Tag: Pilvi Takala

  • Pilvi Takala: Close Watch – Venice Biennale 2022

    Close Watch, Takala’s multi-channel video at the Finnish Pavilion, is based on her time working undercover as a security guard in a large shopping centre. As she explains, it explores the concept of how private companies exert control over the…

  • Knock, Knock: Humour in Contemporary Art

    From slapstick to sarcasm, parody to political activism, this group show at the South London Gallery, curated by Ryan Gander and gallery director Margot Heller, interrogates contemporary artists’ diverse manipulations of humour as a compelling facet of human connection

  • Glasgow International 2016

    The biennial festival returns for its seventh edition with more than 220 contemporary artists from all over the world. This ambitious collection includes new works, site-specific commissions and new venues throughout the city

  • Frieze Art Fair London 2013: Reaching new audiences

    Situated in Regent’s Park, Frieze London hosted more than 150 exhibitors in an airily minimal pavilion designed by Carmody Groarke. A short stroll away, at Gloucester Green, its sister fair, Frieze Masters, presented “130 of the world’s leading galleries” in…