Art related works & occupations CV

Eeva-Mari Haikala
(b. 1974 Lappeenranta, Finland)
www.eeva-mari.net
email: mari(at)eeva-mari.net


Freelance writer & art critic
2002 - present

Etelä-Saimaa newspaper regular freelance art critic and writer: articles about contemporary and fine art, performance, theatre, art politics, and also monthly column in cultural pages

Taide-lehti (Finnish art magazine) freelance art critic and writer: articles and art critics about contemporary art and performance

Various texts also published in Filmihullu (Finnish film magazine), Teatteri-lehti (Finnish theatre magazine), Kiasma-magazine

Publications

Pinx. Maalaustaide Suomessa. Tarinankertoja. Tunteita ja tarinoita, Elina Merenmies. (ed. Helena Sederholm). WSOY 2003 (book series about Finnish paintings)

Pedagogical texts for art museums

Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (for the exhibitions Popcorn and politics -Activists of Art, The display of the Museum's collections from the 1960s onwards; Night train Surrealists Routes to Kiasma’s Collections; ARS 06 – Sense of the Real).
Helsinki City Art Museum (for the exhibition of Tony Oursler)

Grants as an art critic

2009 The Finnish Association of Non-fiction Writers
2005 SARV The Finnish Critics Association
2004 Suomen taideyhdistys Richter-grant

Visiting lecturer

Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Drama
Spring 2010 visiting tutor for Live Art workshop

Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Autumn 2009 visiting tutor on Fine Art Video course

South Carelia University of Applied Science
2006-2007 courses of history of art, writing skills and supervising diploma works

Freelance museum guide & museum workshop teacher

2001-2008:      Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
                              Ateneum Finnish National Gallery
                              Finnish Museum of Photography
                              Helsinki City Art Museum

South Carelian Art Museum

2005-6 (4 wks) Project co-ordinator (animation education project)
2002 (summer) Assistant researcher (museum pedagogy)
2001 (summer) Trainee (assistant researcher in Suursaari-project)
2000 (summer) Trainee (assistant researcher in Suursaari-project)
1999 (summer) Trainee (basic museum works including photographic documentation)

Memberships

SARV (the Finnish Critics´s Association)
AICA (International associate of Art Critics)