Export–Import16. January - 28. February
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Elina Brotherus, Time Series I, 2007
Elina Brotherus.
Lives and works in Helsinki and France. -
Elina Brotherus, Time Series I, 2007
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Gun Holmström, Purge, 2009. Video installation
Gun Holmström
Lives and works in Berlin.
Holmström photographed reflections of light on the surface of the water in channels in Berlin, and edited the images digitally. -
Gun Holmstöm, Water Spirits, 2009. Series of photographs.
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Laura Horelli & Ann Kaneko, Trading Places, 2010. Video installation
Laura Horelli & Ann Kaneko.
Horelli lives and works in Berlin - Kaneko lives and works in Los Angeles. -
Minna L. Henriksson, Zagreb Notes, 2006.
Minna L. Henriksson.
Lives and works in Helsinki.
For a few months, Henriksson observed the art scene in the city and created her own interpretation of the art networks. -
Pia Lindman, Drunk Ecstacy, 2010. Video, drawings, sculptures, performance
Pia Lindman.
Lives and works in Berlin and Tammisaari.
Lindman's Drunk Ecstasy was inspired by Finnish 'drunk videos' uploaded onto YouTube. Using video and drawings, Lindman examines the movements of these intoxicated people. She has also sought similar poses in nature and turned them into wooden sculptures. Drunk Ecstasy offers one perspective on alcohol use in Finland. -
Robert Lucander, Echt erlebt, 2009
Robert Lucander
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Pilvi Takala, Real Snow White, 2009. video 9.15 min
Pilvi Takala.
Lives and works in Amsterdam.
Takala brings art out, directly to the people. Her interventions create social confusion that unsettles conventions and norms. In her video, she is dressed as Snow White and tries to enter Disneyland in Paris. -
Adel Abidin, Green Mouse (Grön mus), 2008. Videoinstallation 4.17 min
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Adel Abidin, Green Mouse (Grön mus), 2008. Videoinstallation 4.17 min
Adel Abidin
Lives and works in Helsinki.
The title of the piece, Green Mouse, comes from a French nursery rhyme, Une Souris Verte, which is about a child who finds a mouse. Abidin has adapted the story into a piece that comments on a topical event; awareness of the threat of terrorism, such as hotel bombings, that has spread throughout the world.
The International Finns in Contemporary Art
Kunsthalle Helsinki presents previously unexhibited work by acclaimed Finnish artists who work internationally.
Artists featured in the exhibition are Adel Abidin, Elina Brotherus, Minna L. Henriksson, Gun Holmström, Laura Horelli, Hannu Karjalainen, Ola Kolehmainen, Pia Lindman, Robert Lucander, Kirsi Mikkola, Pilvi Takala and Kristiina Uusitalo.
Finnish artists have always travelled to Europe to further their studies and to work. Finland is a remote country, where the art scene developed fairly late and could not provide a livelihood to very many artists. Leaving home was a natural and sometimes necessary option.
Today, the "hot spots" of art move at an ever-increasing rate as artists constantly search for new things. Europe’s Mecca of art is currently Berlin, where there are also dozens of Finnish artists.
Travelling elsewhere is not the only way of being international, however: it can also consist of exchange, networking and hospitality. Artists’ residences have sprung up all over the world, Finland included: communities where artists from different countries work side by side.
– What is it like to work in an international setting? Why have Finnish artists left their homeland, and what does Finnishness mean to them? What is the price of internationality?
The exhibition is produced by the Finnish Art Society.
Picture: Hannu Karjalainen (Germany), Woman on Beach, 2009. HD video, 5.32 min.
In the Studio: Tero Puha Love and Lust Forever
International Finns Panel Discussion
Thursday 18.2.2010 at 6pm–7:30pm.
Admission: exhibition ticket €8 / €5,50 , children under 18 free of charge.
Welcome everybody!