Kaapelin Galleria. Näyttelyt ja tapahtumat. Cable Gallery. Exhibitions, events and talks.
Handmade Fairytales – Wang Ya-hui on Transformation, Circulation and the Everyday The exhibition Handmade Fairytales by the Taiwanese artist Wang Ya-hui (b. 1973) reminds us of the fact that everything in this world is constantly changing its form and contents, slowly or rapidly, beneath the surface of a seemingly banal every-day. Ya-hui was an artist-in-resident [...]
In her exhibition Now, Reanimated Elina Bäckman examines the truth and evidence value of mediated images, and especially the transformation of the concept of the image in this digitized era of image manipulation. The works concentrate thematically on displaying the conventions of understanding the world through the visual, human-made, edited and framed ‘truth’. The exhibition [...]
Anu Pennanen’s new work about Les Halles depicts the violent character of the neoliberal world Anu Pennanen’s new work La ruine du regard (The Ruins of the Gaze) is a 5-screen architectonic video installation about the historic Les Halles, Europe’s biggest metro station/shopping centre complex, in Paris. The work, to be shown at the Cable Gallery 30.10.–14.11.2010, [...]
TRiCKSTR – an audiovisual environment with artificial personality Through an interactive environment in the Cable Gallery, the Swiss media artists and performers Sibylle Hauert (b. 1966) and Daniel Reichmuth (b. 1964) aim to provoke thoughts about the relationship between human and machine, while playfully dealing with artificial intelligence. Inherent to their work are references to [...]
Behind Elena Näsänen’s WASTELAND is a story of women and an environmental action This experimental film incorporating themes from Western movies is about five women, who travel through a hot desert. The sultry air quivers and the grasshoppers chirp as the women make their way across sweeping plains towards the unknown. The journey, with its symbolic [...]
…ever seen a she-gator protect her young… For a long time I have wanted to do a kind of SEAL-show (sea, air, land). In early years I didn’t know how to arrange the pieces together in space. Hopefully I do now! While planning this show, I had always at the back of my mind a [...]
Kimmo Ylönen seeks answers to life’s great questions in his set of wooden sculptures In Kimmo Ylönen’s (b. 1970) set of wooden sculptural pieces, which is being shown in the Cable Gallery (5.–22.8.2010) logs gnawed away by the small creatures of the forest, windfall trees, and driftwood that has been washed ashore form the skeletons [...]
Mika Yoshida and Mari Murata Connect Everyday Life in Tokyo and Helsinki The Tokyo-based Japanese artists Mika Yoshida and Mari Murata (also known as the Art & Design unit wm,), are showing in Finland for the first time, at the Cable Gallery in Helsinki from July 15 to August 1, 2010. The two artists’ new [...]
Light guards the shadows. Slow droplets on a windowsill. Things seen without looking. Beneath the ship of dreams, a wreck of fading moments, crumbling fragments of time past. A floating motion towards expanding whiteness. The elusive logic of sleep. In every eye, a key. A flame tracing out the familiar. Reflections of tomorrow’s hopes. Endless [...]
Leyla Gediz Looks Inside Painting Showing her work for the first time in Helsinki at HIAP’s Cable Gallery, Istanbul-based artist Leyla Gediz (b. 1974) detects similarities between making art and the constant wrapping and unwrapping of the city and its products. Gediz’s exhibition runs June 3 through June 20, while on Monday, June 7 at [...]
In May 2010, Vantaa Artists Association is hosting a visit by 12 artists from Artists Association Berchtoldvilla in the city of Salzburg. The Austrian artists are holding two exhibitions simultaneously: one at the Cable Gallery in Helsinki and the other at Galleria Gjutars in Vantaa. The Cable Gallery is showing the multi-dimensional exhibition UNCONTROLLED. The [...]
Virve Lukka’s exhibition includes paintings from the series’ Visible World and Highlights (2009-2010). The focal point of Visible World evolves around the fascination and peculiarity of viewing things around us. Moving human beings coupled together with members of fauna are seen within the pictorial of the paintings. The paintings reflect thoughts relating to the diversity [...]
MOLOCH is an interactive installation. The starting point of the work is a wall painting made by Mikael Toppelius in 1779 at the church of Haukipudas, the Last Judgment. This multimedia work invites the viewer to interpret the wild and rich pictorial narrative of the wall painting in a new manner. Interactive animation, music and [...]
Wagner Morales’ exhibition White Screen projects scenes from Western films on snow Films start with white. The first image of a film is always a white screen. “In my mental image of Finland, the country is a place where, for the best part of the year and throughout most of the winter, the landscape is [...]
The places in my photographs are like stages. I provide the backdrop and the scenery, and the viewer puts in the events. Sometimes, the place is no more than the corner of a room, or a door left ajar, into another space. I am interested in reflections, fog and concealment. Things can be hidden and [...]
Antti Leppänen’s (b. 1978) quasi-scientific case study of the Farnsworth House by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe explores the effects of climate change and other issues. The Farnsworth House was commissioned by Edith Farnsworth for a riverside site in Illinois. The architect was given considerable freedom, and the restrictive realities of everyday life could be [...]
Markus Konttinen’s exhibition My River starts the year in Kaapelin Galleria. “In the same River we step and don’t step, we and not we”. This thought of Herakleitos is the theme of Markus Konttinen’s exhibition. Markus Konttinen is a visual artist and also the new principal of Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. – Herakleitos talks [...]