Pilvi Takala: The Committee
Curated by Albert Heta

14 September 2015 – 10 October 2015
Opening: September 14th 2015 at 20:00

Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina is pleased to present the exhibition The Committee with Pilvi Takala. The Committee is the first collaboration between Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina and Pilvi Takala.

Pilvi Takala (b. 1981 in Helsinki) lives and works in Helsinki and Istanbul. She graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006 (MFA), was artist-in-residence at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam 2009-2010 and won the Dutch Prix de Rome 2011, Finnish State Prize for Visual Arts and Emdash Award 2013.

Her solo exhibitions include Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Künstlerhaus Bremen; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Turku Art Museum; Kunsthalle Lissabon; Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway.

Her work has been shown in MoMA PS1 and New Museum, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; S.M.A.K., Ghent; Kunsthalle Basel; De Hallen Haarlem; Wiels, Brussels; 4th Moscow Biennial; Witte de With, Rotterdam; 4th Bucharest Biennial; 5th Berlin Biennial; 9th Istanbul Biennial and Kunsthalle Helsinki.

The exhibition The Committee with Pilvi Takala is part of the annual program of Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina supported by: Technomarket, Ministry for European Integration of the Republic of Kosovo, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo, X-Print, Ujë Rugove and DZG