PLAY THIS AT MY FUNERAL
New music video for Blood Music made by artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Niina Lehtonen Braun
It started from a fan letter from Tellervo Kalleinen to Karl-Jonas Winqvist aka Blood Music. As a response to her letter – being familiar with her artistic work – Karl-Jonas asked whether she would be interested making [...]
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.
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.
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.
HEIKKILÄ&JYRKI SIUKONEN
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.
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.
OPENING on Friday 2nd of November at 7 pm!
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.
Vernissage 5.10. 7pm. Live Music by the Artist.
Millions of animals get killed every year at road-kills. In fact, it’s the easiest way to have an encounter with some of these species. I´ve never seen a live badger, but I´ve seen plenty of them dead on the roadside.
Most people are not troubled by encountering dead animals on motorways. It seems to be business as usual. There aren´t many demonstrations against motorways and the deaths they cause. Apparently if driving speeds were reduced to max 80km/h there would be much less roadkills.
“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. But a few years back I made a surprising discovery from an old c-tape of mine, a song which I have made when I was 16 years old!” (Petri Ala-Maunus)
The Installation A Tribute to Petri Ala-Maunus (2009) is a tribute to every boys dream to release at last one record in his life time and the painting series Popular Culture Postmortem (2012) mimics every boys dream to design a record cover.
101 Sequencers
Association of Experimental Electronics (Koelse) builds a
trasholicious installation inside Suomesta Gallery using electronics
that have dropped out of consumer rotation. A space full of noisy
lo-fi disturbance sound mayhem is to be expected. This particular
concept is part of Koelse’s 10-year anniversary festivities.
ModernTimesTalking
Painting talks with another painting. It also talks about other paintings. Together they talk generally about painting, but what do they talk about painting?
History of painting is long and to re-contextualize painting is similar to the necessity of changing the sauce with your sausages once in a while. In other words painting has been there since the beginning.
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.
Jari Haanperä uses in his light- and sound installation chairs and music stands, sound and light. The work erases not only the musicians but also the audience. The music stands and the chairs move as shades along the wall reflecting the interactive relation between the auditor and the musicians.
The installation is seen from the outside of the gallery on the street side every evening between the 17th and the 31st of March from 7 pm to 2 am.
Media artist Jari Haanperä has worked since years as a light and sound designer and done light design for concerts, dance performances, theater and opera.
Youth as Refugees website has been made together with young people from Afghanistan, Congo and Somalia, who seek asylum from Finland. The site tells the story of the homelessness of young refugees, their lives in refugee reception centers and attempts at integration into a foreign society. The same questions about the right for an education [...]
Anxiety / Relief – Neue finnische Animationkunst
Anxiety / Relief is an art exhibition by the Animation Crank Handle collective. The exhibition consists of ten works by ten well-known Finnish animation artists. Artists represented are Jan Andersson (born 1973), Maria Björklund (1970), Tommi Juutilainen (1972), Ami Lindholm (1982), Reetta Neittaanmäki (1974), Kaisa Penttilä (1975), Aiju Salminen (1979), Kristian Simolin (1974), Mark Ståhle (1971) and Niina Suominen (1973). Their works have been seen on many festivals around the world.
The Centre For Creative Photography Association was set up in May 1989 in Jyväskylä, Finland and is an association dedicated to advancing photography as an art form and making it more widely known among the public. The association is also concerned with bettering the overall conditions shared by photographers in its given area. Yet another focal point is furthering both domestic and international contacts.
Markus Kåhre
3 scenes from Odysseus project
Markus Kåhre (born 1969) is an Ars Fennica award winniner artist.
He will bring to SUOMESTA galleria 3 scenes of his coming large Odysseus project
in which he plays with borders of sculpture and theatre.
IMPORTANT:
Scenes can been seen in windows of SUOMESTA galleria
every night from 7pm to 2am
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Marjo Levlin
Häuser
8-29.4.2011
Vernissage 8.4 7 pm
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 [...]
Seppo Renvall and quest artists
8.-30.3.
Vernissage 8.3. 7pm
Seppo Renvall Videoworks 1990-2010
8. -13.3. 8pm
Yrjänä Sauros Live live music performance:
stand up, tango music and Saurofoni
15.3. 8pm
Supershow evening:
Video screening selected by Seppo Renvall
Yrjänä Sauros
Yhäkkiätässä -group:
Maija Saksman
Heli Haltia
Riku Mäkinen
and quests
Quest artists art show:
videos, graphics, photograps, instant art
22.3 – 30.3.
Lauri Isola videos
Electroacoustic Night at Suomesta Galleria 4.3. 2011 21 Uhr
Suomesta Galleria, Potsdamer str 91, Tiergarten, 10785 Berlin U Bahn: U1 Kurfürstenstr U2 Bülowstr
Nathan Siter (Zhark, Plague)
Biography
Nathan Siter, born 1977 in Worcester, Massachusetts (USA). During high school he played guitar for several years in the school jazz ensemble. From 1995 to 2000, [...]
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 [...]
13.-29.1.2011
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 [...]
VERNISSAGE AM FR 03.12.2010 19-22 Uhr
04.12 – 22.12.2010
Sa 11.12.10
20 Uhr: Black Anne
Tanz: Anne Hiekkaranta, Kostüm: Maria Duncker
21 Uhr: Tanzbewegungen ohne Begleitung
Finnischer Butoh: Pasi Mäkelä
ab 22 Uhr: Open Dancefloor
Di. 07.- Fr. 10.12.10
jeweils 17Uhr Black Week
Tanz Anne Hiekkaranta
Sa 18.12.2010 13-18 Uhr
Last Minute Workshop
HIMO Hut Workshop
Electronic, Synthetic , Generative
an evening of experimental music
Nathan Siter, Antti Pussinen, James Hodson (Us/Fin/Uk)
Jari Haanperä (Fin)
Dominic Eggerman (Ger)
Jarkko Räsänen (Fin)
During saturday evening we are going to hear new, improvised and generative contemporary music from a group of international artists. First in 4 separated 15-25min sets and ending in a collaborative improvisation with all the artists [...]
Vernissage 4.11. 6 pm.
Open 4.-28.11. Di-Sa 1pm-6pm
YOU CAN’T TOUCH ALL YOUR TEETH WITH YOUR TONGUE
Exhibition about truthfully false believes in information, which are still consired to be quite usefull as information.
Petri Eskelinen (born 1975) works with pseudo-scientific sculptures and drawings concentrating on the historical noise between man and nature. The work A life in space [...]
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 [...]
Wir laden Sie und Ihre Freunde herzlich ein zur:
// We would like to invite you and your friends to :
MAGISTRALE 2010 – NEUE BEWIRTSCHAFTUNG -
Das Kurzfilmfestival in der Potsdamer Strasse
8., 9. und 10. Oktober
Unter dem Titel “Neue Bewirtschaftung” veranstaltet der Magistrale e.V. ein internationales Kurzfilm Festival in [...]
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 [...]
Directors Lounge Screenings at Gallery Meinblau
presents:
spectres of light
film works by
jari haanperän
Friday, 13 August 2010
21:00
Galerie Meinblau
Pfefferberg
Christinenstr. 18/19
D-10119 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
U-Senefelder Platz
LOST AND FOUND: Juha Maki-Jussila / Anne Siirtola / Milja Viita 6.8. – 28.8. 2010
Lost and Found is the theme that brings together works of three Finnish video and installation artists; Juha Maki-Jussila, Anne Siirtola and Milja Viita. The open-ended narratives of Maki-Jussila explore the themes of disappearance and structures of remembrance. The black and white 16mm film of Milja Viita is based on the lost letters written during the WWII, which now are memorised in her poetical documentary film. The main character in Anne Siirtolas’s montage Circle seems to be sometimes lost in her crazy garden while trying to follow the course of the seasons.
Welcome to the opening on July 8, 6pm.!
9.7.–27.7. 2010
ERDBEERE
The Erdbeere exhibition presents artwork from four artists based in Helsinki; Hanne Ivars, Antti Keitilä, Mikko Maasalo and Denise Ziegler.
Is the strawberry a vegetable after all?
The strawberry is an accessory fruit, which means the fleshy part is derived not from the ovaries but from the peg at the bottom of the hypanthia that holds the ovaries. So from a technical standpoint it could be said that the seeds are the actual fruits of the plant, and the flesh of the strawberry is a vegetable.
25.6. ab 18.00 Ismo Hannula
BLITZEN AUS FINNLAND
Photographs of Finnish events
JUHANNUS MITTSOMMER Party
25.6. ab 18
Finnish darts
Finnish barbecue
Finnish tango
Ilmari Gryta, Meri Peura, Emma Lappalainen, Jyrki Markkanen
Austellung ab 30.6.2010
New!!! Neu!!! Nachfenster
Finnish photographer exhibit during dark hours in window of the gallery
Juhannus Vernissage
25.6. ab 18.00 Ismo Hannula
BLITZEN AUS FINNLAND
Photographs of Finnish events
Ilmari Gryta
A piece entitled Corona (2008) functions as a perfect introduction to the essential features of Ilmari Gryta’s art, i.e., the complex thematics of the dynamics of movement and, in more general terms, change. Corona is a gadget programmed to depend on change and it utilizes the elements of movement and light.
Meri Peura
A few months ago, I was lying in snow on the northern polar region. I looked at the constellations of stars and tried to feel the rotations of the Earth. (…)
Special evening!
Friday 4th of June
21.00 and 22.00
Christian Gierden and Jari Haanperä
at SUOMESTA galleria
Potsdamerstrasse 91
10785 Berlin
Project gallery for Finnish Contemporary art