BIO AND CV
Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki
I am knee-deep, and hands-full in photo-sensitive film and expanded print-making adventure. I am Polish original, living, working, creating and having fun in Helsinki, heading for the moon!
The core of my expression became the fusion of film and print, often oscillating between different scales from large canvases to 16mm films, space projections and live-cinema performances.
I am exploring the substance of print by using analogue optical machinery and alchemy of film processes. I aim to uncover how traditional film projecting can be reinvented to puppeteer stories I want to tell. My works are often found on the borderland of print, film and theatre.
I'm on a quest to find magic in the simplest mechanisms I find in film, print and folding paper to bring a smile especially in the current times of what’s unsure.
CV
EDUCATION
- Printmaking /Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki Kuvataideakatemia / FINLAND / 2012–2015
- Painting / Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk / POLAND / 2006–2011
- High School of Fine Arts Bydgoszcz / POLAND / 2003 - 2006
RECEIVED DEGREES
- Master of Fine Arts / MFA (2015)
- Master of Fine Arts / MFA (2011)
- Technician Artist (2006)
UPCOMING PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
- The Silver Record #2, Tromsø , Norway (May 2025)
- Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, UK (May 2025)
- PROCES Festival, Riga, Latvia (May 2025)
- LUX Galleria / LUX Hellsinki (2026)
LIVE PERFORMANCES AND FESTIVALS PARTICIPATION
2024 Prisme #7 / Performing at Expended cinema and film festival in Nantes / France (F)
2024 Oranssifest / film screening / Helsinki /(FIN)
2024 Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä / Performing Expanded-Cinema “Warm Data” at experimental film programme curated by Mika Taanila / (FIN)
2024 SOLA, Experimental Music and Film Festival / WHS Teatteri Union / Expanded Cinema Performance / Helsinki / (FIN)
2024 LUFF, Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival / Expanded Cinema Performance / Switzerland (CH)
2024 Art for Art Sake, Cinema Orion / Expanded Cinema Performance / Helsinki / (FIN)
2024 The Air We Share / Expanded Cinema Performance / AV-Arkki + Cinema Orion in Helsinki /(FIN)
2024 Offside 2 / Performance festival in Vaasa / Expanded cinema performance / (FIN)
2024 Expanded cinema performance at International Architects Symposium / Art Centre Kalevan Navetta in Sejnäjoki / (FIN)
2024 SPECTRAL EXPANDED / “Warm Data” expanded cinema performance at WHS Teatteri Union in Helsinki / (FIN)
2024 OPEN HOUSE / Expanded cinema performance night at Filmverkstaden / Vaasa / (FIN)
2023 Alert Live Art Festival / presenting ARCHIVE expanded cinema performance / YÖ gallery; Helsinki / (FIN)
2022 International Animated Film Festival ANIMOCJE in Bydgoszcz; Poland / premiere of expanded cinema performance LOW VOLTAGE DYNAMO at concert finale with You.guru band / (PL)
2022 Hanko Film Festival / LOW VOLTAGE DYNAMO film screening / (FIN)
2021 KARVAT / expanded-cinema performance at WHEN THE LIGHT HITS JUST RIGHT festival / Draama-saali / Vaasa / (FIN)
2021 FINAL(E)AFFECT / Expanded Cinema Event at Kaapelitehdas; Helsinki / (FIN)
2018 "Wheels Reels 2000" expanded cinema performance/ Filmverkstaden + Platform / Vaasa / (FIN)
2017 Hello Anna / expanded cinema performance at Projection Bias 2017 / WHS Teatteri Union in Helsinki /(FIN) 2016 CHINA GIRL LAND / Expanded Cinema Performance at THE VISITORS ed.3 / Catalysti - Transcultural Artist in Finland / Suvilahti, Kattilahalli / Helsinki / (FIN)
2016 ARTSI VANTAA ART MUSUM / PUNK AND PERFROMANCE / Expanded cinema performance / (FIN)
2015 AAVE- ALTERNATIVE AUDIOVISUAL EVENT / Expanded Cinema Performance "ABSTRACT CITY SIMPHONY" / WHS Teatteri Union / (FIN)
SOLO PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Room Gets Small When You Stay Still / film installation / Galleria Fikka, Porvoo Art Hall
2023 WARM DATA / live-cinema performance / LIFT Liaison of Independent Filmmakers in Toronto / Toronto / Canada
2023 PIECES THAT MATTER / live-cinema performance / Draama-Sali / Vaasa City Library / Finland
2023 PERHOSINITY LIVE ART DAY / “ARCHIVE” Live-Cinema performance at Antares Art Centre / Sippola
2022 KAZIK / Huuto gallery; Helsinki
2022 SUN RAY HUNTING / YÖ gallery; Helsinki
2021 COMPÔTE – SEKAMEHU / Gallery G; Suomen Taidegraafikot; Helsinki
2018 CENTRAL STATIONS / KESKUASEMIA / Huuto gallery Jätkäsaari; Helsinki
2017 PIP- PRINT IS POWER, OR PRINTMAKING IN 250 WATTS / Myymälä2 gallery in Helsinki; Uudenmankatu 23 / Finland
2016 WŁĄCZNIK / THE POWER BUTTON / Municipal Gallery BWA in Bydgoszcz / Poland
2015 SPACE POCKET / AVARUUSTASKU / Tila Gallery / Helsinki / Finland
2014 MAKING SPACES II / 31st Film Week Festival / Saarijärv City Cinema / Finland
2012 POHJANTÄHDET / Kampus Kino / Jyväskylä / Finland
2011 COMMONNESS, UNIQUENESS / Academy of Fine Arts / Gdańsk / Poland
CURATING
2024 THE SILVER RECORD / co-curating Analogue Film and photography festival at Filmverkstaden, Vaasa; Finland
2022 POP THE LIGHT / self-curated group exhibition featuring SUN RAY HUNTER project about power of light and sun in the darkest month of the year in Finland / YÖ gallery; Helsinki
GROUP PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2023 Polish Baltic Philharmonic / GDANSK THROUGH THE SOUNDS /Gdansk /PL
2023 International Animated Film Festival ANIMOCJE in Bydgoszcz; Poland / conducting series of animation workshops / PL
2023 ROIHUA RUUKISSA / Pato Galleria / Kuusankoski
2022 GRANARY OF ART / TERRITORY / Wejherowo palace / Poland
2022 KAKSI VUOTTA / Summer exhibition at Old Tile Factory; Jokela; Finland
2022 Film Contact / Super 8mm and 16mm films show / YÖ gallery; Helsinki
2021 LEVYTIE PICTURE SHOW / Levytie artists community winter exhibition at Roihutila gallery; Helsinki
2021 ECO-DEVELOPING FILM IN SEAWEED / workshop participation in Final(e)affect event
2021 WHEN THE LIGHT HITS JUST RIGHT / Analogue film and photography festival / participatory in the workshops and talking panels / Vaasa; Finland
2021 THE RAW AND THE COOKED /project installation presented at group exhibition WHEN THE LIGHT HITS JUST RIGHT. Analogue film and photography festival / Taidehalli / Vaasa; Finland
2020 TAAJUUKSIA / Exhibition of artists printamkers / G gallery / Helsinki
2019 Levy-yhteisö / Roihutila / Helsinki
2019 ART FAIR SUOMI 2019 / "Printed Corner" collage projection / Kaapelitehdas / Helsinki
2018 Granary of art / Night of Arts / Wejherowo / Poland
2017 Art Fair Suomi ' 17 / International Contemporary Art Festival / Cable Factory / Helsinki
2016 GRAPHICALL 2016 / International Printmaking exposium / 4bid gallery / Amsterdam
2015 EUROPEAN ACTION STATION- LEAVE YOUR TRACE / Action in the urban space, dedicated to the city, based on the history of space, people, social groups / Municipal Gallery BWA in Bydgoszcz / Poland
2014 KUVAN KEVÄT / Spring exhibition of University of The Arts / Project "MAKING SPACES" / Kuva Tila / Helsinki / Finland
2014 ALL ABOUT BLUE / Project presented for JULKAISE - PUBLISH at Exhibition Laboratory / Helsinki / Finland
2014 LATERNA MAGICA - WORK IN PROGRESS / Kuva Tila / Helsinki / Finland
2013 FONDIA GALLERY WINTER EXHIBITION / Helsinki / Finland
2013 GEPPERT ART EXHIBITION / Young Artists Painting Review / BWA Wrocław Gallery / Poland
2013 UNELMIA TILASTA TILAAN / FANTASIES FROM THE SPACE TO THE SPACE Suvilahti collage projection "SO WHAT, THAT DE CHIRICO / Ksarminkatu gallery / Helsinki / FINLAND
2013 AND THEN WITH POWERS COMBINED / Collective MFA students exhibition / FAFA gallery / FINLAND
2012 METROPOLY IS OK! / Collective group exhibition / Jan Art Centre / Gdańsk / Poland
2011 PROMOTIONS 2011 / 21th National Young Painting Review / Legnica / Poland
2011 YOUNG PAINTING / National Museum of Gdansk / Poland
2010 International Istanbul Biennial Exhibition / Istanbul / Turkey
ART RESIDENCIES
- LIFT / The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto; Canada (2023)
- Art residency at Filmverkstaden; Vaasa (2023)
GRANTS, AWARDS, PRIZES AND HONORABLE MENTIONS
2024 AVEK, Audiovisual Centre
2024 TAIKE Arts Promotion Centre in Finland
2023 Saastamoinen Fundation
2023 Filverkstaden
2022 TAIKE Arts Promotion Centre in Finland
2021 Young Artists Grant / Finnish Art Society
2021 Queen Sonja Print Award. Nominationto Inspirational print award
2020 TAIKE Arts Promotion Centre in Finland
2020 TAIKE Arts Promotion Centre in Finland
2018 TAIKE Arts Promotion Centre in Finland / Children's culture grant
2017 Nominationby Queen Sonja Print Award for the Kjell Nupen Memorial Grant 2017
2016 Award of theMunicipal Gallery BWA in Bydgoszcz; Poland for organising solo exhibition
2014 University of the Arts / Kuvataideakatemia / Project Grant founded by KESKO
2013 Nomination to GEPPERT PRIZE ART EXHIBITION / Young Artists Painting Review / Municipal Gallery BWA in Wroclaw / Poland
2012 2nd Award of the Mayor of the city of Legnica / Poland
2012 Honorable Mention of the ART ATTACK Internet Web Art Portal
CO-ESTABLISHED
- Elävän Kuvan Laboratorio Artist Association - Funded for the purpose of establishing an experimental moving image film lab in Helsinki
- https://elavankuvanlaboratorio.fi/
JOINED GROUPS:
FILMVERKSTADEN nalogue film and photography; Vaasa, Finland
https://www.filmverkstaden.fi/
MUU Artist Association
http://www.muu.fi/site/?lang=fi
The Association of Finnish Printmakers
https://www.taidegraafikot.fi/
https://www.yory.fi/en/front-page
SUPPORT:
Filmprojection 21
http://www.filmprojection21.org/category/individuals/?lang=en_us#filmmakers