Tellervo Kalleinen is a Helsinki based contemporary artist working with participatory cinema, interactive installation, performance, public art and music. Her work bases on creative collaboration.

Duo Kalleinen & Kochta-Kalleinen
Tellervo forms a duo with Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen.  Their collaboration started in Helsinki in 2003, when they oranised The First Summit of Micronations in the role of the curators of Amorph!03-performance festival (produced by Artists´Association MUU). In 2005  they founded Complaints Choirs -concept, which has spread to more than 150 cities around the world as an open source concept. They have made participatory cinema works such as  The Making of Utopia (2006), People in White (2011), Dreamland (2010), I love my Job and Archipelago Science Fiction (2011).  The interactive video installation 101 For All  (2015) looks beyond the opinions and statistics of a cross-section of the Finnish population. Keskustelupuisto (2018-2020) was a 2 year public space game, which invited inhabitants of Rauma to make a new park to their town. A book about their learnings in the project was released in Spring 2022. They are currently working on a digital art work Yhteinen mielenmaisema / Common Mind Scape for a cancer hospital (Siltasairaala, HUS) in Helsinki.

Other collaborations
Tellervo is part of a performance trio JOKAklubi (since 2009). Tellervo is a founding member of  YKON -collective (2005) and The Speech Karaoke Action Group (2010). Tellervo writes music for her band Olento Orchestral since 2015.

Venues
Tellervo Kalleinen has exhibited widely all around the world. The venues include Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), P.S.1 (New York), The Kitchen (New York), Shedhalle (Zürich), Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), KUMU Art Museum (Tallinn), KIASMA (Helsinki), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), Museo de Arte Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires), Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai) and Ars Electronica Center (Linz). She has performed in venues and festivals such as Trouble festival (Brussels), W139 (Amsterdam), Baltic Circle Festival (Helsinki), Aterlierfrankfurt (Frankfurt), HAU2 (Berlin) and International Schillertage (Mannheim). Her film works have been shown in venues such as DocPoint (Helsinki), Hot Docs (Toronto), Rome Film Festival (Rome), MoMa (New York), Japan Media Arts Ferstival (Tokyo) and EMAF Film Festival (Osnabrück).

Awards
2003: GRANT IN HONOUR OF THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FINNISH ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS
When graduating from The Finnish Art Academy she won a prize with her graduation work In The Middle Of A Movie, from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

2012: BEST FEATURE FILM -AWARD
People in White – a film describing doctor-patient relationship in mental health care  from the subjective point of view of the patient – won a „Best feature film -award“ at Lo Spiraglio Film Fest, Rome.

2012:  AVEK Media Art Award
With Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen she received the biggest Media Art Award of Finland.

2014: FACES OF WISDOM – 2nd prize
Tellervo and Niina Lehtonen Braun won the 2nd prize of Faces of Wisdom -film festival with their work Play This At My Funeral

2014: ARS FENNICA
Tellervo and Oliver received the most prestigious art award of Finland, Ars Fennica.

2015: WILLIAM THURING PRIZE
Finnish Art Society awarded her with their annual prize.

Publications
Keskustelupuisto / Conversation Park (Published by Lönnström Art Museum and Studio Kalleinen, Rauma)
The First Summit of Micronations (Published by Artist Association MUU, Helsinki)
In The Middle Of A Movie (Published by Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki)
Lost And Found (Published by S.M.A.K., Ghent)
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (Published by Mori Art Museum, Tokyo)