EXHIBITION PROGRAMME FOR SPRING 2010

Art has never reproduced reality in the same way as a mirror, in which we can read a projection of the space refl ected on a plane. Art does, however, offer an instrument that, much like language, facilitates cultural interaction and thinking about representation – the observation of reality, the conceptualisation of experiences, the production and reinterpretation of meaningful differences in an endless chain of links that relies on tradition while renewing it. It can concern a collector whose refi ned eye reads the variegated fi eld of art in our time. It can concern the viewers who produce ever new personal interpretations when they have an opportunity to
manipulate the exhibition and thereby affect the unique end result. It can concern a group of artists who take up the task of looking into the relationship between vocabularies of the modernist tradition and of popular culture – or a group of architects and artists who are concerned about the interrelations of buildings and structures and people from Mongolia to Canada to the Neo-Renaissance blocks along the Kokemäenjoki River in Pori.

WHY DO YOU RESIST? FORMS OF RESISTANCE IN CONTEMPORARY ART [11.06.2010 - 05.09.2010] Hall/Wing/Entrance hall Zbynek Baladran (CZE), Rebecca Bournigault (FRA), Thomas Galler (CH), Ion Grigorescu (ROU), Fabrice Gygi (CH), Thomas Hirschhorn (CH), IC-98 (FIN),Alexey Kallima (RUS), Jiri Kovanda (CZE), Martin Krenn (AUT), Kristina Leko (CRO), Lucas Lenglet (NED), Jérôme Leuba (CH), Gintaras Makarevicius (LTU), Bettina Pousttchi (GER), Oliver Ressler (AUT), Slaven Tolj (CRO), Mona Vatamanu (ROU) & Florin Tudor (CH), Costa Vece (CH) The younger generation of artists has in recent years once again begun to analyse the structures of power, while discussion of the forms of resistance has become one of the main themes of artistic practice. But what does power mean to this generation? Many artists focus on governmental power and its systems, and on political trends on a more general level, but also on the effects of globalisation, racist beliefs and the reality of migration. Artists are interested in how such issues are addressed by governments or the bodies of the European Union, how they wield power that they only understand as an administrative instrument. The WHY DO YOU RESIST? exhibition focuses on works from the topical field of international contemporary art, works that use available media with the purpose of making visible control mechanisms,structures of power and representation. Curators: Andrea Domesle, Michal Kolecek & Pia Hovi-Assad. Produced in cooperation with: Kunstmuseum Thun, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal bei Basel, Switzerland; Pro Helvetia (Switzerland). Media release >> Read more >>

INTELLIGENCE AND EMOTION IN BALANCE. HAUTALA – KIVIJÄRVI – OSIPOW MAIRE GULLICHSEN AND MODERNISM SERIES [29.05.2010 - 05.09.2010] Project Room Painters Jorma Hautala and Paul Osipow and sculptor Harry Kivijärvi have for decades been among the greatest luminaries in Finnish art. The latest in the Maire Gullichsen and Modernism exhibition series, INTELLIGENCE AND EMOTION IN BALANCE has its thematic focus in art that does not aim to create images. The underlying philosophy is that art should refrain from all figurative aspects that refer to things external to itself. Media release >>