TELLERVO KALLEINEN & OLIVER KOCHTA-KALLEINEN

		Tellervo Kalleinen (*1975 Lohja, Finland) and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (*1971 Dresden, 		Germany) are Helsinki based artists who have collaborated since 2002. Besides working 		as a duo they are both part of artist groups YKON and The Speech Karaoke Action Group.
EDUCATION  

Tellervo
1996-01 Professional education of chinese medicine / acupuncture, Helsinki
2000-01 Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (Prof. Cosima von Bonin)                
and Hochschule für bildende Künste Braunschweig (Prof. Marina Abramovic)
1997-03 MFA, Time and Space Department, The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki

 Oliver
		1991-2000 Study of Fine Art / Visual Communication at Hochschule für Bildende 				Künste in Hamburg with Kurd Alsleben, Marina Abramovic and Dr. Georg Jappe
		1996-1997 Studies at MHI in Reykjavik / Iceland
		1998-1999 Studies at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki in the department 			of »Time & Space« with Prof. Dr. Lauri Anttila 
		2000 M.A. at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

		2012
FORMS OF PARTICIPATION 
Shedhalle, Zurich (Kalleinen & Kochta-Kalleinen and YKON)

2011
DREAMLAND - 21 dreams about a president
Mikkeli Art Museum, Mikkeli, Finland 

2010
KALLEINEN & KOCHTA-KALLEINEN
ARTRA Gallery, Milan, Italy 

DREAMLAND - 21 dreams about a president
Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland

		COMPLAINTS CHOIR
		Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO

2009
MAM10
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

DREAMLAND
The Studio of Art Hall / Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland 

2008
FUTURE GAME
Taidehalli / Art Hall, Helsinki, Finland (YKON)

2007
COMPLAINTS CHOIR
Sparwasser, Berlin, Germany

COMPLAINTS CHOIR
Signal, Malmö, Sweden

2006
LOST AND FOUND
Stedelijk Museum voor actuele kunst, SMAK Gent, Belgium (Duo show of Kalleinen & Kochta-Kalleinen and Mika Taanila)

MICRONATIONS TRAVELLING AGENCY 
Sparwasser, Berlin, Germany (YKON)

INTER I 
Embassy of Finland, London, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

		2014
		ARS FENNICA
		Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki

		2013
		EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL

	  SJÄHLÖ 9
	  Hyvinkää art museum, Finland

	  I WISH THIS WAS A SONG	
	  Telemark Kunstnersenter, Skien, Norway

2012
I WISH THIS WAS A SONG
		Nasjonalmuseet Oslo, Norway 

		TELL IT LIKE IT IS
		Candor in Contemporary Video Art - Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS 

ARCTIC HYSTERIA
		Centre for Photography ROPSHOTO, St Petersburg, Russia

		PALIKKAOOPPERA 
		Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland (collaboration with Maija Hirvanen)

		CAVE ANALOGUES
		Retretti, Finland
		
2011
MERCOSUL BIENNALE
Porto Alegre, Brazil 

MINE, YOURS, OURS
Drugo More gallery, Rijeka, Croatia 

CONTEMPORARY ART ARCHIPELAGO
Turku Archipelago, Finland

2010 
VOCAL THOUGHTS
		Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia CASCA 

RAISE YOUR VOICE
Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria

THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED
TENT, Rotterdam 

MADNESS AND ARTS -FESTIVAL
Haarlem, Netherlands 

COMMON THINGS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

2009
TIME OUT OF JOINT: RECALL AND EVOCATION IN RECENT ART
The Kitchen, New York, US

		      BLUE-COLLAR BLUES
		      Konstihoone, Tallinn 

		      RICHTUNG NORDEN
		      Künstlervereinigung MAERZ, Linz 

IM/POSSIBLE COMMUNITY
Shedhalle Zürich 

LET US BE US
Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic 

ARCTIC HYSTERIA
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Hungary

HAPPY TOGETHER
Konstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia (YKON)

2008 
POSSIBILITY OF CHANGE
Ålands Konstmuseum / Nipa, Mariehamn, Finland 

HISTORY ACTS
Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden

COMPLAINTS CHOIRS @ MARABOUPARKEN
Marabouparken, Stockholm, Sweden

BUSAN BIENNALE
Busan, South-Korea 

U-TURN
Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 

ARCTIC HYSTERIA, NEW ART FROM FINLAND
P.S.1, New York, US

ARS BALTICA TRIENNAL: DON´T WORRY BE CURIOUS
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany

CONSPIRE
Transmediale, Berlin, Germany (YKON)

2007
ARS BALTICA TRIENNAL: DON´T WORRY BE CURIOUS - Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Germany 
- KUMU, Tallinn, Estonia 
- Pori Art Museum, Finland

		BIENNALE OF YOUNG ARTISTS
		Tallinn, Estonia 
	
2006
FREMD BIN ICH EINGEZOGEN
Kunst Halle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany 

ART LINK
Göteborg Kunsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden

SWEET PUNCH 
Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zeland

MOMENTUM
Moss, Norway

SINGAPORE BIENNALE 
Singapore (YKON)

ARS06
Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland 

NAKED LIFE
Moca Taipei, Taiwan (YKON)

LIAF 06
Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway

METAPHYSICS OF YOUTH
Pescara, Italy

UTOPIAS
Éigse Carlow Arts Festival 06, Ireland 

FANTASTISKT FINSKT
Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden

                        EV+A
Limerick, Ireland

2005
Artspace, Sydney, Australia

PIENI TAIVAS
Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland

THE FIRST UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION OF MICRONATIONS
Sonarmatica, Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain

EVENTS (selection)

		2013
		THE SUMMIT OF PRACTICAL UTOPIAS (YKON)
		Brioni, Croatia

		NORDWIND FESTIVAL
		HAU2, Berlin and Hellerau, Dresden

		ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL
		(With The Speech Karaoke Action Group)

		FAMILY GOES HOME
		Helsinki Festival

		THE INFLUENCERS FESTIVAL
		Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona

2012
MIDSUMMER WITH YKON
The White Building, London, UK

YKON GAME (YKON)
- Communikey festival, Boulder, US
- Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzwerland
- Brut, Vienna, Austria

SPEECH KARAOKE (by The Speech Karaoke Action Group)
- Kanuti Gildi Saal, Tallinn, Estonia
- Helsinki Festival, Lavaklubi, Finland
- Kiasma, Helsinki Finland

2011
YKON GAME (YKON)
		- DMY MAKER LAB – THE FINLAND SESSIONS, Berlin
		- MERCOSUL BIENNALE, Porto Allegre, Brasil
		- 37 MANIFESTOS, Berlin

		     2010
		     MAL AUX PIXEL, Paris (YKON)

2009
YKON GAME (YKON)
-  Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland.
- MINE-YOURS-OURS, Rijeka, Croatia. 
- SUBVISION. KUNST. FESTIVAL. OFF., Hamburg, Germany. 
- HEAVENS, 2nd Athens Biennale, Greece

2008
MES NUITS SONT PLUS BELLES QUE VOS JOURS
5th Berlin Biennale night program, Berlin, Germany
 FRESSEN ODER FLIEGEN - ART INTO THEATRE - THEATRE INTO ART
HAU2, Berlin, Germany

FILM FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS (selection)

2013
Kino Der Kunst, international competition, München

2. Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Kyiv

Moving Images -Art Fair, New York

Helsinki Shortfilm festival, Helsinki

Lens Politica, Helsinki

Schillertage -festival, Mannheim

Berwick film fest, UK

		Signes de Nuit, Paris

2012
Tampere Film Festival, Finland

Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine

		25th European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany

		2Annas - Riga International Short Film Festival - international competition, Latvia

2011
MOMA, New York, US

Doc Point -festival, Helsinki, Finland

Hot Docs -festival, Toronto, Canada

Tampere Film Festival, Finland

Rome film festival, Rome, Italy

Rendezvous with Madness -festival, Toronto, Canada

		Fokus Video Art Festival, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010
IMPAKT -festival, Utrecht, Netherlands

4th CAIRO VIDEO FESTIVAL, Egypt

KETTUPÄIVÄT, Helsinki, Finland

2008 Unmasked, New Museum, NY, USA

CURATING
2010-11
Curators of »I am a socialist-anarchist-individual-collectivist-individualist-communist-cooperative-aristocrat-democrat.« -exhibition at Hämeenlinna Art Museum and Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland

2003  
THE FIRST SUMMIT OF MICRONATIONS 
Amorph!03 - performance festival, Helsinki.  Concept and curating by Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. Produced by Artist´s association MUU, Helsinki. 

AWARDS         
		AVEK Media art award (2012 )
		„Best feature film -award“ at Lo Spiraglio Film Fest, Rome (2012 )