Eeva-Liisa Puhakka

Eeva-Liisa Puhakka (born in Finland) works in mediums that include kinetic sculpture, video and installation. Puhakka is a member of Scent Club Berlin, a collective of artists, designers and scientists working in and between scents and smells and these fields of practice. The group focuses on scent and olfaction as an expressive medium for experimentation in art, science and technology. A specific focus in her recent work has been the investigation of human and animal dependence: the synanthropic species, together with global environmental changes on bird populations and bird migration in correlation to human migration. She have also been researching a religious sect and its child preachers, hat affected her home town in southern Finland during the 1930s-1950s. Other themes encountered include personal and family history and smell of death and fear.

Eeva-Liisa Puhakka graduated with an MFA in New Media art from Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg (2009) and an MSc in Environmental Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology (2001). She lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Kouvola, Finland. Puhakka’s works have been widely presented in exhibitions across Europe, including Transmediale Vorspiele Berlin (...

MFA, media art, Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
MSc, environmental engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

Last 4 years:

2020
10 years anniversary show, Kouvola Art Museum, Finland.

2019
CCC, Leipzig, Germany.
SeMA Nanji, Seoul, South Korea
Nakanojo Biennale 2019, Japan
ZK/U, Berlin, Germany
Art center East, Lappeenranta, Finland

2018
Emerge/ncy, Transmediale Vorspiele2018, Berlin, Germany.
Black, The Hague, Netherlands.
Luftlinie /28. Kunstschau, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany.
Zamek Valek, Karlovarský Kraj, Czech.
Arosita gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Pyhäniemi2018, Hollola, Finland.
Antares Art center, Kouvola, Finland.
Holo sounds 4, Hohenlockstedt, Germany.

2017
Top Schillerpalais, Berlin, Germany.
Kutscherhaus Recklinghausen, Germany.
Ars Sippola, Antares, Kouvola, Finland.
Process Space Art Festival, Ruse, Bulgaria.
BcmArte gallery, Kleiner Salon, Berlin, Germany (soloshow).
Dada post, Berlin, Germany.
At This Point In Time, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2016
Via media art festival, Maubeuge, France.
Galleri Box, Göteborg, Sweden.
Exit media art festival, Creteil, France.
Castle Wolkersdorf, Austria.
Grey Cube galleries, Helsinki, Finland.
10th Water tower art festival, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Artists without borders, Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey.