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MARIA LEENA RÄIHÄLÄ

Born in Finland, lives in Berlin and Keihärinkoski. Works with drawings, animations, and actions. 2007 she founded MORGENVOGEL REAL ESTATE with Manuel Bonik, a project, that works on many levels, combining art and nature-protection (Morgenvogel-Church, BIRDTALKS, AVANTI NATURA! or the campaign BIG SISTER). The book Morgenvogel Real Estate was published 2014, sponsored by the Cultural Administration of the Berlin Senate. Morgenvogel Real Estate (M0RE) has spread more than 1000 Morgenvogel-Houses in the Berlin urban space. Sponsors: Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin (2018) and the Stiftung Berliner Sparkasse (2019). Working at the moment in Finland for ecological restoration project MAJAVA. http://morgenvogel.net/morgenvogel-news.html

Selected Exhibitions and Actions

2024

BIRDTALKS @ Institut für alles Mögliche, Berlin.

TRAVELING WITHOUT MOVING (drawings), Diagonale 5/Fallstreak, groupshow curated by Axel Roch, St. Nicolai- und St. Marien-Friedhof, Berlin.

2023

DER MORGENVOGEL KOMMT, BIRDTALKS, screening and Morgenvogel-Disco, Haus der Statistik, Alexanderplatz, Berlin.

2022

2021

2020

LETTERS FROM THE WORLD, Taidegalleria Etsivätoimisto, Helsinki.

2019

BRING IN WEIGHT, A CRITIQUE ON POPULISM at 7hours, Berlin.

2018

INSIDE ECOLOGIES – Umwelt als Interaktion (environment as interaction), Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf.

2017

Interfiction, *TOPIA, Dokfest, Kulturbahnhof, Kassel.

2016

un-stable.eu, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin.

MORGENVOGEL REAL ESTATE, Installation, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig.

2015

morgenvogel!

DER SINGSCHWAN KOMMT (The whooperswan comes), Happening, FIT – Freie Internationale Tankstelle, Berlin.           A lecture about the Whooper swan by Martin Miethke. Swan sounds and Morgenvogel-DJ Manuel Bonik. Multimedia group CRYSTAL CLEARS from Finland and traditional Finnish "Kuivakuore-Keitto" (Benefit-fish-soup for Refugees, sponsored by Zagreus Project and Sarah Wiener's Wiener Brot). FIT-Sauna.

AVANTI NATURA!

BIRDTALKS, discussions about birds with Manuel Bonik, Wolfgang Müller, Axel Roch and Anselm Weidner. Premiere of animation AVANTI NATURA and presentation of Morgenvogel-App, CultD, Berlin.

2012

2009

2008

Was schläft, Center for Contemporary Art, Syke.

2007

Morgenvogel

Rencontres internationales, multimediafestival, (flash animation), Madrid.

2006

2005

Morgenvogel

Centres from the Edges, Galerie QUARTAIR, den Haag.

2004

40 Years Haus am Lützowplatz / Girls Art Club Lounge, Berlin.

Dancing Lines, Galerie Christa Burger, München.

1999

Morgenvogel

Stadt-Land, Berlin Brandenburg. Fotocopies of my drawings in an old empty house. It was a beautyful summer, driving with the train from Berlin to Wünsdorf and listening to Finnish tangos on my Walkman, one night of the exhibition we were all dancing tango together. I had a whole house to work with my pictures, but at first i cleaned it together with some russian boys. This efeu (ivy, hedera helix) growing behind the bed, through the wall, i didnt touch at all!. The group-exhibition was curated and organized by Uwe Jonas.

1998

Fairytales, Haus am Lützowplatz, Studiogalerie, Berlin.

1997

Maria Leena Räihälä

72 Hours, Congress for Performance and Visual Art, Berlin.

1996

Maria Leena Räihälä

Sähkövirtaa, Helsinki.

Morgenvogel, maria leena räihälä, schneemanns lieder

Weißer Elefant, Berlin. (Foto of my Studio at Linienstraße, Berlin-Mitte).

Studies:

1983 Abitur, Viitasaari.

1983-1984 Vapaa Taidekoulu, Helsinki, Finland.

1984-1987 Pohjoismainen Taidekoulu, Kokkola, Finland.

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