TIMELINE / AIKAJANA


2024 (October)
Solo show at Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2024 (October)
Jouluevankeliumi ja pari muuta näytelmää, a selection of my theatre plays published as a book by Parvs Publishing.

2024 (May–September)
HETKIÄ JA KEHOJA — kolme näkökulmaa Kuntsin säätiön kokoelmaan / BODIES AND MOMENTS — three views into the Kuntsi Foundation’s Collection.
An exhibition curated by Leevi Haapala, Teemu Mäki and Anne-Maj Salin. Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland. (I'm participating in the show also as an artist.)

2024 (March)
Radio version of the opera,
IHMISEN JÄLKEEN / POSTHUMAN, broadcast on YLE Radio 1 on 29.3.2024 and streaming after that, in two parts:
Act One and Act Two.

2024 (March)
The film, Riverbulls — a Letter to Vladimir Putin, shown on YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, i.e. national television and available on YLE Areena after that for two years
16.3.2024–1.3.2026 (in Finnish/Swedish only).

2024 (March)
Do You Remember Chechnya? (2) / Muistatko Tšetšenian? (2)
A new version of the solo exhibition.
The first exhibition of Critical Gallery / Kriittinen Galleria, a new gallery in Turku, Finland.


2023–2024 (September–January)
Yhteinen ruokamme / Our Common Food
A group exhibition in the Lapua Art Museum, Finland.

2023 (April)
Do You Remember Chechnya?
/ Muistatko Tšetšenian?

A solo exhibition at Cultural Centre Caisa, Helsinki, Finland.

2023 (3.–7.3.2023)
The premiere of the opera IHMISEN JÄLKEEN / POSTHUMAN, composed by Max Savikangas, libretto & direction by Teemu Mäki. Musica Nova Festival, Tanssin Talo / Dance House Helsinki, Finland.

2022–2023
Group show in Nelimarkka Museum, Alajärvi, Finland: Through the World We Pass – Ostrobothnian Artists’ Views on Religion (8.10.2022–5.3.2023).

2022 (September–October)
Two group shows at MUU Contemporary Art Center, Helsinki: MUU MediataideTori 2022 – Media Art Fair & Armas Aika.

2022 (June–August)
Rauma Triennale at Rauma Art Museum: Imagine! / Mitä jos! Curated by Heta Kaisto & Teemu Mäki. Teemu also participates as an artist.

2022 (April)
TEEMU MÄKI: How to Be a Woman or a Man or Something Else Ⅵ. Solo exhibition at Finlayseon Area & Himmelblau, Tampere, Finland, in conjunction with Tampere Biennale.

2021–2023
L'Albre Ubic: Migracions d'un cos fragmentat / The other ubiquity, fragmented body migrations. Touring exhibition organised by Panoràmic Festival of Film & Photo, exhibited in the cities of Cornellà (Espai Moritz), Tarragona (Center Mèdol) and Martorell (Muxart, Espai d'Arts i creació Contemporanea, Museus de Martorell), Catalonia, Spain. Next shows, in 2023, will be in Martorell, Manresa and Girona.

November–December 2021
TEEMU MÄKI: Koivutanssi / Dance Like a Birch Tree. Solo exhibition in Gallery Ars Libera, Kuopio, Finland.

October 2021

Restaging of Autuus, kamariooppera / chamber opera, composed by Antti Auvinen, libretto by Harry Salmenniemi, directed by Teemu Mäki. Alminsali, Finnish National Opera, Helsinki.

August 2021
TEEMU MÄKI: MAALAUKSIA / PAINTINGS, TM-Gallery / Taidemaalariliiton Galleria, Helsinki.

12.4.2021
Winner of the Photobook Award of the year 2020, with the book Miten olla mies tai nainen tai jotain muuta?

January 2021
TEEMU MÄKI: Miten olla mies tai nainen tai jotain muuta? / How to Be a Woman or a Man or Something Else?, valokuvakirja / a book of photography. Publisher: Parvs, Finland.


11.4.2020
Television premiere of PAKOLAISKESKUSTELUJA / REFUGEE CONVERSATIONS, YLE Teema (Finnish Broadcasting Company.

10.2.2020
TEEMU MÄKI: POIKA JA PALLO. Publication of my fourth book of poems. Publisher: Gummerus.

14.1.2020
Premiere of ÉLIANE, a dance piece based on the music and philosophy of Eliane Radigue. Directed by Teemu Mäki & Maija Nurmio.
At Vaba Lava, Tallinn & Mad House Helsinki.
 
December 2019
Premiere of PAKOLAISKESKUSTELUJA / REFUGEE CONVERSATIONS, a documentary film directed by Teemu Mäki. Produced by Greenlit Productions, funded by YLE.

27.9.2019
Premiere of HOMO SECUNDUS, written by Miko Kivinen & Teemu Mäki, directed by Teemu Mäki. Teatteri Telakka, Tampere, Finland. A collaboration between Theatre Telakka, Minimi Dance Theater and Tsuumi Dance Company.

22.8.-21.9.2019
TEEMU MÄKI: Miten olla mies tai nainen tai jotain muuta / How to Be a Woman or a Man or Something Else. A solo exhibition at Mikkelin Valokuvakeskus.

20.2.–3.3.2019
DENG JIANJIN 鄧箭今 & TEEMU MÄKI 提穆.马奇
FEELINGS / 觸感, Galleria Kookos, Helsinki, Finland (duo exhibition).

6.2.–9.3.2019
TEEMU MÄKI | VALOKUVAMUOTOKUVIA 1988–2018, Pohjanmaan Valokuvakeskus (solo exhibition).

7.12.2018
Premiere of The Gospel of Christmas / Jouluevankeliumi, a dance & theatre piece I write & direct. Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, Finland.

29.6.2018
Opening of the exhibition where the new installation
was shown, at Pori Art Museum's Poriginal Gallery, Finland.

24.5.–25.6.2018
Transgender – Transihmisyys, my solo exhibition of new photographic works at MUU Gallery in Helsinki, Finland.

January 2018
"Not Only For Knowledge — A few remarks on artistic research", a peer reviewed article in the book Artistic Research — Is there some Method?, edited by Alice Koubová, published by Prague University of the Arts.

15.10.2107
Sinusta tulee koivu / You'll Be a Tree
tanssiesityksen ensi-ilta, STOA:ssa / the premiere of a dance piece, at STOA, Helsinki.

13.10.2017
Teemu Mäki: Taiteen tehtävä — esseitä,
kirja ilmestyy, Into Kustannus.

4.8.2017
Maskuliinsus
näyttelyn avajaiset / opening of an exhibition
Vabaduse Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia.
Ivo Lill, Teemu Mäki, Matti Vainio

27.4.2017
Transformations – Rewriting Masculinity, esitys IPAF'17 festivaaleilla, Warehouse9, Kööpenhamina / performed again, as a part of IPAF'17 Festival, Warehouse9, Copenhagen.

16.3.2017 klo 22:05

Judge's Wife (kamariooppera)
/ Tuomarin vaimo (kamariooppera)

Riikka Talvitie & Teemu Mäki
Premiere, Balderin sali, Helsinki.

16.+18.+19.2.2017
Transformations – Rewriting Masculinity, lisäesityksä STOAssa, Helsingissä / performed again, at STOA, Helsinki.

3.2.2017 klo 22:05
Pakolaiskeskusteluja – radiofoninen dokumentti
Teemu Mäki & Max Savikangas.
Kantaesitys Yle Radio 1 -kanavalla Avaruusromua -ohjelmassa

3.–4.8.2016
Transformations – Rewriting Masculinity, lisäesityksiä Tampereen Teatterikesän pääohjelmistossa / in the main program of Tampere Theatre Festival.

17.3.2016
Premiere of Transformations – Rewriting Masculinity, directed by Teemu Mäki, a collaboration with Transforces group for Mad House Helsinki.

10.3.2016
Kolmas runokirjani, Äidin oma, tuli kirjapainosta kauppoihin.

16.8.2015
Enskari / Premiere
: Autuus, kamariooppera / chamber opera,
Antti Auvinen (sävellys/composer) / Harry Salmenniemi (libretto) / Teemu Mäki (ohjaus/director),
Musiikkitalo / Music House Helsinki.

19.6.–9.8.2015
Ars Auttoinen, kesänäyttely
/ summer show.

28.5.–20.6.2015
Mukana DOMA-taidefestivaalien taidenäyttelyssä, Sofiassa, Bulgariassa.
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Participating in the DOMA art festival's exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria.

25.4.2015
Surelik, eestinkielinen käännös runokirjastani Kuolevainen ilmestyy. Kääntäjä Taavi Eelmaa, kustantaja ZA/UM.
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Surelik, the Estonian translation of Kuolevainen (my first book of poetry) is published by
ZA/UM.

21.03.2015–12.04.2015
Be Your Enemy – nuorten omakuvatriptyykkejä, Vaasan taidehalli. Uusia teoksia vanhaan sarjaan, tehty työpajassa Vaasassa, Teemu Mäen ja Arja Eloviraan ohjauksessa.
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Be Your Enemy – Self-Portrait Triptychs by Teenagers
, Kunsthalle Vaasa. New works to the old series, made in a workshop directed by Teemu Mäki & Arja Elovirta.

4.3.2015
My film, Madness and Civilization (56 min, 2015) is shown in the Finnish Competition in Tampere Film Festival. / Hulluus ja yhteiskunta on mukana Tampereen elokuvajuhlien Kotimaisessa kilpailusarjassa.


14.2.–24.5.2015
Kuntsi Art Museum, Vaasa, Finland / Kuntsin taidemuseo
Teemu Mäen näyttely Kuka sinä olet?, valokuvia ja videoita.
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Teemu Mäki, solo show, Who Are You?, photographs and videos.

24.12.2014
Maalarin silmin, kirja maalaustaiteesta, Teemun kirjoittama, Into-kustannuksen ja Lapuan Taidemuseon julkaisema (sähkö)kirja.

11.–16.11.2014
Nainen ja lihateollisuus / Woman and Meat Industry, a video of mine is shown in the program of Braunschweig International Film Festival & Artmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany.

2.11.2014–2.12.2014
Premiere of Hulluus ja yhteiskunta, a radio play written by Harri Virtanen, directed by Juha-Pekka Hotinen, and of the video version of it, directed by Teemu Mäki. YLE / Finnish Broadcasting Company. Kuunnelman leffaversio (ns. audiovideo) on katsottavissa YLE Areenassa kuukauden ajan.

13.10.2014
“A Practical Utopia” / “Käytännöllinen utopia”
an article or exposition of mine published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Ruukku.

27.9.2014–24.1.2015
Lapua Art Museum, Finland / Lapuan taidemuseo
Teemu Mäki: Dakar-triptyykki ja muita maalauksia...
(...Afrikasta ja Suomesta, maailmasta ja meistä, yksin ja yhdessä) / Dakar triptych and other paintings...
(...from Africa and Finland, of the World and Us, Alone and Together)

26.9.2014
Videoteos Tapio esitetään Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa festivaaleilla.
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The video Tapio screened in Love and Anarchy (27th Helsinki International Film Festival).

10.9.2014
Crash premiere on YLE Radio 1 at 22:05. After that it's available on YLE Areena for a month. Crash is a radiophonic work commissioned by YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company), composed by Max Savikangas with texts by Teemu Mäki. http://areena.yle.fi/radio/2334194
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Crashin ensiesitys YLE Radio 1 -kanavalla kello 22:05, minkä jälkeen teos on kuunneltavissa YLE Areenassa kuukauden ajan. Yleisradion tilaama radiofoninen teos. Säveltäjä: Max Savikangas. Sanoittaja: Teemu Mäki. http://areena.yle.fi/radio/2334194

7.8.–31.8.2014
Kunstihoone Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia
Teemu Mäki
How to Be a Woman or a Man? / Miten olla mies tai nainen?

15.6.–31.8.2014

XIX Mänttä Art Festival / XIX Mäntän kuvataideviikot

26.5.2014–
Art and Research Colliding (Nokkakolari – taide ja tutkimus kohtaavat)
an article/exposition of mine is published online in the peer-reviewed Journal of Artistic Research

2014
Blindfolded Line, Dancing for Time a group show by a Liza Grobler & friends
24 April - 8 June 2014: Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein
24 June - 13 July 2014: KZNSA Gallery, Durban
24 August - end of October: Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

28.3.2014

Enskari / Premiere: TEOREEMA (Rakkausnäytelmä), Teatteri Takomo. Ohjaus: Niina Hosiasluoma & Teemu Mäki.


WEBSITE UPDATES
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SIVUSTON PÄIVITYKSET


6.4.2024
Added a few paintings and updated some images and links.

27.3.2024
Added info about the radio version of the opera POSTHUMAN / IHMISEN JÄLKEEN, which YLE put out 29.3.2024, in two parts:
Act One and Act Two.
Also small additions, such as articles, in other parts of the website.

17.3.2024
Added links to YLE Areena, where RIVERBULLS – a Letter to Vladimir Putin is now available for 2 years.

9.3.2024
Updated the info about the

Do You Remember Chechnya? (2) / Muistatko Tšetšenian? (2) exhibition and its works.

13.2.2024
Added the exhibition Do You Remember Chechnya? (2) / Muistatko Tšetšenian? (2) to the EXHIBITIONS section.

31.1.2024
Added link to the article:

Teemu Mäen avoin kirje: Miten vahvistaa suomalaista kuvataidetta?

18.1.2024
Added a mention of the third and expanded print of the book TAITEEN TEHTÄVÄ on the Texts page.

20.9.2023
Added a page about the painting Grannies in the Midst of It All.

8.-9.4.2023
Added new paintings, updates heare and there...
...and a whole new section: EXHIBITIONS.

14.3.2023
Added POSTHUMAN to the theatre/dance/opera
section.

14.3.2023
Added RIVERBULLS (A Letter to Vladimir Putin)
to the films section.

27.11.2021
Added works to the
Portraits section of my Painting & Drawing page and reorganised it.

19.11.2021
Added a bunch of new works in the single-image allegories page and a page about the short film KOIVUTANSSI / DANCE LIKE A BIRCH TREE.

21.1.2021
Added the book MITEN OLLA MIES TAI NAINEN TAI JOTAIN MUUTA? on the TEXTS page.

10.2.2020
Added the book, POIKA JA PALLO, on the TEXTS page.

10.12.2019
Added a page for ÉLIANE

3.10.2019

9.1.2019
Added a page for JOULUEVANKELIUMI
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11.9.2018

2.9.2018
Added a page for the short film How Many Genders Are There?

27.8.2018
Added a few links to books on the TEXTS page.

21.8.2018

15.8.2018
Added a page for the installation
...and made small updates here and there.

10.11.2017
Updated the pages of
Sinusta tulee koivu / You'll Be a Tree.

16.8.2017
Added pages for

Sinusta tulee koivu / You'll Be a Tree.

11.1.2017
Added a page for Judge's Wife, etc.

5.5.2016
Laaja päivitys. Uusi leiska, sopii paremmin myös mobiililaitteille. Paljon lisätietoa ja kuvia mm. video- ja valokuva-osastoissa.
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Major update of this website. New layouts, more suitable also to mobile devices. A lot of new info and images for example in the photography and video sections.

1.4.2016
Added a page about

Transformations – Rewriting Masculinity
and added Äidin oma on the Texts page.

19.2.2016
Lisäsin Tekstit-sivulle linkkejä

Vihapuheesta ja taiteesta – avoin kirje Lauri Kilpiölle
+ pari uutta kolumnia.

28.10.2015

Päivitin Tekstit-sivua. Lisäsin linkkejä uusiin kolumneihin.

17.9.2015
Added a page for Autuus / Bliss, the chamber opera.

17.9.2015
Päivitin Tekstit-sivua. Lisäsin linkkejä uusiin kolumneihin.

11.5.2015
Tekstit-sivulle lisäsin linkin uusimpaan kolumniini Ilkassa: "Älkää peljätkö".

21.4.2015
Lisäsin tekstit-sivulle linkkejä kolumneihini Ilkka-lehdessä.

3.4.2015
Added new photos to the Be Your Enemy series. Also added a page in English about the film Madness and Civilization.

24.12.2014
Lisäsin tiedon ja linkit Maalarin silmin -kirjasta.

6.12.2014
Lisäsin tekstin
Mitä tauluja koululaisille saa näyttää?.

17.11.2014
Added a page for the film Hulluus ja yhteiskunta.

13.10.2014
Added a few links (to Practical Utopia, and to the e-book version of Näkyvä pimeys, etc.)

29.5.2014

Added a link to my online publication of
Art and Research Colliding (Nokkakolari – taide ja tutkimus kohtaavat)

19.3.2014 & 27.3.2014
Added a page for TEOREEMA and updated it on the eve of premiere.

8.3.2014
Updated the list of Lectures Online + made a few minor tweaks.

4.12.2013
A lot of new stuff on the Collective Painting page: Russian Interior and Grozny Street Scene, both from the upcoming Chechnya multipartite, True Romance, the last collective painting I did in Aalto University with my students during my professorship and The Stages of Womanhood, a collective drawing in 16 parts. All of these have already been exhibited in Antidote 7 – Collective Painting, (17.9.–6.10.2013), so it's about time they show up here as well. The links page is also now updated. Hadn't done that in years. The biggest addition there are the websites of many of my (ex-)students. I hope they are happy, not embarrassed, to be included there.

Disparity / Epäsuhta
A collective drawing by Perkele Collective, exhibited in Vantaa City Art Museum, in the Drawing in the Flesh – Piirtäjän näkökulma show 13.2.2013–7.9.2013.

How to Be a Woman or a Man?
A few works from the series that was shown in Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, pictures from the series How to Be a Woman or a Man?

Woyzeckmaterial
A theater / dance / performance work by Teemu Mäki & Arja Tiili & Teater Viirus.

Dakar Triptych
A collective painting in Dakar, Senegal, for the Dakar Biennale 2012.

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