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Hamlet Osmo Rauhala Comics Guide visual art design

Vantage Point + Summer for Contemporary Art Programme Museum of Contemporary Art

Kiasma Is a JANI TOOM; FNG / CAA / PIRJE MYKKÄNEN, PETRI SUMMANEN, TERO SUVILAMMI, PETRI VIRTANEN Vantage Point

Kiasma is an oasis of contemporary art and visual culture in the heart of . Surrounded by the bustle of urban life and flanked by the Postitalo, Parliament and Lasipalatsi buildings and the , the shimmering aluminium-clad art museum has in a short time earned kiasma its place at the summit of the most talked-about cultural life in .

2 Kiasma Kiasma 3 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art 1. LAURI SINIKOSKI ERIKSSON 2. AKI-PEKKA PETRI 3. JUHA SAARINEN 4. FNG / CAA VIRTANEN 7. PIRJE MYKKÄNEN 5. JANNE HEINONEN 6. FNG / CAA

AS A MUSEUM OF contemporary and street dust. The next thing Minna Koivurinta, Riitta Lindegren, Teppo Rantanen The most impressive is the tall, art, Kiasma is the place where to go that comes to mind is the narrow Partner, Advertising Freelance Journalist, CEO, asymmetric main gallery on the top to see the very latest in art. While resource framework of museums Agency Satumaa Writer Deloitte floor, which must be also one of the showcasing Finnish and international today, which means that Kiasma too most challenging for exhibitions. art in its exhibitions, Kiasma also is associated with many unfulfilled 3. The café. 1. Kiasma is of course the only 1. Courage, creativity, good partner- augments its extensive art collec- expectations. 4. Yes, I go there almost every time museum of contemporary art in ship, future. Rakel Liekki, tions as required by its duties as a I come to Helsinki. Finland, it is internationally known 2. The Deloitte opening at ARS11, Artist, museum. Kiasma is a vantage point and recognised. It is also one of the where President Journalist where you can enjoy both art and Anna Eriksson most famous buildings in Helsinki, reminisced affectionately about the unique atmosphere created by Singer-songwriter Päivi Lipponen an example of the ‘WOW’ architec- his time in Africa. 3. My favourite place in Kiasma is Steven Holl’s architecture. Member of Parliament ture of its time. the ramp that leads up from the 1. The crossing of chromosomes. 2. Difficult to say- I have partici- ground floor in the lobby. Walking PEOPLE FROM the cultural elite in It’s a clever and interesting name. 2. I very much liked the exhibition pated in so many events in Kiasma. Pilvi Kalhama, the ramp always relaxes me, Finland answered question from the It also reminds me of ‘narcissistic where you could smell different Fine exhibitions are of course the Director (–1 June), because I know that for the next Kiasma Magazine. The answers can architecture’. scents. It was a totally new dimen- most important thing in a museum. EMMA – Espoo few moments I will be able to just be read in full at www.kiasma.fi 2. The Kalervo Palsa exhibition, sion. Some of the smells were good, Two extremes come to mind: Museum of Modern Art look and breathe in peace. Walking absolutely. Some of Palsa’s oppres- others were so industrial. I also Kalervo Palsa and Julian Schnabel. up the ramp, the mood is expectant, sive works touch a nerve deep in thought the Russian kommunalka 1. Especially in the early days, I because I don’t yet know what I’m Kaarina Gould me. I appreciate the ‘unfiltered’ toilet was great. Standing at the remember I associated it with the going to see and feel next. Programme Director, quality of his art. It’s rare these days. door, you got a real feeling of what Paavo Arhinmäki, word ‘sketch’. ‘Sketch’ has an affinity 4. I am, certainly. I visit Kiasma quite World Design 3. My favourite place is exhibition it was like to live in a communal Minister of Culture with work in progress – an idea. often, but not always to see an Capital Helsinki 2012 room Kontti. It’s a surprising space. apartment, with just one toilet. and Sports I think it’s a good description of exhibition or a performance. I often

It is a place which allows works 3. The top floor is fabulous. It allows - Kiasma’s active stance and con- have meetings in the Café Kiasma, 8. - 1. Today my first association is to to be approached from different really big works to be displayed. 9. V.V.ELOMAA 2. In the early 2000s, the atmos- tinuous search for new directions and I buy presents for my friends in the actual building and the scene angles. And the view is magnificent. You phere at the graffiti happening in contemporary art. the Kiasma Store. It’s very seldom outside the entrance – the noise 4. No, I’m not. But in the winter can also look in from Mannerheimin- in front of Kiasma was great. 3. The flow of space and the that two weeks go by without me of traffic and the rhythmic sounds I love to spend time in museums, tie and always see something 4. I go to Kiasma quite often, both expectant mood of the visitors can popping into Kiasma for some of the skateboards, spring sun and of course in Kiasma too. interesting there. in summer and in winter. best be observed from the ramp. reason.

QUESTIONS 1. What does the word Kiasma bring to your mind? 2. Your best memory of Kiasma? 3. Do you have a favourite place in Kiasma? 4. Are you planning to visit Kiasma this summer?

FNG / CAA / OONA KORIALA,FNG / CAA ELLA PIRJE MYKKÄNEN, TOMMILA, PETRI VIRTANEN Point of View Kiasma Magazine 51

content 2 Kiasma Is a Vantage Point Enjoy 6 Shared Joy Your Summer 8 Kiasma in Brief: News, Events, ”No one has an exclusive right at Kiasma. Programme... to culture, it is something people 12 Upcoming do together ” 14 Visual Art and Design in Disguise 20 Summer Job at URB Festival 22 Comics Going Beyond Paper 25 Guide to Comics 27 Column Shared Joy 28 What Is a Document? 29 Kiasma Calendar

KIASMA’S MAIN EVENT in summer 2012 is THIS YEAR many innovative events are the Camouflage- Visual Art and Design in being organised under the logo of World Disguise exhibition. It continues the theme Design Capital Helsinki 2012. The theme 2 8 of this year’s programme in which visual year highlights the importance of design as art interacts with other artistic disciplines: a natural part of an improved everyday life music, comics, and now design. In today’s and a livelier urban culture. These elements world, different forms of cultural expression can also be found in many of the works are increasingly affecting each other. featured in the Camouflage exhibition in 12 14 Boundaries are being dissolved by new Kiasma: things that are familiar, but that hybrids, encouraging us to appreciate are made and seen differently. Kiasma’s different skills and art forms. summer guests include a crocheted police car, a Russian souvenir kiosk, and a children’s A SIMILAR SYNERGY arises when cultural climbing frame made of glass, all 100% 20 22 actors from different fields join forces. contemporary art. New insights such as This will increasingly be a survival model these bring joy to our life – that, too, is for many actors organising cultural and allowed in art. art events in the future. No one has an exclusive right to culture, it is something Pirkko Siitari, Museum Director WRITERS IN THIS ISSUE | Eija Aarnio, Curator | Leevi Haapala, Curator | Saara people do together and with audiences. Hacklin, Curator | Sanna Hirvonen, Curator of Education | Ville Hänninen, Journalist, Curator | Elina Izarra Ollikainen, Director | Piia Laita, Communications SIITARI: FNG /CAA / PIRJE MYKKÄNEN, KIASMA: FNG / CAA / YEHIA EWEIS Manager | Satu Metsola, Curator | Päivi Oja, Subeditor | Nora Sternfeld, Professor | Pirkko Siitari, Museum Director | COMIC | Lissu Lehtimaja

KIASMA MAGAZINE | ISSN-L 1456-9124 . ISSN 1456-9124 . ISSN 2242-6604 (online) | Publisher Museum of Contemporary Art | Address Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mannerheiminaukio 2, 00100 Helsinki, Finland | www.kiasma.fi | e-mail [email protected] | Tel. +358 (0)9 173 361 | Fax +358 (0)9 1733 6503 | Editor in Chief Communications Manager Piia Laita +358 (0)9 1733 6507 | Subeditor Press Officer Päivi Oja +358 (0)9 1733 6534 | Web Network Media Manager Janne Heinonen | Lay out Graphic Designer Timo Vartiainen | Digital Imaging / Central Art Archives / Pirje Mykkänen | Translations Mats Forsskåhl, Tomi Snellman | Printed at F.G. Lönnberg | The schedules of exhibitions and events are subject to change.

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Life Continues Wine from Under in Facebook the Southern Sun

A YOUNG LEBANESE MAN commits THE NEW KIASMA HOUSE WINES suicide. In his farewell letter, he says throw the spotlight on small batches that his death is a purely personal and organic production. act and should not be used for The Kiasma Cava sparkling wine political purposes. But is personal comes from the Masia Can Tutusaus always political as well? winery in the heart of the Garraf 33 Rounds and a Few Seconds Massif. The grapes are harvested (33 tours et quelques seconds) from Xarello vines that are almost invites us to follow the final days 80 years old. of the young man. Instead of actors, The Kiasma White is a white Interesting Architecture the story is told by a room, recon- wine from Italy, the Illasi valley near structed on stage by Rabih Mroué Verona. Its grape is Garganega. THE HELSINKI MUSIC CENTRE both buildings while casting a look and Lina Saneh, in which the young Kiasma Red comes from the opened not long ago, and Kiasma at current plans for the Töölönlahti man’s television, mobile phone, Antica Enotria winery in Puglia. shows its best side in the summer. area. For international guests, the computer and Facebook page “Because Puglia is still an unknown Following an expert guide from tour can also be booked in English, continue his life even after death. area for a great many wine lovers, Kiasma to the music centre, this Italian, Swedish and Russian. The Beirut-based duo Mroué it is the perfect region for making bookable walking tour highlights and Saneh work as writers, directors great finds. Antica Enotria proves Ready Made the special architectural features of and actors. They are known around this by titillating the palate in a the world for their works which big way but without emptying your Presents brilliantly address social problems wallet,” the importer’s represen- and the political situation in the tative Toni Immanen asserts NEW KIASMA MERCHANDISE Near East. proudly. is now available at the Kiasma How Much Water Do You Eat? 33 Rounds and a Few Seconds The Kiasma house wines can be Store and the Kiasma online in Kiasma Theatre from Thursday, enjoyed in Café Kiasma, especially Shop. The range includes many WONDERWATER CAFÉ will set itself it disseminates 23 August 2012. Part of the Stage – in its outdoor area in the summer. useful, pleasant, funny and up in the outdoor terrace of Café information Helsinki Theatre Festival produced The wines can also be ordered from absolutely necessary products. Kiasma. The restaurant uses design about global and by the Korjaamo Theatre. Alko. They are imported to Finland The product line is called to campaign for clean water. The local water issues. by Viinitie Oy. May Contain Contemporary Art. pilot project Wonderwater Café Wonderwater Café is part of The terms are small language operated in China during the the Helsinki Design Week and lesson in Finnish - selected from Beijing Design Week in 2011. part of the WDC Helsinki 2012 Kiasma in the vocabulary of art. Wonderwater Café tells about programme. INTRODUCING a whole new The colour palette of the the water footprint of food – how way to experience theatre! Your Mobile products is bright and fresh, much water is used to produce Enjoy a show in the company of designed for Kiasma by graphic food. The menu lists the water Kiasma Blog a performing arts professional. THE HISTORY, architecture and designer Timo Vartiainen. Small, footprint of every dish in litres. Contact [email protected] for secret details of Kiasma are now handy and practical items come The water footprint calculations and IS KIASMA international? Is it further info. available in a dedicated free app in an entertaining format and the visual identity of the Wonder- alright to advertise art? Guggen- for your mobile phone. Released the products are a perfect way water Café were both developed heim Helsinki? In the Kiasma blog for Nokia N9 and Symbian, the to pamper yourself or to give

Kiasma / PIRJE MYKKÄNEN FNG / CAA in collaboration with the Aalto art professionals write about art Escort application also features informa- as presents to friends. University. and museums both in Finland and Service! tion about exhibitions and a map of The small bag in red, blue or black, is As a concept, however, Wonder- abroad. www.kiasma.fi the museum. The app can be down- perfect for carrying Kiasma merchandise, water is much more than just a café: loaded from Nokia Ovi Store. but is also just the right size to give your iPad a disguise.

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New Work A Dizzy for the Kiasma New Take on Forget the Landscape Collections Shakespeare Keyboard

FOREBODING DESTRUCTION, GIANTS OF DRAMATIC literature UNPLUG YOURSELF from the daily the vision of man at the mercy of feature large in the programme of grind with creative play and a relaxed the forces of nature is executed the Kiasma Theatre in 2012. The attitude towards contemporary art. Kiasma is... in vibrant, delectable colours and year began with Pilvi Porkola’s The workshop begins with a visit to broad brushstrokes. Maiju Salmen- Chekhov Concept, and the next the exhibition and continues with THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART kivi’s painting presents a dizzy and visitor is Shakespeare in September, two hours of hands-on work at the was founded in 1991; the building was completed in 1998. Kiasma was designed riveting landscape scene. Its inner when director Markus Sunblom’s Kiasma workshop using surprising by Steven Holl (USA), the winner of the tension arises from a mood of Neo-Hamlet receives its premier. materials and techniques. A great architectural competition. Kiasma has five simultaneous beauty and disaster. Neo-Hamlet is a projected video way of getting energy for new floors. Total floor space is 12,000 m², of which the galleries account for 9,100 m². The carefully observed human work which moves in the interstices challenges. For more information, Kiasma’s collection has some 7,900 Finnish figures and separate events give an of different artistic disciplines. The contact [email protected] and foreign works of contemporary art. idea of the scale of the piece work combines the most famous The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Maiju Salmenkivi’s The Water- non-religious literary text in the is part of the Finnish National Gallery. way is one of this year’s acquisitions world with text animation, the KIASMA Chia.sm, n. chiasma. Chi.as.ma, n., to the Kiasma Collections. Maiju Salmenkivi: The Waterway, 2011 soundscape of an experimental pl. -mas, -ma.ta. 1. Genetics. an exhange of audio play and cinematic narration. segments between two of the four chroma- tids of paired chromosomes during late pro- The aim is to create a Hamlet that Book Your phase and metaphase. 2. Anat. a crossing is accessible to the contemporary______Colour Play or decussation, esp. that of the optic nerves audience. ______at the base of the brain. Chi.as.ma.typ.y, n. Rarerare and Friends at Citizens’ Square Comics Festival There are two performances ______on Genetics. the process of chiasma formation, ______for Babies which is the basis for crossing over. Cf. the opening night, one in Swedish.______in September ______crossing over. THE BUSES, METROS AND TRAMS The day will include participa- ______in Helsinki will be crammed on tory activities and surprise events. NOW______ALSO IN THE SUMMER: 24 August as over four thousand Everyone will get to experience a HELD IN THE GLASS PALACE Bassline Festival 3–11______month-old babies and their ______KIASMA IS OPEN school children with their teachers piece commissioned specifically Square, the 27th Helsinki Comics accompanying______adults can explore Tue 10 am – 5 pm head towards Kiasma and the new for this day, performed in the main Festival will also be featured in THE BASSLINE urban festival kicks the wonderful world of colours. Wed–Thu 10 am – 8.30 pm Helsinki Music Centre. Held in the concert hall of the Music Centre. Kiasma. In the Comics in Concert off the summer season in front of For workshop booking and Fri 10 am – 10 pm Music Centre and the Citizens’ Instead of listening quietly in their series, Finnish and international Kiasma on 8 June. information, visit www.kiasma.fi Sat 10 am – 6 pm Square, the event is an invitation to seats, however, the more than a comic artists will draw improvised Sun 10 am – 5 pm enjoy and experience art for second thousand strong audience will pictures to the accompaniment of Mon closed graders from the Helsinki Festival. participate in the performance with live music. Comics will be explored their self-made instruments. in depth in panel discussions and The programme also includes artist interviews. Belgium, the thebuilding of a long ‘contemporary signature country of this year’s fes- saattaa sisältää nykytaidetta EXCEPTIONS art bridge’ to join Kiasma together tival, will feature on the programme Wed 13 Jun 10 am – 5 pm FNG / CAA / ELLA FNG / CAA TOMMILA withthe Music Centre. Surprise as prestigious honorary guests and Thu 14 Jun 10 am – 5 pm programme and a gigantic picnic interesting new names. Thu 21 Jun 10 am – 5 pm are also on the day’s menu. Perhaps The Eyeballing! exhibition Johannes in Lily.fi Blog Fri 22 Jun closed the participants will even find out programme is produced jointly by Sat 23 Jun closed what or who is Rarerare. Kiasma and the Helsinki Comics WHO MIGHT KNOW what young glimpses into the wings of con-

Organised jointly by the Helsinki HAVUKAINEN&TOIVANEN Centre. women are interested in? In his blog temporary art by blogging about Programme www.kiasma.fi Festival, Helsinki City Education May Contain Contemporary Art at Kiasma, contemporary art and all Follow Kiasma also on Department, Tapiola Sinfonietta the Lily.fi blog platform, a charming the things museum workers come Facebook and Twitter. and Museum of Contemporary young man called Johannes gives across in their everyday work. Tatu and Patu Art Kiasma.

10 Kiasma Kiasma 11 Upcoming VILLE-VEIKKO HEINONEN / ALASIN MEDIA OY JONATHAN SHAW

Osmo Rauhala Confronts Toby Ziegler Ultimate Questions Alienates Objects

Is everything just chance, or is life The London-based artist Toby Ziegler governed by some structure or memory has scoured books and the Internet for which is capable of learning and of pictures of historical art objects. Such guiding us? Memory is a key component objects include a classic statue of Venus of our survival, but how can it be re- and Staffordshire pottery dogs, popular charged? Can our inability to formulate pieces of the Victorian era. a universal theory of life be due to the constraints of language? Ziegler has taken these images and used 3D modelling software to create Osmo Rauhala uses art to explore our new sculptures in which the features ability to understand the reality we live of the original have become mere in. In his paintings, Rauhala comple- references. The alienated sculpture ments animal and plant symbolism with looks strange, yet recognisable. a pure world of abstract signs, pointing to the way we conceptualise and Ziegler’s installation in Kiasma also organise the things we see. includes air freight containers. The abandoned containers introduce The nine-part series Game Theory is another kind of mass to the high space, associated with the mathematical theory scuffed aluminium, which has been of the same name. The theory was first used to transport all sorts of objects used in economics and has later also been around the world. applied to psychology and biology. Saara Hacklin The visual inspiration of the paintings is the sliding puzzle, familiar from child- Osmo Rauhala: Game Theory I, 2009 Toby Ziegler hood, with one empty square and eight 28 Sep 2012 – 13 Jan 2013 sliding pieces which have to be put in The works are on loan from correct order. Zabludowicz Collection London.

The other group of works, Book of Life, Opening in September, Osmo Rauhala’s takes as its theme the language used to show consists new paintings whose describe our genetic heritage. The four common denominator is the relation- proteins designated by the letters ATGC ship between language, image and form an enormous number of combin- nature. ations which govern the behaviour of cells. The structure of the DNA was Satu Metsola discovered already in the1950s, yet the human genome still remains a mystery. Osmo Rauhala, 28 Sep 2012 – 13 Jan 2013 Toby Ziegler: The Alienation of Objects installation at The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2011

12 Kiasma Kiasma 13 Exhibitions

Riitta Ikonen travelled around $ KIINASSA$ ON CHINA, 2003 PRODUCTIONS: HANDKERCHIEF South-West Norway together with the Norwegian photo- grapher Karoline Hjort, investi- gating whether old folk beliefs were still respected. - 2007

The artist duo Amy Cheung and Erkka Nissinen, aka Handkerchief Productions, present $, a gigantic landscape, architecture and interior decoration project carried out in China (2003–2007). They designed a China-shaped island, situated in a lake in the grounds of a private factory, and a stylised restaurant, shaped like a dollar sign, which is used for official functions. The installation in this exhibition introduces a globalisation-critical and participatory perspective into the project.

Visual Art and

RIITTA HALLVAR, IKONEN HJORTH: & KAROLINE FROM THE SERIES EYES AS BIG PLATES, 2011 Design in Disguise

Visual art and design have often crossed paths in recent years in exhibitions, trade fairs and auctions. They have also come into contact on the pages of glossy magazines on design, art, architecture and urban living, as well as in blogs and online publications. In the Camouflage exhibition, contemporary art and design come even closer, engaging in dialogue and even masquerading as each other.

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Classic chairs by are encircled by cow Opera d’Inferno (2011) by the Chilean-born US based artist Sebastian Errazuriz The leather gloves by dutch artist Silvia B have hair, freckles, warts horns in Kaisu Koivisto’s Territory (1999). was acquired for the Kiasma Collections by the Kiasma Foundation. and tattoos on them. In these wearable sculptures, high fashion blends seamlessly with contemporary art.

Contemporary art and design share features that by its very nature receptive to cultural change. simultaneously unite and separate them: visuality, With their actions, works, active discussion and wit, creativity, a critical attitude, conceptualisation, concept definition, designers and artists alike have user orientation, sustainability, durability, commer- opened the intersecting area in interesting new cialism, productisation. The opposite ends of directions. the continuum are the individual’s freedom of expression, on the one hand, and the demands SURPRISING CLASSICS of product development and user orientation, on the other. Visitors to the Camouflage exhibition can expect to see Finnish design classics and prestigious utility TWINING CONTEMPORARY ART AND DESIGN objects. A few can indeed be found – but reused.. Kaisu Koivisto’s Reviiri (Territory) has two worn I believe the differences and similarities can be Alvar Aalto chair 69s, encircled by cow horns found by looking at history and the present assembled around them in spirals. The colour of moment, at the different circumstances of the the horns is reflected by the grey patina of the multicultural generation, and the situations where wooden surfaces of the chairs. The disguise is art and design are presented and articulated side almost perfect, only the red oilcloth on the seats by side. struggle against the deception. Both camps feel attracted to the ideas and For her piece Gun, So What! Maaria Wirkkala The Dutch artist duo Idiots, Afke Golsteijn and Floris Bakker, combine stuffed animals with other materials practices of the other, yet they frequently try to has used Bolle bottles designed for Venini by Tapio such as forged iron and textiles. preserve the dividing lines. Contemporary art is Wirkkala in the 1960s. The coloured glass bottles Fake V (2007).

IDIOTS (AFKE GOLSTEIJN & FLORIS BAKKER) 16 Kiasma Kiasma 17 WDC Helsinki 2012 Programme Exhibitions © LEEVI HAAPALALEEVI COMPANY

Camouflage[kæməflɑ:ʒ]

The French loanword camouflage refers to deception, protective colouring and disguises. These things are familiar in both nature and warfare.

The purpose of the protective colouring of animals is to fool the predator or the enemy, sometimes also the prey, and thereby to ensure survival. Designed by Sebastian Errazuriz, the Occupy Chair series (2011) Company toured Russia on this side of the Ural Mountains Some species pretend to be something they are not was inspired by signs seen in the Wall Street demonstrations. – Zhostovo, Sergiev Posad, Bogorodskoe, Nizhny Novgorod, – certain crickets seem uncannily like leaves, and The slogans are all authentic: We Are the 99%, Kill Corporate Semenov – to discover traditional businesses whose products harmless snakes can look like deadly ones. One form would inspire new applications. With an underlying ethos of Greed and I’m So Angry I Made a Sign. of protective camouflage is striking colouring which empathy, the project expands upon and merges the Slavic idea of beauty with aesthetic definitions of Scandinavian good taste. confuses the enemy and makes the outlines, speed and direction of the moving target difficult to see.

Nature’s idea of protective colouring was first applied as camouflage for battledress and military vehicles in the 19th century. Up until then, soldiers had paraded around in bright colours. The need for camouflage arose with the advent of aerial warfare and long-range sit on shelves, and the viewer aims a rifle at them. Finland, they come from Argentina, Great Britain, weapons. Further development eventually led to the Looking at them through the scope, when the Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Switzerland and familiar camouflage patterns for blending in with a trigger is pulled, they merge with a picture of a the United States. Many of them work between green forest or a desert. child with its back to the viewer. two or more cities and cultures. They come from a range of cross-disciplinary backgrounds, and It is said that modern art, such as cubism, has affected CAREFULLY AIMED PROVOCATIONS their changing projects provide them with the development of military camouflage. Early 20th- changing professions and identities. century artists were interested in disrupting figurative- What will be the real consequence of the inter- ness and outlines, and they also had an interest in lacing of these two disciplines, contemporary art Leevi Haapala colour theories – and their skills were exploited for and design? What will happen when the traditional warfare. Influences have travelled not only from art boundary between the art object and the utility to war, but also from war to art: military camouflage object is dissolved? The Camouflage exhibition patterns had already been adopted in civilian clothing focuses on how designers and artists work when by the beginning of the last century. The use of they filter impulses, process ideas, seek a direction camouflage patterns in art as well as in fashion has for their work. The ideas presented here are become more ubiquitous in the past 50 years. suggestions, discoveries and carefully aimed provo- cations that hint at the authors’ future work in Sanna Hirvonen relation to the ongoing discussion on the topic. The artists, designers, duos and collectives live in different parts of the world. In addition to

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Kiasma and the City of Helsinki Employ Young People

“Making art was a very satisfying job. After a day’s work, you felt you had really made a difference in your own life.”

FNG / CAA / PIRJE MYKKÄNEN, ILLUSTRATION: / PIRJE MYKKÄNEN, FNG / CAA KAIKKONEN JETRO Last summer, the URB festival began than at any other job that I had Feedback encouraged Kiasma and sites, and gather from them material a collaboration with the City of undertaken. I also discovered that the City of Helsinki to continue the for the performance. We will explore Helsinki to provide summer jobs for it’s possible to care about someone collaboration. This summer, too, the what Helsinki looks, sounds and feels young people. The festival hired five you had had no prior connection urban art festival will employ young like, and what kinds of stories inhabit youths whose job was to create a with, so that you sincerely want people from Helsinki to engage in its various districts. We aim to create production under the guidance of the other person to succeed.” an art project. This time the project a performance that uses motion and professionals, giving them a taste of will involve the urban space. The theatre to depict the variety, rhythm art as a profession. It was an intensive month, with theme will be Helsinki, the atmos- and pulse of the city. everybody working on weekdays phere in its districts. “It was fabulous and wonderful, from nine to half past three. The Elina Izarra Ollikainen I hope I will be able to make art for youngsters were surprised at how I will conduct the project together a living again in the future!” demanding the project was, but with dance instructor Heli Keski- creating the performance was also kallio, whose previous works were The project participants did not rewarding. inspired by different locales. We know each other beforehand and will make the young people do came from very different back- “Making art was fun, yet tough. exercises involving spatial grounds. They all represented their It was fun when you weren’t tired Last summer Elina Izarra Ollikainen directed a performance for the Kiasma Theatre, entitled own particular sub-culture, yet and things went smoothly, but if Jos olisin, which featured young people emp- being engaged in the same project you felt out of sorts and the work loyed by Kiasma and the City of Helsinki. For to produce a joint performance did not go well, it could be really summer 2012 Ollikainen will produce a new project. made everybody mutually suppor- frustrating.” tive. The youngsters felt the project had improved their teamwork skills and boosted their self-confidence.

“This was a very different job from others I had done before. I think my social skills and self-knowledge improved during that month more

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Kati Kovács: Eye Out: veni, vidi, mansi, 2012 Comics Going Beyond Paper

When the centenary of Finnish comics The number of comics exhibitions has increased a multiple of times over the past few years. They can was celebrated last year, the emphasis in fact be considered a new presentation format for was on history. The Eyeballing! comics. But we might equally well say that comics are exhibition in Kiasma can be seen as returning to their origins: to a place beyond the printing press. the culmination of the centenary – or Comics as a form of popular culture are associated alternatively the beginning of the next with newspapers and comic books and albums. But one. The exhibition explores a current their sequential format and comics as an art form are considerably older. trend in comics: gallerisation. As everyone familiar with the history of the genre knows, comics are older than literature, older even than writing. Cave paintings, pictorial scrolls, the Bayeux Tapestry, stained glass paintings in churches – all these involve a serial format in which pictures are juxtaposed, tell stories and invite interpretation.

THE GUTENBERG GALAXY

However, comics as an art form are far from abandoning the Gutenberg Galaxy. On the contrary. Modern techno- logies, lower printing costs and a wider view of comics as a genre have finally made it possible to create stories

Katja Tukiainen: Paradis k (Kidnap), 2012 and Matti Hagelberg: Poor People, 2005–2010 Kiasma 23 FNG / CAA / PETRI / PETRI FNG / CAA VIRTANEN Comics Exhibition Marshall Mannerheim’s Guide to Comics

Marko Turunen: Comic Transformer, 2012, in the background Terhi Ekebom: Home, 2012

that are limited only by imagination rather than by the enough to show previously completed work in an restrictions set by newspaper or printing technology. exhibition. Old works in a new space demand at Nearly a hundred comic albums were published in least new concepts and opportunities for new inter- Finland last year. At the sam e time, comic artists have pretations. increasingly begun to consider the world beyond A good comics exhibition reveals the core of the printed publications. One key issue that has emerged in art in a new and special way. It nestles in the space in this context is the spatial presentation of comics. Whether such a way that it could not function in the same way traditional popular comics or more experimental works, any-where else. A challenging but interesting task. comics exhibitions have often comprised just originals As Jyrki Heikkinen says in the Eyeballing! exhibition on walls, complemented with a few dramatic enlarge- catalogue: “We as humans are destined to compete. Lissu Lehtimaja ments. The originals of comics published in magazines Good results can be achieved only by tackling bounda- and books are small and do not make the desired ries. For me, at least, creating art is impossible without impact in an exhibition space: we read traditional emotional storms, and those cannot be achieved comics, but we look at exhibitions. without struggle.”

APPROPRIATING THE SPACE Ville Hänninen

The exhibition space could be considered a new The writer is a journalist and format for the presentation of comics. It is no longer one of the curators of the Eyeballing! exhibition.

24 Kiasma Kiasma 25 Column MARIO LANG

Nora Sternfeld, Professor of Curating and Communication at Department of Art MONI in Aalto University. PUOLI What Comes after the Show? SIN. Notes on a post-representational museum Since the 1960s representation has mean for the possibility of taking a So when we talk about an “educa- been confronted with increasing critical position? tional turn in curating” this is not scepticism in the art field, in theory about handing down existing Lönnberg on markkinoinnin ja and in political activism (as in today’s One thing is for sure, the only national and bourgeois values, nor viestinnän ratkaisutoimittaja. Occupy!-protests). Representational perspective available now is one of is it about the mere reproduction Premedia, aineiston- ja julkaisunhallitsija, critique became an important engine critical complicity. It has become of knowledge. It is about exploring crossmedia, iWay-tilausjärjestelmä, mainos- for conceptual artistic practices, impossible to presume an external the possibilities of an alternative painotuotteet, vuosi-kertomukset, taide- curatorial approaches and activist standpoint for criticism. Hence, the and emancipatory production of kirjat, lehdet ja sanomalehdet, myymälä- reclamations. question “What is to be done?” has knowledge that resists, supple- ja tapahtumamainonta, pakkaukset, TIKKURILAN TRENDIVÄRIT 2012 2013 to be posed nevertheless. What we ments, thwarts, undercuts, or messu-materiaalit ja kalenterit. Let’s think for example of the need to envision is a curatorial and challenges powerful canons. Vain muutamia mainitaksemme. process character of happenings artistic practice after the regime of Tikkurilan Kaunis Koti -väriyhdistelmissä on nyt uusi and all the artistic strategies of i representation. Nora Sternfeld trendivärikokoelma, josta löytyy mielenkiintoisia, nstitutional critique. As a rule, they www.lonnberg.fi ajankohtaisia väriyhdistelmiä. Kaunis Koti -trendivärit were opposing the idea of art as So what comes after the show? Writer is one of the keynote speaker muuttuvat ajassa, joten kannattaa pysyä kartalla! representation. Now, some decades A post-representational Museum in It’s all Mediating - an international later, these strategies became would not represent scenes, fields, conference on curating and education Kokeile itse värejä myös uudessa värisuunnittelu- representational themselves. We nations, tendencies or discourses. in the exhibition context 30-31 May ohjelmassamme www.tikkurila.fi . can find them canonised and Emphasizing the referential and 2012. depoliticised in Museums of Con- relational dimensions of curating, temporary Art worldwide. a post-representational museum would turn into a public space Has institutional critique become where things are “taking place” institutionalized? And what does it ’’’ rather than “being shown”.

Kiasma 27 Upcoming Collections Kiasma Calendar

exhibitions

What Is a Document? Open until 17 Jun Music is a powerful presence in the works on show, either as a thematic Thank You for the Music source of inspiration or as a soundtrack that supports or challenges their visual – How Music Moves Us appearance. Artists Petri Ala-Maunus, Eduardo Balanza, David Blandy, Candice 3rd floor Breitz, Susanne Bürner, Graham Dolphin, Rose Eken, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, The rolled-up handmade carpet information. Issues of origin and reproduc- Jenni Hiltunen, Petra Lindholm, Liisa Lounila, Sophie MacCorquodale, Maria Stereo, Kalle Juhani Nieminen, Anneli Nygren, Bojan Sarcevic, Terhi Ylimäinen. leaning against the wall is a tion are also common to all areas of art. The conceptual work by Mikko Kuo- broad range of contemporary artworks that invoke the various aspects of documenting Open until 9 Sep The influences of comic artists arise from underground culture, popular culture rinki entitled Union. A rag rug attest to the flexibility and instrumental Eyeballing! The new forms of comics and other comics, but also more generally from contemporary art, illustrations is not usually choosy about its value of the concept of document. 2nd floor and even folk art. The featured artists are Mari Ahokoivu, Terhi Ekebom, Matti Hagelberg, Jyrki Heikkinen, Kati Kovacs, Hanneriina Moisseinen, Tommi Musturi, materials. This time, however, How are documentarism and fiction Ville Ranta, Aapo Rapi, Anna Sailamaa, Ville Tietäväinen, Katja Tukiainen, Marko pieces of old tricot or textile combined in art? How is a document’s form Turunen and Amanda Vähämäki. just would not fit the bill. The altered in different media, and how does the document in turn affect the content of the rolled-up multicoloured carpet 15 Jun – 7 Oct Design and contemporary art are both united and separated by visuality, art? What is the impact of the documenting Camouflage wit, critical attitude, conceptualisation, sustainability, commercialism and hides its secret, it is the name medium, and how is the object altered – Visual Art and Design in Disguise productisation. The two disciplines of visual culture often appear side by side in tag that first reveals what is thereby? How can a document or a record 4th and 5th floors exhibitions, art magazines, online applications, as well as auctions and art fairs. hidden within. be combined with history writing, archives The artists: Silvia B., Hans-Christian Berg, Florencia Colombo, Company: Aamu and data systems in contemporary art? Song & Johan Olin, Sebastian Errazuriz, Jiri Geller, Tommi Grönlund & Petteri How are things recorded, archived and Nisunen, Handkerchief Production: Amy Cheung & Erkka Nissinen, Idiots: Afke classified? How can a document refer to Golsteijn & Floris Bakker, Riitta Ikonen & Karoline Hjorth, Kariel: Muriel Lässer It is often said that seeing is believing. a kind of reconstruction of something that & Karri Kuoppala, Kaisu Koivisto, Tuomas Aleksander Laitinen, Kaija Papu, Kim Simonsson, Unbuilt Helsinki, Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich, Maaria Wirkkala, That is why we have grown to accept the is already gone? Antti Yli-Tepsa. The exhibition is part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 idea that documentary photographs are programme.. evidence that must be credible precisely Mikko Kuorinki’s carpet is actually woven because it comprises photographs. But from the flags of 27 Member States of the what is it ultimately that a photograph or European Union. The handling of national upcoming a documentary remembers and what does flags is governed by many rules. A rug, it forget? We are obsessed by the need to by comparison, is traditionally meant to document ourselves and our environment be spread on the floor to be trod upon. 28 Sep 2012 – 13 Jan 2013 Osmo Rauhala’s exhibition consists of new paintings whose common Osmo Rauhala denominator is the relationship between language, image and nature. from the cradle to the grave. By virtue of the Through his work, Kuorinki succeeds in 2nd floor camera, we have all become documentarists opening up new interpretations for flags and transmitters of information. when they are cut up and woven into a carpet. The work remains a document of the 28 Sep 2012 – 13 Jan 2013 The London-based artist Toby Ziegler has searched books and the Internet The 12th collection exhibition investigates composition of the European Union in 2010. Toby Ziegler for pictures of historical art objects, from which he has created new sculptures the nature of documentarism in different Studio K using 3D modelling software. media – from object works to cinematic Eija Aarnio narrative. The works in the exhibition reuse and reinterpret documents, pushing the Collections Exhibition 2 Nov 2012 – 17 Mar 2013 The exhibition investigates the nature of documentarism in different (14 Apr, 5th floor) media – from object works to cinematic narrative. The works in the exhibition envelope of the concept of documentarism. 2 Nov 2012 - 17 Mar / 14 Apr 2013 Collection Exhibition reuse and reinterpret documents, pushing the envelope of the concept of 3rd, 4th and 5th floors documentarism. The themes explored in the exhibition include knowledge, authority and truth, but MIKKO KUORINKI also the recording, gathering and storage of Mikko Kuorinki: Union, 2010 handmade carpet made out the flags of 27 Member States of the European Union.

28 Kiasma events Kiasma Theatre

Sat 26 May 1 pm A seminar on comics in education: How to teach the making of comics; the premier on Thu 23 Aug at 6 pm A young Lebanese man commits suicide. In his farewell letter, he says his Comic Saturday potential of comics as an educational tool. Seminar Room, free admission. 4 pm Rabih Mroué & Lina Saneh death is a purely personal act and should not be used for political purposes. The Road Through the Arts Comics in Concert: Ville Ranta, drawings; Aleksi Ranta, guitar; Niko Kumpuvaara, 33 tours et quelques seconds Lebanese performaning art that blends fact and fiction. accordion. Kiasma Theatre, free admission. 1–4 pm Meet the artist, Eyeballing! exhib- (33 Rounds and a Few Seconds) Other performances on Fri 24 Aug at 6 pm, Sat 25 Aug at 4 pm. ition. Museum ticket (under-18s free) 2 pm Guided tour of the Eyeballing! exhibition. Tickets €30, pensioners €27, students €22 Part of the Stage – Helsinki Theatre Festival produced by Korjaamo Museum ticket (under-18s free). In cooperation with the Helsinki Comics Center. (from Lippupiste and Korjaamo shop)

Fri–Sun 7–9 Sep Fri 7 Sep Opening club of the festival in Café Kiasma. Free admission to the Helsinki Comics Festival exhibitions between 5 pm and 10 pm. Sat-Sun 8-9 Sep In the Comics in Concert premier on 13 Sep at 7 pm Neo-Hamlet combines sound, images and text in a novel way to series presented in the Kiasma Theatre, Finnish and international artists draw Markus Sundblom create a Hamlet that is accessible to the contemporary audience. impro-vised comics to the accompaniment of live music. There will also be panel Neo-Hamlet note! Other performances on 15 and 22 Sep at 3 pm, 19 and 20 Sep at 7 pm. discussions and interviews with comic artists. The festival’s guest country is Belgium, Tickets €18/10 There are two performances on the opening night, one in Swedish. from where prestigious honorary guests and interesting new names will feature in the programme. There will be a programme in Lasipalatsi Square throughout the entire Introducing a whole new way to experience theatre! Enjoy a show in comics festival weekend. In cooperation with the Helsinki Comics Center. the company of a performing arts professional. For further information, please contact escort@kiasma workshops info 19 Jun – 11 Aug Tue–Sat 3–11 month-old babies and their accompanying adults learn about colours through Address Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Babies Play with Colours play. Duration 1.5 hours, includes a visit to the exhibition. Max. group size, 10 babies Mannerheiminaukio 2, 00100 Helsinki with adults. The fee of €180 includes admission, materials and instruction. Opening hours Open Tue 10am – 5pm, Wed – Thu 10am – 8.30pm, Fri 10am – 10pm, Sat 10am – 6pm, Sun 10am – 5pm. Mon closed. Tickets Museum ticket € 10/8, free for under 18-year-olds. Workshop info workshop Inquiries and bookings +358 (0)9 1733 6509 Tue–Fri 9 am – 12 noon or Free entrance on the first Friday of each month at 5–10pm. programme [email protected] Info Tel. +358 (0)9 1733 6501, [email protected] on internet! Guided tours in Finnish Wed and Fri 6pm., Sun 3pm. Museum ticket. Guided tours in Swedish On the first Sunday of each month at 1pm. Museum ticket. Guided tours in English Guided tour in English on the first Sunday of the month at 2 pm, Kiasma Theatre in July–August every Sunday at 2 pm Architectural tour in Finnish On the first Saturday of each month at 2pm. Museum ticket. Architectural tour in English On the first Saturday of each month at 1pm. Museum ticket. performances until 23 May Social Movements is a performative attempt to understand the potential for a Tour bookings Bookings Tue –Fri, 9am–12 noon, +358 (0)9 1733 6509 or Aune Kallinen polyphonic, conflicting, gentle, carnivalistic and autonomous community or society. [email protected]. Prices on weekdays € 65, Sundays € 80. Social Movement In Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian and Italian. Tickets 15/10 e New: Architectural tour of Kiasma The bookable walking tour begins in Kiasma and ends in the Helsinki Music Centre. Duration 1 hour. 26 May at 4 pm In the comics concert, Ville Ranta, Aleksi Ranta and Niko Kumpuvaara create an event Max. 25 persons/group, fee €125. Comics in Concert where drawing is music and music is storytelling. The concert is part of the Eyeballing! Free admission comics exhibition and The Road Through the Arts Comic Saturday event. www.kiasma.fi Read more about the current programme, join the free mailing list. facebook.com/KiasmaMuseum Drop in to shop at Kiasma’s online store for catalogues and Kiasma items. 8 Jun twitter.com/KiasmaMuseum Bassline Festival The Bassline urban festival kicks off the summer season on the front lawn of Kiasma. youtube.com/KiasmaMuseum

Café Kiasma Follows the museum opening hours, tel. +358 (0)9 1733 6504 28 Jul – 5 Aug Kiasma Store Follows the museum opening hours, tel. +358 (0)9 1733 6505 URB12 The URB12 festival invites everyone to join the event, which presents some of – Urban Art Festival the most interesting happenings and actors in the field of urban art. The festival Friends of Kiasma www.kiasma.fi, [email protected] programme will be published in June. Kiasma Foundation www.kiasmafoundation.fi, [email protected]

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