Past events
Art-mediation “Black or White” with Alena Tereshko
Wounds
Yö Galleria 26.7.-18.8.
Henrik Jacob, Germany
Ilkka Sariola, Finland
Said Baalbaki, Germany
Jussi Pyky, Finland
Juha Sääski, Finland
Sahar Vandy, Iran
Farhad Gavzan, Iran
Minoo Kiani, Iran
Peter Hock, Germany
Nadja Schöllhammer, Germany
Vulnerability
The title of the group exhibition, ‘Wounds’, fit into the larger discourse of vulnerability, which today is perhaps of greater significance than ever before in the modern Western world, given the wars in Ukraine and Israel and the experiences of the Corona pandemic.
Finding oneself vulnerable, the awareness of the possibility of suffering, is always a topos characterised by great ambivalence, in some ways it is even paradoxical.
On the one hand, there is the phenomenon of the strange disproportionality of actual personal safety: the relation between how many people in a society actually become victims of violent assaults on the one hand and the personal sense of safety on the other, which is widespread in the Western world, here, with regard to the participating artists in Northern and Central Europe, Finland and Berlin in particular: the safer people are, the greater the perceived insecurity – vulnerability – seems to become.
Furthermore, vulnerability is a topos in art, being an artist is associated with a special vulnerability, namely as a special openness that also entails the willingness to be hurt. Openness, not least towards one’s own feelings, allowing and recognising pain is supposed to be a prerequisite for creating art.
In recent decades, society has more and more become aware of real wounds, whether physical or psychological, traumatisation through psychological and sexual abuse have become an issue, and have been picked up as a topic in art. Here, too, an ambiguity can be observed: physical and psychological, personal and group-specific, social traumas are not only depicted in art, but artistic paths can also contribute to their healing, art can convey hope and optimism.
In the special situation today, as noted above, after the corona pandemic, uncertainty has increased, the belief in the omnipotence of medicine, that wounds, diseases, can be healed, has faltered. Finland in particular has experienced an acute threat from the Ukraine war in Northern Europe, and the peace between Russia and Finland has become a precarious one.
Text: Anna E. Wilkens
Näyttely- ja tapahtumahaku Yö Galleriaan touko-joulukuulle 2025 sekä tammi-helmikuulle 2026.
Ilari Vanhatalo - SACRED LOVE
7/6-16/6 2024 @ YÖ Galleria
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kuudes kuudetta kuudelta
Maalauksia rakkaudesta.
Ilari Vanhatalo (s.1978) on helsinkiläinen outsider taidemaalari.
YÖ in BERLIN
1.6.-22.6.2024
Opening 31.5 6 PM - 10 PM
Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX
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 initiatives to be realized.
YÖ IN BERLIN is the first exhibition exchange between Yö ry and Galerie Toolbox. The exhibition 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 partnerships 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 Väisänen, Hanna Råst, Joonas Jokiranta and Airbakers (Toivola & Wager).
Close Encounters presents a collection of videos focused on exploring intimacy through performance art from Juhani Koivumäki, Kainulainen&Latva, Mari Hokkanen, Eoin O`Dowd,
To Kosie, Henttu&Nummi&Kin and Ginko Shu.
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. Tuomas Holst blurs the lines between painting and sculpture with works that are made from recycled 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 Henriikka 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 curatorial team.
Address:
Koloniestraße 120
13359 Berlin Wedding
we-sat 3-7 pm
U Bahn Osloerstraße
More information on the schedule will be available later on Yö's and Toolbox's websites.
https://www.yory.fi/fi/etusivu
https://www.galerietoolbox.com/