Mika Hannula CV 7.1.2005 born 17.3.1967 in Finland, married, one child, lives and works both in Helsinki and Berlin

Ph.D in Political Science, speaks fluently Finnish, Swedish, English and German. Since August 2000, director of Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts, chairman of KUNO, Nordic network of art Academies from 2002 - , reviews editor of NU: the Nordic Art Review 1999-2001

Published books:
Self-Understanding as a Process. Turku University 1997 - Suomi, suomalaisuus, olla suomalainen (Finland, Finnishness, being Finnish) Like 1997 - Why Do I Like Rock Music? - Theoretical Discourse on Contemporary Visual Art and Culture. A Defense of Postmodern Pluralism. University of Trondheim 2000 - Kolmas tila - väärinymmärtäminen eettisenä lähtökohtana. (Third Space - Misunderstanding as an Ethical Principle) Kuvataideakatemia 2001 - Kaikki tai ei mitään - kriittinen teoria, nykytaide ja visuaalinen kulttuuri. Kuvataideakatemia 2003 (Catch Me if You Can - Critical Theory, Contemporay Art and Visual Culture), will be published in Swedish Fall 2004 - Rock the Boat - Localized Ethics, the Situated Self, and Particularism in Contemporary Art, with Tere Vadénin kanssa. Salon Verlag 2003 - Otsikko uusiksi - taiteellisen tutkimuksen suuntaviivat, with Juha Suoranta and Tere Vadén. 23°45, niin & näin -lehden filosofinen julkaisusarja, 2003 (On the Methodoly of Artistic Research) - Nykytaiteen harharetket - kommunikaatioprosessi valkoisen kuution ulkopuolella (Misadventures of Contemporary Arts - Communicatio Processes Outside the White Cube) Kuvataideakatemia 2004 - (edited) Stopping the Process. Nifca 1998 - (edited with Satu Kiljunen) Taiteellinen tutkimus, Kuvataideakatemia 2001 English version Artistic Research, 2002
Longer articles (selection)
- River Low, Mountain High - Contextualizing Artistic Research, in Artistic Research, eds. Annette W. Balkema & Henk Slager, L & B series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory, vol 18 Editions Rodopi 2004 - The Magical Ethnographic Misery Tour, in The Yugoslav biennial of young artists, Vrsac 2004 - Please No More Guitar Heroes, in Interpreting Contemporary Art, ed. Ketonen. Ateneum 1998 - Sakari Pälsi - Uteliaisuuden ytimeen, kirjassa Varjosta. Tutkielmia suomalaisen valokuvan historiasta. Suomen Valokuvataiteen museo 1999 - Tervetuloa Mr. Chance - Jorma Purasen valokuvista. artikkelikokoelma. Pohjoinen Valokuvakeskus 2000 - Misunderstanding as an Ethical Position and Principle. Professorer / Amanuenser ved Kunstakademiet i Trondheim. Trondheim Kunstmuseum 2000 - Tidal Waves and Dissidents, in Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded. Essays on Space and Science, ed. Peter Weibel. ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe 2001. Published by MIT Press in 2002 - Paikallista politiikkaa, paikallista nykytaidetta. Estetiikka ja politiikka, Synteesi 3/2001 - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone, in Unfolding Perspectives. Three days of lectures and discussions at the ARS 01 exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art 2002 - Painting as Narrative, in Stop for a Moment, exhibition catalogue Proje4L, Istanbul - Kalliolle kukkulalle - tai: miten verkostuminen kompastui illuusioon auntenttisuudesta. niin&näin, n. 35, 4/2002 - Platsbundenhet, diskurs, nätverkande, Paletten n. 249-250, 2002 - Third Space, Art-ist, Contemporary art magazine, Istanbul n. 5, 2002 - Willy, Billy and Me, Southbound catalogue, A case study of an imaginary community in Berlin, March-April 2003 - What is Important" On Baltic Networking and Collaboration, in 3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art 2003 - Me, Myself and I - Network Society and the Question of Identity, in Art-ist, Contemporary Art magazine n.6, 2003 - Rrrrrrrradical Chic (give me banana, I'll jump like a monkey), in Superflex TOOLS 2003 - Armenien (Im Himmel), catalogue text for Getting Closer, Vier Armenier suchen einen Ausweg. Berlin Ifa gallery 2003 -Rausch der Samstagnacht, in Urbane Anarchisten. Die Kultur der Imbissbude, ed. Jon von Wetzlar & Christoph Buchstegen, Jonas verlan 2003 - What a Joy: We are all Social Democrats!, Todos Somos Pecadores, Arte nordico contemporaneo, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City 2002 Essays (selection) - Fortid, nutid, fremtid - Tag hvad du vil, tag hvad du vil. Ojeblikket No. 38 vinter 1998-1999 - Underdriftens kungar, finländsk konst. Hjärnstorm nr. 65 1999 - The World According to Mr. Huntington, Siksi no. 1 Spring 1997 - On Finland, Manifesta 2, European Biennial of Contemporary Art / Luxembourg, catalogue 1998 - Kulman kautta - puheesta tekstiin, Aavan meren tällä puolen, näyttelykatalogi, Kiasma 1998 - Die Unmöglichkeit lokaler Identität, näyttelykatalogi Norden, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Nordeuropa, Kunsthalle Wien 2000 - Olemisen taito, kirjassa På tankens yttersta udde. En minnesbok för Carl-Gustaf Lilius. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska folkskolans vänner, volym 156. 2000 - Das Prinzip der Werte zweiter Ordnung, näyttelykatalogi 2. berlin biennale. Oktagon 2001 - A (Reasonable) Chance for Another Kind of Romance, in Norsk Kunstårbok 2001 - The Look of Love - The Phenomena of Urbanization in 1990s Helsinki, in Magnetic North, Current Installation Photography in Finland, Finnish Museum of Photography 2001 - Paint it Black - Painting as a Zombie Medium, Flash Art International n. 226, October 2002 - Seductive Politics, essay to Luc Tuymans catalogue, Salamance & Helsinki, 2003 - Nightmares fallen from the tree, Micronations, Asiakirjoja, Amorph! 2003 - A wie Aktivieren, strassenfeger 21, October 2003

Numerous articles in Finnish art magazine Taide and the Nordic magazines Siksi and NU. Also contributing to various German, Swedish and Danish magazines.

Catalogue texts with the following artists:
Maria Abramovic, Eberhard Havekost, Tal R, Superflex, Markus Copper, Robert Lucander, Jukka Korkeila, Maria Friberg, Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen, Olafur Eliasson, Anne Karin Furunes, Roderick Buchanan, Leyla Gediz, Markus Eek, Daniel Pflumm, Fanni Niemi-Junkola ...

Has lectured and done workshops in the following art Academies:
Trondheim, Norway, Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden. Århus, Denmark. Spezialized in themes such as ethics, identity politics, questions of globalized cultures, and otherness. Curating - graduation show with Trondheim Art Academy students in Trondheim Art Museum, May 2000 - Nuoret/Vanhat (The Young and the Old Ones) with Tere Vadén, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum 13.10. - 21.11.1999 - Buzz 1.0 & Buzz 2.0, Danish-Finnish Photography Project, in 1% gallery with their collaboration in Spring 2000, and in Museum of Photography, Helsinki, with Pirkko Siitari, in fall 2001 - Vapaa//Free, 15 Helsinki Art Academy students, a project in Makasiinit, Helsinki, May 2001 - Memory-project - 5 Nordic Art Academies, with Anders Kruger, 8.12.2001 - 13.1.2002 in Suomenlinna, Helsinki - Evil North - 14 Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts students at the Universität der Künste, Berlin March 2002 - Stop for a Moment - 3 individual shows on Contemporary Nordic Painting - Gävle March 2002 Painting as a place to be, Istanbul April-June 2002 Painting as narrative, Turku September-October 2002 Painting as a presence - Getting Closer, Vier Armenier suchen einen Ausweg, Ifa gallery Berlin 6.6.-3.8.2003 - iD, Nytidskonst i Vaasa, 14.6.-19.8. 2003

Specials Projects - editor of Paletten, special issue on Berlin, 1/2002 - sanoja ja lauseita (words and concepts) solo show at Kluuvi gallery February 2000 - journal of philosophy niin % näin, special issue on European identity, edited with Tere Vadén, Summer 2004