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®artspace Helsinki
Myymälä2. Uudenmaankatu 23. 00120 Helsinki. Finland
talk: +358 41 7832327 online: www.myymala2.com
A gallery, boutique and space in Helsinki.
Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday, from 12.00h to 18.00h and Sunday from 12.00h to 17.00h.
In association with:
25.03.2010 - 08.04.2010
The Invisible City project explores the city not just as formed by physical space, but also as a collective construction, made up of the memories, desires and experiences of its inhabitants. The city should not be conceived as a unit but rather as the sum of its inhabitants’ multiple points of views which, all combined, create a multi-faceted perspective. Thus, the city is an aggregation of public and private spaces, from which emerges a shared identity allowing us to live in it. This project consists of a series of events, including a film screening accompanied by a live soundtrack, a workshop in public space, and an exhibition featuring work by visual artists from Barcelona (some of them artist residents or former residents from HANGAR visual arts production centre). These events will explore different forms of exchange and interaction between the city and its inhabitants. We will look into the perception and identity of contemporary cities, and at how art can influence their transformation, asking: Do we live in a real city or in the mirage of what it should be?
In association with:
03.02.2010 - 21.02.2010
Wavelenghts is the first joint exhibition of two sisters, comprised of their paintings and ceramic sculptures. The pieces explore man´s relationship with time and aging, progress and change.
®artspace Helsinki
Myymälä2. Uudenmaankatu 23. 00120 Helsinki. Finland
talk: +358 41 7832327 online: www.myymala2.com
In association with:
07.01.2010 - 31.01.2010
Nuoret 2010 on kolmen kuvataideakatemiasta piakkoin valmistuvan lupaavan maalarin yhteisnäyttely. Näyttelyn yhteisiä nimittäjiä ovat maalaaminen sekä, taiteilijoiden erityisen vahva asenne omaan tekemiseen, ja näin ollen uskomme näyttelyn tuovan hyvät “ kicksit ”.
Olli Piippo (1980) on Kuvataideakatemian viidennen vuosikurssiin opiskelija. Hän maalaa esittävän ja ei-esittävän välimaastossa sijaitsevia maalauksia, joiden aiheena on materiaalisuus. Kyse on pinnan merkityksestä maalauksissa, mielenkiinnosta materiaalisuutta ja kerroksellisuutta kohtaan. Keskeistä on myös kysymys maalauksien monista mediaalisista merkityksistä.
Kalle Leino s. 1982. On kotoisin keskisuomen järviseltä alueelta, jossa järvet on puhtaita ja metsät tuuheita. Maalauksissa liikutaankin usein luonnossa. Teoksissa on myös romanttisia vaikutteita. Maalaminen on kuitenkin Kallelle sen verran alitajunnasta kumpuilevaa primitiivi-toimintaa, että niiden tulkinta tulee jättää jokaisen katsojan omakohtaiseksi kokemukseksi.
Kyösti Pärkisen s.1980 luontohavaintoihin ja valokuviin väljästi pohjautuvat maalaukset sisältävät viitteitä maisemallisiin tiloihin joita väri ja valo muovaavat. Töissä esittävä kuvallinen aines kumuloituu maalauksen fyysisten ominaisuuksien kanssa. Muistot ja dokumentit aistihavainnoista ovat kerrostuneet kontemplatiivisiksi maalauksen ja näkemisen tapoja tutkiviksi artefakteiksi. Näin töitä voisi kuvailla kuivan akateemisesti.
Tärkeintähän kuitenkin on sanoinkuvaamaton.
In association with:
08.12.2009 - 01.01.2010
Joulun kunniaksi ja missien (nuiden ihanien säihkysilmien) inspiroimana olen liikenteessä MAAILMANRAUHAN asialla, Ja mikäpäs muukaan sen tiellä pönöttää kuin vanha kunnon valtaeliitti, pankkiirit ja (sota)teollisuus. Kuolemankerho takoo tulosta maailman nyökytellessä hyväksyvästi vieressä (paitsi anarkistit, propsit siitä) ja se ei ole mielestäni kivaa.
In association with:
17.11.2009 - 29.11.2009
This exhibition of screen prints is dedicated to Kazumasa Nagai, Sergei Parajanov, Masaaki Otsubo, El Lissitzky, Ikko Tanaka, Francisco Infante, Roy Lichtenstein, Shigeo Fukuda, Takenobu Igarashi, Andrei Tarkovsky, Yusaku Kamekura, Shunichi Nakajima, Stanley Kubrick, Kazimir Malevitch, Tadanori Yokoo, Victor Vasarely, Toshihiro Katayama, Michelangelo Antonioni, Kiyoshi Awazu, Joan Miro, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Tomoyuki Hasumi, Mitsuo Katsui, family & friends.
The exhibition is supported by Grafia
In association with:
28.10.2009 - 08.11.2009
Luckily she had a sense of humor is a group exhibition with six artist from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Their works are different visually and technically but share the same sense of playfulness. They all collect fragments from media, Internet, popular culture and then transform it to something completely new. They rearrange hierarchies, opinions of good/bad taste and other ideas we take for granted, often in a humorous way. A humor that gathers its energy from the absurd reality we all try to take part of. The exhibition is supported by Nordiska Kulturfonden and Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland
Artists: with Anna Daniell, Jamila Drott, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Anna Rokka, Emma Tryti and Marthe Berger Walthinsen. Curated by: Emma Tryti
In association with:
15.07.2009 - 02.08.2009
The exhibition brings together an international group of like-minded daydreamers and well –wishing creators from around northern Europe. Although from various backgrounds and disciplines, the artists included share common inspirations drawing from popular culture and the mundane everyday, in a highly contagious attempt at seeing beauty in the people, objects and incidents that make up their immediate surroundings. As much as there is variety in the choice of media and subject matter within the show, there are great many similarities in the artists’ approach to making art. They all share a strong sense of almost innocent enthusiasm and readiness to embrace the life around them, a sort of nostalgia for a positive present that manifests itself through their work, a way of seeing the city around them as an endless resource of raw artistic materials and renewable creative energy. Innocent when you dream transforms the gallery space into a disco ball of art, reflecting the life outside the white walls and beaming it right back into the eyeholes of the unsuspecting gallery goers.
Artists: Stefan Marx, Marcus Oakley, Jens Andersson, Jan Tomson, Tuukka Kaila, Timo Vaittinen, Tatu Engeström and Karri Kuoppala
In association with:
16.06.2009 - 05.07.2009
Featuring artwork by: Janne Martola, Anu Mononen, Minnamari Toukola, Juho-Pekka Mäkelä, Kemal Can, Henriikka Kivelä and Samu Nyholm.
In association with:
03.06.2009 - 14.06.2009
In my photographs I observe the surroundings that man has constructed side by side with a natural, unconstructed earth surface. All the pictures share a silent, calm moment that I have experienced while releasing the shutter and capturing the moment on film. Important part of my pictures is the process that has been going on in order to achieve the proper coating for the image. With several tests I finally achieved a successful way of creating this super-glossy coating for a paper photograph. As a result the photo transformed more towards a traditional painting.
In association with:
05.05.2009 - 17.05.2009
During the last year I have been painting landscapes that has a connection to my home district and soul landscape. I come from Northern Ostrobothnia, that hasn't got a strong identity, as it's neighboring districts Southern Ostrobothnia and Lapland. I compare that feeling in general with Finland’s knowledge over its own cultural heritage. Nature, animism and clean design-esthetics are things that are close to my heart.
Visually I’m interested in the limits of our perceptions and imagination. My works often include a broad scale of colors or they are black and white. I work often with different techniques which all have unique and strong qualities: they can in different ways bring forth colors and shapes. I like bringing forward the physical side of the materials I use. I even try to underline them with the processes I’m using.
In addition to landscape paintings the exhibition will include work that will demand stillness of the viewer. How the world presents itself to us, and what it's built of. This exhibition is dedicated to the old seabed that’s called Ostrobothnia/Pohjanmaa.
In association with:
22.04.2009 - 03.05.2009
Three girls and two boys were selected as muses. They were asked 88 questions. Some questions were related to their appearances, what is the first impression they give passers-by of themselves, and some questions related to their inner world. Five bags were born out of paper. The white exterior represents the facade of the muses and the interior may present something yet to be untold. You’re welcome to view both sides.
In association with:
01.04.2009 - 12.04.2009
The Artkillart exhibition features installations by Valentina Vuksic (CH) and Yann Leguay (FR). It is a collaboration between the label of experimental audiovisual and sound art Artlkillart and Pixelache.
In association with:
12.03.2009 - 29.03.2009
We organized the exhibition Good Deeds in November 2007 in the old Heteka- factory building in Vallila Helsinki. This exhibition is a continuation to the way we organized the first show. Our collaboration was set off by us wanting to perform good deeds: we wanted to bring together good works, do well to ourselves and naturally also to the viewers.
Now we have again gathered together a group of artists that have impressed us. All the participating artists share an interesting attitude in art and extremely high quality in their artistic practice. Also we wanted to put together another great group show, one that we would like to take part in ourselves and would like to see as well. The exhibition premonitions came about in a very natural way. We began once again thinking of the best possible combination of exhibition spaces, artists and public. The artists that we chose seemed all to be dealing in their own way with the end of something, last times, deconstruction and apocalyptic atmospheres. We came up with this theme quite naturally as well; it felt like it was already in the air.
As well as bringing together 14 artists, this exhibition brings together three alternative non-profit exhibition spaces. Lots of people are already familiar with Myymälä2. The gallery is known for its open-mindedness. One of the newest additions to Helsinki’s exhibition spaces, Oksasenkatu 11, has taken over the space once occupied by Galleri Leena Kuumola. The space is run by a group of artists and the focus of their operation is in collaborations and conversations. They try to offer artists means to react faster to current events and give possibilities to show their works and ideas in a more effortless way. The HIAP Project Room is known to be a space where the resident artists showcase works that they realize during their residency. We want to try and show the great space of the Project Room also in a new kind of affiliation.
Welcome!
Artists: Anders Bergman, Olle Essvik, Alma Heikkilä, Petri Junttila, Olli Keränen, Antti Leppänen, Maija Luutonen, Pia Läspä, Muriel Lässer, Anna Rokka, Nicolas Schevin, Marja-Leena Sillanpää, Kalle Turakka-Purhonen, Laura Wesamaa.
In association with:
14.02.2009 - 20.02.2009
Halo Manash is an audiovisual, multi-medial sound- and performance project founded in Northern Finland in 1998. The founder and initiator of the project is sound artist / musician Antti Haapapuro (Oulu) and other members of the project include the director / musician Aki Cederberg (Helsinki) and musician Ari Kukkohovi (Oulu). Halo Manash manifests itself through various mediums: audio records, films, performances, artworks, photographs and cultural artifacts. By their various works and productions, the project aims to uphold the values of artisanship and handicrafts in the face of mass-consumer culture.
The performances of Halo Manash aim to be multi-medial (utilizing a combination of music, film and performance), as well as multi-sensory (utilizing carefully orchestrated lights, scents incense, and other sensory substances and stimuli). Using primarily organic soundsources, various traditional and self-made instruments, combined and shaped in an electronic medium, the music of Halo Manash ranges from serene serpentine ambient to frenzied and rythmic outpourings of primal ecstacy. It is the aim of the performances to be both spiritual and visceral, and ultimately, transcendent experiences. They seek to broaden the boundaries of ordinary live-shows by creating an intense and multi-sensory experience, both for the audience and for Halo Manash itself.
In association with:
28.01.2009 - 12.02.2009
Field Notes is a collaborative exhibition between three individuals heavily involved in Helsinki skate scene. Only common path between the work of these three might be just that. Paul went to Africa, Ville went all over, Kaarle just went completely bezerk. Photographs and then some.
In association with:
05.12.2008 - 31.12.2008
Remontoitaessa pienellä budjetilla ja vähin työkaluin on usein löydettävä keinoja tehdä asioita toisin, kehitettävä uusia tapoja toteuttaa asioita, ja yritettävä luoda jotain käyttökelpoista ja toimivaa lähes tyhjästä. On keskityttävä yksityiskohtiin ja improvisoitava. Sama pätee ajoittain myös valokuvaukseen. Shades and Shadows -valokuvasarja syntyi syksyn ja talven alun aikana remontoidessa vanhaa pukuhuonetta työhuoneeksi entisellä Masa Yardsin telakka -alueella Helsingin Hernesaaressa. Paikalle rakennetaan lähivuosina uusi asuinalue, ja vanha Hernesaari tuhotaan alta pois. Sarja sisältää muun ohella kuvan koirasta sateessa, kuvan huurteisista putkista, sekä kuvan kokeellisesta kahvinkeitosta. Valokuvat on kuvattu värinegatiivifilmille, suurennettu optisella suurennuskoneella ja kehitetty RA-4 -prosessissa. Kuvat on ripustettu paljaina vedoksina neodyymimagneeteilla metallikiskoille.
In association with:
07.11.2008 - 24.11.2008
What started off as a small collection of photographs the 14-year-old Gavin Watson would take of his family and friends in Wycombe, middle England, in the 1970s and 80s would grow into one of the most important and influential photographic / youth culture books of the last 20 years. Published in 1994 and which The Times of London called “a modern classic,” Skins has influenced photographers like Terry Richardson and Jurgen Teller. It also helped sow the seeds for pretty much every kind of “youth” photography popular today. Three years ago, Vice Magazine Editor Andy Capper brought Gavin Watson out of a self-imposed exile and uncovered hundreds of new, unpublished photos that showed
a different side to his incredible, natural talent.
Skins & Punks is a singular retrospective complete with commentaries and an introduction by the director Shane Meadows (This Is England, Dead Man’s Shoes). The photos get what it is to really be a rebellious working class youth growing up in the 1980s. This is documentary photography at its best, a stunningly intimate window into a cultural movement. Gavin Watson is an acclaimed documentary and portrait photographer. His natural eye for a moment in time and the stark brutal honesty of the images he captured have made his collection of work one of the UK’s finest documentary portfolios. He has done work for many global companies including Levi’s Dr Martens, countless music magazines, album covers and his work has been featured in fashion bibles such as Vice, i-D and The Face and in numerous exhibitions.
In association with:
15.10.2008 - 26.10.2008
Samuli Alapuranen is a graphic designer / artist / musician from Helsinki. Christer Nuutinen is a graphic designer and artist living in Berlin. Together they form two thirds of the band EXO. In the Myymälä2 exhibition Samuli Alapuranen will show two new video works and Christer Nuutinen will show some of his new photography and music videos made for his alias Twisted Christer.
In association with:
28.09.2008 - 12.10.2008
Jonna Karanka and Susanna Majuri from Finland, Astrid Kruse-jensen, Nicolai Howalt and Trine Sondergaard from Denmark are five young scandinavian photographers who work with landscape in their own personal way. Robert Flahertly who is often styled the father of documentary, famously said that "to capture the truth, one must distort it". All five artist at "Parallel Landscapes" creates spaces in between the reality and imaginary. They use mountains, forests, lakes and rivers as a symbol of human emotions and moods. Yet the non-manipulated photographs are always anchored to certain time and place.
In association with:
05.07.2008 - 20.07.2008
Anna Krenz does not grumble about boredom, and what is even more important, she does not allow viewers of her art to be bored. On the contrary, there is nobody who would be indifferent passing her works. Laughter, astonishment, spontaneous critics, negation and indignation, fascination with works and admiration for idea – in this wide range of reactions everybody would find something for themselves. Each work of Anna Krenz becomes a „bridge” between distant phenomena, places, religions or visual aspects of consumerist culture.
In her paintings we will also find a link between ordinary things with their second nature, with questions which make us stop and ask – what is important, what religion is, what influence the politicians have, in what way we manipulate the others.
In association with:
07.05.2008 - 28.05.2008
Silje Heggren is a Norwegian artist, living and working in Bergen. Her main media is painting. Siljes works is often about young, social people and their relations. In these paintings the subject is brought to life from photos taken in bars and clubs. They show people dancing, drinking and partying. The images are instantly recognizable, but they also invite to further reflection.Who are these hedonistic people,what are their relationship to each other, and are they really as carefree as they seem?
In association with:
24.04.2008 - 04.05.2008
Heidi Anniina Mattila's show, Partly Present, is her student work exhibition from the Turku University of Applied Sciences Fine Arts Academy. The exhibit is composed of acrylic paintings which are firmly grounded in color and the interplay of their relationships. The name of the show, Partly Present, signifies mental and thought spaces which are challenged in the acquisition of ideas for a work of art, going deeper into something or strong feelings. The mental plane can be somewhere completely different than the physical.
The paintings are allowed to hang freely on the walls. Unstretched canvas is essentially closer to a curtain or wall hanging than a traditional framed painting; it can even be touched and can be made to sway when walking past. The pieces form their own world of stopped moments that calls on the viewer to experience things in a new way.
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