PÄIVI TAKALA: Birdlife

Päivi Takala (b. 1970) has approached the disintegration and modification of paintings from many perspectives during her career. She has explored the limits of painting by painting illusions of disintegrating images on canvas, taking on the action of physically perforating the paintings with three-dimensional objects, and made them into standing objects or patched the holes with filler. In her recent work the filler putty has been replaced with concrete, gesture of repair with that of creating new. 

Päivi Takala's  works are included in many important public collections, such as HAM Helsinki Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Saastamoinen Foundation, the Sara Hildén Art Museum, the Malmö Art Museum, as well as private collections both in Finland and abroad. In recent years, Takala's works have been exhibited in several group shows, e.g., in EMMA (2020–21), the Rovaniemi Art Museum Korundi (2019), the Exhibition Laboratory (2018), the Aboa Vetus Ars Nova (2017–18), and Galleri Thomas Wallner (2013 and 2014). Her previous solo exhibition at Galerie Anhava was organised in 2018. Takala has worked as Lecturer in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki since 2014.

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