30/5 – 8/6
Extra! New exhibition: Elena Näsänen, Pekka Sassi, Rita Jokiranta – REPetition
Due to a delay with the upcoming exhibition the gallery program will continue with a new, smaller compilation of video works by Näsänen, Sassi and Jokiranta.
Special program will be organized during the week and the opening hours may vary during the period, please [...]
Elena Näsänen, Pekka Sassi, Rita Jokiranta
PREface – stories through the lens
May 8–29, 2010
Opening May 7, 6-9 pm
The exhibition presents three internationally emerging artists from Finland, Elena Näsänen, Pekka Sassi and Rita Jokiranta, all of them working with video art.
Their works are dealing with different ways of narratives and show three aspects to moving images, completing each other. Both similarities and differences are found in their works which often have a starting point in landscape or urban views, but each of them uses his or her own perspectives to create suspense and interpretations. Their methods vary from elements of traditional filmmaking with staged scenes to experimental video, constructed images and found footage, accompanied with movie-like music, digital sound or no audio.
Gallery Open from 18:00 ->
Antti Pussinen, Jari Haanperä and Mimosa Pale improvise a soundtrack to Jari Haanperäs Light projector.
Instruments: Theremin, Musical Saw and digital synthesis.
Grand Opening!
First exhibition of Suomesta project & residency gallery consists of four artists: Antti Pussinen, Martta-Kaisa Virta, Jari Haanperä & Mirka Flander.
Themes of the exhibition revolve around a metropolis seen as an outsider, and the visual, social and cultural environtments within cities.
Pekka Sassi (b. 1969) is a Helsinki-based artist whose output consists of experimental sound and video works, many of which are purely sound pieces and audio installations. Sassi’s works are characterised by creative integration of simple, and sometimes random, audial and visual worlds detected in the surrounding world.
Elena Näsänen (b.1968) is a visual artists who works with film and video installations. She has studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and The Slade School of Fine Art in London.
In her works she combines elements of traditional and experimental cinema to video installation. The sound is always essential in her works.
Rita Jokiranta
is a photographer and video artist who also works with installations, light and sound. Her art often explores the dynamic between image, event and interpretation. The viewer’s interpretation has always been an essential aspect of her work, whether the medium she uses is photography or video.
In my work I use all kinds of intaglio printing techniques, but mostly photo based: polymergravure, ImagOn and fotoetching. The images combine popular culture, and world politics in home made science fiction style. I also make pure photographic series with pinhole and other analogic cameras, printed as polymer gravure.
Maria Duncker’s art reflects the freedom of the artist that is characteristic of our time with regard to materials, methods and display situations. In her happenings/installations, Duncker might show, say, plastic moulds and toy recycling. She even sculpts with her teeth, her instrument of choice being a sewing machine, video camera or, for example, a van, whose interior she and her colleague have converted to give camera obscura rides to ‘tourists’.
Emma Lappalainen b. 1976
Lives and works in Jyväskylä
I work with pinhole cameras and use lightning methods to make graphic prints. Working creates vital role like adaptor between seeing and experienced. They are documents of the permanent state of changing to which our adaptation give these visible answers. I experience these phenomenon as possibility to realize that everything includes everything, separated doesn’t exist.
born 1979, Krasnik Lubelski, Puola
The cinetic sculpture Fortuna (2007) is based on the idea of a mechanized game which the viewer is invited to follow. What is under scrutiny in this case is the hypnotic rhythm of appearing and disappearing steel balls. A hybrid of a billiard and roulette table has here been clothed as a piece of Rococo furniture. The sublime and the commonplace are united in this work of art, with a title referring both to the goddess of fortune and to a simple table game that even children are capable of playing (N.B. the table game Bagatelle is known in Finland as Fortuna).
Anne Hiekkaranta (b. 1976 in Juankoski) lives and works in Helsinki.
I am a contemporary dancer and I have been working widely as a freelancer since I graduated from Theatre Academy year 2000. During these years I have been dancing, selling lingeries, bath tubs, dancing, waxing skis…
Lately I have been dancing and playing some instruments in a kick-ass psalm band Succubussucs.
At the moment I am working with Jyrki Karttunen, Harri Kuorelahti, Ervi Siren, Alpo Aaltokoski, Petri Kekoni, Maria Duncker and Hannaleena Heiska.
Born 1981 Tampere.
Usually, a discoverer is regarded to be someone who is the first to make notes of a discovery. After giving the issue some thought, my opinion is exactly the opposite: as things, places and conditions are in constant change, the discoverer should be the person who is the last one to make the discovery.
Landscape Paintings -Artist Statement.
I call my works landscape paintings. They
are photographs of reflections off surfaces of
paintings. I use enamel paint in the paintings
that serve as backgrounds for the works.
I photograph these paintings in different
environments and lightings
born 1968
Artist Statement. Hanne Ivars is a visual
artist that lives and works in Helsinki.
Her works deals with questions of
identity, usually in terms of being a
human. The works can be political but
the area of interest is the mental world.
Her recent works are narrative
animations with puppets.
Jari Haanperä is media-artist, director and light and sound designer.
All his works are about light, sound and moving images.
Haanperä is interested in analog technology but does also use digital technique. He is interested early 20th century technology romanticism/mysticism as well as technical phenomenans of our time. He uses whole scale of moving image from pre cinematic methods to videos and 35 mm fiction films.
Mirka Flander has worked on fields of theatre and film for more than
twenty years, last ten as shortfilm producer and coordinator for
media art.
Her self potraits represent another aspect of her thinking and making art.
Sculptor and performance artist
I make body related sculptures and performances, and a combination of these. My favourite working areas are streets or spaces outside the art context. My work is mainly site specific and intuitive. My special skills are playing the musical saw and making the porridge.
Lehtonen-Braun verwendet in ihren Arbeiten gefundenes Material, das sie mit ihren eigenen Zeichnungen, Gemälden und Fotos vielfältig kombiniert. Ihr Stil verleiht den entstandenen Collagen hohen Wiedererkennungswert. Sie hat die Kunst Akademie in Helsinki im Jahr 2000 absolviert (Schlussausstellung 1999). Seit 2000 wohnt sie mit ihrem Mann, dem Künstler Ulu Braun, dauerhaft in Deutschland. Mit den Jahren hat sie viele Ausstellungen gehabt und an ihrer eigenen Ästhetik gearbeitet. Außer den Collagen gehören zu ihren Werken auch Videos, Installationen und Performance.
born 1963, Tampere
I work with light, sound, moving image, paintings, objects and situations
created with them.
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Denise Ziegler’s works are traces of gestures, human activity, something that has happened. Ziegler’s situational reconstructions usually result in three-dimensional assemblages of objects, but also include drawings, paintings, videos or literary-visual works.
Project gallery for Finnish Contemporary art
