2013
4–25.5.2013 Anna Estarriola: The Living in Three Acts
Anna Estarriola’s (b. 1980) exhibition The Living in Three Acts introduces five characters, who each perform their own mini solo. One with multiple troubles, one perplexed by his own image, and one permanently illuminated. One with glittering aspirations, and one with the power to spin endlessly. Then, in the three simultaneous acts of a [...]
4–27.4.2013 Carlos Llavata, Loïc Connanski, Tomasz Szrama: Three Short Videos
Three videos by three artists who use methods of performance. All the videos are short. They all balance between a sense of thrill, melancholia, and humour. The videos and the screening are realised on the artists’ initiative, outside the conventional institutional procedures. Carlos Llavata: Penitent Bridge, 2001 “It is that rare and magical moment when [...]
7–28.3.2013 Rita Jokiranta: Between Strength and Weakness
At first glance, Rita Jokiranta’s video installation Between Strength and Weakness evokes a nostalgic longing for past times when we felt happy. But it also asks: What lasts? What is strong? What is fragile? And finally: What do we really see – or want to see? Jokiranta’s new work will be shown at the Cable [...]
7.2–2.3.2013 Cecilia Stenbom: Nobody gets out of here alive
Cecilia Stenbom’s (b. 1976) solo exhibition Nobody gets out of here alive explores the idea of the impossible quest for a more ordered and less anxious existence, and the perceived dangers inherent in modern life. In the works in the Cable Gallery Stenbom investigates the methods that people use to control their anxiety at a [...]
10.1–3.2.2013 Chen Hangfeng: Endless Demand
Decorations for the western world’s Christmas are made in a small, ancient village in China. Chen Hangfeng is one of the artists in Rauma Art Museum’s Time of the Dragon exhibition, and his solo exhibition at the Cable Gallery shows views and the everyday lives of people in the places where our glittering Christmas decorations [...]
2012
6–30.12.2012 Simo Ripatti: History doesn’t count
The exhibition opening at the Cable Gallery on 6.12.2012 takes a look at history and at our attitudes to it. “History teaches us to be critical of our own ways of thinking. But history can also imbue things with values that can be hard even to define. The past affects the present and the future, [...]
8.11–2.12.2012 Revolution in the Net
The exhibition Revolution in the Net deals with social and political conditions in contemporary Russia, focusing on the political events surrounding the presidential election in spring 2012. It includes works by Russian artists and artist collectives: Olga Zhitlina; Factory of Found Clothes (FFC) represented by Natalya Pershina Yakimanskaya (Gluklya); and the collective Gentle Women (Nezhnue [...]
11.10–4.11.2012 Eeva-Leena Eklund: Paintings
Bambies, the palm trees of paradise beaches, kittens and E.T. all appear in Eeva-Leena Eklund‘s paintings. The colour spectrum is like that of a candy store, as her collections of paintings cluster on the walls of the exhibition space. Eklund’s themes originate from her collection of postcards, toys and candy wrappers. And she does believe [...]
13.9–7.10.2012 Jorge Cabieses-Valdés The Miniature Series
Chilean artist Jorge Cabieses-Valdés’ (b. 1978) exhibition The Miniature Series consists of two works: a series of three videos from which the show gets its title; and The Miniature (the plague), a piece developed during the artist’s residency at HIAP Cable Factory in winter 2011. Both works deal with fundamental concepts, such as domesticity and [...]
16.8–9.9.2012 Krišs Salmanis, Meta Grgurevič, JAŠA
The OUTRO_ exhibition by Krišs Salmanis and Meta Grgurevič & Jaša Mrevlje came about under the inspiration of shared experiences of a residency at HIAP in spring 2012. The exhibition at the Cable Gallery on August 16 – September 9, 2012 is the endpoint for specific ideas and for works based on them. In their [...]
19.07–12.8.2012 Domènec: The Worker’s Hand curated by Jon Irigoyen
The exhibition The Worker’s Hand (Rakentajan käsi), which opens at Cable Gallery on July 19, presents Spanish artist Domènec’s (b. 1962) new installation, which seeks to revisit the forgotten history of Kulttuuritalo (The House of Culture) designed by Alvar Aalto and built in 1952–58 in what was then the working class district of Kallio [...]
21.6–15.7.2012 Tiina Pyykkinen Out of Black Light and White Shadow
The play of shadows on the surface shifts with my movements. It combines with the painted surface to create a visible image. That moving image is a reflection of the place where I myself am. The sombre material has become immaterial. It is a source of light and colour. The immobile, matt figuration painted on [...]
24.5–17.6.2012
ANTIDOTE 4 – focus on PAINTING
ANTIDOTE is an ongoing series of events and exhibitions of critical art from Aalto University and elsewhere, curated by artist and professor Teemu Mäki and others. Begun in 2010, previous editions have concentrated on photography, video and drawing. The fourth ANTIDOTE exhibition will be on view at Cable Gallery from May 24–June 17 and focuses [...]
26.4–20.5.2012
Katrīna Neiburga: The Press House
The main role in Katrīna Neiburga’s new documentary-video installation is played by a publishing house that was once run by the Communist Party. It was built in Riga in 1978, the year the artist was born. The building is one of Riga’s few high-rise blocks from the Soviet period: a press building where the production [...]
29.3.–22.4.2012
Vladan Jeremić & Rena Rädle: The Housing Agenda
The exhibition presents photo-collages and videos from Under the Bridge-Helsinki, a project created to generate new proposals directed towards solving the dire housing problems faced by migrant workers. The Housing Agenda presents works which have resulted from artistic research in the field and in the institutions which deal with questions surrounding Roma migrant workers in [...]
1.–25.3.2012
Andrey Blokhin & Georgy Kuznetsov (Recycle Group): i-Faith
Artist duo RECYCLE from Krasnodar challenge our faith in the Internet RECYCLE, Andrey Blokhin (b. 1987) & Georgy Kuznetsov (b. 1985), from Krasnodar represents the very latest generation of Russian artists of the post-perestroika era. In the i-Faith exhibition opening at the Cable Gallery at 17.00 on Wednesday, February 29, they cast doubt on [...]
2–26.2.2012
Damian Le Bas & Delaine Le Bas
GYPSY REVOLUTION Questions Structures which Oppress ‘Gypsy’ as a Community Gypsy Revolution is a new project by Damian Le Bas (1963) and Delaine Le Bas (1965) which they are currently developing during their residency at HIAP Suomenlinna. The exhibition is part of a programme of works that question and de-construct the strangulating structures that continue [...]
5–29.1.2012
About to Dance – CONNECTING: Pia Lindy, Annuska Dal Maso, Juhana Venäläinen
About to Dance – CONNECTING reflects on the meanings of care and interactions between people The exhibition at the Cable Gallery is part of the multi-layered About to Dance project initiated by dancer and performance artist Pia Lindy in 2001. In the exhibition Lindy, now together with photographer and community artist Annuska Dal Maso, producer [...]
2011
8.–21.12.2011
Stéphanie Lacombe: Finns at the Dinner Table
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 [...]
17.11.–4.12.2011
Duncan Butt Juvonen: The Fox Wife
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 [...]
27.10.–13.11.2011
Riikka Mäkikoskela: Various Cases
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 [...]
6.–23.10.2011
Martin Bircher: Digital Enhancement
Pasi Rauhala & Matti Niinimäki: Ping Pong Rocking Chairs, Cartes Flux 2011
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 [...]
15.9.–2.10.2011
Johanna Eliisa Laitanen & Liinu Grönlund: Aura of Place d’Armes
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 [...]
24.8.–11.9.2011
Tuula Anttonen: Human Contacts
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,” [...]
4.–21.8.2011
Eija Keskinen: Who Rocks the Cradle
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: [...]
14.–31.7.2011
Sakari Tervo & Tatu Engeström: Façade
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 [...]
29.6.–10.7.2011
Masashi Echigo: From an Effort to a Cause
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 [...]
2.–19.6.2011
Jertta Ratia: Interiors
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 [...]
12.–29.5.2011
Maria Ylikoski: Det smakar lite konstigt
(It tastes a bit strange)
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 [...]
20.4.–8.5.2011
Mika Hytti: Paintings
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 [...]
31.3.–17.4.2011
Saskia Holmkvist: Role Control
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 [...]
10.–27.3.2011
Mikko Myöhänen: Street Rhythms
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 [...]
17.2.–6.3.2011
Susanna Iivanainen: Elemental
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”. [...]
27.1.–13.2.2011
Pia Sandström: Crossing the Water
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 [...]
6.–21.1.2011
Jota Izquierdo: Region 4
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 [...]
2010
9.–22.12.2010
Wang Ya-hui: Handmade Fairytales
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 [...]
18.11.–5.12.2010
Elina Bäckman: Now, Reanimated
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: La ruine du regard
(The Ruins of the Gaze)
30.10.–14.11.2010
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, [...]
8.–23.10.2010
Atelier Hauert Reichmuth
& Volker Böhm: TRiCKSTR
Cartes Flux 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 [...]
Elena Näsänen: Wasteland
16.9.–3.10.2010
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 [...]
Joakim Wolff: Surf’s Up!
25.8.–12.9.2010
…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: Saints Journeying to an Oasis 5.–22.8.2010
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 & Mari Murata (Japan): Connecting, Communicating and Continuing… 15.7.–1.8.2010
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 [...]
Jaana Rannikko: Wondrously Still 24.6.–11.7.2010
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: Under Construction
3.–20.6.2010
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 [...]
Salzburg Artists Association Berchtoldvilla: Uncontrolled 12.–30.5.2010
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 [...]
Marikki Hakola: MOLOCH 22.4.–9.5.2010
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: White Screen
1.–18.4.2010
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 [...]
Viivi Nieminen: Things are Distant
Though Near 11.–28.3.2010
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: The Farnsworth House revisited 18.2.–7.3.2010
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 [...]
Virve Lukka: Paintings 28.1.–14.2.2010
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 [...]
Markus Konttinen: My River 7.–24.1.2010
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 [...]