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Alexander Horn, Ilkka Sariola

Ausgang | Exit – 30.8.–20.9.2025

Welcome to our opening on Friday, 29. August 2025, 7 pm

Artists

Alexander Horn | Ilkka Sariola

Paitings, drawings

Opening hours: Mit–Sat 3–7 pm


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Our duo exhibition is titled ”Ausgang – Exit”. Everyday definition of the word is ”an act of leaving a place” or ”a way out of a building”. For example there are ”Ausgang” signs in everywhere in metro stations and signs can save lives in the event of fire. The word exit also has deeper philosophical connotations. ”Exitus” comes from latin and means exit, ending, end or death. Our final exit is moving from on state to another, from life to death. The Nazis used the term with cruel irony, calling the entrance gate of Sachsenhausen concentration camp ”Eingang A” an the exit gate ”Ausgang Z”. There is also a desperate search for away out, exit, of the protracted wars in Ukraine an Gaza. In our exhibition, metaphora ”exit” leads the viewer to consider different ways of of exiting dead ends in front of Alexander Horn´s fascinating paintings and Ilkka Sariola´s large expressive coal drawings.

Alexander Horn lives and works in Mannheim and Ludwigshafen and Ilkka Sariola in Helsinki. We met each other for the first time year 2017 when we both took part in group exhibition ”Nachstein” at Projektraum Toolbox. Even then, a deep understanding arose between us an our art. This is our third duo exhibition in Germany.

Ilkka Sariola

Ilkka Sariola, rom series Requiemm Hind & Shani, 230 x 150 cm, charcoal on paper, 2023-2025

Alexander Horn

Alexander Horn, aus der Serie Only the Rocks Remain

German:

Unsere Duo-Ausstellung trägt den Titel Ausgang – Exit. Eine Alltagsdefinition des Wortes ist „ein Akt des Verlassens eines Ortes“ oder „ein Weg aus einem Gebäude“. So gibt es zum Beispiel überall in U-Bahn-Stationen „Ausgang“-Schilder, und Schilder, die auf Notausgänge hinweisen, können im Falle eines Brandes Leben retten. Das Wort Ausgang hat auch eine tiefere philosophische Bedeutung. „Exitus“ kommt aus dem Lateinischen und bedeutet Ausgang, Abschluss, Ende oder Tod. Unser letzter Ausgang ist der Übergang von einem Zustand zum anderen, vom Leben zum Tod. Die Nazis benutzten den Begriff mit grausamer Ironie und nannten das Eingangstor des Konzentrationslagers Sachsenhausen „Eingang A“ und das Ausgangstor „Ausgang Z“. Auch in den langwierigen Kriegen in der Ukraine und im Gazastreifen wird verzweifelt nach einem Ausweg, einem Ausgang, gesucht.
Die Besucher:innen unserer Ausstellung können vor Alexander Horns kleinformatigen Gemälden in Acryltusche auf MDF und Ilkka Sariolas großformatigen, expressiven Kohlezeichnungen mit der Metapher „Ausgang“ als Ausgangspunkt über Sackgassen und wie man aus ihnen wieder heraus-kommt reflektieren.

Alexander Horn lebt und arbeitet in Mannheim und Ludwigshafen, Ilkka Sariola in Helsinki. Wir sind uns 2017 zum ersten Mal begegnet, als wir beide an der Gruppenausstellung Nachstein im Pro-jektraum Toolbox in Berlin teilgenommen haben. Sofort hatten wir das Gefühl eines besonderen und tiefen Verständnisses füreinander und für die Kunst des anderen. Dies ist unsere dritte Duo-Ausstellung in Deutschland.


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Teemu Saukkonen

Moments of Life – Temu Saukkonen | Collapse Ulrika Segerberg | 27.6.–19.7.2025

Welcome to the opening at Toolbox Finnish-German Art space on Frday 27.6.2025 at 7 pm

Artists:

Teemu Saukkonen: Moments of Life

Ulrika Segerberg: Collapse – special guest: matka

Exhibition: 27.06.–19.07.2025
Closing event: 19.07.2025 at 4:30–6 pm

Opening hours: Wed–Sat: 3–7 pm

More about the artists:

https://www.saukkonenteemu.fi

https://www.ulrikasegerberg.net/


Temu Saukkonen

Finnish:

LYHYT TIVISTELMÄ NÄYTTELYN ” Moments of Life ” TEEMOISTA

Maalausten sisältö liikkuu merkitvsten “veitsenterällä”, kun ihmisen käsittelemät eläimet kuvaavat paitsi kärsimystä ja elämän loppumista myös ravintoa. Teosten luontokappaleet symboloivat luopumista ja viattomuutta sekä ihmisen valtaa ja vieraantumista luonnosta.
Maalausten anteeksipytelemäton realismi ja suorasukaiset siveltimen vedot ilmaisevat salaperäista uhkaa, mutta myos toivoa. Eläimet on maalattu lähes
“eläviksi” herkullisella värin käsittelylla ja niiden liioiteltu koko ehdottaa jokaisen luontokappaleen kunnioittamista. Teosten mustalla humorilla höystetty (sur)rationaalinen tragedia on myötäelävää, ja ihmisen vallassa on päättää, miten itse täydentää maalausten (Moments of life) kertomukset.

English:
BRIEF SUMMARY ABOUT THE MOTIFS OF THE ” Moments of Life ” EXHIBITON
The content of the paintings balances their meaning on the “knife’s edge” as the animals processed by humans depict not only suffering and the end of life, but also their meaning as food. The animate beings in Saukkonen’s works symbolize renunciation and innocence, as well as human power and alienation from nature. The paintings’ unapologetic realism and straight brushstrokes convey a mysterious threat – but also hope. By the delicate usage of color, the animals are almost painted “alive” and their exaggerated size is used as an advocate to respect every living creature. Spiced with black humor throughout all the art works, the displayed (sur)rational tragedy is compassion, and it is up to the spectator him-/herself to decide how to complement the narratives of the paintings in this “Moments of life”-exhibition.

Deutsch:
KURZÜBERBLICK ÜBER DIE LEITMOTIVE DER “Moments of Life ” AUSSTELLUNG
Der Inhalt der Bilder balanciert ihre tiefere Bedeutung auf „Messer’s Schneide“, da die von den Menschen verarbeiteten Tiere nicht nur Leiden und das Ende des Lebens darstellen, sondern auch ihre Bedeutung als Nahrung. Die Lebewesen in Saukkonen’s Werken
symbolisieren Verzicht und Unschuld, aber auch die Macht der Menschen
und die Entfremdung von der Natur.

Der kompromisslose Realismus und die gradlinigen Pinselstriche in den Bildern vermitteln eine geheimnisvolle Bedrohung – jedoch auch Hoffnung. Durch die feinfühlige Kontrolle der Farben werden die Tiere fast „lebendig“ dargestellt und ihre proportional über-dimensionale
Größe wird als Anregung verwendet, doch jedem Lebewesen gegenüber Respekt darzubringen. Die dargestellte (sur)rationale Tragödie ist Mitgefühl – gesprenkelt mit schwarzem Humor in allen vorliegenden Kunstwerken.

Die Besucher:innen haben jedoch selbst zu entscheiden, wie sie die Erzählungen
jeden Gemäldes dieser „Moments of life“-Ausstellung für sich vervollständigen.

Artwork: Teemu Saukkonen Sucking Pig, 2025, oil and acrylic on canvas, 155 x 200 cm


Ulrika Segerberg

Collapse – special guest: matka

Ulrika Segerberg: Still from Collapse

Time scatters. We run — but do we hide? Tick tack, the roof is cracking, covering our fur with paledust. Tick tack — how do we react when what we used to know takes on a different shape, oreven falls apart? From whom do we run? We do fly, sometimes. Do we dance alone, or go to sleep with a kiss on our cheek?

Since 2016, Ulrika Segerberg and Martin Kleinmichel have collaborated under the name matka, gradually shaping their debut album — each song accompanied by a video. The installation at Toolbox features their latest track Collapse, along with paintings and sculptural props used in the video. Frame by frame, the lens captures a search — not for narrative or meaning, but perhaps for those fleeting, quiet moments that comfort us when no one is watching. Martin composed the music and edited the video. Ulrika wrote the lyrics, contributed the hookline, and sang.

Ulrika Segerberg (b. 1976, Sweden) is a Berlin-based artist working with painting, sculpture,
video, performance, and music. Drawing from mythology, folklore, and pop culture, her
installations combine materials such as ceramics, textiles, sound, and text, moving between
figuration and abstraction. Her work has been shown at Västerås Konstmuseum, Deutscher
Künstlerbund, LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Dorich House Museum, and others. She is represented in collections including the Swedish Arts Council and Malmö Konstmuseum.

CV Ulrika Segerberg (Download PDF)

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Concert, 2024, Graphit/Papier, 28 x 42 cm.

And Beyond the Infinite – 30.5.–21.6.2025

Welcome to the opening on Fri, May 30, 2025 at 7pm

Exhibition: 30.05.–21.06.2025
Open on Kolononie Wedding weekend: Sun.: 01.06.2025 from 2–6 pm
opening hours: Wed-Sat 3-7 pm

.. AND BEYOND THE INFINITE is a collaboration between the Mannheim gallery Strümpfe and the German-Finnish art space Toolbox.
Twelve artists from Berlin, Heidelberg and Mannheim, whose works are presented both in the Toolbox and in the art.endart project space, form the basis for the first part of this collaboration, in the course of which artists from the Toolbox will then be guests at the Strümpfe Gallery in Mannheim in September.
The title of the exhibition encompasses both the uniqueness of the individual positions – caricature-like representationalism meets abstract finesse – as well as the interdisciplinary abundance (painting, drawing, plasticine, photography, object and video) of the exhibits themselves.

Participating artists:
Patrick Huber (B), Mitsuko Hoshino (Hd), Inessa Siebert (Hd), Jutta Steudle (Ma), Line Wasner (B), Annalena Winkler( Ma), Eric Carstensen (Ma), Jürgen Eisenacher( B), Alexander Horn (Ma), Henrik Jacob (B), Heiko Sievers (B) and Fritz Stier (Ma).

Artwork: Analena Winkler: Concert, 2024, Graphit/Papier, 28 x 42 cm.


German

Willkommen zur Eröffnung am Fr, 30. Mai 2025 um 19 Uhr
Ausstellung: 30.05.-21.06.2025

Geöffnet am Kolononie Wedding Wochenende: So.: 01.06.2025 von 14-18 Uhr
Öffnungszeiten: Mi-Sa 15-19 Uhr

.. AND BEYOND THE INFINITE ist eine Kollaboration der Mannheimer Galerie Strümpfe und dem deutsch-finnischen Projektraum Toolbox.
Zwölf Künstlerinnen aus Berlin, Heidelberg und Mannheim, deren Arbeiten sowohl in der Toolbox als auch im Projektraum art.endart präsentiert werden, bilden die Basis für den ersten Teil dieser Zusammenarbeit, in deren Folge Künstlerinnen der Toolbox dann im September in der Galerie Strümpfe in Mannheim zu Gast sein werden.
Der Titel der Ausstellung umschließt sowohl die Einzigartigkeit der einzelnen Positionen – karikaturhafte Gegenständlichkeit trifft abstrahierende Finesse – als auch die spartenübergreifende Fülle (Malerei, Zeichnung, Knetbild, Fotografie, Objekt und Video) der Exponate selbst.

Teilnehmende Künstlerinne und Künstler:
Patrick Huber (B), Mitsuko Hoshino (Hd), Inessa Siebert (Hd), Jutta Steudle (Ma), Line Wasner (B), Annalena Winkler( Ma), Eric Carstensen (Ma), Jürgen Eisenacher( B), Alexander Horn (Ma), Henrik Jacob (B), Heiko Sievers (B) und Fritz Stier (Ma).

Artwork: Analena Winkler: Concert, 2024, Graphit/Papier, 28 x 42 cm.

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Periphery | 25.4.-24.5.2025

Alexei Gordin – Anna Emilia Järvingn – Jussi Kekkonen – Jussi Pyky

Opening: Fri, 25.04.2025, 7 pm
Open on Kolononie Wedding weekend: Sun.: 27.04.2025 from 2–6 pm
25.4.-24.5.2025
opening hours: Wed-Sat 3-7 pm

Drawings and paintings
From Europe’s outskirts,
From the fringes of culture,
And from the edges of the mind.

The exhibiting artists are Alexei Gordin (EST), Anna Emilia Järvinen (FI), Jussi Kekkonen (FI) and Jussi Pyky (FI).
The exhibition has been supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

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Sampsa Indren skull

Dogs Barking Sirens Howling 28.3.–19.4.2025

Markus Willeke & Sampsa Indrén

Exhibition 28.3–19.04.2025

Opening hours: Wed– Sat 3–7pm

Open on Kolononie Wedding weekend: Sun.: 30.03.2025 from 2–6 pm

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Toolbox

Motifs récurrents

Welcome to the opening of the on Fri 29 November 2024 at 19:00–22:00

Opening hours on Kolonie Wedding weekend:
Sat: 30.11.2024: 15:00–18:00
Sun 01.12.2024: 14:00–18:00

Exhibition running until 4 January 2025
Opening hours from 2.–14.12.2024 by arrangement
e-mail: mail@galerietoolbox.com

Finissage: 4 January 2025 (13:00–18:00)
At at 15:30 there will be a performance by Frans von Tartwijk with Guda Koster


Galerie Toolbox presents ‘Motifs récurrents’, a groupshow with works by Amsterdam-based artists Frans van Tartwijk (NL), Jean-Philippe Paumier (Fr) and Jean-Philippe Rousset (Fr). The show will run from friday november 29th until saturday january 4th. The opening will take place on november 29th.

The exhibition consists of a three-way conversation between drawings, paintings and installations. Displayed in the gallery space, they reveal mutual influences, references and correspondances between the artworks. Each in their own way the artists explore differents aspects of reality and incorporate these into their works.

‘Motifs récurrents’ does not intend to draw any conclusion, but offers a common ground for formal shared interests on which each artist develops his own visual grammar and aesthetic statement.

Frans van Tartwijk (NL, 1963) is a dutch painter and performance artist. His work has been exhibited in many galleries and art spaces in the Netherlands and abroad. He recently took part in a residency in Chengdu (China), together with Guda Koster.

Jean-Philippe Rousset (Fr, 1973) graduated at the Art Academy of Clermont-Ferrand. His lives and works in Amsterdam. Since 2018 he forms an artistduo with Jean-Philippe Paumier (JP&JP) and exhibits regularly in and around Amsterdam.

Jean-Philippe Paumier (Fr, 1980) mostly creates sculptures and installations based on the principles of ‘ready-made’ and ‘objet trouvé’. His work has been showed in several artspaces, art fairs and galleries in the Netherlands and abroad.

www.fransvantartwijk.nl
www.paumier.weebly.com

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13359 Berlin-Wedding
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Piet_Zwaanswijk

Autumn walk – Dutch artists visiting Berlin Wedding 25.10.–24.11.2024

In dialogue with Berlin artists

Cordial invitation to the guest exhibition with Dutch artists at
InteriorDAsein and Toolbox. As part of the project space association
Kolonie Wedding.  In collaboration with Kunstruimte 411, Haarlem,
Netherlands. Curated by Hans Kuiper and Archi Galentz.

With works by Marius van Zandwijk (painting), Aquil Copier (painting), Piet Zwaanswijk (collage/print), Jessica Assmann-Zwaanswijk (painting), Sina Khani (painting), Ilja Warmerdam (painting), MC de Waal (photography), Antonio Rego (digital drawing prints), Gerard Veldman (painting), Daan van Houten (drawing/woodcut), Rene Bosch (photography/painting), Tarik Sadouma (AI print) and Hans Kuiper (drawing/painting).

In dialog with Berlin artists: Gisa Hausmann, Jelisaweta Klutschewskaja, Edwin Dickman, Klaus Jürgeit, Jovan Balov, Thomas J.Richter, Cristina Artola, Svenja Schüffler, Markus Schaller, Gagik Kurginian, Julia Katan, Patrick Huber, Julia Kissina and others.

Opening on Friday, October 25 from 7 pm in InteriorDAsein, hosted by
Archi Galentz and simultaneously in ToolBox, hosted by Hans Kuiper.

Opening hours on Saturday and Sunday, October 26 and 27 from 4 to 7 pm.
After the colony weekend by appointment.

Finissage on November 24 from 4 to 7 pm in ToolBox and from 7 to 10 pm
in InteriorDAsein.

Addresses:
InteriorDAsein, Steegerstraße 2, 13359 Berlin
ToolBox, Koloniestraße 120, 13359 Berlin
Transportation from InteriorDAsein to Toolbox: 3 stops by bus 255 or 18 minutes on foot.

Storage plan of Kolonie Wedding and list of further exhibitions of the
project space association: https://koloniewedding.de/

Artwork by Piet Zwaanswijk


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Victory over Nature and Man – 27.9.-19.10.2024

Drawings by Jussi Pyky

Toolbox Kabinett: Carola Ernst

You are very welcome to our opening on Fri 27.9.2024, 7 pm

27.9.–19.10.2024, Toolbox opening hours: Wed–Sat 3–7 pm

Toolbox is open on the Kolonie Wedding weekend only on Sunday, 29.9.2024 from 2–6pm

For German, please scroll down


Jussi Pyky

It gave him fire.
He cooked the meat and ate.
He heated the ore to separate the iron.
He forged a sword, an axe, a plow and a scythe.
He built a shelter for the cattle and harnessed his horse to pull the plow.
He took over the land, cleared the forests, sowed the field and reaped the harvest.
It gave him simple machines.
He dug his way into the ground.
He built great machines that spewed the contents of the earth into the sky.
It gave him electricity.
He built engines and robots to do jobs that humans would have needed.
It gave him radio waves.
He developed the radio and used it to spread his propaganda.
It gave him artificial intelligence.
He amassed vast material to control, rule and maximize his profits.
It gave him power.
He had blind faith in his vision and infallibility.
He considered all the misery and suffering he caused to be necessary.
That’s the price of progress.

Jussi Pyky (born in Tyrnävä, Finland 1985 ) lives and works in Helsinki. He graduated from the
Lahti Institute of Fine Arts in 2009 and from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Pyky has presented his works in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad. His work is found in Seppo Fränti Collection in Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and private collections.
Download CV Jussi Pyky (PDF)

The exhibition has been supported by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation and the Finnish Art
Promotion Center.

Artwork: Jussi Pyky Worldview, 2024, charcoal and ink on paper, 195 x 150 cm


Carola Ernst – Wirkung [Effect]

Solar, 2021
indian ink, watercolor – wax pastell, oil pastel chalk, acrylic, graphite on canvas
136 x 121 cm (artist framed)

Conundrum images, tilt figures, hidden object images, forms of multi-stable perception,
and multi-perspective are well-known forms of expression in art.
I am engaged in the exploration of new perceptual strategies in painting and drawing. On a
scientific level, my work is influenced by the theories of advanced psychophysics and the
findings of neuroscience on processes of perception and consciousness. The limits of
perception with the question of reality, fantasy, and imagination are essential components.
The experience of different levels of reality in the visual arts, as they can be experienced,
for example, in shifts of consciousness in dreams or intoxication, as well as the
intensification of impressions through provoked emotions or intrusive memories, are here
the core of my artistic work.

Download CV Carola Ernst (PDF)


Deutsch:

Herzliche Einladung zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung am Freitag, 27.9.2024, ab 19 Uhr

Am Koloniewochenende ist die Toolbox nur am Sonntag, 29.9.2024 von 14–18 Uhr geöffnet.

Victory over Nature and Man [Sieg über Natur und Mensch]

Es gab ihm Feuer.
Er kochte das Fleisch und aß.
Er erhitzte das Erz, um das Eisen zu trennen.
Er schmiedete ein Schwert, eine Axt, einen Pflug und eine Sense.
Er baute einen Unterstand für das Vieh und schirrte sein Pferd an, um den Pflug zu ziehen.
Er eroberte das Land, rodete die Wälder, säte den Acker und erntete die Früchte.
Es gab ihm einfache Maschinen.
Er grub sich in den Boden.
Er baute große Maschinen, die den Inhalt der Erde in den Himmel schleuderten.
Sie schenkte ihm Elektrizität.
Er baute Motoren und Roboter, um Arbeiten zu erledigen, die Menschen gebraucht hätten.
Er schenkte ihm Radiowellen.
Er entwickelte das Radio und nutzte es, um seine Propaganda zu verbreiten.
Sie schenkte ihm künstliche Intelligenz.
Er häufte riesige Mengen an Material an, um zu kontrollieren, zu herrschen und seine Gewinne zu maximieren.
Das gab ihm Macht.
Er hatte blindes Vertrauen in seine Vision und Unfehlbarkeit.
Er hielt all das Elend und Leid, das er verursachte, für notwendig.
Das ist der Preis des Fortschritts.

Jussi Pyky (geboren 1985 in Tyrnävä, Finnland) lebt und arbeitet in Helsinki. Er schloss sein Studium am Lahti Institute of Fine Arts im Jahr 2009 und an der Finnischen Akademie der Schönen Künste im Jahr 2016 ab. Pyky hat seine Werke in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen in Finnland und im Ausland präsentiert. Seine Arbeiten befinden sich in der Sammlung Seppo Fränti im Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst Kiasma und in privaten Sammlungen.

Download CV Jussi Pyky (PDF)


Carola Ernst – Wirkung

Vexierbilder, Kippfiguren, Wimmelbilder, Formen der multistabilen Wahrnehmung und
Multiperspektive sind in der Kunst bekannte Ausdrucksformen.

Ich beschaftige mich mit der Erforschung neuer Wahrnehmungsstrategien in der Malerei
und Zeichnung. Auf wissenschaftlicher Ebene wird meine Arbeit von Theorien der
weiterfuhrenden Psychophysik und Erkenntnissen der Neurowissenschaften uber
Wahrnehmungs- und Bewusstseinsprozesse beeinflusst. Die Grenzen der Wahrnehmung
mit der Frage von Wirklichkeit, Fantasie und Imagination sind wesentliche Bestandteile.
Das Erleben verschiedener Realitatsebenen in der Bildenden Kunst, wie sie z. B. auch bei
Bewusstseinsverschiebungen im Traum oder Rauschzustand erfahren werden konnen,
sowie die Intensivierung von Eindrucken durch provozierte Emotionen oder intrusive
Erinnerungen bilden den Kern meiner kunstlerischen Arbeit.


Toolbox opening hours: Wed–Sat 3–7 pm

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13359 Berlin-Wedding
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Wales

Unearthing: Dadorchuddio 30.6.–20.7.2024

Artists from Wales and Berlin at Toolbox Finnish-German Art Space Berlin

Opening: 28.6.2024, 7pm

Exhibition 30.6.–20.7.2024

Artists:

Wales: Marja Bonada, Katie Cyfenw, Penny Hallas

Berlin: Susanne Ring

Opening hours: Wed–Sat 3–7 pm

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Yö Galerie Helsinki

Yö in Berlin 1.-22.6.2024

You are warmly welcome to our opening of Yö in BERLIN on Friday, 31 May 2024, 6–10pm.

address:
Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX, Koloniestraße 120,
13359 Berlin-Wedding, U-Bahn Osloerstraße

Yö ry Artists’ Association is an advocacy organization for professional artists from various
fields, primarily operating in Helsinki. YÖ in BERLIN is a group exhibition organized by Yö
ry, featuring works by its member artists. Yö has over 300 member artists and a gallery in
Helsinki on Lönnrotinkatu. The space is free for all exhibiting artists, not just members of the
association. At the core of Yö is its members’ desire to act. Yö ry is not merely an artist-run
gallery but a coalition of proactive and enthusiastic professionals from various fields. Yö is a
movement and community, whose large membership enables even the most ambitious initia-
tives to be realized.

YÖ IN BERLIN is the first exhibition exchange between Yö ry and Galerie Toolbox. The exhi-
bition is curated by Toolbox’s founding members together with Yö ry members Mia Makela
and Henriikka Pöllänen.

Yö’s exhibition at Galerie Toolbox includes video art, visual art, and a portfolio showcase,
where you can browse the works of Yö’s member artists on a screen. The video works and
portfolios were selected through an open call.

All the videos have been produced during 2020´s. The video works have been curated into 3
different screening programs. Remnants of the Wild presents videos exploring our partner-
ships to non-human world from Earth Forces, Mia Makela and Lau Rämö. Tapestry of Time
contains video works unraveling the echoes of past in the present time from Johanna Väisä-
nen, Hanna Råst, Joonas Jokiranta and Airbakers (Toivola & Wager).
Close Encounters presents a collection of videos focused on exploring intimacy through per-
formance art from Juhani Koivumäki, Kainulainen&Latva, Mari Hokkanen, Eoin O`Dowd,
To Kosie, Henttu&Nummi&Kin and Ginko Hsu.

The paintings and sculptures in the exhibition bring forth the diversity of materials. Isabel
Pathirane’s paintings are bound together by the strong use of color and expressiveness. Tuo-
mas Holst blurs the lines between painting and sculpture with works that are made from re-
cycled materials. Krista Blomqvist’s series “Creatures of the Night” consists of paintings on
copper, which evolve over time as the copper itself changes. The glass sculptures of Henriik-
ka Pöllänen and Kimmo Reinikka bring out different dimensions of glass as material.

Curatorial team consisted of Toolbox founding members Maija Helasvuo and Niina Räty in
collaboration with Yö Association board members Mia Mäkelä and Henriikka Pöllänen.

Opening program includes a performance from Tapani Pirog and an opening talk by Yö cura-
torial team. Some of the artists will be present. Artist meetings on Saturday 1. 6 from 16 until
20 at the gallery.

Tapani Pirog is a Helsinki-based ultramodernist and post-expressionist.

https://www.instagram.com/aetherblau/

www.pirog.fi

More information on the schedule will be available later on Yö’s and Toolbox’s websites.

https://www.yory.fi/fi/etusivu

Artwork: Johanna Väisänen


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13359 Berlin-Wedding
U-Bahn Osloerstraße

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On Bank holidays Toolbox is closed