MERI EKOLA

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Professional education

2013

Master of Arts (Theatre and Drama), Department of Lighting Design, Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Helsinki, FI

2008 

Bachelor of Culture and Arts, Department of Media, Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu University of Applied Sciences, Tampere, FI

 

Lighting Design for Performances

2020

2019

How to host something as a cloud. Baltic Circle Festival, Helsinki, FI

Fragile eyes, Liisa Pentti + Co. Zodiak Center for New Dance. Helsinki. FI

2018

Rädslomässa. Blaue Frau. Helsinki. FI

The Space. Liisa Pentti + Co. Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, FI

Festival Musiq3 30-31.7.2018, music festival, Abbaye de la Cambre. Brussels. BE

Too much, too young. Liisa Pentti+ Co.. X Dance Festival at Zodiak Center for New Dance. Helsinki. FI

Children and Other Radicals. Oblivia. Dangerous Minds Festival at Kampnagel. Hamburg. DE

35 x Me and Some Actresses. Blaue Frau. Lilla Teatern. Helsinki. FI

2017

2016

Do be do. Oblivia. Museum of Postmodern Art by Oblivia, Helsinki. FI

Folia @ 2016. Liisa Pentti + Co. Mad House Helsinki, Helsinki. FI

11. Blaue Frau. Korjaamo Theatre, Helsinki, FI

I Will Tell You When I Am Ready. Sanna Myllylahti. Zodiak Center for New Dance, Helsinki, FI

2015  

Annikas Sacre, Oblivia, Svenska Teatern, Helsinki, FI 

The Sinking of the Titanic, Liisa Pentti + Co., Helsinki Music Centre, Helsinki, FI

Viimeinen Vuosi, Korjammo Theatre, Helsinki, FI

The Rave, Oblivia, Mad House Helsinki, Helsinki, FI

Some plants need more light than others, but all need at least a little, Blaue Frau, Klockriketeatern, Helsinki, FI

WDMSNLCA, Liisa Pentti + Co. Zodiak Center for New Dance, Helsinki, FI

Paper Piece, Zodiak Center for New Dnace, Helsinki, FI

2014 

And So On And So Forth, Via Negativa & Oblivia, Bunker, Ljubljana, SL

Laiva – The Ship, Liisa Pentti + Co. /teatteri.nyt, Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, FI

KA-BOOM, Oblivia, Helsinki Festival, Helsinki, FI

2013 

Blaue Frau Do Paul Auster, Pop Up Art House, Helsinki, FI

Space Particles #10, Liisa Pentti + Co. LUME Theatre, Helsinki, FI

Pelon Maantiede, Circus Maximus, Theatre Avoimet Ovet, Helsinki, FI

Super B, Oblivia, AvantGarden, Trondheim, Norway, NO

2012           

MOPMA I, Oblivia, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany, DE

Kani Koipeliinin Kuperkeikat, KLAPS ry, Helsinki Music Centre, Helsinki, FI

Mnemic Traces, Liisa Pentti + Co. /teatteri.nyt, Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, FI

2011           

The Weight of My Heart, Liisa Pentti + Co, studio / Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, FI

Sauna, Teatteri Metamorfoosi, Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, FI

All Matters – No Escape, United Snakes, BodyWord Festival, St.Petersburg, RU

2010           

Meille jäävät salaisuudet, Teatteri Siperia, Tampere, FI

Mortimer and Speed Blindness, WHS, Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, FI

Entertainment Island Trilogy, Oblivia, Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, FI

2009           

Exploration Danse Sculpture, Cie Kivitasku, Micadanses, Paris, FR

Helmi, Henna Kaikula / MedAndraOrd, Korjaamo Cultural Factory, Helsinki, FI

Résilience and Harmonisation fadeur, Artincidence, L’Atrium scéne nationale de la Martinique, Fort-de-France, Martinique, FR

2008           

Exclamasiones, Cie Bló a Bló, Biennale Danses Caraibes, Havana, CU

 

Video Design for Performances

2015           

Marc Melià – Music for Prophet, ElectriCity Festival, LéSPACE, Helsinki, FI

2013 

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes Galantes / Villiä Rakkautta, Sonore, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, FI

 

Art Installations

2020

Magic Mirror. Installation. LUX Helsinki. Helsinki. FI

2019

Highlights, installation, K41 project space, Brussels, BE

Volatiles, light installation, Reflektor Korso, Vantaa, FI

2018

Invisible Places: The Hideout. light installation. Reflektor Helsinki. Helsinki. FI

Sensorial Activities 1, interactive installation. Oksasenkatu 11. Helsinki. FI

2017

The last drop makes the cup run over, light and sound installation with Marc Melià. Area 42. Brussels. BE

OBJECT art exhibition and performance. Blaue Frau. Helsinki. FI

Cycles, light and sound installation with Marc Melià, Lux In light art exhibition, Helsinki, FI

2016

Circular Organ, installation with Emma Helle and Mari Paikkari, Summer exhibition Sweaty Days, Art Center Haihatus, Joutsa, FI

2013

LUX Tram, Installation with Alexander Salvesen and Riikka Karjalainen, LUX Helsinki, FI

2012

Tunkeilija / An Intruder, Installation, Valon viikonloppu, Department of Lighting and Sound Design, Theatre Academy Helsinki, Helsinki, FI 

2011           

Rakkauteni Sinuun, Installation, Galleria Kandela Valotilanteita, Helsinki, FI

2009

Laatikko / The Box, Installation, Department of Lighting and Sound Design, Theatre Academy Helsinki, Helsinki, FI

 

Architectural Lighting Design

2014-15           

ACT Lighting Design, Lighting Designer, Brussels, BE

 

Lighting Design for Exhibitions 

2013           

Heureka Goes Crazy, HEUREKA The Finnish Science Centre, Vantaa, FI

2012 

Klima X, Exhibition lighting design, HEUREKA The Finnish Science Centre, in co-operation with Jani-Matti Salo, Vantaa, FI

 

Scholarships

2019       Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2018       Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Frame Contemporary Art Finland

2017       Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2016       Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2014       Finnish Cultural Foundation