Cris af Enehielm: 20 cool facts

Cristina Marianne (Cris) af Enehielm (born March 24, 1954, Helsinki) is a Finnish artist.

Af Enehielm graduated as a visual artist from Fria konstskolan in Helsinki in 1977, and as an actress from the Theatre Academy in Helsinki in 1981. She is the mommy of two sons: Andreas and Theodore.

Af Enehielm has worked as an actress in radio, television and film, as a visual artist, performance artist, singer, director, costume designer, set designer, educator and lecturer, and as intellectual in acting at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. She has in addition to participated in a number of dance productions. She has worked at the Raivoisat Ruusut (Raging Roses) theatre,Swedish Theatre, Klockriketeatern and the Lilla teatern in Helsinki, Wasa Teater, Printing Theatre in Karis, the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2004, she directed a function at the Bellman’s Festival.

She has had several solo exhibitions, in Gallerie Pelin, Gallerie Anhava, Gallerie Forsblom, and Titanik Gallerie in Helsinki. She has moreover exhibited in Paris and Stockholm, and participated in several help exhibitions in Finland, Russia, Cuba, Sweden and Denmark. Her art is represented in several art collections, and her comport yourself has sold internationally. She has undertaken examination tours in Asia and worked as an artist-in-residence at Cité internationale des arts in Paris.

She has been a advocate of several play a role art and music groups: Homo$, Jack Hellen Brut, Sarje ääni, Joan Bennet and the Museo och Transistors. As a devotee of feint 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).

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