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 exhibition aims to bridge the gap between animation and fine arts. Works include an interactive painting (Shoo!), a cross stiched, interactive animation, where the motion is created through the viewers own motion (Rushed Through) and a Lilliput, trapped in a small stereoscopic box. The versatile exhibition presents also a short film of a mannequin spending a weekend on the countryside, one of a jogging Herman Göring as well as five other works.

The exhibition has previously been seen at Kerava Art Museum in it’s entirety in fall 2011. Also selected works of the exhibition are exhibited in the art museums of Turku and Pori from November 2011 to January 2012. In Jan-Feb 2012 the exhibition will be seen in its entirety at Suomesta Galleria in Berlin. In March 2012 the exhibition can be seen at TR1 in Tampere during the Tampere Film Festival. The international promotion of the exhibition is supported by Finnish Film Foundation.

Works and artists represented:

Die illustrierte Stadt / Kuvitettu kaupunki / The Illustrated City
Jan Andersson
Sound und Musik: Anton Sundström
Trickfilm / Animaatioelokuva / Animation, Stopmotion and mixed technique

Kihi-Kuhi
Maria Björklund
Animierte Video-Installation / Animaatioinstallaatio / An animated video installation

Nebeneinanderstellung / Rinnastus / Juxtaposition
Tommi Juutilainen
Gezeichnete Animation / Piirrosanimaatio / A drawn animation

Bedrückt – Erleichtert / Ahdistaa – Helpottaa / Anxiety – Relief
Ami Lindholm
Animierte Video-Installation / Animaatioinstallaatio / An animated video installation

Liliputaner / Lilliputti / Lilliput
Reetta Neittaanmäki
Animierte Installation / Animaatioinstallaatio / An animation installation

Laufend gepisst (finnisches Sprichwort für pfuscherei) / Juosten kustu / Rushed Through
Kaisa Penttilä
Animierte Installation / Animaatioinstallaatio / An animation installation

Husch! / Hus! / Shoo!
Aiju Salminen
Animierte Video-Installation / Animaatioinstallaatio / An animated video installation

Not waiting for godot
Kristian Simolin
Animierte Installation / Animaatioinstallaatio / An animation installation

Substance
Mark Ståhle
Gezeichnete Animation / Piirrosanimaatio / A drawn animation

A Finnish Fable 2011
Niina Suominen
Experimentelle Objektanimation / Kokeellinen esineanimaatio / Experimental object animation

Ahdistaa / Helpottaa – Neue finnische Animationskunst
21.1. – 11.02.2012 (Opening 21.1. 7 pm)
Tue-Sat 1 pm – 6 pm
SUOMESTA
Project gallery for Finnish Contemporary art
Potsdamer Straße 91
10785 Berlin

More information:
Kimmo Välimäki
+358 (0)45 1215 017
kimmo.valimaki@gmail.com

Ahdistaa / Helpottaa – Neue finnische Animationskunst

Ahdistaa / Helpottaa beziehungsweise Bedrückt / Erleichtert ist der Titel einer Gruppenausstellung des Vereins Animaation apupyörä ry, an der zehn finnische Animationskünstler beteiligt sind: Jan Andersson (geb. 1973), Maria Björklund (geb. 1970), Tommi Juutilainen (geb. 1972), Ami Lindholm (geb. 1982), Reetta Neittaanmäki (geb. 1974), Kaisa Penttilä (geb. 1975), Aiju Salminen (geb. 1979), Kristian Simolin (geb. 1974), Mark Ståhle (geb. 1971) und Niina Suominen (geb. 1973). Sie alle haben mit ihren Arbeiten an vielen Festivals im In- und Ausland teilgenommen.

Die Ausstellung lässt die Grenzen der Animationskunst näher an die konventionellere bildende Kunst heranrücken. Und umgekehrt. Zu den Exponaten gehören u. a. die interaktive Malerei Husch!, die in Kreuzstichtechnik ausgeführte Arbeit Im Laufschritt erledigt, in der die Bewegung aus der Bewegung des Betrachters heraus entsteht, sowie der in eine kleine stereoskopische Schachtel eingeschlossene Liliputaner. Außerdem werden in der vielseitigen Ausstellung auch Filme – einer mit einer Schaufensterpuppe, die ein traditionelles finnisches Wochenende im Sommerhaus verbringt, und einer mit einem joggenden Hermann Göring – sowie fünf andere, die gewohnten Grenzen durchbrechende Arbeiten gezeigt.

In ihrem vollen Umfang war die Exposition bereits im Herbst 2011 im Kunstmuseum Kerava zu sehen, einige Teile sind gegenwärtig auch in den Kunstmuseen Turku und Pori ausgestellt. Im Januar 2012 wird die gesamte Exposition mit Unterstützung der Finnischen Filmstiftung Suomen Elokuvasäätio in der Galerie SUOMESTA in Berlin gezeigt.

Animaation apupyörä ry ist ein eingetragener Verein mit derzeit etwa 40 Mitgliedern. Zu seinen Zielen gehört es u. a., die Animation als Kunstgattung zu fördern und die fachliche Kompetenz der Animatoren noch weiter zu erhöhen. Der Name des Vereins lässt sich wörtlich mit Animations-Stützrad übersetzen.

Exponate:

Die illustrierte Stadt / Kuvitettu kaupunki / The Illustrated City
Jan Andersson
Sound und Musik: Anton Sundström
Trickfilm / Animaatioelokuva / Animation, Stopmotion and mixed technique

Kihi-Kuhi
Maria Björklund
Animierte Video-Installation / Animaatioinstallaatio / An animated video installation

Nebeneinanderstellung / Rinnastus / Juxtaposition
Tommi Juutilainen
Gezeichnete Animation / Piirrosanimaatio / A drawn animation

Bedrückt – Erleichtert / Ahdistaa – Helpottaa / Anxiety – Relief
Ami Lindholm
Animierte Video-Installation / Animaatioinstallaatio / An animated video installation

Liliputaner / Lilliputti / Lilliput
Reetta Neittaanmäki
Animierte Installation / Animaatioinstallaatio / An animation installation

Im Laufschritt erledigt / Juosten kustu / Rushed Through
Kaisa Penttilä
Animierte Installation / Animaatioinstallaatio / An animation installation

Husch! / Hus! / Schoo!
Aiju Salminen
Animierte Video-Installation / Animaatioinstallaatio / An animated video installation

Not waiting for godot
Kristian Simolin
Animierte Installation / Animaatioinstallaatio / An animation installation

Substance
Mark Ståhle
Gezeichnete Animation / Piirrosanimaatio / A drawn animation

A Finnish Fable 2011
Niina Suominen
Experimentelle Objektanimation / Kokeellinen esineanimaatio / Experimental object animation

Ahdistaa / Helpottaa – Neue finnische Animationskunst
07. – 28.01.2012
Di-Sa 13-18 Uhr
SUOMESTA
Project gallery for Finnish Contemporary art
Potsdamer Straße 91
10785 Berlin

Weitere Informationen:
Kimmo Välimäki
+358 (0)45 1215 017
kimmo.valimaki@gmail.com

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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.
The Centre serves as a regional institution promoting photographic art in Central Finland. Being part of a national network of photographic centres, it also looks beyond its own area. The profile of exhibitions and educational activities is mainly focused on contemporary photography and between art photography and visual arts.
The members of the association are professional and non-professional photographers and artists. The Centre provides darkroom facilities for member and workshop use as well as computer lab for photo editing and printing.

At exhibiton STILLS at SUOMESTA galleria CCP provides works of seven photographers:
Maija Holma
Juho Jäppinen
Kapa
Emma Lappalainen
Jyrki Markkanen
Aino-Kaarina Pajari
Pekka Suomäki

www.ccp.fi

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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

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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.

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.

lottahanninen@blogspot.com

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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 [...]

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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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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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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.

By choosing to focus on horror and placing it within a context that exudes neutrality, Colour Me Blood Red is firmly located in dealing with the former. The language of minimalism acts as the ground here, representing the neutral, the humdrum, the uniform to horror’s provocation, vitality and heterogeneity.

Whilst the nature of the uncanny experience is key to horror’s success, it relies on the play on our fear of encountering the unfamiliar and unknown within seemingly safe and familiar environments. The enquiry here explores a more complex relationship than this simple dichotomy; the language, both visual and verbal, of horror and of stark and sparse minimalism are at odds with each other. What is being questioned here, to an extent, is our relationship to language. Horror tugs and pulls at our emotions, eking out as much visceral reaction from its audience as it possibly can, employing cheap shots and dirty tricks to build up tension and leave you hanging, or lull you into a false sense of security before springing its trap. By drawing on our basest fears and upsetting conventional relationships horror at its essence relies on our instincts, libidinous drives and humanity to effect us as much as possible.

On the other hand, the neutral ground of the white cube, say, seeks to effect an audience as little as possible, preferring to allow the work that inhabits it to do the talking. This exhibition then sets out to question what happens when the building blocks of the neutral ground are imbued with more visceral forms of communication, when the language of horror is allowed to bleed in to its passive facade. Within this, this apparent neutrality is shown to be as much a conditioner of our response as the drama and spectacle of horror fiction.

Other works within the show similarly look towards the uncanny, where the role of upsetting the familiar and subversion of the everyday is played out in parallel. With Stacked Books, Vacuum and Blocked Door it is our relationship to everyday paraphernalia and how we interact with them that is called into question. Koivistoinen encourages an assessment of our relationship to one’s environment and how this effects the encounter with the art work; how we treat everyday objects and what happens when the distinction between the two poles is blurred.

Robert Cliff

www.lkoivistoinen.com

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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 [...]

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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

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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

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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.

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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.

The works in the Erdbeere exhibition invites the viewers to reconsider their first impressions.

Rather than having a common theme, the exhibition shows samples from each artist’s production – four different approaches and working methods. Works exhibited are sculptures, photographs, paintings and animation.

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Juhannus Vernissage

25.6. ab 18.00 Ismo Hannula

BLITZEN AUS FINNLAND

Photographs of Finnish events

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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

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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. (…)

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Special evening!

Friday 4th of June
21.00 and 22.00
Christian Gierden and Jari Haanperä

at SUOMESTA galleria
Potsdamerstrasse 91
10785 Berlin

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