Taidetila Muijala

Taidetila Muijala Taidetila Muijala is an art space & artist residency located in Reila, southwest Finland

Analog February 🖋️Sweet times at the writing residency with , , , , & .sigh Pictures by Ida Blom and Sophie Wright
02/05/2026

Analog February 🖋️

Sweet times at the writing residency with , , , , & .sigh

Pictures by Ida Blom and Sophie Wright

‘At the window: make me serene, I beg the trees. Outside: teach me your ways, I ask the snow. Sitting: a body in time an...
18/03/2026

‘At the window: make me serene, I beg the trees. Outside: teach me your ways, I ask the snow. Sitting: a body in time and space. I turn the room into a stage, the page becomes three-dimensional; a room for a body to live.

I begin working on a text - A Cosmology for my Hands - which I set up as a performance score. How can gestures tell a story? A story of hands that are archives, make language, labour, rest, reach out to another. A gestural language that dreams (I’ve been reading Renee Gladman). A performance where the performer is and is not the writer, telling a story that is and isn’t mine. A story in three acts.

Here: everyone thinks and talks about time. How it moves different. At the second hand store in Rauma: I take pictures of a large wooden clock. On the page: halfway through, this clock becomes a heart (I’ve been reading Bhanu Kapil).

A clocks spends a whole day spinning, doesn’t move forward. But time passes, moves into the future. We organise our lives around it, write sentences that stretch from left to right, texts that have beginnings and endings. Yet perhaps a performance suspends time; it’s made and remade; its score remains unfixed.

The text spirals and it takes weeks, months or even years.‘

Text by Marta Lopes Santos (PT/ NL) about the project she worked on during her winter writing residency at Muijala in January 2026
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Last minute residency places available during March & April 2026 🪺Due to a last minute cancellation, we currently have a...
09/03/2026

Last minute residency places available during March & April 2026 🪺

Due to a last minute cancellation, we currently have artist residency places available during March and April 2026.

Duration: 2-7 weeks residency stays between March 12 – April 30

More info: https://artspacemuijala.com/residency-2/

If interested, please email: [email protected]

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P.s. If you’d like to join our artist residency program later this year: check out our current open call for artist residencies during May - November 2026 (application deadline March 18)

”My practice and research in Muijala were informed by The Scent of Time by Byung-Chul Han, and an experiment with slow t...
04/03/2026

”My practice and research in Muijala were informed by The Scent of Time by Byung-Chul Han, and an experiment with slow time as practice, using deep listening prompts by Pauline Oliveros.

The central idea became the reintroduction of intervals of duration within the experience of time. I translated that into music by working with primary intervals as units of attention: prima, seconda, tertia, quarta… I stayed with each interval and listened deeply, until I could perceive its scent, and pull harmony from it.

My process evolved through repeated walks to the sea and collecting field recordings. Rocks became markers. Distance became measure. Alongside sound, I drew basic shapes and coloured slowly with pencil as a practice of slow making through repetition.”

Artist Egle Pernare (LT/ NL) about her artist residency at Muijala during September - October 2025

”The alarm clock exists to interrupt the loophole.It exists to seal the gap.It exists because sleep is the one state tha...
01/03/2026

”The alarm clock exists to interrupt the loophole.
It exists to seal the gap.
It exists because sleep is the one state that cannot be fully managed.

Waking you up before your body is ready is spiritual violence.
It’s not about mornings.
It’s about control.

If your first conscious act is checking a screen, checking a task, checking whether you’re late, the loophole has already been patched. You are not awake. You are available.

Your circadian rhythm is not a preference.
It is not a lifestyle choice.
It is a vulnerability that the system hasn’t eliminated yet.

Sleep isn’t rest.
Sleep is a loophole.
Sleep is the place where you disappear without explanation.

That’s why everything tries to interrupt it.
Lights that never turn off.
Notifications that claim urgency.
Advice on how to “optimize” sleep so it stops interfering with productivity.

The system doesn’t want you to sleep less.
It wants you to sleep correctly.
It wants sleep that doesn’t interrupt output.

A world without loopholes is a closed system.
A closed system cannot generate anything new.”

Alina Lupu (RO/NL) came to Muijala to sleep, to observe fewer and fewer light hours in a day, to have second dinners, to warm up and cool down, to pierce holes in ice.
She ended up by accident, also dreaming, open-ended. The above is a fragment from her “in progress” sleep manifesto, which she made in January during the winter writing residency, alongside a protest banner.

Open call artist residencies 2026 🌿application deadline: March 18We are happy to announce our open call for artist resid...
23/02/2026

Open call artist residencies 2026 🌿

application deadline: March 18

We are happy to announce our open call for artist residencies in 2026!

Taidetila Muijala is an artist-run residency and art space located in the village of Reila in southwest Finland. We focus on artistic freedom, artists’ wellbeing, peer support, ecology and feminism. Surrounded by the forest and the sea, we offer artists an inspiring experience in nature, cozy accommodation and extensive workspaces. 

The residency is open to artists and cultural professionals of all disciplines and backgrounds. Each residency is based on the artists’ needs and is guided by their process. We can offer a quiet place for research, time for experiments and room for spacious projects. We host 3-5 artists at the same time.

spaces: we offer artists a private bedroom in the accommodation house + the use of the common living spaces. In addition, artists can choose a workspace in the rowhouse studios, the large industrial garage or the barn. Artists can also freely use our sea sauna and garden.

duration: 1-3 month stays between May – November 2026

costs: as an independent non-profit organisation currently without funding, we have to ask for a residency fee in order to keep the place running. The fee varies according to a sliding scale price from €520 – 850 per person per month. Depending on your financial situation you can choose which amount on the sliding scale you are able to pay.  

how to apply: to apply send us a short free-form motivation or work plan, portfolio (or link to website) & cv to [email protected] by March 18.

more information: https://artspacemuijala.com/open-call/

graphic design:
visual identity: .j.walker

End of year in MuijalaAce of wandsMade from pine tree branchesFootprints left by creatures Shaped like strawberry cubesG...
02/02/2026

End of year in Muijala

Ace of wands
Made from pine tree branches
Footprints left by creatures
Shaped like strawberry cubes
Glögi pleasure
Forest listens you write
In the wall flows stream of consciousness
My English is broken
With a desire to hide
Buoy over the water turning ice
Lichens paint on rocks
Lights on strike
Another strike books a night’s blackout
A storm called Hannes
Air, dense or sparse
Branches moving against the backdrop of dark navy blue
Candles, torch and dimming screen light
Trees tumble
An underworld of roots come to light
Unprepared for a popular birthday
Some resolutions scrambled in riddles
Plates of various sizes, depths, and colors
And a husky curls into a bun
Blueberry tea
Fireplace ninja
Drenched boots
The solstice stretched the dough
Yet still early for a boat trip
So I’m looking at the island
Across moving ice and waves

Text, images and film fragments by Faye Shu (CN/GB) written and filmed during her winter writing residency at Muijala in December 2025- January 2026

The videos and images are fragments of her work-in-progress film teaser ’loneland’

Throwback to our book launch during the heatwave at the Arts&Crafts Fair at Teurastamo last summer ☀️𝐿𝒾𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝓃𝓁𝒾𝑔...
03/01/2026

Throwback to our book launch during the heatwave at the Arts&Crafts Fair at Teurastamo last summer ☀️

𝐿𝒾𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝓃𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 is a collection of texts by 10 writers who joined our previous winter writing program (2024-25) in collaboration with The Temporary Bookshelf

‘United by their embodied experience of the Finnish winter in nature, the writers capture a sense of interrelatedness and soft skills. This is a pocket book to be held close to your body. It invites you to take time to connect and is a reminder that sensitivity is key, our utmost power to be cherished and cultivated.’ (from the foreword by Roos Hermsen)

Authors: Georgia Kareola, Yidan Karel Li, Carlotta Ortinger, Katarína Poliačiková, Maryam Shahidifar, Laura Suurhasko, Mimma Tuomisalo, Catharina Vergeer, Anne Marijn Voorhorst and Sophie Wright

Published by: ttbbooks
Drawings: Serhii Varlamov
Editor: Roos Hermsen
Design: Alex Walker

You can order the publication now by email: [email protected] for a donation price between €15-50 + shipping costs. By buying the book you support Muijala and help us to get through yet another winter without funding 🩵❄️

Kristine K. Leopold (DK)I can’t help hearing it in my head: is it ripe? Here, try some, 2025300 g watercolor paper, 170 ...
27/12/2025

Kristine K. Leopold (DK)
I can’t help hearing it in my head: is it ripe? Here, try some, 2025
300 g watercolor paper, 170 g sketching paper, other paper, teabag, clips, string, towel, gloves, stones and boiled leaves, pines, branches, newspaper, flower and water.

Created during her residency stay in April, 2025, this work emerged out of an intuitive process and a desire to create a material narrative. A collection of brought, found and processed items are linked by a series of painted marks and gestures made from water infused with leaves, pine needles, branches and newspaper gathered from the land surrounding Muijala. By combining the traces of these material investigations with a drawing that came to her in a dream, she searches for and invites an unconscious connection between the uncanny and the erotic.

Kristine K. Leopold holds a master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Through installation, she builds up narratives that explore intimacy and embodied knowledge. A central aspect of her practice is a methodical approach to collecting, organising, re- and deconstructing material. She works intuitively by combining seemingly unrelated elements and exploring the stories, connections and traces that emerge in between.
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This artwork was part of Muijala’s group exhibition ’Soft fascination’ 7.6.-3.8.2025

The winter writing residency season has started! Looking forward to delve into the words together 📚🪽Welcome:Faye Shu (CN...
13/12/2025

The winter writing residency season has started! Looking forward to delve into the words together 📚🪽

Welcome:
Faye Shu (CN/UK)
Thibaud Teti (FR)
Bahareh Jahandoost (IR)
Alina Lupu (RO/ NL)
Negin Sadeghi Momeni (IR/FR)
Marta Lopes Santos (PT/NL)
Suvi Vepsä (FI)
Catherine Hu (AT/NL)
Sophie Wright (UK)
Remi Gabriel (US)
Ainslie Templeton (AU/DE)
Ida Blom (NL)

Ryan Josey (CA)The Forest, The Moon and The Night, 2024pen, watercolour and acrylic on washi papershown courtesy The Blu...
27/11/2025

Ryan Josey (CA)
The Forest, The Moon and The Night, 2024
pen, watercolour and acrylic on washi paper
shown courtesy The Blue Building Gallery, Halifax, Canada

“The Forest, The Moon and The Night emerged from a month-long practice of drawing the forests surrounding Muijala. In September 2024, I spent one month in Reila, hiking the Hierkonpulko Trail.

The Forest, The Moon and The Night is one of the few drawings I made during this time from memory rather than direct observation. The particular memory is of a late-night walk back from the sea sauna. Under the full moon, I was reminded of my childhood in Nova Scotia’s forests and learning that the brightness of the full moon makes the shadows of trees seem darker and more alive. In this drawing, I tried to capture that feeling and the spatial confusion that happens when
what is tree and what is shadow becomes murky. I tried not to let fear or too much darkness into the process, focusing instead on reverence.

To make the drawing, I sketched a quick study of the scene in pen. I then soaked the paper to ‘bleed’ the pen-lines and make all the edges blur. When dry again, I used watercolour and a fresh layer of pen to try to recreate the scene I experienced that night.”

Ryan Josey is a Nova Scotian visual artist from Dartmouth and Kwimue’katik. His multi-disciplinary work has featured in exhibitions across Canada, Turkey and New York.

Josey’s philosophically inflected pieces stem from ongoing explorations in observational drawing and writing. Their drawings, as well as their large-scale installations, circulate belonging and q***r the tools, systems and languages that encode identity into place. Often, Josey’s works show an interplay between digital and analog ways of seeing, foregrounding the act of their making as part of their meaning.



This artwork was part of Muijala’s group exhibition ’Soft fascination’ 7.6.-3.8.2025

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