Mika Taanila’s solo exhibition “Kadonneet” is on show at Galleria Uusi Kipinä in Lahti May 21 until June 8, 2025.
Tuesday-Friday 12-18h, Saturday-Sunday 12-16h, closed on Mondays.
Street address: Kymintie 1, 15140 Lahti.
Exhibition organised and produced by Lahden valokuvataide ry.
Failed Emptiness (2024, 66 min) will be the opening film of the first Finnmark Flicker festival in Kirkenes, Norway.
With Ariane Tretow, director and editor: Mika Taanila, cinematography: Jussi Eerola, screenplay: Harry Salmenniemi, sound and music: Nika Son, additional music: Klara Lewis, produced by Testifilmi.
Finnmark Flicker – Experimental cinema and moving images week take place on 19-24 May 2025. The remote northern town of Kirkenes will become an entertaining, educational and nurturing communication environment. The screenings will take place at the main cinema hall of Kirkenes – Aurora Kino, as well as unconventional spaces in Sør-Varanger: the library, the old shops, the former hospital and the repairing workshops.
Epäonnistunut tyhjyys (“Failed Emptiness”, 2024, 66 min) is screening at Tampere Film Festival on Saturday 8 March 2025 at 21:00. Original version in Finnish, with subtitles in English. Screening followed by Q&A. Finnkino Cine Atlas 4.
Director and editor: Mika Taanila
Script: Harry Salmenniemi
Cinematography: Jussi Eerola
Music: Nika Son, Klara Lewis
Sound: Nika Son
Produced by Testifilmi
The short film Optical Sound (dir. Mika Taanila, 2006) is screening at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival on February 1-8, 2025. The film is part of combined program dedicated to sound in film Buzz – Le bruit qui court.
Mika Taanila’s site-specific multi-screen installation A Physical Ring (2001) is part of group exhibition “Rock, Paper, Scissors” at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. Music: Ø (Mika Vainio). The show features dozens of works from The Finnish National Gallery collections from the 1970s to the present. Curators: Saara Hacklin, Satu Oksanen and Saara Karhunen. Dates: 14.2.2025-18.1.2026.
Mika Taanila’s video installation My Silence (2013) and photograms from the series Black and White Movies (2013) are part of the group show “Arjen abstraktioita – Kudelmia kokoelmista” at Hämeenlinnan taidemuseo from October 10, 2024 until April 13, 2025. Curator: Tanja Pääskynen.
Failed Emptiness (2024, 66 min) is screening at The 31st European Film Festival in Palić, Serbia.
A Physical Ring (2001), Patent Nr. 314805 (2020), Optical Sound (2006), Future Is Not What It Used To Be (2002) and The World (2017) will be screened in Palić on the occasion of the Underground Spirit Award.