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Lost Luggage

Lost Luggage
30.11.–20.12.2018

Group Show

  • Jesse Avdeikov
  • Christine Candolin
  • Alisa Javits
  • Ritva Larsson
  • Maija Närhinen
  • Katriina Rosavaara
  • Jocke Sederholm
  • Anniina Vainionpää

Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag 30.11.2018, 7pm |

Open on Sunday 02.12.2018 from 2-6pm

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 30.11. –20.12. 2018 |
Öffnungszeiten/ Opening hours: Wed-Sa 3-7pm |

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


Jesse Avdeikov

works with painting, animation and installation. He seeks for unpleasant, pleasant, absurd and noteworthy aspects of life. Hoping to find the meaning of life by accident while having fun.

Christine Candolin

I have been working with installations since early 1980s.
 Evolution of the human mind, especially the interconnectedness of matter and mind and the emergent properties connected to this, are the important constituents of my studies, and can be seen as allegorical reflections in my work.
The postmodern research on cognition and perceiving and our actions in the world has a relevant part in the ideas behind my working.

I´m wondering how we effect our world by perceiving it, experiencing it and living it. This is what I mean with the expression “matter and mind“. For where does the mind end and the “world” begin?
For me the world is not a given place outside us, my approach is phenomenological; the world unfolds in correlation with our own cultural and mental development, with our broadening cognition and knowledge. This is an interdependent and ongoing process.

My installations are allegorical reflections on this exploration.
My art is space-specific. I’m often assembling my installations to fill several rooms, so that the subject matter can be sensed through the connotations of the combined materials, form, and thought. Some of the materials I use have a transient character, like water, breeze, light, grease, and pigment powders. But also stones, steel, glass and other reflecting materials are often parts of the installations. I prefer to create installations in which beauty combines with austerity, meaning and thought.
My installation at the Toolbox is called My Mental Hadron-Collider.
It is a small videoinstallation. The work is an ecological statement of the ongoing human fall on this planet. It consists of a text, videoprojection into the material installation. The text can be read in the introduction of the installation.
www.ccandolin.fi

Alisa Javits

“I found a suitcase. It belonged to Someone before me. A slightly naive artifact, with thoughts and dreams encapsulated in a case.”
Alisa Javits works in Helsinki with video and installation. She mixes photographic and filmic working methods. The main theme of the work is the contradiction between the inner and the outer in people.

Ritva Larsson

I ́m graduated from the University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Fine Arts Lahti. I also hold a masters degree in social sciences. With this combination as a background it ́s somewhat natural to explore “the social” by the means of arts. The theme ”street” is one cornerstone of my artwork. The artworks have been painted based on classical traditions. The combination creates an interesting tension between the traditional techniques and the modern themes, where “the social“ meets “the realism“. When these marginalized people are brought into the gallery, we are forced to face something we would prefer rather not to see or to think about. It is fascinating, how art can make a powerful statement about social issues. Yet the process itself is crucially slow. The situations evolve rather slowly on a canvas or on a piece of paper and an true, deeper dialogue among the painting and the world is not possible. In the end the piece remains as the artist ́s statement towards a certain issue but reproduces itself due the perception of the viewer.

Maija Närhinen

I make three-dimensional works and installations, which are composed of numerous parts. In my works I also combine different ways of depicting: two- and three-dimensional parts can form a single piece of work. In my artistic practice I am interested in for instance how to use one material to make an illusion of another material.

lost-luggage

Maija Närhinen

In the Lost Luggage exhibition there will be my work called Luggage. It consists of easily movable stones: the stones packed in a suitcase have been made of water colour paintings on paper. Some of them are in a form of a paper roll and some of them have been formed to resemble real stones.
http://www.maijanarhinen.fi

 

Katriina Rosavaara

Katriina Rosavaara (b. 1975, Finland) is Helsinki based visual artist. Lost Landscape – Revisited (2018) is a short film essay on family history, transgenerational war trauma, refugee and queer. Rosavaaras grandparents were forced to leave their home during the second world war. In the film Rosavaara travels back to her former family home town Sortavala (Russia) three times, in three different decades, reflecting changes on her own memories and on Sortavala city area.

Jocke Sederholm

“I’m a sculptor. I work mostly with wood. Much of my work deals with feelings and relations between people, I’m inspired by humans and humanity.”

https://www.joakimsederholm.fi

Anniina Vainionpää

The subject of my recent work has been memory and personal history combined with how our individual experiences resemble one another and unify us despite our different backgrounds.

In my work I often depict aspects of humanity such as feeling of disparity and alienation. According to my personal experiences concepts of safe and familiar can transform (for example due to illness) into something strange and unrecognisable even terrifying.

The works represented at Lost Luggage exhibition are from “Oblivion” series. They are combinations of woodcut and monotype on paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

film students from Finland in Toolbox

RAND | 27.10.–17.11.2018

Aalto University and Oulu University Film School

  • Taneli Suoranta
  • Mikael Syrjälä
  • Sanna Liinamaa
  • Janne Häkkinen
  • Jaakko Kemppainen
  • Kirsi Huhtanen
  • Tuuli Teelahti
  • Sanna Liljander
  • Janne Junes
  • Ossi Tuovinen
  • Anne Nuuros
  • Maija Pellinen
  • Malin Nyqvist
  • Sevgi Eker

Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag 26.10.2018, 7pm |

Open on Sunday 30.09.2018 from 2-6pm

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 27.10. –17.11. 2018 |
Öffnungszeiten/ Opening hours: Wed-Sa 3-7pm |

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed

Ilkka Sariola

Shit Happens 2
29.9.–20.10.2018

Drawings by Ilkka Sariola

Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag 28.09.2018, 7pm |

Open on Sunday 30.09.2018 from 2-6pm

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 29.9. –20.10. 2018 |
Öffnungszeiten/ Opening hours: Wed-Sa 3-7pm |

Finissage: 20.10.2018 7:30pm

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


Ilkka Sariola (b.1969) is an urban artist and priest based in Helsinki. He is known for his expressive drawings and performances. In january 2018 Sariola had a large exhibition Shit Happens at Gallery Orton, Helsinki and now he continues the theme is his first solo show in Berlin Galerie Toolbox.

Shit Happens 2 is a collection of drawings from four series called: Disgrace, Thirst, Easter drawings and Sunday drawings. Disgrace is about personal and collective shame. Thirst has echoes of the tradition of 14 Stations of the Cross. Easter drawing are in connection of religious themes as lamentation, pietá and ecce homo. Sunday drawings combine biblical and political topics. All drawings are mede with pencil and eraser on paper.

Zeichnungen von Ilkka Sariola

Ilkka Sariola (geb.1969) ist ein urbaner Künstler und Pfarrer der in Helsinki lebt und arbeitet. Er ist bekannt für seine expressive Zeichnungen und Performance. Im Januar 2018 hat Sariola eine Große Austellung Shit Happens im Galerie Orton, Helsinki und jetzt macht er weiter mit das Thema in seine erste Solo Austellung in Berlin in der Galerie Toolbox.

Shit Happens 2 ist eine Auswahl von Zeichnungen aus vier Serien, die die Schande, der Durst, Osterzeichnungen und Sonntagzeichnungen heißen. Die Schande geht um persönliches und kollektives Schamgefühl. Der Durst ist inspiriert von den vierzehn Stationen des Kreuzweges. Osterzeichnungen sind verbunden mit religiöse Themen wie Beweinigung, pietá und ecce homo. Sonntagzeichnungen kombinieren biblische und politische Inhalte. Alle Werke sind mit Bleistift und Radierer gezeichnet.

 

Toolbox 6 years Party

TOOLBOX 6 Years Birthday Party
24.–26.08.2018

GOLDEN AGE-Festival 24.– 26.8.2018

Koloniestraße 120, 13359 Berlin-Wedding


Friday 24.8.

Starting 11:00

”Superpositio” collective drawing-collage-installation process, pop-up exhibition.

Artists: Maija Helasvuo, Mika Karhu, Juha Sääski, Niina Räty, Sampsa Indren, Minna Jatkola, Anssi Taulu. Kollektiivisen piirustus-kollaasi-tilateos yhteisteoksen valmistaminen (TOOLBOX-jäsenistö).

18:00

Live music:

Harri Sjöström and Emilio Gordoa duo

20:00  At the park near Galerie TOOLBOX:

Träumende Bäume

Uneksivat puut (Träumende Bäume)nykytanssia ja nukketeatteria yhdistelevä esitys (Puppentheater mit zeitgenössischem Tanz) joka pohjautuu Didier Comèsin sarjakuvaan Uneksivien puiden talo (Das auf Didier Come´s´Comic ”La Maison ou´revent les arbres” basierende Stuck. Performers from Helsinki and Tampere. Helsinkiläis-tamperelainen työryhmä. More information, Lisätietoa: www.uneksivatpuut.net

Das auf Didier Comès` Comic ” La Maison où rêvent les arbres (Das Haus, wo die Bäume
träumen) basierende Stück verbindet Puppentheater mit zeitgenössischem Tanz. Die
Inszenierung ist mit drei TänzerInnen, einer Puppenspielerin, einer Schauspielerin und einem
Musiker besetzt und verhandelt den Klimawandel, unsere Beziehung zum Wald und die
Macht der Albträume.
Die Bäume sind der Menschen überdrüssig geworden, und die Zeit der angenehmen Träume
ist vorbei. Früher verwandelten sich die Träume der Bäume etwa in Vögel oder
Schmetterlinge, doch aufgrund des unguten menschlichen Treibens sind die Träume nun
reine Albträume. Diese Albträume setzen sich zusammen aus uralten kollektiven
Erinnerungsstucken und greifen – puppenspielerisch dargestellt – als Raubtiere an,
gnadenlos.
Durch Bewegung, Tanz und verschiedene Radiofrequenzen hindurch entwickelt die
Inszenierung sich auf ihr ritualhaftes Ende zu. Aufführungssprachen sind englisch, deutsch
und finnisch.
Kosten- und barrierefreie Vorfuhrungen am Fr 24.8. und So. 26.8., jeweils 20 Uhr am
Kanalufer in Berlin-Wedding. Treffpunkt ist die Galerie Toolbox an der Koloniestraße 20.

Regie und Dramaturgie: Mira Laine, Choreografie: Mirva Keski-Vähälä / Darstellerinnen: Outi Ivaska, Heidi Suur-Hamari, Sini Peltola, Tommi Rikkinen, Petra Haapio, Riku-Pekka Kellokoski / Puppen und Masken: Anna Sucksdorff / Kostum: Reija Stenius / Musik, Komposition und Sound: Riku-Pekka Kellokoski / Licht: Jari Piitulainen / Grafikdesign: Mark Ståhle / Ubersetzung des Originalwerks ins Finnische: Soile Kaukoranta / Deutsche Ubersetzung: Elina Kritzokat / Website und Herstellung: Bastian Salmela

Videostudio:

Kristina Frank (Visby,Sweden) ”We are all atoms”, ”Take to the woods”, ”Blanco”, ”Two rabbits part 1”, ”Two rabbits part 2”


Saturday 25.8.

14.00 Galerie TOOLBOX
”Superpositio”- drawing-collage-installation.

The visitors may participate working, continue doing the collective art work. Gallerian seinillä yleisöllä mahdollisuus osallistua kollektiiviseen piirustus/kollaasiin.

Videostudio: Kristina Frank (Visby, Sweden) all day long

17:00 Galerie TOOLBOX and the street in front of gallery:

Performance: Kalle Turakka-Purhonen

Live music: Country band


Sunday 26.8.

20:00 at the park near Galerie TOOLBOX:

Träumende Bäume, second performance, Uneksivat puut -toinen esitys

21:00 Videoart, outdoor screening in front of the gallery:

The X Film Femmes: The Talkies,

Artists: Aino Havu, Ilkka Hautala, Taina Medina, Gabriela Gaia Meirelles, Taimi Nevaluoma, Mortti Saarnia

Marja Pirilä

Light and Darkness
camera obscura projects
01.09.–22.9.2018

Marja Pirilä, Finland

Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday 31.8.2018 at 7pm |

Open on Sunday 02.09.2018 from 2-6pm

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 01.09. –22.9. 2018 |
Öffnungszeiten/ Opening hours: Wed-Sa 3-7pm |

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


To photograph in the dark. To invite the light in. Holes and lenses in the darkened windows. The world upside down, camera obscura. To be exposed to light and reflections. To photograph with a camera inside a camera. Where the light falls, there is the reflection: on floor, ceiling, walls, furniture, skin, clothes, notebooks. Light notes.

Camera obscura is for me a method by which to survey the living environment and mental landscapes, to summon subconscious feelings into the light of day. When the space transforms into a ”dark room” it conjures up the core and magic of photography again and again. That is when I feel most powerfully that I am working with the light.

In the exhibition there are photographs from my four camera obscura series: “Interior/Exterior” 1996–, “Speaking House” 2006, “Milavida” 2012–2013 and “In Strindberg´s Rooms” 2017. In addition to the photographs there are three-dimensional “Tin Can camera obscuras”, a collaboration with photographer Petri Nuutinen and an artist book with a text written by PhD Päivi Mehtonen.


Photographic artist Marja Pirilä (b. 1957 in Rovaniemi, Finland) has been specialising in the camera obscura technique since the 1990s. Pirilä graduated as a photographer from the University of Art and Design, Helsinki in 1986, and the same year, a biologist (M.Sc.) from the University of Helsinki. Her works have been shown in various exhibitions in Europe, the Americas and Asia and her work is
included in several significant public and private collections. Pirilä was awarded the State Prize for Photographic Art in 2000, and her retrospective photography book Carried by Light, a was published in 2014.

http://www.marjapirila.com/

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Still Life in White |
28.7.–23.8.2018

Salla Keskinen & Elina Nissinen & Eero Yrjölä:​ ​Still Life in White

Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag 27.07.2018, 7pm |

Open on Sunday 29.07.2018 from 2-6pm

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 27.7. –28.7. 2018 |
Öffnungszeiten/ Opening hours: Wed-Sa 3-7pm |

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


“Art exists in a kind of eternity of display (…) there is no time. This eternity gives the gallery a limbolike status; one has to have died already to be there.” ​(​Brian ​O’Doherty​: Inside the White Cube:The Ideology of the Gallery Space​ 1976; 15)

Like a garden is the gallery of form-cut wilderness, rose bushes and poetic rituality; the gallery is a garden of ceremonial eventuality, curated objects in conceptual landscape.

Still Life in White​ is flowers and saplings dressed in white. The emblematic blends with the actual and the process of dying becomes an event of birth.


Salla Keskinen, Elina Nissinen and Eero Yrjölä are Helsinki-based artists who share an interest to several themes. Contemplation on the color ​white,​ for instance, has been part of their previous work. ​Still Life in White ​is Keskinen, Nissinen and Yrjölä’s first production as a trio, even if they have worked with each other through other collaborations already before.

Salla Keskinen​ ​(b. 1983) mainly works with performance, photography and video.​ ​In addition to the camera, the body is an essential tool in her work that tackles the concept of intimacy. ​www.cargocollective.com/sallakeskinen

Elina Nissinen​​ (b. 1991) has recently worked in collaborative projects that have focused on installation and performance. Her interests revolve around the entanglements of the urban everyday in the social reality and the haunting presence of disbelief, magic, and dreams. Nissinen is member of the transcultural ​Third Space​ collective. CV: ​https://drive.google.com/file/d/10G4z8otiYL5C4U6rSdsViChcnTKGBkYo/view?usp=sharing

Eero Yrjölä​​ (b. 1990) works primarily through painting, installation and performance. Aiming often to comment on the conventions of art and the art world, Yrjölä’s work looks into the themes of “normality”, gender and sexuality. ​www.eeroyrjola.com

Toolbox

The Vox Populi Print
Collective | 30.6.–21.7.2018

ArtHelix Gallery and Shim Art Network in collaboration with Gallery/project space Toolbox and okk|raum29.

Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag 29.06.2018, 7pm |

Open on Saturday 30.6. and Sunday 01.07.2018 from 2-6pm

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 30.6. –21.7. 2018 |
Öffnungszeiten/ Opening hours: Wed-Sa 3-7pm |

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


Vox Pop Catalog Essay

A guild /ɡɪld/ is an association of artisans or merchants who oversee the practice of their craft in a particular town. The earliest types of guild were formed as confraternities of tradesmen. They were organized in a manner something between a professional association, trade union, a cartel secret society authority to enforce the flow of trade to their self-employed members, and to retain ownership of tools and the supply of materials.

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The Vox Populi Print Collective

In January of 2017 organizing an exhibition of artists that wanted desperately to show their revulsion at the election of, and swearing in of President Trump was both a necessary, and yet sadly, somewhat typical reaction by the art world. What Barry Carlsen and I had in mind was something different. We saw this moment as a time to not only register our individual confusion, outrage, and disgust; but as a moment to institute a potential structural change in the ways those emotions could be more permanently expressed collectively.

As printmakers, or more correctly as artists who also love and embrace traditional printmaking, we both knew the long history of artists- from Goya, Daumier, and Kollwitz, to Wangechi Mutu, Wendy Red Star, and Lorna Simpson- who have made printmaking a historically powerful tool for holding power up to some form of public accountability, and because by definition printmaking is a way to make an image reproducible, and thus democratically (small D) available to many at low cost the inherent nature of printmaking was a perfect vehicle for our new concept. However, the real irony is that to imagine this new sustainable organization that could carry out a long term goal of bringing together many artists into a shared community, yet retaining individual voices inside that group we finally turned to a model that was a thousand years old…the guild. The guild as referenced above in Wikipedia is a shared association of tradesman who negotiates for mutual benefits and protects the interests of its members. The guild we envisioned would be different in that in would not be a local, or geographically based version as it was in medieval times, but rather a global network that relies on social media to connect and promote one another. The guild could then grow to accommodate all the artists within it, while maintaining the core purpose of the reproducible image using traditional printmaking media.

Once conceived, the guild, now named the Vox Populi Print Collective needed to resolve a second important problem. How to bring these artists and their works from distant points efficiently? For this we turned to the concept of only sending the print itself, and purchasing the frame in the locale of the exhibition. So we determined for the inaugural exhibition of the guild, and possibly thereafter, the prints would be made in one standardized size to allow the guild to have multiple sets of frames available by utilizing the Ikea global store system. We could now quickly and cheaply send these exhibitions around the world in a low cost manner. The costs of producing exhibition catalogs also became easier by making all the prints one size. Lastly Barry and I decided the first print of all the artist editions would be one low price. The artist would then be free to change pricing for their own works according to their own market value after the first print was sold.

The final issue was to find a series of galleries and art fairs nationally and internationally that the guild could apply to. Here is the part I am most proud of. In the past three years I and several other partners have been hard at work creating a novel approach to creating ways for artists to engage the art world. Rather than a gallery based model that asks represented artists for commissions, our company, the Shim Art Network, allows artists and groups of artists to apply using fees instead of commissions. So the guild could now locate and apply for shows in New York City, Berlin, Miami or elsewhere with membership fees and retain all sales for the individual artists. The ultimate aim is for the guild or any group to function like a gallery minus the fixed cost or overhead of owning its own space. Vox Pop is just the beginning, but it is a crucial beginning for this idea. Artists coming together to share costs and lower risk while retaining their individual identities inside a global shared network can, and we are convinced, will change the very structure of the art world. We smile thinking to begin that journey we needed to embrace and re-engage an idea that was hiding in plain sight for two or three centuries.

Ultimately Response, the title of our first show, and of this catalog is then both a tactical and strategic “response” to the growing global white supremacist, neo-liberal hegemony. Tactical, because over 60 artists from around the world have been willing to join in to this exhibition, and by doing embrace the resistance to this person and to what he represents to them, and that is something we must all be willing to do if we wish to see change. At another level however, there is a strategic shift in the ways we can express that dissatisfaction. By creating a group, a guild, a collective we are announcing that we are not alone in this struggle. That by relaxing for a brief moment our own autonomy we actually become stronger as individuals, and by extension we are now committing to a possible new economic model for artists. Shared risk groups bargaining for themselves with markets. This way we can begin to expose the lie that undergirds the neo-liberal economic myth of “winner-take-all” and “each for themselves”. The “shame” of the unrepresented artist, who cannot find a foothold inside highly regulated “space” where the cultural dialogue is produced, slowly gives way to the networked artist collaborating with others on specific projects that can be self-funded without waiting for institutional approval. I am proud to be a part of the Response exhibition, but I am more excited to be a part of the new emerging response to self-imposed isolation, sadness, and alienation from others who share in my goals for a different world.

Peter P. Hopkins, Artist and Printmaker
Owner ArtHelix Gallery, and Founder and CEO of Shim Art Network,
New York City, January, 2018

https://www.instagram.com/voxpopuliprintcollective/

Terho Aalto

Begegnungen – Encounters | 25.5.–23-6.2018

Terho Aalto, Finland (Photographs, Video),
Kari Mäkiranta (Soundscapes)

Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag 25.05.2018, 7pm |

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 26.05–23.06.2018 |
Öffnungszeiten/ Opening hours: Wed-Sa 3-7pm |

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


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Begegnungen – Encounters

Project exhibition

I’m interested in encounters: what happens when I meet and take pictures of random people in a strange country? We may not have a common language or culture, just the moment when our roads cross. What comes next? Possibly some sort of a view about the environment and the people who live or visit this area. Both, the location and the people, have their own history and their own present situation, and in addition to all that, there’s a stranger’s look, mine.

In June 2017, I learned to know the district of Wedding in Berlin, doing some background work for this forthcoming exhibition. My idea is to take most of the pictures for the exhibition during the three weeks before the opening and also continue taking pictures for a week after that. The show is allowed to change and live through my experiences.

I have been a press photographer for well over thirty years. At the same time I have given my own photo exhibitions, and collaborated with artists, both in Finland and internationally. I am pleased to give an exhibition of my project Encounters in Toolbox, which is located in the heart of Wedding.

The exhibition has been supported by Finnish JOKES (Foundation for Promotion of Journalistic Culture).

Photographer Terho Aalto
Lives and works in Finland.

Photo: Michael Reck and Lumpi in Art SpaceToolbox

https://terhoaalto.myportfolio.com


Begegnungen – Encounters

Projektausstellung

Mich interessieren Begegnungen: was passiert, wenn ich in einem fremden Land zufällig Menschen begegne und sie dann fotografiere? Wir haben vielleicht keine gemeinsame Sprache, keine gemeinsame Kultur, sondern nur den einen Moment, in dem unsere Wege sich kreuzen. Was passiert dann? Vielleicht eine Art fotografische Darstellung von der Umgebung und von den Menschen, die in dieser Gegend wohnen oder zu Besuch sind. Sowohl der Ort als auch die Menschen haben ihre eigene Geschichte und ihre eigene Gegenwart, und dazu kommt dann der Blick eines fremden Menschen, mein Blick.

Im Juni 2017 habe ich den Wedding und den Gesundbrunnen in Berlin kennengelernt und Vorarbeiten für meine Ausstellung gemacht. Ich plane, die Fotos in den drei Wochen vor der Eröffnung der Ausstellung zu machen und danach noch eine Woche weiterzufotografieren. Die Ausstellung darf sich verändern und durch meine Erlebnisse neu gestalten.

https://terhoaalto.myportfolio.com

Photo: Michael Reck and Lumpi im Projektraum Toolbox

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Error | 28.4.–19.05.2018

Anssi Taulu, Finland (sculptures),
Francois Knoetze, South Africa  (Video)

Welcome: Vernissage / Opening: Friday / Freitag 27.04.2018, 7pm |

Ausstellungsdauer / Exhibition open: 28.04.–29.05.2018 |
Öffnungszeiten/ Opening hours: Wed-Sa 3-7pm |

An Feiertagen ist die Toolbox geschlossen
On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed


 Error

Do we see the consequences of our actions? Do we care?

Are we living in a dream industry, where nothing really happenes. Life just slides out between commercial breaks.

This reality is a growing tornado of mistakes, our collective blind spot.

Today’s phenomena are reflections from yesterday’s choices and decisions. And the traces go back over centuries. The history of a man is a jumble of courage, cowardice, wisdom, foolishness, mistakes, damages, mistakes, misunderstandings and recklessness.

Anssi Taulu works predominantly in the medium of sculptures, but includes environmental art projects, graphics, drawings, videos and collaborative projects with other artists in his large scale installations. Taulu graduated from Kankaanpää Art School in 1994. His major solo shows have been at Galleria Sculptor in Helsinki, GalleriaKONE in Hämeenlinna and Galerie Toolbox in Berlin, Germany. His environmental art project Wasp Factories were built in numerous places in Finland, Edinburgh and London. His works have been exhibited in Germany, Sweden, Scotland, Norway and Estonia. Taulu have public works in Finland and in Utica NY. He is a member of the Association of Finnish Sculptors and Toolbox cooperative. He lives and works in Hämeenlinna, Finland.


Video Room artist

Francois Knoetze

( South Africa)

Born in Cape Town, Francois Knoetze is a performance artist, sculptor and filmmaker. He holds a BA Fine Arts degree from Rhodes University and an MFA in Fine Arts degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT (both with distinction).

In 2012 Knoetze featured as one of Art South Africa magazine’s “Bright Young Things” and was recently selected as one of Mail & Guardian’s “Top 200 Young South Africans” of 2015. Knoetze’s work incorporates video, performance and sculpture, as he retraces the life cycles of discarded objects and explores junctures between material and social histories. In his Mongo* sculptural suits, the synthetic is welded to the human – bringing focus to the objectification of persons, through the personification of objects.

Videos

Cape Mongo

Cape Mongo, formed part of the Grahamstown National Arts Festival Main Programme in 2015. He has participated in group exhibitions, such as U/Tropiaat the Wiener Festwochen in Germany (2015), Slow Violence at the University Stellenbosch Art Gallery (2015) and Designing Futures at the Lagos Photo Festival (2015). His work has also been shown at a number of local and international film festivals, including the WNDX Festival of Moving Image 2015 (winner of the Jury Prize for Best International Work), the 17th Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, Artvideo Koeln: Audiovisual Experiences in Cologne (2015), Infecting The City Public Art Festival in Cape Town (2015), Usurp Zone5 Film Festival at the Usurp Art Gallery & Studio in London (2015), the FILMIDEO International Film Festival at the Index Art Center in Newark, New Jersey (2015) and OK.Video Film Festival in Indonesia (2015).

Mongo n. slang. object thrown away and then recovered.

More info: https://francoisknoetze.carbonmade.com

soundscapes & soundportraits

Soundscapes & Soundportraits 3 | 20.04.2018

John Russell (Gitarre | Guitar)

Ute Wassermann (Stimme | Vocals)

Soundscapes & Soundportraits: Toolbox | German Finnish Art Space Berlin, Koloniestraße 120, 13359 Berlin Wedding (Google Maps) | U-Bahn Osloer Straße

Freitag  20. April 2018:  Konzert, Einlass 20 Uhr

Einführung: Carl Wilkens
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Ute Wassermann (Stimme | Vocals)

Ute Wassermann

Ute Wassermann, Photo: Georgia Fanelli

Ute Wassermann ist als Vokalkünstlerin und Komponistin für ihre vielstimmige Klangsprache bekannt, die sie in verschiedene Zusammenhänge der experimentellen und Neuen Musik einbringt. Ihr Gesang entfernt sich von dem üblichen akustischen Klangbild der menschlichen Stimme und löst Assoziationen etwa von Klängen von Vögeln, Maschinen oder Elektronik aus. Zusätzlich „maskiert“ sie ihre Stimme mit Gaumen- und Vogelstimmenpfeifen, singt durch Resonanz- und Lautsprecherobjekte und entwirft Klanginstallationen.

Biografie

Wassermann studierte Bildende Kunst (Klanginstallationen/Performance) an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg und der University of California, San Diego, unter anderem bei Henning Christiansen und Allan Kaprow. Als Improvisatorin tritt sie regelmäßig mit MusikerInnen der internationalen Szene auf.

Sie ist Mitglied des Berliner Composer-Performer-Ensembles Les Femmes Savantes. Als Stimmsolistin im Bereich der Neuen Musik und experimentellen Musik ist Ute Wassermann auf Festivals und Bühnen in Europa, Australien, Asien, USA und in Museen, Kunsthallen, Clubs vertreten. Sie hat verschiedene Stipendien erhalten, unter anderem war sie 2015 Stipendiatin der Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italien.


John Russell (Gitarre | Guitar)

John Russel

John Russel

John Russell neigt zu großen Intervallen, zu entschieden segmentiertem und perkussivem Spiel und systematischer Variation des Timbres und der Tonerzeugung (leere Saite, Kapodaster, harmonisch, hinter dem Steg).

Im Duo ist sein Ausdruck noch dynamischer und auffälliger als im Trio oder in größeren Ensembles. Mit nur einem Gegenüber reagiert Russell unmittelbar auf jede Phrase und erzeugt eine reiche und fließende Tonlandschaft. Mit beeindruckender sowohl geistiger als auch motorischer Reaktionsgeschwindigkeit und mit bemerkenswerter Präzision erzeugt er einen ungewöhnlich fließenden, flexiblen und vielseitigen Klang.

Biografie

John Russell bekam seine erste Gitarre 1965 und trat ab 1971 in London und Umgebung auf. 1972 kam er zum ersten Mal in Kontakt mit freier Improvisation. Seit 1974 unterrichtet er, tritt im Rundfunk auf (Radio und Fernsehen) und tourt in Großbritannien und im Ausland, in Österreich, Belgien, Kanada, Dänemark, Estland, Frankreich, Deutschland, Niederlande, Italien, Luxemburg, Schweden und Schweiz. 1991 begründete er MOPOMOSO, die längste ununterbrochene Konzertreihe in Großbritannien mit überwiegend improvisierter Musik. Er hat mit vielen der weltweit bedeutendsten Improisationsmusikerinnen und -musikern zusammengespielt und über 50 CDs aufgenommen.


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Soundscapes & Soundportraits: Toolbox | German Finnish Art Space Berlin, Koloniestraße 120, 13359 Berlin Wedding (Google Maps) | U-Bahn Osloer Straße

Friday,  2 April 2018:  concert, doors 8pm

  • John Russell (Guitar)
  • Ute Wassermann (Vocals)

Introduction: Carl Wilkens


Ute Wassermann (Vocals)

Ute Wassermann

Ute Wassermann, Photo: Georgia Fanelli

As a vocal artist and composer, Ute Wasserman is well-known for her multifaceted tonal language, which she performs in various contexts of experimental music. Her vocal style differs from the usual sound of the human voice and elicits associations of birds, machines or electronics. Furthermore she “masks” her voice with the use of bird whistles and sings through resonating and sound amplifying objects, and she creates sound installations.

Biography

Ute Wassermann studied Fine Arts (Sound installation/performance) at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg and the University of California, San Diego, with Henning Christiansen and Allan Kaprow, among others. As an improvisation artist she regularly performs with internationally known musicians. She is a member of the Berlin based composer performer ensemble Les Femmes Savantes. In contemporary music she performs as a soloist at festivals, on stages, in museums, and clubs throughout Europe, Australia, Asia and the US. She is the recipient of several scholarships, in 2015 for example she got a grant from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Italy.


John Russell (Guitar)

John Russel

John Russel

Russell favors wide intervals, a resolutely segmented, percussive attack, and systematic variation of timbre and means of production (open string, fretted, harmonic, behind-the-bridge pling). In a duo, his playing is more energetic and obvious than in a trio or bigger ensemble. With only one other player to react to, Russell responds rapidly to every phrase, generating a full and fluid soundscape. It is difficult to judge which is the more impressive, the speed of his brain or that of his fingers; but both have to be spot on to produce improvised music this fluid and fluent.

Biography

John Russell got hold of his first guitar in 1965 and began playing in and around London from 1971. His involvement with the Free Music scene came early, from 1972 onwards. From 1974 his work extended into teaching, broadcasts (radio and television) and touring (continuing) in the United Kingdom and abroad, including Austria, Belgium, Canada; Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Luxembourg, Sweden and Switzerland.

In 1991, he started MOPOMOSO which has become the UK’s  longest running concert series featuring mainly improvised music.