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03/2021 Galleria Harmaja, Oulu, solo exhibition
In the process of Fulfillment we want to think over the starting points of making art and why making art is meaningful. Why can’t we stop creating art?
What are the living conditions of art (and the artist)? Is creating art important, if it makes us sell and buy artistic contents and keep the wheels of economy turning? Is the importance of art in raising questions about society, ecology and morals? Should art increase health and wellbeing? What can be changed by the means of art? Does art have an absolute value?
We want to believe that discussing starting points of creating art has a more broad value in questions about meaningfulness of life and manners of life.
Fulfillment will start with an open reading group in Tyrnävä library in October 2020. The purpose of the group is to offer a platform to asking and considering questions. Our working team will choose books which we think have something to offer to debate about the meaningfulness of making art. The reading group will also contain a blog which will be an open platform for discussion. The participation of the working team maintains the thought of studying each individual view of what’s meaningful artwork and reading is a part of the piece of art we work on.
In June 2021 we’ll build an exhibition by working name of Fulfillment in a potato hall. This will be the third “Spud hall” exhibition. The previous ones were in 2014 and 2015 with a slightly different concept. Related to the exhibition we’ll prepare a Summer school, which is open to everyone. In the Summer school we’ll have artists and art philosophers outside our working team to debate the art-related questions we’re considering. We’ll look for viewpoints on contemporary art. What can be contemporary art in all: is it lingering on the frontiers?
The team of Fulfillment: Pia Hentunen, Jari Haavikko, Eija Hirvonen & Leena Kangas
10/2021 Galleria Napa, Rovaniemi, solo exhibition
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Observations, discoveries and side-tracks on the beach of Pikisaari in summer 2019.
During this summer The Blue Wader Case has been my site-specific working process on the beach of Pikisaari, Oulu, as a part of the Pikinen Poloku environmental art exhibition. In addition to the beach I’ve been working with the same themes in my studio in Vanha Villatehdas (the Old Wool Factory).
In mid-August I’ll build an exhibition / installation for four days from the material I’ve made and found so far. The combination includes paintings, drawings, photographs, objects. Clay, sand, glass...
A piece of advice for those taking a journey: Bring only what you truly need.
In its unique way my exhibition is a part of that endless buzzing, where we humans — from an adequate distance the size of ants — carry our baggage on this planet here and there for a variety of reasons.
Many of the pieces of the exhibition are really nothing more than cropping and framing to events: images without images. They are surfaces for remembering and recalling. They may also be peepholes or secret windows to look through. For the first time, and again. Light and colour is what they are made of.
These works have also been affected by those pocket-sized cardboard cases with oval-shaped or rounded windows on the cover — they used to hold collages of photos of various cities and were maybe once meant to be souvenirs.
My exhibition is an entity that can be carried under one’s arm. It travels on a hat rack of a train and then unfolds as a painting installation in a space. Paintings on paper mainly with acrylic and aquarelle colours accompanied by some folds.
The starting points of my pieces are, for example, stacks of mattress pads, the colour of an old sleeping bag and those shade-thriven misleading things that make one paint also something transparent and crystal-like when trying to reach them.
ARKKI (Engl. sheet, ark, archaeon) was a solo exhibition with paintings in the library of Tyrnävä.
First Light – Paintings after Winter
Moments on no-man’s-land
New paintings. Wandering from late winter through spring and summer, ending up here.
As I started my journey I had a memory, which now I could call a map. It’s folded to the size of a small envelope, fragile when opened, red carbon paper full of small crosses. This paper, which I once found and which has intrigued me ever since, is my mother’s old embroidery pattern, a script for stitches. It has been an instrument of chores, and doesn’t really have anything to do with the world of art, but the tradition of craft and decoration. Being that, by accident, it is also a beautiful minimalistic drawing.
A theme of crosses and lattices inspired by this map or pattern recurs in many pieces of my collec-tion, and decorativeness meets plain lines also in my fringe paintings. Otherwise the scenery is changing. The red and blue dream scenery in the beginning of the journey turns into light terrain, whose paths are embroided by fallen petals. A petal is a drop, a tear, and two petals often settle as a pair of eyes, a new gaze.
As a summary, this exhibition is about the beginning and the end, and something in between. About life, that is. The small studies of colours are also called No-man’s-land. Through the history the col-ours have been, and still are, symbols of many things: countries, ideas… From the painting point of view they are however also entirely free from any meanings loaded into them, and a painter can use them in various combinations happily, enjoying. The colours belong to freedom! I like especially the bright spectra of rainbow scale.
2015 Galleria Luoto, Hailuoto
2013 Kemi Art Museum (together with Christelle Mas)
2010 Galleria Uusi Kipinä/Kenno, Lahti
2010 Galleria Katariina, Helsinki
2009 Galleria Napa, Rovaniemi
2007 Galleria 5, Oulu
2005 Galleria Jangva, Helsinki
2001 Galleria Jangva, Helsinki
Latest Solo Exhibition Invites
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Pikinen Poloku 2020, environmental art exhibition, Oulu
2019 Galleria Myötätuuli, Raahe
2019 Pikinen Poloku, environmental art exhibition, Oulu
2018 Alusta, Värinä Gallery, Rovaniemi
2017 Under the Red Sky, Valvegalleria, Oulu
2017 Lapua Museum of Art
2016 K2 Plugged, Galleria 23 Heiskari, Liminka
2016 All in Valsa!, Galleria Värinä, Rovaniemi
2016 Works on Paper, Gallerija Dlul, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 Border, Galleria Pihatto, Lappeenranta
2015 Vilho Lampi Museum, Liminka
2015 1000 den vol. 2, contemporary art in an empty potato hall, Tyrnävä
2014 Galleria Uusi Kipinä, Lahti
2014 Hentunen, Kangas & Lamminen, Galleria Värinä, Rovaniemi
2014 1000 den, contemporary art in an empty potato hall, Tyrnävä
2014 Snowball Effect, 2nd Northern Finland Biennale, Rovaniemi Museum of Art
2011 Mail Art by Hildegard Project, Harakka, Helsinki (FI) and Former Iraqi Embassy, Berlin (DE)
2010 Deep Surface, Irvall, Kangas & Sunila, Galleri Kakelhallen, Mariehamn, Åland
2009 Recycling, Riihimäki Art Museum, Riihimäki
2009 Nature Morte, O. Jauhiainen Museum, Kiiminki
2009 Room for Five, Oulu, Finland (9 artists in an exhibition at a private home)
2008 Sillat – Broar – Bridges, the Exhibition of the International Artists´ Symposium arranged by the Finnish Painters´ Union, Turku
2006 Oulu Province Regional Exhibition, Oulu Museum of Art
2005 Colouring Book, Titanik Gallery, Turku and Cable Gallery, Helsinki
2002–2003 Oulu Province Regional Exhibition, Oulu Museum of Art / Kajaani Museum of Art
2000 The 105th Annual Exhibition of Finnish Artists, Kunsthalle, Helsinki
