L. Puska
b. 1986
Joensuu, Finland
Education
2019-2022 MFA, LUCA School of Arts, MA Fine Arts, Ghent, BE
2020 MA exchange, ViCCA (Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art), Aalto university, Helsinki, Fi
2013-2016 BFA, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Multimedia Department, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, CN
2012-2013 BFA, ABKM - Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Maastricht, NL
2010-2011 International Workshop, Metafora, Tallers d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, ES
2006-2010 Nuutajärvi's School of Glass, KK Tavastia, Nuutajärvi, Fi
Solo Exhibitions
2023. Two Do Too, K41 / Photo Brussels Festival, Brussels, BE
2019 ToGetHer, Making Space, Guangdong, CN
2018 I might be closer to you than you think, curated by Deming Chen, gallery Five, Quanzhou, CN
2017 Lähellä, Hirvitalo - Center of Contemporary Art Pispala, Tampere, Fi
2015 Not Now, Nothing Gallery, Xiamen, CN
2015 Fine Gestures, Nothing Gallery, Xiamen, CN
2012 How do you roll your news? Hunoghun, Reykjavik, IS
Selected Exhibitions
2022 D-RAW-ING, with The Nordik Government, Brussels Drawing Week, BE
2022 Experimental Growth, GalleryGallery, Antwerp, BE
2021-22. AF-TER-ING, with The NordiK Government, Studio68, Antwerp, BE
2021 Grandly Ghostly, gallery Fred&Ferry, Antwerp, BE
2021 Gates (might) open soon, Kanal-Centre Pompidou, Brussels, BE
2021 Zomersalon, Kunsthal Gent, Ghent, BE
2021 New Encounter, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Tokamachi, JP
2020 DIS-DANCING, with The NordiK Government, Vermeulen, Brussels, BE
2019-20 New Glass Now, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, USA
2019 New Encounters, artspace Edition Shimizu, Shizuoka, JP
2019 50 years glass, Museum Jan van Togt, Amstelveen, NL
2019 River, collaboration with Yang Zhiqian, CEAC - Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, CN
2019 State of Transparency, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Nordic Salon II, Café des Arts, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
2018 Rolling Snowball, Amnua Art Museum of Nanjing University, Nanjing, CN
2017 Kunniavieras, Rauman Järjestötalo, Rauma, Fi
2017 Live from Finland, The Finnish Institute in London, London, UK
2016 Graduation show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Unannealed, The Large Glass Department, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Looking down and backwards... together with Immigrants and animals, Kutomo, Turku, Fi
2015 The Possibility of An Island, Shapowei, Xiamen, CN
2014 UnCut, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
2013 SAM-decorfabriek, Maastricht, NL
2013 Paraphrasing babel, Maastricht, NL
2011 Projecte Alella, Can Manye, Alella, ES
2011 Stairways... Untitled BCN, Barcelona, ES
Selected Performances / Participatory Events / Site-specific works
2021, 2022 Booked - Artists' Book Fair, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Fi
2019 Self-bakers - Bake with me, Luca School of Arts, Ghent, BE
2019 Self-bakers - between an experience and dough, LRDC, Lucitopia, Jiangxi, CN
2019 See again, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
2016-2018 Living Room Project, a series of site-specific installations and performances, Fi, IR, FR
2017 I You It, Porin Juhlaviikot, Pori, Fi
2017 I You It, We You They, Art Fair Suomi, Helsinki, Fi
2015 Defining encounters, Shapowei, Xiamen, CN
2015 Self-bakers, between a mirror and a dough, C-Platform, Xiamen, CN
2015 Invitation, Nothing Gallery, Xiamen, CN
2013 Conversations I&II, collaboration with artist Crystal Gregory (USA), Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Holder, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Enter/Exit, A Miscellany of Broken Silence, audio publication by VEC Audio, Rod Summers, NL
2013 Valdis/Beast, film by Tosca Teran, Toronto, CA
2013 Invitation, Intro inSitu, Maastricht, NL
2011 Story project, Barcelona/Madrid, ES
Durational Performance Pieces
2021 - Performing Administration, performance based data collection project, durational (until the end of the career)
2020, 2023 URGENT - Residency for Artworks, performance based research project about material agency and object relation
- invited artworks: blob by Eva Spierenburg (spring residency 2023)
2019 - DD - Daily Drawings, a joined routine with another artist in one year cycles
- artists invited to participate: Roos Nieboer (2023), Pieter Bullen (2022)
Residencies
2019 Making Space, Guangzhou, CN
2019 Cité Internationales des Arts, Paris, FR
2018 Wild Effort Art Project, Quanzhou, CN
2017 Hautumo, 12 months peer-curating pilot program for professionals of performance art, Fi/UK
2017 Paay Gah, Keresht, Iran
2012 working period in glass studio, Gler í Bergvik, Kjalarnes, IS
2010 workshop residency, Nanopod Hybrid Studio, Toronto, CA
Curatorial Projects
2022- Running Exhibitions, pop-up exhibition initiative, Ghent, BE
2021- Mail Art on Fridge, running exhibition of mail art by British artist Rod Summers (NL)
2017-20 artist-curator, international exhibitions and cultural exchanges,
in collaboration with Sanaz Raffii and Art Studio Gaah, IR
- Interstice - Without Words, with 6 Iranian and 6 European artists, Etemad Gallery, 2020, Tehran
- Without words, with 10 artists, Paay Gaah, 2018, Keresht
Memberships
2020- The NordiK Government, Finnish female artist collective exploring shared practices, Brussels, BE
2017 HIAA Helsinki International Artists' Association
2016- MUU Artists' Association