Korjaamo Gallery
Korjaamo Gallery has three gallery spaces. The Gallery, Korjaamo’s biggest exhibition space, is in the Korjaamo Hall building. Studio gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the Vaunuhalli building, and the Café space Vaunusali on the ground floor of Vaunuhalli functions as a third exhibition space.
Korjaamo Gallery is Finland’s largest independent gallery — both in space and in content. Korjaamo Gallery showcases both established and emerging international contemporary art. Exhibitions change monthly.
Opening hours
Open every day from 11-17, Studio Mon–Fri 11–18, Sat–Sun 11–17.
Admission: free
For more information: Jaana Kalliomäki, Exhibition coordinator
jaana.kalliomaki[at]korjaamo.fi
KATJA TUKIAINEN
Is an acclaimed artist whose works have been exhibited in Finland and around the world. Tukiainen has participated in artist-in-residence programs in Italy, New York and Japan.
Katja Tukiainen’s works combine innocence with seduction. In her fairy tale world everything is fine when something is a bit amiss. In October of 2009 Tukiainen will create the exhibition ’Playground’ in the Korjaamo Gallery. Part of the works will be painted directly on the gallery walls. ’Painting is as if stepping into a secret garden, an absurd pleasure’ Tukiainen says.
The exhibition ’Playground’ is part of Katja Tukiainen’s Doctorate in Fine Arts for the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.
Curriculum Vitae
WORKS
www.katjat.net
RIIKO SAKKINEN
(born 1976 in Helsinki) graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2002. He lives and works in the small village of Cervera de los Montes in Toledo, Spain.
Sakkinen’s A4-sized drawings are exhibited as installations on coloured walls. He also creates paintings, objects, videos, texts and creates concepts. Artistic acts and interventions are also part of his work.
Sakkinen’s works have been exhibited in various solo shows in Europe and United States since 1996. His works have also been part of group exhibitions around the world, for example in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki.
Sakkinen’s solo exhibition ‘Kosmostars’ was on view at Korjaamo Gallery in spring 2009. He also curated the group exhibition ‘Trickle-down-theory’ in collaboration with Judas Arrieta and Aura Seikkula, exhibiting the work of nearly 90 artists.
Statement:
REFRESHING MOLOTOV COCKTAILS
I make art out of everyday life, including special offers and car bombs, exotic cocktails and Molotov cocktails, cleaning the house and ethnic cleansing, fast food and Blitzkrieg.
I find my materials in the TV news (demonstration banners demanding more freedom), flyers put under windscreen wipers (earn money without a job), advertisements in newspapers (blow job without a condom), and breakfast cereal boxes (chocolate super hero eats his children).
I do drawings, but cannot draw. I do paintings, but cannot paint. I do other things, too, but cannot do that either. It is a tragedy, but tragedies are appreciated in Arts.
I always disagree. I am always wrong.
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TIINA MIELONEN
(born 1974) is an artist residing in Helsinki, whose works have been exhibited in Finland and rest of Europe. Mielonen uses oil colours with alkyd thinner on plexiglass. Due to the smoothness of the plexiglass, colours and brushstrokes appear in their most intensive state. In the paintings, the interchange of abstract surfaces and utmost precision create the illusion of floating coloursurfaces.
For some time, Mielonen has been interested in contemporary landscape imagery, especially in the form of unusual postcards and landscapes in various everyday objects. The postcards can show their subjects in a surprising new light. Postcards have been made into mobile popular catalogue, in which similarities can be found around the world. Occasionally different sceneries come face to face in strange places: a picture of the Swiss Alps can be found in a small cafeteria in the middle of the Mongolian steppe.
Tiina Mielonen’s exhibition ’insight’ was on view in the Korjaamo Galley in May 2009.
Ville Lenkkeri
(born 1972) is a Finnish photographer permanently residing in Sweden. His new series Civil Courage is a collection of portraits of people who are going through something significant in their lives. These events can seem small in character and sometimes amusing, but they are always significant. Lenkkeri’s photographs show the nuances of life: small-scale events can provide ingredients for a great drama.
Civil Courage-series also comments on the possibilities of portraying truth and reality through the medium of photography. People are presented in the photographs as if playing themselves, but according to Lenkkeri, this is typical to photography. ’A photograph does not capture the reality, but the staged characteristics of it’.
Civil Courage is the second solo exhibition of Lenkkeri at the Korjaamo Gallery. Ville Lenkkeri - photographs from the series Civil Courage 18.9.-11.10.
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