Harri Pälviranta
Born 27.7.1971 in Tampere, Finland, lives and works in Helsinki, Finland
harri (at) harripalviranta.com
education
2006− researcher / doctoral scholar, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland.
2005 MA in Media studies, University of Turku Finland
2000 BA in Photography, Turku Arts Academy, Finland
selected solo exhibitions
2008 PHotoEspana 2008, Complejo el Aguila, Madrid, Spain.
2008 Center for Creative Photography, Gallery Harmonia, Jyväskylä, Finland.
2008 Centro de Fotografia, Santa Cruz de Teneriffe, Spain.
2008 Galleri Image, Århus, Denmark.
2008 Gallery Formato Comodo, Madrid, Spain.
2008 The Courtyard, Herefordshire’s Centre for the Arts, Hereford, UK.
2007 gallery Uusitalo, Helsinki, Finland.
2007 Photography Center of South-East Finland, Lappeenranta, Finland.
2007 Gallery Ibis, Vaasa, Finland.
2006 Fotonauta Gallery of Photography, Barcelona, Spain.
2006 Center for Creative Photography/Gallery Harmonia, Jyväskylä, Finland.
2005 Northern Center of Photography, Oulu, Finland.
2005 Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Studio, Turku, Finland.
2004 Cultural center Lindart, Tirana, Albania.
2001 Northern Center of Photography, Oulu, Finland.
2001 Gallery Just, Turku, Finland.
2000 Photography Center Peri, Turku, Finland.
1999 Gallery Stabs, Korppoo, Finland.
1998 Gallery Just, Turku, Finland.
selected group exhibitions
2008 Mäntän kuvataideviikot / Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland. Show is curated by Veli Granö.
2008 Institute Camões, Lisbon, Portugal. Nine Voices Nine Places − Finland, curated by Silvio Salgado.
2008 Ars Nova, Turku, Finland. REBUS SIC STANTIBUS, curated by Silja Lehtonen and Michal Kolecek.
2008 Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland. Hi Man! group show.
2008 Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland. Curated by Hannu Vanhanen.
2008 Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku.
2008 The Northern Center of Photography, Oulu, Finland. The Sign of Fear, curated by Jari Silomäki.
2007 gallery Kakelhallen, Mariehamn, Åland. MaleStuff.
2007 M.K.Ciurlionis National Museum Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania. Kaunas Photo 07 decisive exhibition.
2007 Photography Center Peri, Turku, Finland. MaleStuff, curated by gallery Signe Vad and Harri Pälviranta
2007 photographic gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki Finland. Curated by Jari Silomäki.
2007 PhotoEspana 2007 Descubrimientos finalists exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain.
2007 gallery Signe Vad, Copenhagen, Denmark. MaleStuff, curated by gallery Signe Vad and Harri Pälviranta
2006 National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania. Onufri 2005, curated by Eleni Laperi.
2005 Museum Center Vapriikki, Backlight2005, the 7. International Photographic Triennial in Tampere, Finland. Untouchable Things.
2004 Victor Barsokevitsch Photographic Centre, Kuopio, Finland. LIFE, curated by Anna Vilkuna.
2004 Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland. In blue light.
2002 Photography Center PERI, Turku, Finland. Boys.
2001 Mikkeli Photography Center, Mikkeli, Finland. Virne, Humour in Finnish Photography.
1999 Manilla, Turku, Finland. Café Ananas.
1999 Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photo, Arles, France. TECE exhibition.
1993 Happy Freedom, Tampere, Finland.
residencies
2007−2008 Belfast Exposed, Northern Ireland
2007 Sirius Art Center, Cork, Ireland
2004 Cultural center Lindart, West Balkan AiR -residenssi (NIFCA), Tirana, Albania
curatorial work
2007 Digitally Yours, Ars Nova, Turku Finland (together with Andy Best ja Maija Koskinen, 31.3.-13.5.2007)
2007 MaleStuff, gallery Signe Vad, Copenhagen Denmark (1.3.-31.3.2007); Peri Center for Photography, Turku Finland (31.8.-30.9.2007); gallery Kakelhallen, Maarianhamn Åland (10.11.2007-6.1.2008)
2004 Concerning the Commonplace, Turku Art Museum, Finland (1.10.-12.12.2004)
grants and prices
2007 PhotoEspana 2007 Descubrimientos Award
2007 Patricia Seppälä Foundation
2007 The Arts Council of Varsinais-Suomi
2006 Finnish Cultural Foundation / The Regional Fund of Varsinais-Suomi
2006 Arts Council of Finland, Board for Public Display Grants to Visual Artists
2006 National Council of Photographic art
2005 Foundation of Press Photographers Finland
2004 Patricia Seppälä Foundation
2004 The Arts Council of Varsinais-Suomi (group grant)
2004 National Council of Photographic art (group grant)
2004 TOP-foundation (group grant)
2004 Finnish Cultural Foundation / The Regional Fund of Varsinais-Suomi (group grant)
2003 National Council of Photographic art
2001 National Council of Photographic art
2001 Turku City
1998 Finnfoto
1997 Finnish Cultural Foundation (group grant)
1997 Arts Council of Finland (group grant)
works in collections
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art / Turku City art collection
Centro de Fotografia Isla de Tenerife, Museos de tenerife, Spain
Gallery Uusitalo, Helsinki
Turun Sanomat, Finland
The Northern Centre for Photography, Finland
Private collections
other activities
2007 PHotoEspana 2007 Descubrimientos
2006 Rhubarb-Rhubarb Festival, Birmingham, UK
2005 A Dying Breed? - photography magazines in the 21st century, Helsinki Photography Festival, seminar panelist
2005 Asia-Europe Forum for young photographers 2005, Paris, France
2004 Teacher in Workshop ‘Identities − A piece of world in my city’, Cultural center Lindart, Tirana, Albania
2001− Lectures and teaching on photography in Art School of Pori, Turku Arts Academy, Swedish Polytechnic (Finland), University of Tampere,
University of Art and Design Helsinki
2000− Photography critic, daily newspaper Turun Sanomat
1999 Our Cultural Progenitors, EU-coordinated international workshop in Pylos, Greece
1997− Freelance-photographer, work for several main newspapers and magazines in Finland
pictures and articles in publications
- The art of humanity, Mänttä XIII art festival catalogue 2008.
- PHotoEspana 2008 Festival guide. Madrid: La Fabrica 2008.
- Battered − Harri Pälviranta. Exhibition catalogue. Århus: Galleri Image 2008.
- Rebus sic stantibus. Exhibition catalogue, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova ja Emil Filla Gallery 2008.
- ZEIT magazin Nr. 41, October 2007: Leben
- MOTIV magazine #11, June 2007: Home
- Katalogue for Backlight05, 7th International Photographic Triennial in Tampere, Finland. Tampere: Photographic Center Nykyaika (2005).
- Katalogue for ELÄMÄ-exhibition, Victor Barsokevitsch −center, Finland (2004).
- Katalogue Virne − Humour in finnis photography; Jaatinen, Olli (edit.). Helsinki: Musta Taide and Finnish Museum of Photography (2002).
- Katalogue PYLOS − On the Tracks of Our Cultural Progenitors. Feldkirch: Brunner/Fritsch Pädagogische Akademie (1999).
Radio interviews and other appearances in Radio YLE (Finnish National Broadcasting company), daily newspapers Helsingin Sanomat, Ilta-Sanomat, Turun Sanomat and Keskisuomalainen and several other Finnish newspapers and magazines. Also number of articles and interviews in Albanian media and in Spanish and Danish newspapers and radios. Critiques in several newspapers and magazines 1998−.
articles and publications by the artist
- Allen Feldman and cultural anaesthesia. web-magazine Synnyt 1/2007
- The impossibility to co-live the war. Text in Sofia Saari’s exhibition catalogue. Rauma Art museum 2006.
- Exhibition catalogue Se mikä on tavallista / Det som är vanligt / Concerning the commonplace. Turku: Turun taidemuseon
julkaisuja 4/2004. Eds. Mia Tykkyläinen and Harri Pälviranta
- More than 100 photography critiques since year 2000
- Articles (concerning visuality and photography) in different publications
memberships
PAND − Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament
Photography Center PERI
The Union of Artist Photographers Finland
The Union of Journalists in Finland
VÄVY the Union for Concerned Photographers Finland
updated 17.6.2008