Pekka Suomäki is an artist from Korpilahti who works with the combination of objects and photography. Various techniques are used to transfer images onto different wooden surfaces. The photographs used in this series are archival photographs from the Finnish Civil War (1914 –1918).
pekkasuomaki@gmail.com
The series Influences of Africa is the result of a trip to Benin made in 2004, where I spent one month in Grand Popo at the Villa Karo artist residency. There, I photographed people, landscapes and small details of life around me. I also photographed my own shadows drawn in the red sand, the scratched walls of the houses, and gravestones. My own shadows in the African landscape are the basis of this series. Superimposed on the shadows, are other subjects. In this way I as able to express how Africa
really effected the collection of dark things and events of my inner self. I
am a printmaker from Jyväskylä, working in woodcut and carborundum techniques.
aino-k.pajari@pp.inet.fi
personal.inet.fi/taide/aino-k.pajari
14 Images from series Pause 1
Pictures of old and deserted cafes, bars and gasoline stations on wayside, all those precious things I expect to see when I am driving around.
One by one they disappear, loose the fight against huge
shoppingentertainmentstations or what ever they are, ugly and stupid blocks with big parking areas.
jyrki.mk@kolumbus.fi
In taking pinhole pictures, I am attaching myself to the present and the moods of the moment. Outlined by the existence of non-organic forms, is a puzzle-like space where people adapt themselves to the current time, modify their environment, decoupling the old layers and packing them up into the framework of the new requirements. Events and the experience of emptiness, are the scene of an open space waiting patiently for someone or something to fill them.
lappalainen.emma@gmail.com
”Looking for Landscape”
is a new entity of work on which I am currently working. The
idea of visualizing the experience of landscape radically changed when I had to buy a new telephone to replace my old broken one. I left my professional equipment behind and went on an expedition with my phone. As often happens, this game turned into work somewhere along the way.
martti.kapanen@pp1.inet.fi
personal.inet.fi/taide/martti.kapanen
As a photographer, I am interested in the role of the subject and the importance of the person posing as subject. Who is the real person; what is their relationship to the photographer; who controls their identity; what was the context in which the photo was taken; what does the image make us remember? In the series, Memories, I am melting the superficial identity of the subject into the background. These portraits are my private memories.
juho.jappinen@saunalahti.fi
Not the decisive, but some other moment,
the one that I didn’t quite notice.
I took the photo, affected by indecision,
out of bluntness.
Astonishment after years: The image turns out to be of
presence and seeing.
Wanting to tell strikes dumb,
the image springs up from
the grief of dumbness and longing for presence.
The world forgets us all,
forgets its mass.
I love the one that forgets me, in its arms.
naulasaari@gmail.com
www.kolumbus.fi/naulasaari
born 1976 Espoo, works in Helsinki
Hyperfantastic traces and colours that extend over the boundaries of reality. Be prepared for an adventure, for you are sure to be disappointed. Come quick – the traces have almost disappeared. The exhibition displays drawings and an animation about the side of the thought that there is no words for. Often when working I loose myself and realize that I am merely a passenger that watches the creation of my works. The process behind the origins of an idea never truly reveals itself.
Still images from an animation “Sequence” 2011
info@pettericedeberg.fi
+358505726282
www.pettericederberg.fi
Lotta Hänninen
(b. 1984 in Vantaa, Finland) lives and works in Helsinki.
I work with painting.
I’m interested in observations of an everyday life: make up, gym pants and denim fabrics, patterns and logos as colours and shapes.
As a painter I reduce, add, colour and erase until there is left only the essential.
Into the gallery I will bring [...]
Terhi Heino – Sculptures and Installations
Organic, biodegradable and recycled materials are the foundation for Terhi Heino’s (b.1970) work whose first Berlin exhibition of sculptures and installations opens at SUOMESTA galleria on Friday 5th of August, 2011. Heino combines materials that are less often used in visual art, e.g. fish fins, used [...]
In February SUOMESTA galleria provides
videos and installation by group of artists at front row of Finnish art.
Videos of Pekka Sassi, Elena Näsänen, Rita Jokiranta, Veli Granö, Mikko Maasalo, PINK TWINS, Jari Haanperä, Anne Siirtola, Juha Mäki-Jussila, Milja Viita, Antti-Ville Reinikainen, Denize Ziegler, Mikko Kuorinki, Hanne Ivars and Mia Makela are shown at the exhibition.
There are [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Project gallery for Finnish Contemporary art
