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 Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma 29 May to 26 September, Fifth floor Vision and Mind, the jubilee exhibition celebrating the 140 years of the Artists' Association of Finland, is produced by the Artists' Association of Finland and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. Fourteen artists have been by the curators, and two artists document the work in process. The artists are: Annette Arlander, Tuija Arminen, Pirjetta Brander, Teuri Haarla, Ritva Harle, Gun Holmström, Markus Konttinen, Marcus Lerviks, Ulla Liuhala, Jaakko Niemelä, Kirsi Peltomäki, Outi Pienimäki, Ossi Somma, and Vertti Teräsvuori. The curators of the exhibition are Marja Sakari, the Senior Curator of Collections, the Museum of Contemporaty Art Kiasma, and Otso Kantokorpi, Editor-in-Chief, Taide (Art) Magazine. They are also the editors of the exhibition publication about the contemporary role of the artist, published by the art publishing company Kustannus Oy Taide. Rather than presenting a selection of completed works of art, the exhibition illuminates the work and the person of the artist. In stead of a survey of excellence in art, the audience is offered an opportunity to get acquainted with the diverse work processes of very different artists, and the ways in which a work of art is moulded from an observation by (artistic) thinking. Questions posed include the role of the artist today, the elements and materials used in a work of art, how an observation becomes a work of art. The audience has an opportunity to look into the "mind" of the artist, and its intricate nature. The artist may function as an industrial producer, an administrator, a service provider, an activist, a celebrity; even the body of the artist can constitute a part of the work of art itself, and so on. The diverse roles require a close relationship with an artistic institution, and the society. The artist no longer creates alone in his/her studio. Creating process and exhibiting both require a variety of social skills. In the old days, your own studio and some painting equipment were sufficient, but today, a mastery of a wider range of skills and equipment is called for. Vision and Mind examines the working process as well as issues involving artistness. The exhibition portrays the artist and the methods, as well as the existence of the artist, opening up the artistic process starting from an idea and an observation, all the way up to the end result, a finished work of art: an installation, a painting, a video, or some other, previously undefined artistic product. In addition to a display of completed art works, the exhibition includes material documented during the artistic processes; interviews with the artists, exhibits from sketchbooks, diary entries and photographs and videos of work-in-process. The exhibition aims at presenting an unbiased, open-minded examination of the work and products of different kinds of artists from a wide age-range. In addition to the curators, the work group includes Eija Aarnio, Taina Kokkonen, Patrik Nyberg ja Jari-Pekka Vanhala. Top of the page |
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| Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma 29 May to 26 September, Fifth floor The Artist in the Picture -exhibition |
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