Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl

Mervi KYTÖSALMI-BUHL (Finland) was born in Imatra, Finland, and currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Kytösalmi-Buhl is a pioneer of Finnish video art, whose work in the 1970s and 1980s can be considered as the beginning of Finnish video art. The artist has studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in Germany under the guidance of famous pioneers such as Nam June Paik. Her works can be found in the collections of e.g. the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki.

Filmography

(all short) Eye (1978), Pflaster/Haut (1978), Spinning Top (1978), Head Movements (1978), 2=2+1=3 (1979), Body (1979), Rot-Weiss (1979), Angelo (1981), Trip (1982), Haarband (1982), Marcel (1983), Sinisukka 1948 (1984)