Suomesta Galleria

Aiju Salminen

Born 1979 in some boring small town in the middle of Finland. Studied film culture in Lahti and Animation in Turku Arts Academy. Works as a freelance illustrator and a comic artist. Plays in two garage punk bands and is a hostess for Dr.Sketchy’s Anti-Art-School Helsinki. Currently working on a photo novel comic book about a swamp monster attending the Olympic Games.

Aino-Kaarina Pajari

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

Ami Lindholm

Biography
Born in 1982 in Finland, Ami Lindholm became interested in animation as a way to combine all art forms in one medium. She studied animation at Turku Arts Academy and graduated in 2008. Her first short film, The Irresistible Smile (2006), is an award-winning drawn animation of an overbooked flight attendant. She directed two more films as a student – the puppet animation Bird House (2007) and her graduation film, The Year I Cut My Hair (2008). Upon graduating, Lindholm has been working in the animation group Tuhru an in her own company, Coop Paperhat. She has done illustrations for magazines, designed murals for a hospital, contributed animations to documentaries and coordinated the production of community-made animated films. A simple style, a positive touch, hope, humor and warm characters are the hallmarks of Lindholm’s art.

Anne Hiekkaranta

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.

Anne Siirtola

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.

annesiirtola@gmail.com

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Antti Keitilä

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

Antti Pussinen

Antti Pussinen born 1984, Tampere Finland

I’m interested in the city as a network of dynamic communities shaping their inhabitants’ visual, audio, non-material and physical environments.
Website

Antti-Ville Reinikainen

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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Denise Ziegler

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.

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Eemil Karila

Eemil Karila paints based on observation. He is currently working on series of works which depict his living surrounding, social and physical, portraits and still lives. Karilas motifs for painting are purely social as he invites his friends to have talks, eat together and create a dialogue in a form of a painting to celebrate the idea of friendship. Together his works form a whole social genre. As for Karila the art forms its content based on the collective activity around the works, he also keep importance It being created also based on social values.
www.eemilkarila.net

Elena Näsänen

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.

www.elenanasanen.com

Emma Lappalainen

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.

Emma Lappalainen

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

Hanne Ivars

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.

Ilmari Gryta

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).

Jan Andersson

Jan Andersson lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. He works as an animator, director, writer and as whatever is interesting at the moment. He would really like to draw comic books but he ́s too lazy. But he ́s trying.

Janne Räisänen

Janne Räisänen samples like a DJ in his paintings. He deals through painting about everything that touches him, consciously or subconsciously. For Räisänen, the allure of modernism is perhaps a demonstration of his open-mindedness towards art. His works contain playful elements inspired by pop, club and street culture as well as literature, music and movies. In his art, Räisänen mixes high and low culture.
www.janneraisanen.com

Jari Haanperä

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.

Jarkko Räsänen

Sampling, Scaling, Actualisation
photographic series by Jarkko Räsänen and Gregoire Rousseau
In contempary information society we can find the three processes of sampling, scaling and actualisation more applicable in different fields of human acitivity than ever before. After internet applications became more focused on transmitting simulative sensory data over written text, with a good reason we can be concerned with the ways of encapsulating information in images.
The photographic series Sampling, Scaling, Actualisation (2012) is originally a proposal for World Design Capital Helsinki stamp design competition. Although the series has evolved after it’s initial release in 2011, the original idea of including more important information in the stamp than in the actual “message” (letter, card etc) reveals very much about the ideas, discussions and values that our collaboration was based on in the first place. In this phase, the relationship between city map and PCB was also emphasized. From the point of philatelism, old stamps are appreciated more than the related letters or cards. Also from the historical point of view, the date, the place – and the stamp as a whole – tell us more about the condition of the society / world around the message delivered than the contents of a personal letter.
PCB boards represented in the photographies are that of a DA converter, AD converter and a mixer. One can take a photo of them in the exhibition, print them on a transparency and use them in the actual making process of a circuit board.

Jimi Tenor

Musician and composer Jimi Tenor has never settled for the traditional role of a pop artist. He is known as a productive musician whose work lies beyond current trends, and also as a performer who combines the finest elements of afro-american music, spontaneous silliness and shameless glamour in an original way.
Besides being a professional musician for almost 20 years, Jimi Tenor (born Lassi Lehto, 1965, Lahti, Finland) has also practised photography, directed short films and designed clothes and musical instruments. The electro-mechanic instruments built by Jimi Tenor and designer Matti Knaapi are not intended to be pieces of art on display at exhibitions, though have sometimes ended up as such. They emerge from musical needs, and are mainly made of scrap material. The instruments have been used at full blast during recording and on stage, so some of them have been wrecked.
Tenor’s music, along with his design and technical innovations, springs from experimental rock. His first recording band Jimi Tenor & His Shamans (1986-1992) was influenced by the early 80s industrial rock, where instruments were made out of scrap metal and plastic. Later during the 90s Tenor moved first towards electronic music, but soon got closer to his roots: 60s and 70s jazz, psychedelic soul and African funk.
Although Tenor spent all of the 90s in Berlin, New York, London and Barcelona, his artistic approach was typically Finnish: technically practical, but saturated with black humour and a national romantic tone. So he was quite at home all over Europe in front of a crowd gone wild, wearing a glittering self-designed costume and a flowing cape, holding a noise-producing device the main components of which were a walkman made in Hong Kong and an East-German bicycle dynamo, performing a song about ancient Finnish forest gods, sounding like a mixture of Gil Evans, Jimi Hendrix and Fela Kuti.
The music industry has found it difficult to operate with Jimi Tenor at times. The hard rock driven Finland of the 80s considered him weird and too marginal. In Britain in the 90s he was seen as a trendy techno jazz artist, but Tenor soon confused the pioneering electro label Warp by delivering an imaginary – and expensive – soundtrack album with a symphony orchestra, instead of making minimalistic hits.
Today Jimi Tenor is an established European artist who operates outside the mainstream. His audience consists of clubbers and alternative rock enthusiasts looking for new perspective, but also of jazz and funk rebels. Those who understand that even unconventional pop music can move your body and heart.
Ilkka Mattila
translated by Chris Gurney

Johanna Lecklin

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 [...]

Juha Mäki-Jussila

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 [...]

Juha Puuperä

I spend a lot of my life in a dark room with a projector running, watching cinema. With “Bad Boys 2: light and reflection”, I wanted to explore the reactions of light in this space. The video installation is built from two screens, one exhibiting the reactions of the projectors light hitting the cameras lens directly, the other consisting of the light-play of reflections in the room resulting from the changes in light on the screen itself. The accompanying sound is created through modified recordings of the projector running. The techniques used to be able to capture this play of light were all in-camera, including use of negative filter, “cartoon look” and varying extreme ISO speeds.

Juhana Moisander

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.

Juho Jäppinen

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

Jussi Heikkilä

The art of Jussi Heikkilä often deals with environmental issues. His works in this exhibition are no exception. Time Out, the uncomfortable hourglass formed of two Coca-Cola bottles, contains sand from Sahara Desert. Heikkilä is an ornithologist and birds have always played a part in his work. In his imagination the notation of Ryoanji by [...]

Jyrki Markkanen

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.

Jyrki Markkanen

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

Jyrki Siukonen

Jyrki Siukonen presents three works from three different decades, illustrating changes in his conceptual practice. The earliest, Animal Farm from 1986 reveals his interest in language as a system of silences and negations. Memory Traces from 1996 is a small, poetic installation, typical to Siukonen at the time. He plays with materials and associations of [...]

Kaisa Penttilä

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Kapa

”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

Kristian Simolin

Kristian Simolin (1974) lives in Espoo and works as senior lecturer in 3D Animation and Visualisation in Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. He studied art history in University of Turku and sculpture in Turku School of Fine Arts before moving to Helsinki and going digital in Media Lab (University of Art and Design Helsinki).
Simolin’s animated works portray silent, introverted and nervous male figures usually in minimalistic surroundings. His works has been exhibited in more than 30 exhibitions in Europe and North America.
Simolin is doctoral student in Media Lab (Aalto University). His focus is on expressive scripted real-time 3d character animation.

Lauri isola

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 [...]

Lea&Pekka Kantonen

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 [...]

Leo Koivistoinen

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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Lotta Hänninen

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 [...]

Maija Holma

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

Marcus Eek

Marcus Eek’s’ works appear to be a fruitful fusion of conflict and confusion. His ability to be crystal clear as to what he wants and does is a source of both bewilderment and curiosity. On the other hand, he appears to struggle constantly with indecision. Both sure and unsure, he remains in the middle of this dilemma, dedicated to his medium: painting. However, this is a place that also involves insecurity. A situation is just not a problem; it is also a possibility, a possibility because it always takes Marcus Eek back to basics. He begins a project, takes it as far as he can and then returns. Again and again. It is, of course, the scene of the crime, the act, and the questions: What is a painting, what do I want to do and how do I say it? The task is so demanding and complex that he has no choice. He has to keep his strategy simple. It is one that might appear to have a trace of conceptuality but that, in fact, is a delusion. It is not conceptual, but existential.
www.marcuseek.com

Maria Björklund

Biography
Born October 10th 1970.
Education: – Master of Arts (2005, University of Art and Design Helsinki) – Graphic designer (1994, Rovaniemi Institute of Applied Arts) – Visual arts studies (Varsinais-Suomen Kansanopisto 1989 – 90)
– MatriculationExamination1989
Worked as a freelance animator, comics artist and illustrator since 1994. Is a founding member of the animation company Animaatiokopla (www.animaatiokopla.fi) established in 2004. Currently works in Animaatiokopla with various commercial projects as well as making her own animated short films.
Has published comics in dozens of publications in Europe and a few in Australia, Hong Kong and Brazil. Her solo comic books have been published in Finland, Portugal and Lithuania.

Maria Duncker

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’.

Marikki Hakola

Marikki Hakola’s solo exhibition at the SUOMESTA Galleria, Berlin, shows four of her recent media art works and music films. The works at the exhibition include an interactive installation MOLOCH and music and dance films LUONNOTAR, BUTTERFLY LOVERS and L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES. For more information, please check project sites.

Marikki Hakola is working as a media artist, film director and producer. Her works, beginning in 1981, include dance and music films, video art, installations, multimedia art and documentaries. Hakola’s works are in courtesy of many international museums and collections and many of the films have been broadcasted widely internationally in television and screened in festivals.

Project Sites
MOLOCH: http://www.moloch.fi
LUONNOTAR: http://www.luonnotar.fi
BUTTERFLY LOVERS: http://www.butterflylovers.fi
L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES: http://www.lumottulapsi.net

Marikki Hakola CV
http://www.kromaproductions.net/Marikki_Hakola_CV.pdf
www.facebook.com/KromaProductions
www.kroma.fi

Marjo Levlin

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 [...]

Mark Ståhle

Biography
Mark Ståhle is born 1971. He studied animation at the Turku Arts Academy. Besides making animation, he also draws comics and teaches both.
short filmography:
Animals for animals , 10min. flash-animation 2011
Substance, 7.35min. drawn animation 2011
After the news, 3min. drawn animation 2007
Overtime, 10min. flash-animation 2007
Granny, 6min. flash- animation 2003
Delirium isolated, 3.40min. cut-out animation 2001

Martta-Kaisa Virta

Martta-Kaisa Virta
During the two years I`ve been limiting drawing to basic shapes like square, triangle, and circle forms. I have used architecht stencils, templates, where these basic forms repeat in different sizes. I made picture series “Shaped World, Templates”, which consist shaped cities, nature and it`s animals. I bring to the exhibition only few of these sharp [...]

Martta-Kaisa Virta

Martta-Kaisa Virta’s artistic working is intuitive and spreads out multiple medias. She says “Take your clothes off, put music on, shake your ass and take out the colors”

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Meri Peura

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.

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Mia Makela

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 [...]

Mikko Kuorinki

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.

Mikko Maasalo

born 1963, Tampere

I work with light, sound, moving image, paintings, objects and situations
created with them.

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Milja Viita

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Mimosa Pale

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.

Minna Suomiemi

Minna Suoniemi (b. 1972) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in
Helsinki and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki (MFA 2001).
She works with video and video performance and her work focuses on
basic human emotions, relations between people and people’s actions
determined by their role in a given situation and environment. Her
works have been exhibited internationally and are in the Collections
of Helsinki Art Museum, Finnish State and Museum of Contemporary Art
Kiasma.

Mirja Ylänne

Painting is a form of communication. At best a painting is a thought so well formed that it travels via emotions. I have an interest to assembly a fight of subject vs. painting into a canvas. When i paint I try and apply a strong hand of natural selection in to the process keeping in mind that from a good subject one can make a bad painting and vice versa. Fight at best is a real cultivating process, without a fight there is no evolution.

Mirka Flander

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.

MOVING IMAGE FROM FINLAND videos&installations 04.02.-25.02.2011

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 [...]

Niina Lehtonen Braun

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.

Niina Suominen

Niina Suominen (b.1973) has graduated from the Arts Academy at Turku in 2004. She works as a film director and media artist using traditional animation techniques requiring hand-work. She is fascinated about organic materials and textures. Her works have been shown widely at the festivals both in Finland and abroad.

Olli Piippo

Olli Piippo paints for the necessity to paint. Starting from the existential purposes, he comes to the question, If the world is an illusion or delusion, how to make visible something that doesn’t exist? His works are flirtingly figurative, but strongly concerned about the abstract ways of expression. For him paint is primary material with what to construct something, as immediate as possible. Piippos paintings consist of feminine and passive motifs. Still during the process they gain masculine identity and find functional possibilities. His intention as a painter is not only to paint, but also to see the world through a painting and more over as a painting. This creates awareness of art and the conventions it presents.
www.ollipiippo.com

Pekka Sassi

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.

Pekka Suomäki

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

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Petri Ala-Maunus

“Visual artist has never been my number one profession. I have always rather wanted to be a rock star. Unfortunately I can’t sing, let alone play any instrument. I’m incompetent in music and too lazy to practice. I’m over 40, which means that I’m about 25 years late to start learning any instrument. That’s a fact.”

Petri Eskelinen

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 [...]

Petteri Cederberg

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

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PINK TWINS

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 [...]

Reetta Neittaanmäki

Reetta Neittaanmäki lives in Helsinki and works as a freelancer in different animation art projects. She studied animation in Turku Arts Academy and graduated in 2001. She continued her new media studies at Aalto University School of Art and Design in 2007 and graduated as Master of Arts in 2011. Clay Feet (2000) is her first drawn animation. Pixillation animation Bachelor’s life (2001) was her graduate film from Turku Arts Academy. Adaptation of the Species (2007) is a 2D computer short film made for Animation Crank Handle’s Law of the Nature animated series. Mr. Hunt (2008) is one “lesson” for Turun Anikistit collective’s short film English Lessons. Her films have been shown on television and festivals. She is a member of Turun Anikistit and Animation Crank Handle animation collectives. Animation as an art form fascinates her because of the possibility to show the world from a new kind of perspective and playing with different techniques and visual styles.

Riikka Kuoppala

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 [...]

Rita Jokiranta

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.

Seppo Renvall

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 [...]

Terhi Heino

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 [...]

Terike Haapoja

Terike Haapoja
The video installation Entropy (2004), shows the cooling down of a horse’s body after its death, recorded with an infrared camera. The original recording of 9 hours has been edited to a 25 minutes loop. In the painting-like video the figure of the animal slowly disappears as the body looses its heat.

The solo exhibition in SUOMESTA galleria will show selected video work of finnish artist Terike Haapoja from 2004-2012.

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Terike Haapoja (b.1974) is a visual artist, working and living in Helsinki, Finland. Her work consists of videos, installations and performance projects, characterized by the innovative use of new media and new technology. Haapoja’s work deals with human – non-human relations and the clash of subjective experience of the world with objective knowledge of it. Haapoja works extensively with professionals from natural sciences, and different fields of art.
Haapoja’s work has been shown widely in solo –and group exhibitions and festivals both nationally and internationally (Including UM festival, Lisbon, Prague Biennale, L’Art en Europe, Reims, Insitute Finlandais, Paris, Gallery Rekord, Oslo, Rauma Art Museum, Finland, Pori Art Museum, Finland, Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Oulu Art Museum). She also works as a director and visual designer in contemporary performance projects. Haapoja’s articles and essays have been pubished in art journals in Finland and internationally.
She was honoured with Finnish Art Association’s Dukaatti-prize in 2008, with Finland Festivals’ Young Artist of the year –prize in 2007 and was one of the 2011 Ars Fennica Prize candidates. She has received numerous project- and working grants form the Finnish State Art Fund and private foundations since 2001. Haapoja has a MA degree both from the Theater Academy of Finland (dep. of Performance art and -theory) and from the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland. She is currently working on her artistic reasearch PhD in the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Haapoja is represented by Gallery Kalhama&Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki.
www.terikehaapoja.net www.kalhamapiippo.com

Tommi Juutilainen

Biography
Tommi Juutilainen was born 1972 in Varkaus, Finland. Currently he is living in Turku, Finland. In the middle of the 90’s Tommi studied in Institute of Fine Arts, Lahti and after that Animation in Turku Arts Academy.

Veli Granö

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 [...]

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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