY ME? happening, Helsinki Kunsthalle & artist Maria Duncker 2005
BOUDOIR DE PARIS-PERFORMANCE FOR A PUBLIC SPACE Paris 2003
FINNISH SUSHI BAR FISH happenings, Helsinki 1997&1998
Group exhibitions, selection:
FORMULAS, a soundinstallation for Mörk-Ö -Festival, Örö Island, Finland, 2021
LECTURE BY FRIDA KAHLO, a WMN'S Parliament event at Contour Biennale, Mechelen, Belgium, 2019
FATIMA'S SALON, a WMN'S Parliament event at Villa Empain, Brussels Belgium, 2019
KATTAMUKSIA, Pro Puu Centre, Lahti, Finalnd 2012LUXX international arts, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2010
MY HOME IS MY CASTLE, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma 2010
FINDESIGN, Matadero Design Centre, Madrid 2009
SUOKISSA, one day art fest, 2009 Helsinki.
SAUMA [DESIGN AS A CULTURAL INTERFACE] Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Helsinki 2005-2008
SPARKLING DESIGN, Kunsthalle Helsinki 2007
NEW TERRORTORY, P////AKT Platform for contemporary art, Amsterdam 2006
AMORPH!06 Cover Up International Performing Festival/ Muu ry, Helsinki 2006
PROCESS: ENCOUNTERS IN LIVE SITUATIONS / SHIFTING SPACES - SPACES AND SENCES, Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art Helsinki 2003
LIGHTBAR, LIGHTCARE, LIGHTHOSTEL and LIGHTGYM interactions for urban encounters; Helsinki, Reykjavik, Bergen and Tallin Light Festivals by designer team: Elo - Järvenpää - Pöyhönen 1998-2003
Publications, selection:
DE LIENS ET D’EXILS ”Le Salon de Fatima” in connection to ”WMNS PARLIAMENT” by Nadia Sabri 2018
FINNISH DESIGNERS 100 YEARS by Anne Veinola 2012
FINNISH DESIGN YEAR BOOK by Anne Veinola 2008-2009
GREEN WEDDING by Mireya Navarro 2009
TAIDELEHTI ”Pupuja yössä” by Henna Paunu 2007
SPARKLING DESIGN -exhibition catalogue by Henna Paunu 2007
LOS ANGELES TIMES ”Marriage of Architecture and Green Design” by Lucinda Michele Knapp, 2007
SAUMA DESIGN AS CULTURAL INTERFACE - exhibition catalogue by Essi Rautiola
WASHINGTON POST ”The Art of the Practical” by Linda Hales 8.10.2005
ENCOUNTERS IN LIVE SITUATIONS by Maaretta Jaukkuri, Kiasma publication 2003
NORDIC LIGHT exhibition catalogue, HIP Office 2000
HELSINGIN SANOMAT about The Finnish Sushibar Fish by Marja-Terttu Kivirinta 1997
Other, 1995-
Design works for urban landscapes, interiors, real estate development, exhibitions and sets
WORK DESCRIPTION
Public interactivity is an integral part of my works. I use spatial and cultural sensation as starting point to create site specific situations, encounters with common life. I’m Interested in how we ract to our physical environment and how objects reflect cultural moments.
My work draws from the traditions of modernism and interest in situationism and conceptual art. Observing the social and ecological consequences of European modernism and industrialization.
In everyday practice I initiate, research and realize a large variety of projects; from fast product statements, to pop-up installations and happenings.
BIO
Tuija Asta Järvenpää
Born in Saudi-Arabia, educated in The Netherlands, based in Finland,
Between 1985-1995 she followed art and design studies in Finland and in The Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. As a young artist urban realms, consumerism and the ecological and ethical problematics of Industrial production became her prime subject.
Since 1995 she has been working in Helsinki with conceptual design and site specific happenings and performances. During 1995-2007 she created happenings like "THE FINNISH SUSHIBAR FISH", "SILENCE!" and "SITE SPECIFIC". Year 2002 she was invited by Casino Luxembourg ⋅ Forum d'art Contemporain to attend a masterworkshop with Joep van Lieshout and Claude Closky about art and public space.
Next year a designer team: Susan Elo -Tuija Asta Järvenpää -Tuula Pöyhönen created "LIGHT GYM" for The National Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma in Helsinki. A site specific, interactive, aesthetic and kinesthetic installation. The piece was curated by Mrs Maaretta Jaukkuri for the exhibition "Encounters in Live Situations". The team had been active from 1998 presenting light related interactions for urban nordic environments.
"BOUDOIR DE PARIS -Performance for a Public Space" took place in the streets of Paris in July 2003. Feministicly articulated street art for the city of Paris; Ville de Paris. The feminist and consumer crtitical thematic continued in the MARRY ME? -event organized together with Maria Duncker in Helsinki Kunsthalle 2005 with A THROWAWAY WEDDING GOWN, her first public industrial design item. It was her statement for industrial practices. The gown got on tour with "Sauma" exhibition presenting contemporary Finnish design in US.
As Helsinki was chosen to be the world design capital 2012, she created the JEE OFFICE for ecological, ethical and esthetic design to encourage ethical and ecological parctises and discussions. During 2008-2012 Jee Office created independent pop-ups, manifestos and concepts like ALL U NEED IS: and CAFE KEMIJÄRVI
Since 2008 she has been interested in the social power structures in communication and in the designed environment. She attended a seminar on art and ecology by Timothy Morton in Paris 2015 and is now working on new pieses e.g. GARAGE REPAIR-ED, GALLERIA _/_2_3_N_5_9 and the WMN'S PARLIAMENT.
