Monthly archives of “October 2016

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Finissage: Fake Laders
with Mother’s Nerves and
Improvised Sound Piece
22.10.2016

Finissage: Fake Laders | Ismo Hyvärinen

Start: 6pm and 7pm

Arja Kärkkäinen, 2016

Sound/video piece, 16:00 min

“Mother’s Nerves is a story told by a mother whose son is planning a suicide. The son
is struggling with the question of justification: why is he there to survive while the
other people should die. Who should die after all? The politically incorrect wish of a
destruction can be discussed from a child’s point of view, from its safe harbor. The
story is based on my own early childhood memory, a remark that I made in the
age of 5. I couldn’t understand why there was simultaneously a discussion about
overpopulation and grief for 100 people dying in an airplane accident. The point,
obviously, was that there should be less people and making people less should be
started from somewhere. Fair, until the roulette chooses someone you love.”

Arja Kärkkäinen is a Helsinki based installation artist who mainly works with video and
spatial installation. Kärkkäinen in her MA studies in the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki.


Start: 8pm

Improvised sound piece with Serge Modular synthesizer

Mika Hyytiä

“The piece will reflect aural and electrical happenings/non-happenings of the space. It aims to fixedly resonate and follow the very present – the ‘NOW’ moment. The outcome can be meditative and/or disorientating, but always mind manifesting.”

Mika Hyytiä is an underground sound artist – musician from Helsinki. Hyytiä’s main instrument is modular synthesizer and over the past 5 years, he has focused on improvisation-based performances around Finland in clubs, art galleries, and festivals. Hyytiä has released limited editions of cassettes and also recordings and releases in collaboration with several artists of highly variant outputs/approaches.


 

Toolbox – Finnisch-deutscher Projektraum, Koloniestraße 120

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Very Little … Almost Nothing
29.10–19.11.2016

Antero Kahila

Gemälde / Paintings

Video: Daniel Permanetter


29.10. – 19. 11. 2016

Toolbox – Finnisch-deutscher Projektraum, Koloniestraße 120

Vernissage: Fr. 28. 10. 2016 um 19 Uhr | Opening: October 28th, 7pm
Öffnungszeiten Kolonie-Wochenende: So. 30. Oktober von 14–18 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer: 29. Oktober bis 19. November 2016 | Öffnungszeiten: Di–Sa 14–18 Uhr


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Sehr wenig … fast nichts

Antero Kahila arbeitet in verschiedenen Medien; er malt, fotografiert und macht Installationen. Seine künstlerische Tätigkeit sieht er als fortwährende Auseinandersetzung mit den Widersprüchen zwischen dem eigenen Sein in der Welt und vielfältigen Unsicherheiten und Paradoxa, die jeder Begegnung mit der Welt innewohnen.
Seine neueren Arbeiten sind überwiegend Gemälde. In den jüngsten Bildern beschäftigt er sich mit Entfremdung und Rückzug aus der Welt. Oft versucht er zu fassen, dass die Menschheit gleichzeitig verletzlich und um ihr eigenes Bewusstsein zentriert ist. Die Darstellung der menschlichen Gestalt findet er reizvoll und sie ist ihm in ihrer kunsthistorischen Bedeutung wichtig.

Sehr wenig … fast nichts ist eine Serie von Gemälden, die die Grenzen menschlicher Verstehensfähigkeit auslotet und Antworten auf unmögliche Fragen sucht. Sie erkundet das Sein in der Welt in uns; wann hört das Selbst auf und wo beginnt die Welt? Diese Suche kann man mit dem Blick in einen zersplitterten Spiegel vergleichen, an dem man zu nah dran ist, um das Ganze oder auch nur spezifische Details ausmachen zu können – der menschliche Maßstab und seine Grenzen. Entfernungen vermischen sich und Umrisse verschwimmen im Hintergrund. Die unscharfe und fragmentierte Spiegelung entzieht sich der Beobachtung und Analyse. Ich kehre an den Anfang zurück, beginne von Neuem und höre nicht auf zu fragen.


Very Little … Almost Nothing

Antero Kahila works with many media, he paints, he takes photographs, he creates installations. Being an artist is for him both a constant effort to reflect upon the contradictions of being in the world and the insecurities and paradoxes intrinsic in any encounter with the world. Most of Kahila’s recent works are paintings. In his latest works Kahila has dealed with alienation and withdrawal. He often tries to depict humanity which is simultaneously vulnerable and yet in an extraordinary way tuned to consciousness. Depicting the human form for him is not only challenging, but also embodies a fascinating art-historical significance.
Very Little … Almost Nothing is a series of paintings that explores the boundaries of human understanding and seeks answers to impossible questions. It explores the being of the world in us; When does the self end and the world begin? The process could be likened to the act of gazing into a fractured mirror that is too close for one to grasp the whole or distinguishing detail, the human scale and its limits. Distances blend into one another and outlines merge into the background. The unfocused and fragmentary reflection escapes observation and analysis. I return to the beginning, start anew and continue to question.


Invitation picture

Concert:
Blind Dates for Improvisers
15.10.2016

A group of improvisers based in different cities will gather in Galerie TOOLBOX Berlin to participate in a 2 hours performance. However, they won’t have any idea of who will play with who. No soundcheck, no preplanned line-up! Just a casual encounter among international improvisers will happen on the stage.

Start: Galerie TOOLBOX 15.10.2016 / 7pm

Come along to enjoy and be a witness to these blind dates!

  • Harri Sjöström
  • Klaus Kürvers
  • Leo Lehtinen
  • Rafael Martinez
  • Ivan Babinchak Renqvist
  • Ian Mikyska
  • Ulf Mengersen
  • Davide Piersanti
  • Sergio Castrillón & Elina Nissinen

BLIND DATES FOR IMPROVISERS intends to bring together artists interested in improvisation from various latitudes, backgrounds, and disciplines within different venues and arenas.

This project has been developed by Sergio Castrillón since 2015.