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PORI ART MUSEUM Spring – Summer 2020 PORI ART MUSEUM Spring – Summer 2020 ADRIAN MELIS OLA VASILJEVA JENNI YPPÄRILÄ MAIRE GULLICHSEN, ALVAR AALTO & GALERIE ARTEK WELCOME TO PORI ART MUSEUM PORIN TAIDEMUSEO | PORI ART MUSEUM GREETINGS The exhibition programme at Pori Art Museum Eteläranta, 28100 Pori, Finland explores current trends and topical phenomena in tel. +358 44 701 1080 international and Finnish art, with a view towards [email protected] , www.poriartmuseum.fi learning about, with and through art. Our core Open: Tue – Sun 11–18, Wed 11–20 work is guided by a fi rm commitment to addressing Admission: 8 / 3 / 4 € the global issues fundamental to humanity and to Family ticket: 16 € themes that involve the environment, well-being, 2 Day Pori City Museums Pass: 17 / 5 / 8,50 €. technology and identity. Pori Art Museum serves as a window to the outer world and off ers a path for re- Free of charge for under 18 year old children on weekends and fl ecting on our innermost thoughts and feelings. For national holidays. Pori residents, the museum is a golden opportunity to experience art in their hometown. World-class art Free guided tours and free admission on Wednesdays at 18:00. could not be any closer! The Pori Art Museum is both a regionally signifi cant Additional information and guided tour bookings: draw and an internationally renowned institution. tel. +358 44 701 1080, Enquiries during museum’s opening hours. The Finnish Heritage Agency has designated it as [email protected] the regional art museum authority in the Satakun- ta province, a designation that carries with it the MUSEUM SHOP responsibility to record and document art and visual Shop is open during regular opening hours. cultural heritage in the region, to serve as an expert authority and to develop cooperation among players ONLINE SHOP! in the fi eld of art. We strive to increase the impact of https://verkkokauppa.pori.fi /taide-ja-kulttuuri/porin-taidemuseo cultural heritage within the region. Our spring season will feature solo exhibitions by Café MUUSA serves: Adrian Melis, Ola Vasiljeva and Jenni Yppärilä. These Tue–Fri 11–16, Wed 11–18, Sat 11–16 shows will feature juxtapositions between the built Sun open by appointment. environment, contemporary working conditions, Päivi Sundell, [email protected] current phenomena in politics, and the world of objects and the theatre. As well, a research-oriented exhibition exploring the relationship between Maire Indulge yourself at Café MUUSA during a visit to the museum! Gullichsen and the Galerie Artek showroom will high- light pioneering art exhibitions in 1950s Finland. The museum’s workshops, lectures, and guided tours will also address the themes of this spring’s exhibitions. Welcome to the spring 2020 Pori Art Museum exhibitions and events! Anni Venäläinen Director (temp) EXHIBITIONS LONG FAREWELLS OLA VASILJEVA 20.03.2020 – Ola Vasiljeva engages with the Pori Art Museum 30.08.2020 primarily through its architectural ancestry. Formerly Hall a weigh house, the building in the town port had a transitive, measuring, evaluating function. It was a threshold space, made for the passage of goods, for their transition via a temporary halt, display and estimation. As if subjected to a similar transition, Vasiljeva’s artworks are passersby in this liminal space. The exhibition, consisting of a multi-layered arrangement of artifacts, materials, and media, brings together works, old and new, and echoes the artist’s longstanding interest in the relationship between display and backstage — that is, the relationship between the displayed and the allegedly never displayed, or rather: the effectively concealed. This relationship is mediated through devices that double as thresholds or membranes, instruments such as the cinema screen, the curtain, the dressing room, props, costumes and tools suspended between use and ritual, mimicry and fiction. Institutional structures that mirror society, such as the theatre, the museum and the academy, play a major role in Vasiljeva’s practice, yet her work is never about them per se. It has more to do with their backspaces, underpinnings, internal infrastructures and the detritus of these places, their forgotten histories. Ola Vasiljeva (b. Latvia, 1981) lives and works in The Hague in the Netherlands. Thank you: Antoine Levi gallery, Paris Image (detail): Ola Vasiljeva, Ivan The Son of Bear, installation view, Indipendenza Roma, 2018. Image: Giorgio Benni. Image courtesy of the artist and Antoine Levi, Paris. 2768. 23,53. 8. 1958. 57%. 1000 ADRIAN MELIS [Creative destruction] is a process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionises the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.” — Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942) 20.03.2020 – For artist Adrian Melis and many others living in Cuba 30.08.2020 in the early 1990s reality was defined by the long Wing shadow cast by Fidel Castro’s glorious revolution and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Shaped by this paradoxical state of existence, Adrian Melis’s practice can be described as a series of inconspicuous interventions, often poetic and surreal, which address systemic political and corporate corruption, political apathy, labour markets, bureaucratic inefficiency, and their effects on the social fabric. He has developed an extensive body of work articulated through videos, photography and installations. Adrian Melis’s solo exhibition at Pori Art Museum, titled 2768. 23,53. 8. 1958. 57%. 1000, consists of a selection of older and recent works. Melis’s work and methodology are markedly influenced by Fidel Castro’s schemes for economic growth. Intricate and often absurd, these experiments — orchestrated by a figure that could only be described as a mad scientist — failed disastrously, each time further dismantling the country’s vulnerable economy. Each work in the exhibition can be perceived as fluctuating between states of production and destruction, and as a whole, 2768. 23,53. 8. 1958. 57%. 1000 reveals potential in the creative destruction of grand ideas. Adrian Melis (b. 1985, Cuba) lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. In cooperation with: adn galeria, Barcelona Image: Adrian Melis, The Power of the Working Class, installation view, Hors Pistes 2016, L’art de la Révolte, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Image courtesy of the artist and adn galeria. BUILD-UP JENNI YPPÄRILÄ 20.03.2020 – Jenni Yppärilä’s art blurs the line between painting features a selection from the archive. It explores the 30.08.2020 and sculpture. Since 2012 she has been documenting processes of agglomeration that take place in Yppärilä’s MEDIApoint built environments in Finland and elsewhere in the practice and in the material world, paralleled by the form on three-dimensional paintings. Yppärilä’s accelerating build-up of stress in society and in the life interest in buildings is primarily sociological: of individuals. Although the work incorporates a point buildings are an expression of lived history and of fracture and references to overload, the mood tends the present moment, of the values and changes in towards gentleness and hope. Build-up can just as well society, and of the social environment of individuals. be seen as a collection of buildings that bear signs of Detached from their contexts, buildings are no lived life. longer places of passage but objects that can be Jenni Yppärilä (b. 1980, Oulainen, Finland) lives and viewed as portraits of society and its members. works in Helsinki. Build-up is a work that explores agglomeration. The exhibition is generously supported by the Arts Compared with Yppärilä’s earlier work, it represents Council of Uusimaa. a new, more monumental and spatial approach. Instead of separate buildings, the work presents us with a number of façades joined together. Yppärilä creates her works by taking photographs of existing buildings, and over the years she has amassed Image (detail): Jenni Yppärilä: Build-up by Leena Ylä-Lyly thousands of these documentary pictures. Build-up MAIRE GULLICHSEN, ALVAR AALTO AND GALERIE ARTEK – Early Forms of Abstraction in The Collection of Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation 20.03.2020 – This research-based exhibition examines the Maire 30.08.2020 Gullichsen Art Foundation collection through the Project looking glass of exhibitions held at Galerie Artek in Room the 1950s. Galerie Artek was an exhibition space that operated in Helsinki from 1935 to 1997. Founded by Maire Gullichsen (1907–1990), the gallery was famous for its bold exhibition programme. Maire Gullichsen steered the gallery with a firm hand, and is known to have acquired art from exhibitions held there. New archival research has uncovered connections between shows at Galerie Artek and the art collection of the Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation. Maire Gullichsen was one of the founding members of the Artek design store, along with architect Alvar Aalto (1898–1976). The Gullichsen art collection includes works by Aalto that illustrate the different periods of his architectural career and his practice of exploring ideas by sculpting wood, drawing and painting. The exhibition also examines the dynamic between Aalto’s abstract artworks and his architectural designs. Maire Gullichsen, Alvar Aalto and Galerie Artek showcases a period of transition in Finnish fine art when abstraction in its various forms came to challenge the established norms of aesthetics. The exhibition is part of the ALVAR AALTO Week 2020 program. Alvar Aalto Week 2020 is to be held in Pori and Eura, Finland, 22–30 August. The theme of the week will be ”Aalto in everyday life”. www.alvaraalto.fi/alvaraaltoviikko Image: Wikimedia Commons public domain The Create Zone Explore. Make. Chill out The Create Zone is a space inside the museum where groups can explore art and relax under professional guidance. Visitors can also use materials in the space when it is not occupied. The Create Zone has direct access to the museum’s open art storage area, which visitors are free to enter.
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