VEERA KOPSALA
  • WOOD RELIEFS
  • Three big ones
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • RIVO JA VALLATON 2025
    • KUTUPUUHISSA 2024
    • SAALISTAJA HUUTO GALLERIA 2023
    • Saalistaja Himmelblau 2023
    • Part-time love 22
    • Pop up Studio Pasila 22
    • Sweet Dreams 22
    • KUVAN KEVÄT 21
  • CV
  • VEERA KOPSALA
  • STAGE WORKS
    • Pleasureride (2022)
    • Records of touch (2021)
    • Säädyttömiä kuvia tulvillaan olevien ruumiiden yllä (2021)
    • I experience myself in the city (2019)
    • RUNKO (2019)
    • Give me a break (2019)
    • KOTELO (2018)
  • Yhteystiedot

CV
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Education           
2019-2022    MFA, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Time and Space 
2016-2019    BFA, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Time and Space
2019              Exchange, Dance, Context, Choreography, Inter-University for Dance Berlin (HZT), Germany
 
Other education        
2020-             Writing studies, Critical Academy, Helsinki
2015-2016    Contemporary Art school Maa, Helsinki
2011-2013    Performing collage, Lahti, Finland

 
Exhibitions
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Solo
​2025 Critical gallery, Turku

2025 Porvoo art hall, Porvoo (big hall)
2024 Kuhmo chamber music, Kuhmo
2023 Gallery Huuto, Helsinki
2023 Himmelblau, Tampere
2022 Cultural space 22, Mikkeli

Group
2025 Haihatus Art Center, Joutsa
2024 Vakiopaine, Jyväskylä
2023 Lapinlahden Lähde, Helsinki 
2023 Rauma Art Museum, Rauma
2022 Free Art Space, Helsinki
2022 Studio Pasila, Helsinki
2022 Glo Hotel Art, Helsinki
2022 Himmelblau, Tampere 
2021 Himmelblau, Tampere
2021 Kuvan Kevät, MFA Degree Show, Helsinki

Dance and theater:
 

2025 Anna-Liisa, & Espoo Theater, Espoo (guest performance), scenography
2024 Anna Liisa, Tampere Theatre festival, Tampere (guest performance), scenography
2023 Anna-Liisa, Kajaani Theater, scenography

2022 Above bodies flooded with indecent images -tour: (choreographer, dancer)
   09/22 UniartsFest, Helsinki
   
10/22 Juko Theater, Lahti
  
10/22 Cultural space 22, Mikkel
  
11/22 Lonely in the rain festival, Joensuu

2022 Pleasure Ride, Theater Academy, Helsinki, choreographer and dancer
2021 Record of touch, Free Art Space, Helsinki, choreographer and dancer
2021 Above bodies flooded with indecent, Cultural Centre Caisa, Helsinki, choreographer and dancer
2019 RUNKO, Theater Academy of Helsinki, choreographer
2019 I experience myself in the city, Uferstudios, Berlin, choreographer and dancer 

Film art: 
2019 Give me a break, director, ’12min, fiction, ELO 2019 
2019 I have a yellow moustache, text, ’5min, experimental film, director Menni Renvall, ELO 2019
 
Grants, scholarships and awards

2025 Koneen Foundation, artist and project grant, 24 months (84 800e)
2024 The Finnish Cultural Foundation (SKR), artist grant, 12 months (30 000e)
2023 The Paolo Foundation (2000e)
2023 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike), artist grant for 6 months (12 600e)
2022 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike), Project grant (3000e)
2021 VISEK grant (3000e)
2021 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike), artist grant for 4 months (7600e)
2021 Anita Snellman foundation stipend, from Kuvan Kevät exhibition


Works in collections
2025 Kiasma, Finnish National Gallery
2023 Association for Rural Culture and Education (Maaseudun sivistysliitto)
2023 Finnish Art Society - Art Lottery
2021 Finnish Art Society - Art Lottery

 
Recidence
2021 Records of touch, Forsøgsstationen, Copenhagen 
 
Internships
2021 Tapani Kokko ja Virpi Kanto
 
Memberships
2023-                   Finnish Painters' Union
2019-                   Union of Dance and Circus Artist Finland
2016-2017           Asbestos Art space, founder member 

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  • WOOD RELIEFS
  • Three big ones
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • RIVO JA VALLATON 2025
    • KUTUPUUHISSA 2024
    • SAALISTAJA HUUTO GALLERIA 2023
    • Saalistaja Himmelblau 2023
    • Part-time love 22
    • Pop up Studio Pasila 22
    • Sweet Dreams 22
    • KUVAN KEVÄT 21
  • CV
  • VEERA KOPSALA
  • STAGE WORKS
    • Pleasureride (2022)
    • Records of touch (2021)
    • Säädyttömiä kuvia tulvillaan olevien ruumiiden yllä (2021)
    • I experience myself in the city (2019)
    • RUNKO (2019)
    • Give me a break (2019)
    • KOTELO (2018)
  • Yhteystiedot