Toolbox

Warmly welcome to our next opening on Friday, 26. September 2025, at 7 pm

Exhibition: 26.9.–25.10.2025

Opening hours: Wed–Sat 3–7 pm

Kolonie Wedding Weekend open on Sunday, 28.9.2025 from 2–6 pm

Videoworks by students of Aalto University Film Department, Helsinki, Finland

Featuring artists

Joona Ikonen, Mika Koskinen, Julia Matinniemi, Sanna Langinkoski and Joonas Veijanen

“Dünne Räume / Thin Rooms” -exhibition dives into the space between the physical and the spiritual worlds, where our present experiences blend with memories and the past that lingers in the space. The works explore memories, spirituality, and individual experiences in a diverse and open-minded manner. The works challenge the viewer to explore the moment we live in and to reflect on the meaning of presence in that thin space that separates the past from the future.
The exhibition is part of the Associative Visual Storytelling course for Master students in the Film and Animation department at Aalto University (Finland). The course is led, and the exhibition is organized by visual artist and university pedagogue Mika Karhu.

Joona Ikonen
Memory Lan, short film, 5 min

History echoes through the corridors of the present, even if we refuse to hear it. The work compels the viewer to confront the unsettling rhymes of our time. Are you complicit?

Mika Koskinen
Muodollinen lounas / Formal lunch, animation, 2 min

Formal lunch refers to Eucharist and rituals. Life appears often as a sequence of absurd events. In the end, is it the religion which can save us?

Julia Matinniemi
Villa Pfaffenlehne, documentary, 15 min

Jan, Julia and Silke make a final visit to Villa Pfaffenlehne, a run down garden cottage in the outskirts of Erfurt owned by the latter’s mother and others Oma.

Joonas Veijanen
Varjostus / Shadowing, video+audio, 2 min 25 sec

Step into the light (of the projector).
By entering the picture you cut a hole into the image.
But don’t worry. You’re casting a shadow.

Sanna Langinkoski
Time traveler, visual artwork, paper & textile

“In family photos from 80 years ago, I saw a woman who looked strikingly familiar. She looked just like me.”
The work builds a bridge between the past and the present, while also reflecting on the layers of memory, connections between generations, and the fleeting presence of history. It is a personal journey through time, in which the photographs create a connection to a person whose life has already ended, but whose familiar gaze lives on in the photographs. One day, I too will be a past figure in a photograph.

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Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX
Koloniestraße 120
13359 Berlin-Wedding
U-Bahn Osloer Straße

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