Cris af Enehielm

Cris af Enehielm (born March 24, 1954 Helsinki is a Finish artist.^{[1] [2]}

Cris af Enehielm graduated as a visual artist from Fria konstskolan in Helsingfors in 1977, and as an actress from the Theatre Academy in Helsinki in 1981. She is the mother of two sons; Andrew af Enehielm born in 1987, and Theo Theodore af Enehielm born 1993.

Af Enehielm appears and has worked as an actress, visual artist, performance artist, singer, director, costume designer, set designer, educator and lecturer and as teacher in acting at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. She has also participated in a number of dance productions.

She has worked at the Raging Roses Theatre,^[3] Swedish Theatre, Klockriketeatern Theatre and the Little Theatre in Helsinki, Wasa Teater, Printing Theatre in Karis, the National Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2004, she directed a play at the Bellman's Festival.^[4]

She has also had several solo exhibitions, in Gallerie Pelin, Gallerie Anhava, Gallerie Forsblom,^[5] and Titanik Gallerie^[6] in Helsinki. She has also exhibited elsewhere in the country as well as in Paris and Stockholm. Her artwork has also participated in several group exhibitions in Finland, Russia, Cuba, Sweden and Denmark.

She has been a member of several performance art and music groups; Homo$,^[7] Jack Hellen Brut, Sarje ääni, Joan Bennet and the Museo och Transistors. As a member of performance and music groups, she has appeared on numeral international festivals and events (Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Belgium, Egypt, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Macedonia, Poland, Russia and Hungary)

Her art is represented in several art collections, and her work has sold internationally.

She has worked as an actor in radio, television and film in Finland.

She has undertaken study tours in Asia and worked as a recidensartist at Cité des Art in Paris.

She sees herself primary as a multi-artist, and is interested in experimental performance arts. Her special interests involve humans and their destiny. She has studied various therapy methods, among them body therapy. She has also taken lectures at the University of Helsinki in psychoanalysis and philosophy. She claims to be an eternal student always learning something new.

References

1. ^ http://www.anhava.com/?http://www.anhava.com/exhibitions/enehielm/cv.html
2. ^ http://www.elonet.fi/name/hemvgb/
3. ^ http://www.kassandra.fi/ruusut/esitykset/oresteia.html
4. ^ http://www.bellman.fi/festival6.htm
5. ^ http://www.vastranyland.fi/kultur/k%C3%A4nda_namn_och_debutanter_i_billn%C3%A4s_konstsommar_2213096.html
6. ^ http://www.arte.fi/titanik/saari_taidelehti.html
7. ^ http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=4&ag=29&t=797&a=7069

External links

• http://www.vapaataidekoulu.fi/

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Name	Enehielm, Cris af
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Date of birth	1954
Place of birth	Helsinki
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