SARA BJARLAND - CURRICULUM VITAE
Born Helsinki, 1981. Living and working in Amsterdam and Gent.
Member of MUU artists’ association (www.muu.fi)
Co-founder of WAAR artist initiative (www.waarprojects.org)
Education & Post-academic programmes
2012-2013 Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK), Gent, Belgium
2007-2009 MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, Universiteit van Amsterdam
2005-2007 MFA Fine Art (Media), Slade School of Fine Art, London
2001-2004 BA (hons) Editorial and Advertising Photography, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Rochester, UK
2000-2001 Photography foundation course, Västra Nylands folkhögskola, Karis, Finland
Solo exhibitions
2011 Possible wings, C3 Gallery, Amsterdam
2010 The Parrot and Other Moments, Vacant, Tokyo
2008 Expansion, Galleri Sinne, Helsinki
Selected group exhibitions & screenings
2012
Residu2, Kunsthal 52, Den Helder (NL), 28 January - 24 March 2012
S1/Salon video screening, S1 Artspace, Sheffield (UK), March 2012
2011
New Energy, upcoming artists from Amsterdam West, Kunst en Huis, 16.12.2011-15.1.2012
Nuoret/De Unga/Young artists 2011 at Kunsthalle, Helsinki, 2.12.2011 - 8.1.2012
hard//hoofd exhibition, Artpocalypse Collective, Amsterdam
Veranda selected for Råfilm, a TV-program about young independent filmmakers on Finnish national channel FST/YLE, 6.11.2011
Group show, C3 Gallery, Amsterdam
Ik sta in de supermarkt, group exhibition curated by WAAR, at Museumnacht Delft
The Open Prize in video painting, produced by The Open Gallery, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Blossom selected for Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa film festival by Kino Cartes
Blossom selected for KINO Cartes, March/April selection. A display window for experimental video art in Helsinki
Salon Photo Prize, Matt Roberts Arts project space, London
2010
Impakt Festival, Panorama Event Night: Slightly Disrupted, Utrecht (NL)
Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, London
RE:animate, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales
Tenderflix, experimental film festival, Tenderpixel Gallery, London
Atmosphere, InSpace Gallery, Edinburgh
Field Broadcast, curated by Rebecca Birch and Rob Smith, Wysing Arts Contemporary, Cambridge
Musrara Mix Art Festival, Jerusalem
Salon Video Prize, Matt Roberts Arts project space, London
moves10 - International Festival for Movement on Screen, Liverpool
Still Life, curated by Ravit Harari. Dana Art Gallery, Yad Mordechai, Tel Aviv
The Open West, The Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (UK)
Said the Projector to the Screen, Gallery Soap, Kitakyushu, Japan
2009
End of Summer, Plan B project space, Amsterdam
Mayday! Mayday! Plan B project space, Amsterdam
2008
Taming the Untamable, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem (NL)
Highlights, Fullersta Bio Konsthall, Huddinge (SE)
Pulp Dreams - programme on Souvenirs from Earth art tv channel (DE)
Le:60 – 1 Minute Film Fest (USA)
9 from Slade, Fullersta Bio Konsthall, Huddinge (SE)
Impulsive Random Platform screening, London
Lumen Eclipse – selection and screening at Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA (USA)
2007
AURORA International Animation Festival, Norwich (UK)
GradFab 07, The best of video art, organised by The Video Art Gallery, London
Circles and Loops, duo exhibition with Emma Wieslander, House Gallery, London
Turtle, Woburn Square Studios, London
2006
Still&Sparkling, Galerie Metis, Amsterdam
Blink, Gasworks Gallery, London
Supershorts Film Festival, London
Boxed Potential, Expodium, Utrecht (NL)
In rest of the room, art video screening, Kunstverein Langenhagen (DE)
IS700 experimental film & video festival, Egilsstadir (IS)
Film 9, Arbetets Museum, Norrköping (SE)
FlixFest video festival, South London Gallery, London
2004 This Living Thing, Royal Society of Art, London
2003 Changing.room, Spitalfields market, London
2001 Galleri Zebra, Karis (FI)
Publications
Residu2 catalogue, Fonds BKVB & Kunsthal 52, 2012 (upcoming)
Tenderflix DVD, produced by Tenderpixel Gallery, London, 2010
RE:animate, exhibition catalogue, Oriel Davies Gallery, 2010
Gränsland, NyTid nr. 51-52, 2009
Enter: Press, volume 3 (How to become a super 8 camera), May 2009
9 From Slade, exhibition catalogue, 2008
IRP (Impulsive Random platform) 8 special DVD supplement, 2008
AURORA Edition 1 DVD, 2007
Channels - with Naheed Raza, audio CD by Slade Audio Club, 2007
Awards & residencies
Fonds BKVB Residency at het Pompgemaal, Den Helder, May 2011
Svenska Kulturfonden, Finland. 1-year working grant, 2010
NAN – Go and See bursary, 2008
Svenska Kulturfonden, Finland. Exhibition grant, 2008
AHRC Professional Preparation Masters Award, 2006
Runner up - Flix36 short film competition, London, January 2006
Svenska Kulturfonden, Finland. Project grant, 2004
Artist in residence - Centre de Sculpture, Montolieu, France. 2003 and 2005
Publicity
hard//hoofd kiest: An interview with me (in Dutch) on the cultural web journal hard//hoofd
My Dream-artist page, ‘Blue1 Dream’ on-board airline magazine, November 2011 issue
Radio Amsterdam FM - Interview about my exhibition Possible wings. 19 July 2011
hard//hoofd kiest: An interview with me on the cultural web journal hard//hoofd, 6 July 2011
Reviews
Kunst van de dag (art of the day) at galeries.nl, by Benno Tutein Nolthenius, 10.6.2011
In the Darkness of the Wardrobe, APengine, August 2010
Rörelser i olika takt, Hufvudstadsbladet, Helsinki, 22.3.2008