Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl is part of the exhibition Disruptions. Early video Art in Europe at FMAC Geneva is on view from February 20 to April 23, 2025. The exhibition is part of the research project Emergence of Video Art in Europe led by François Bovier.

The exhibition Disruptions. Early video Art in Europe focuses on the first steps of video art in Switzerland and its connections with European art movements of the 1970s. The exhbition is curated by
François Bovier and Stéphanie Serra.

Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl (b. 1948, Imatra, Finland) 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 in the Düsseldorf Art Academy in Germany under the guidance of famous pioneers artists such as Nam June Paik. In her resent works, she has used photography, object collages and crocheting. Her works can be found in the collections of e.g. the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki.

Photo: Julien Gremaud.

Disruptions. Early video Art in Europe
20 February–23 April, 2025
FMAC Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland

More information: FMAC: Disruptions. Early video Art in Europe

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