Kaapelin Galleria. Näyttelyt ja tapahtumat. Cable Gallery. Exhibitions, events and talks.
An exhibition by French photographer Stéphanie Lacombe (b. 1976), Finns at the Dinner Table, opening at the Cable Gallery on December 8, portrays the uniqueness of the everyday. “Who are my neighbours, what do they do, what kind of life do they live, where are they from?” These questions prompted Stéphanie Lacombe to embark on [...]
The Fox Wife “It’s the puppet’s dream; being human” Solaris, Stanislaw Lem In his exhibition The Fox Wife Duncan Butt Juvonen (b. 1972) presents an installation, which considers the distortions of translation between cultures, languages, perceptions and media. The Fox Wife installation features an animation of an abrupt, violent Eskimo folktale of the same name [...]
Via Memories to Various Futures In her exhibition Various Cases Riikka Mäkikoskela (b. 1975) presents works from 2010–2011. The basis of her artistic working is cultural, but her approach is physical and material: “I enjoy working by hand, responding to the bodily interaction as my pieces evolve”. For Mäkikoskela both the choice of material and [...]
Cartes Flux 2011 New Media Art Festival Presents Two Installations at Cable Gallery Digital Enhancement by Martin Bircher (b. 1978, Switzerland) is a sound installation consisting of an electrified Symphonion Brevet No. 28, a synthesizer, an amplifier and four headphones. The Symphonion musical box dates back to the beginning of the last century and its [...]
Laitanen and Grönlund’s video work re-creates images from the past Aura of Place d’Armes is the story of an attempt to conserve a past that may perhaps never have existed. It tells of memories pieced together from fragments, which written history both affirms and contests. Johanna Eliisa Laitanen (b. 1976) and Liinu Grönlund’s (b. 1984) video [...]
Feelings and Physicality – Paintings in which one human being touches another In her previous paintings Tuula Anttonen (b. 1970) concentrated on individuals and their awareness of their own bodies. Now, in the Cable Gallery’s Human Contacts exhibition Anttonen paints group encounters in which individuals work together. “Sociability and connections with other people are complicated,” [...]
In Eija Keskinen’s Works Feelings Are Given Form In her exhibition Who Rocks the Cradle artist Eija Keskinen (b. 1968) shows works from 2009–2011. The works on display in the Cable Gallery are coloured-crayon drawings and colour photographs about good luck, joy, feelings of strangeness, and longing. “I frequently visualize these themes via a symbol: [...]
FAÇADE – Intervention at Kalasatama Roma Camp Façade is a project begun by Sakari Tervo (b. 1985) and Tatu Engeström (b. 1984) in October 2009 at the Roma camp at Kalasatama in Helsinki. Tervo and Engeström built a façade, reflecting the traditional Scandinavian wooden-house aesthetic, around a shed lived in by a Roma woman, concealing [...]
Masashi Echigo’s installation mirrors the cultural shift taking place in Suvilahti In his new installation From an Effort to a Cause created at the Cable Gallery, Masashi Echigo (b. 1982) from Japan mirrors the radical cultural shifts taking place in city spaces. This artist now working on a HIAP residency at the Cable Factory has [...]
Maria Ylikoski’s new videowork is a story about making choices in life Maria Ylikoski’s (b. 1966) new videowork Det smakar lite konstigt (It tastes a bit strange) is a little story about a return. A Finnish family that has been living in The Netherlands has moved back to Finland and is pondering its decision. The [...]
In her paintings Jertta Ratia makes voyages of exploration into living spaces Jertta Ratia’s (b. 1948) Interiöörejä (Interiors) takes the viewer into a variety of living spaces. The paintings in the exhibition opening at the Cable Gallery on June 2, 2011, are partly figurative, and partly non-figurative abstractions, thus placing the focus on atmospheres and [...]
In Mika Hytti’s paintings a bonsai tree is a metaphor for life Bonsai trees are a recurrent feature of Mika Hytti’s (b. 1961) exhibition, which opens at the Cable Gallery on April 19, 2011. Trees and forests have been part of his paintings before. The stillness and power associated with them are present in his [...]
ROLE CONTROL – An Exhibition by Saskia Holmkvist The films Role Control and In Character by Saskia Holmkvist (b. 1971, Stockholm) enquire into the fine line between dialogues of rhetorical nature and demonstrations of power, located in both the private and political spheres. In this exhibition, Holmkvist weaves these together, investigating the factors that define and [...]
Mikko Myöhänen’s Street Rhythms: Pictures of the City The new paintings in Mikko Myöhänen’s (b. 1975) Street Rhythms exhibition are pictures of the city. Myöhänen paints an urban landscape or little pieces of it, improvisations on the city and its heartbeat. The exhibition will be at the Cable Gallery 10.–27.3.2011. Myöhänen’s paintings are like the voices and [...]
Susanna Iivanainen: Dreams of Air, Water, Fire and Earth In Susanna Iivanainen’s (b. 1973) paintings air, water, fire and earth metaphorically reflect states of mind. She interprets these basic elements poetically, rather than via the old system of elements. One starting point behind the exhibition is the philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s (1884–1962) “phenomenology of the imagination”. [...]
Pia Sandström’s New Piece at the Cable Gallery: A Fictional Spatial Book Crossing the Water, an exhibition of Pia Sandström’s (b. 1969) new work, invites the viewer into a book transformed into a spatial work of art. The audience embarks upon a journey composed of large numbered pages dangling from the ceiling. By opening up [...]
Jota Izquierdo investigates “Yellow Capitalism” in Mexico In his new set of works Region 4 Jota Izquierdo (b. in Castellón, Spain, 1972) presents a selection of documents and materials gathered and/or created throughout a wide-ranging research on the Mexican black market. Under the notion of capitalismo amarillo (‘yellow capitalism’) this multi-leveled project takes up and [...]