Antti-Ville Reinikainen (b. 1980) works mainly with spatial, mixed-media installations and paintings. His present thematic concerns evolve around the phenomena related to human consciousness, suggestion and memory. Reinikainen’s approach, far from scientific rigour, relies on emotional impressions and intuitive visions. To transmit these emotional states to the viewer and yet to oblige him/her to question and reflect upon them, is a main concern in Reinikainen’s work. This could be achieved by means of humour, the absurd, or through combinations of contradictory fragments. Surprising details, such as dead forest animals, may either offer a hilarious surprise or yet another source of distress.

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Mikko Kuorinki (b. 1977 in Rovaniemi, Finland) works with a variety of media including performance, installation, video and photography. His works investigate how we understand the world and our place in it. Kuorinki often examines this relationship between the individual and the physical reality through language, but interventions created his own body or objects are also recurrent in his practice. Often conceptual, Kuorinki’s works touch upon experiences of alienation and rootlessness.

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In my art I recreate or reanimate the history of memories associated with the site. I am interested in the historical, ethnographical consciousness of places and ways to animate related themes and stories and characters. Lately the artwork has taken form in photography and in installations combining sound and masked video projections.

When I take the photograph or shoot the video, I identify myself with a particular memory or an image and encapsulate it in a movement or a gesture that is as simple as possible. Using masks and masked projections the overall impression of the works are somewhere inbetween a moving image and a photograph.

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Petri Eskelinen analyses nature and it’s mechanisms for producing and maintaining life like a scientist. His installations are multi-functional devices which distil and measure the geological and botanical movements of nature and nature’s unending process into images. Eskelinen is also interested in shipping and the explorers who sailed the high seas. He charts their achievements [...]

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Veli Granö has become known to the Finnish public as a documentarist of collectors and folk artists. For him, this long project has not been just one of appearing in the context of the arts, within its institutional structures of galleries and museums. Instead, his efforts have resulted in documentary works of wider distribution, such [...]

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Born in 1967, currently lives and works in Karkkila, Finland.

I am working with video and installations. In my installations I am using various techniques, combining moving picture and sound. For the past few years I have been involved in community art. I have recorded my own and other people’s lives and asked what is important and worthy in life. I often use found, second-hand or thrown-away items as material. Traces of decay and change – processes that take place in human mind and matter – are present in my work.

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Pink Twins are prophets of Finnish video art and electronic music, brothers Juha Vehviläinen (b. 1978) and Vesa Vehviläinen (b. 1974), based in Helsinki, Finland.
Pink Twins work in a league of their own, creating their own language of audiovisual narrative and logic. Their video works and live performances challenge the spectator with an overwhelming information [...]

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The exhibition consists of works from 2004- 2010 that origin from two different abandoned houses in the Finnish countryside.
“The House of Mind and Memories” (2004) is a series of works made on old male cotton handkerchiefs, based on pictorial fragments from an old summerhouse that belongs to my fathers’ family. The house is slowly being [...]

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Juha Mäki-Jussila
Born in 1967 in Ilmajoki, Finland, and currently resident in Karkkila, Juha Mäki-Jussila’s media are video and short film combined with sculptural oddities. He uses various techniqes in order to examine and reflect on human behaviour. References to the cinematic history can also be found in Mäki-Jussila’s approach.In the recent video works Mäki-Jussila has [...]

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Yrjänä Sauros

My art is combination of words and music. It is stories and melodies of spoken voice, guitar, chromatic harmonica and mystic cries from an istrument called the saurophone.

My stories are like adventures in the jungle of a normal day, in small things, which all become adventures if you just let yourself to be drawn to them. Those tiny moments, which everybody recognizes, when they are pointed out.

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Lauri isola
s.1975 Riihimäki
The thought process behind my works often starts off with the question, “What should I do?” It is as if I were somehow indebted to myself while facing an unsolved question. 

A story or a thing that is stuck in my mind in a situation or a place or a thing that is [...]

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Born 1963 in Helsinki, Finland. Lives in Helsinki, FI.
As co-founder of the Helsinki Film Workshop in the late 1980s, Seppo Renvall is a pioneer in Finnish experimental film. Although he works mainly with film and video, his artistic output also includes photography, installations and happenings. His films are characterised by an abstract imagery in black [...]

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Mia Makela works in the fields of real-time audiovisual performance,
experimental video and documentary. Her visual language has a mystical
dream-like narrative approach and has been described as a digital version of
William Blake’s poetry. She processes her material in real-time and performs
in tandem with musicians. Makela, an innovator in the field of live cinema, has
shown her work [...]

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This exhibition at Suomesta continues the ongoing thread in Leo Koivistoinen’s work of subversion, of the apparent disparity between the familiar and the unfamiliar, of the slight of hand and juxtaposition that upsets this. By making subtle interventions into how the subjects of his pieces are received (the horror film transplanted to neutral ground, the towering pile of books) Koivistoinen reflects on the relationships and distinctions between the dramatic and the mundane, the familiar and the unfamiliar. The direct and personal approach to the audience of Koivistoinen’s work in following these ideas sets up a dialogue that relies on subjective experience, stimulating a sense of the uncanny or of humour.

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Title of the show:
GENERATIONAL FILMING
Lea and Pekka Kantonen with Goa von Zweygbergk, Finland
Works
Autobiography of a Friend, Artist at Service

An artist cuts wood naked in her summer villa in the Turku archipelago in Finland. Another artist sees it and gets and idea for an artwork. A third artist films it. Their family members and closest [...]

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Johanna Lecklin’s Story Café: “Tell A Story – Get A Coffee”
Story Café is a temporary café set up by the artist Johanna Lecklin from Finland in different countries in Europe. The visitor gets a cup of coffee if she/ he tells a story, which Lecklin records on video. A selection of the recorded stories is [...]

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Under a Burning City is a short film by Riikka Kuoppala about memories of the war and their transfer to the next generations. The protagonists, an elderly woman and a teenage girl, are exploring the signs of the war in the city of Helsinki, but they cannot find a common language to share their experiences.
Riikka [...]

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