www.kiasma.fi 2012 51 vol 15 Hamlet Osmo Rauhala Comics Guide visual art design Vantage Point + Summer for Contemporary Art Programme Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Is a JANITOOM; FNG / CAA / PIRJE MYKKÄNEN, PETRI SUMMANEN,TERO SUVILAMMI, PETRIVIRTANEN Vantage Point Kiasma is an oasis of contemporary art and visual culture in the heart of Helsinki. Surrounded by the bustle of urban life and flanked by the Postitalo, Parliament and Lasipalatsi buildings and the Helsinki Music Centre, 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 Finland. 2 Kiasma Kiasma 3 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art 1. LAURI ERIKSSON 2. AKI-PEKKA SINIKOSKI 3. JUHA SAARINEN 4. FNG / CAA PETRI VIRTANEN 5. JANNE HEINONEN 6. FNG / CAA PIRJE MYKKÄNEN 7. VIRTANEN 3. JUHA SAARINEN 4. FNG / CAA PETRI ERIKSSON 2. AKI-PEKKA SINIKOSKI 1. LAURI 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 Martti Ahtisaari 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, PIRJE MYKKÄNEN, ELLA TOMMILA, PETRI VIRTANEN PETRI TOMMILA, PIRJE MYKKÄNEN, ELLA FNG / CAA / OONA KORIALA, 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 / CAAYEHIA / 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 Finnish National Gallery / 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. 6 Kiasma Kiasma 7 Kiasma in Brief FNG / CAA / PIRJE MYKKÄNEN 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.