PORI ART MUSEUM
Eteläranta, FI-28100 PORI, FINLAND
Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 6pm , Wednesdays 11am to 8pm
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PREVIOUS Exhibitions
LIGHTNING RIDE (2017)
Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion
[16.10.2018 - 16.12.2018]
Screening STAIRCASE
With Lightning Ride, it is poles of technology, organics and mysticism that collide with electricity as a connecting point. The video is produced from excerpts of “Taser Certifications”, a sort of ceremony authorizing in the United States the use of Tasers in the condition of being first tased by someone else. Filtered with the famous Photoshop’s “oil painting effect”, slowed down and accompanied by a disturbing soundtrack, the succeeding images show us bodies and faces whose deformations and positions evoke a feeling of pain as well as a Christian ecstacy. Everything unfolds as if the miracle of electricity, symbol of the rationalization of the world, revived paradoxically an aspiration to transcendence, antipodes joining each other and disappearing in profit of a new map of possibilities.
(Sarah Ihler-Meyer)
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Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion
[16.10.2018 - 16.12.2018]
Screening STAIRCASE
With Lightning Ride, it is poles of technology, organics and mysticism that collide with electricity as a connecting point. The video is produced from excerpts of “Taser Certifications”, a sort of ceremony authorizing in the United States the use of Tasers in the condition of being first tased by someone else. Filtered with the famous Photoshop’s “oil painting effect”, slowed down and accompanied by a disturbing soundtrack, the succeeding images show us bodies and faces whose deformations and positions evoke a feeling of pain as well as a Christian ecstacy. Everything unfolds as if the miracle of electricity, symbol of the rationalization of the world, revived paradoxically an aspiration to transcendence, antipodes joining each other and disappearing in profit of a new map of possibilities.
(Sarah Ihler-Meyer)
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EX NIHILO
TIMO WRIGHT
[14.08.2018 - 14.10.2018]
6STAIRCASE
Ex Nihilo is an experimental short documentary about life, death and our attempts to control them. It tells the stories of an advanced humanoid robot, a cryonics facility, where the brains of deceased people are held and of a international seed vault, where crop seed from around the world are held frozen.
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TIMO WRIGHT
[14.08.2018 - 14.10.2018]
6STAIRCASE
Ex Nihilo is an experimental short documentary about life, death and our attempts to control them. It tells the stories of an advanced humanoid robot, a cryonics facility, where the brains of deceased people are held and of a international seed vault, where crop seed from around the world are held frozen.
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VERS L’EUROPA DESERTA, TERRA INCOGNITA (2017)
Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi
[12.06.2018 - 12.08.2018]
STAIRCASE
Vers l’Europa deserta, Terra Incognita aims at a deconstruction of the models of inventive self-representation shared by suburban youth cultures throughout Europe, moving through an expanded periphery between Italy and France.
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Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi
[12.06.2018 - 12.08.2018]
STAIRCASE
Vers l’Europa deserta, Terra Incognita aims at a deconstruction of the models of inventive self-representation shared by suburban youth cultures throughout Europe, moving through an expanded periphery between Italy and France.
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FIELD OF BLOOD (2018)
KAISA SALMI
[10.04.2018 - 10.06.2018]
STAIRCASE
Participatory performance ”Field of blood” was held in Kouvola city 23.7.2016 at the same field where in the Finnish Civil war 1918 were executed and buried hundred’s of ”white’s” and after the war hundred’s of ”red’s”. Film ”Field of blood” consists the performance (300 participants) and one main character’s story. Kari Harju tell’s his family story of 1918 happenings and why he wanted to join the ”Field of blood” performance at Kouvola city.
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KAISA SALMI
[10.04.2018 - 10.06.2018]
STAIRCASE
Participatory performance ”Field of blood” was held in Kouvola city 23.7.2016 at the same field where in the Finnish Civil war 1918 were executed and buried hundred’s of ”white’s” and after the war hundred’s of ”red’s”. Film ”Field of blood” consists the performance (300 participants) and one main character’s story. Kari Harju tell’s his family story of 1918 happenings and why he wanted to join the ”Field of blood” performance at Kouvola city.
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ERODING HUMAN MEMORY - THE PROCESS OF CREATION OF MEANINGS
[23.03.2018 - 02.09.2018]
What is art that is typical to the Satakunta province? What is Finnish art? Who can be called a master, who a trailblazer? On what grounds? Maurice Halbwachs first used the concept of collective memory back in the 1920s. It is not a metaphor but a social reality created, passed on and maintained by groups and institutions. Interpretations of the past are not constructed on the basis of individual memory; individual memory is socially constructed and therefore formed by mutual communication.
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[23.03.2018 - 02.09.2018]
What is art that is typical to the Satakunta province? What is Finnish art? Who can be called a master, who a trailblazer? On what grounds? Maurice Halbwachs first used the concept of collective memory back in the 1920s. It is not a metaphor but a social reality created, passed on and maintained by groups and institutions. Interpretations of the past are not constructed on the basis of individual memory; individual memory is socially constructed and therefore formed by mutual communication.
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MARCOS ÁVILA FORERO
[23.03.2018 - 02.09.2018]
HALL
A young artist fast garnering international attention, Marcos Ávila Foreron participated in Viva Arte Viva!, the main exhibition of the 2017 Venice Biennale, with a video piece called Atrato, which is also included in the show at Pori Art Museum. Marcos Ávila Foreron typically works in challenging terrain or inaccessible places such as remote rural villages in Colombia. The exhibition presents key works from his output focusing on the impacts of Colombia’s drug wars and FARC guerrillas on the lives of its population.
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[23.03.2018 - 02.09.2018]
HALL
A young artist fast garnering international attention, Marcos Ávila Foreron participated in Viva Arte Viva!, the main exhibition of the 2017 Venice Biennale, with a video piece called Atrato, which is also included in the show at Pori Art Museum. Marcos Ávila Foreron typically works in challenging terrain or inaccessible places such as remote rural villages in Colombia. The exhibition presents key works from his output focusing on the impacts of Colombia’s drug wars and FARC guerrillas on the lives of its population.
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LAHJOITTAJIEN MUOTOKUVIA / DONOR PORTRAITS
Nils Agdler and Timo Menke
[23.03.2018 - 02.09.2018]
PROJECT ROOM
The three-channel documentary film installation Gifted Men (2015) examines the staff of Danish fertility clinics, the owners of sperm banks, and the donors. “Anonymous sperm donors are like blind creators of entire family trees or populations that remain unaware of their begetter and can never learn their identity. Donors affect the demographics of society with much more far-reaching consequences than they themselves or anyone else can foresee.” Timo Menke
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Nils Agdler and Timo Menke
[23.03.2018 - 02.09.2018]
PROJECT ROOM
The three-channel documentary film installation Gifted Men (2015) examines the staff of Danish fertility clinics, the owners of sperm banks, and the donors. “Anonymous sperm donors are like blind creators of entire family trees or populations that remain unaware of their begetter and can never learn their identity. Donors affect the demographics of society with much more far-reaching consequences than they themselves or anyone else can foresee.” Timo Menke
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ART OF MEMORY
STEINA & WOODY VASULKA
[23.03.2018 - 02.09.2018]
WING, MEDIApoint
Steina (born 1940, Reykjavík) and Woody Vasulka (born 1937, Brno) are pioneers of electronic and digital image production. In their ongoing dialogue with machines – from cathode-ray televisions to digital Computer systems – they consider the electronic signal as artistic medium.
The exhibition is produced in cooperation with the National Gallery of Iceland.
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STEINA & WOODY VASULKA
[23.03.2018 - 02.09.2018]
WING, MEDIApoint
Steina (born 1940, Reykjavík) and Woody Vasulka (born 1937, Brno) are pioneers of electronic and digital image production. In their ongoing dialogue with machines – from cathode-ray televisions to digital Computer systems – they consider the electronic signal as artistic medium.
The exhibition is produced in cooperation with the National Gallery of Iceland.
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AMPLIFIER (2017)
Saara Ekström
[13.02.2018 - 08.04.2018]
STAIRCASE
Time inevitably moves from past to future, passing the present moment. Mankind encloses to time its marks, stains, constructions and ruins. On the verge of vast changes time acts abnormally. It leaks, folds and fractures, and allows things belonging elsewhere, to the otherworldly, to permeate itself.
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Saara Ekström
[13.02.2018 - 08.04.2018]
STAIRCASE
Time inevitably moves from past to future, passing the present moment. Mankind encloses to time its marks, stains, constructions and ruins. On the verge of vast changes time acts abnormally. It leaks, folds and fractures, and allows things belonging elsewhere, to the otherworldly, to permeate itself.
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THE STREET ENTERS THE HOUSE: SPACES BECOMING PLACES (2017)
Andrea Coyotzi Borja
[12.12.2017 - 11.02.2018]
Stair case
The Street Enters the House: Spaces Becoming Places takes the first part of its title from Umberto Boccioni’s painting The street enters the house (1911) as a parting point for questioning the role of spaces, and spaces becoming places.
What happens within the ordinary?
What happens with the un-dwelt?
What happens on the street?
What happens when the street enters the house, or in this case, the museum?
Is the street ordinary regardless of how it’s framed, regardless of the intention?
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Andrea Coyotzi Borja
[12.12.2017 - 11.02.2018]
Stair case
The Street Enters the House: Spaces Becoming Places takes the first part of its title from Umberto Boccioni’s painting The street enters the house (1911) as a parting point for questioning the role of spaces, and spaces becoming places.
What happens within the ordinary?
What happens with the un-dwelt?
What happens on the street?
What happens when the street enters the house, or in this case, the museum?
Is the street ordinary regardless of how it’s framed, regardless of the intention?
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ABANDONED LAND
Simo Saarikoski
[10.10.2017 - 10.12.2017]
Screening STAIRCASE
”Abandoned Land” is a documentary, experimental and poetic video which captures abandoned places, infrastructure and phenomenon in Finland. The video uses Finland as an allegory to approach recent changes of the European society with visually effective images, prosaic narration and music. With the abandoned phenomena the video explores history and its relation with today. Abandoned can be seen as a window to the future.
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Simo Saarikoski
[10.10.2017 - 10.12.2017]
Screening STAIRCASE
”Abandoned Land” is a documentary, experimental and poetic video which captures abandoned places, infrastructure and phenomenon in Finland. The video uses Finland as an allegory to approach recent changes of the European society with visually effective images, prosaic narration and music. With the abandoned phenomena the video explores history and its relation with today. Abandoned can be seen as a window to the future.
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FIGMENTS & FRAGMENTS
ANA TORFS
[22.09.2017 - 25.02.2018]
Wing, MEDIApoint
For her first solo exhibition in the Nordic countries, Belgian visual artist Ana Torfs brings together two major installations, The Parrot & the Nightingale, a Phantasmagoria (2014) and Legend (2009), as well as Toast, an iconic photograph she made in 2003, which functions as a connecting element between the exhibited installations.
Since the early 1990s, Ana Torfs has been composing a unique, visually striking oeuvre, which addresses fundamental questions of representation and its narrative structures. The relation or tension between text and image plays a central role in her work, and with it all the related processes of visualization, interpretation, perception, manipulation and translation. Torfs enables a topical and authentic perception of the scattered fragments from our cultural and political history. Literary texts or historical documents often constitute the starting point of her works. These material remnants are then reworked into meticulously composed installations—with diverse media such as slide projections, sound, photography and video, to tapestries and silk screens—in which projections and allusions have free reign.
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ANA TORFS
[22.09.2017 - 25.02.2018]
Wing, MEDIApoint
For her first solo exhibition in the Nordic countries, Belgian visual artist Ana Torfs brings together two major installations, The Parrot & the Nightingale, a Phantasmagoria (2014) and Legend (2009), as well as Toast, an iconic photograph she made in 2003, which functions as a connecting element between the exhibited installations.
Since the early 1990s, Ana Torfs has been composing a unique, visually striking oeuvre, which addresses fundamental questions of representation and its narrative structures. The relation or tension between text and image plays a central role in her work, and with it all the related processes of visualization, interpretation, perception, manipulation and translation. Torfs enables a topical and authentic perception of the scattered fragments from our cultural and political history. Literary texts or historical documents often constitute the starting point of her works. These material remnants are then reworked into meticulously composed installations—with diverse media such as slide projections, sound, photography and video, to tapestries and silk screens—in which projections and allusions have free reign.
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MUSEUM OF PRESERVING CITY - KAUPUNGIN SÄILYTTÄMISEN MUSEO
Muhammad Ali | Nisrine Boukhari | Diana Jabi
[22.09.2017 - 25.02.2018]
PROJECT ROOM
Curator Abir Boukhari
Born in Syria, Abir Boukhari is a curator who lives and works in Stockholm. Museum of Preserving City is a project that aims to build an archive based on artworks that record the history, recent past, left or are about to leave. They are either citizens of Damascus or have explored it as visitors. The project is an attempt to build a conceptual archive of Damascus as the oldest capital city in the world – while also establishing an idea of the current situation in the city. The exhibition mounted in the Project Room at the Pori Art Museum will consist of works selected from the archive that open up a vision of the present and vision about the future of the City of Damascus. All participating artists have experienced the city personally. Some are still living there, while others have current situation in Syria, which goes beyond media imageries.
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Muhammad Ali | Nisrine Boukhari | Diana Jabi
[22.09.2017 - 25.02.2018]
PROJECT ROOM
Curator Abir Boukhari
Born in Syria, Abir Boukhari is a curator who lives and works in Stockholm. Museum of Preserving City is a project that aims to build an archive based on artworks that record the history, recent past, left or are about to leave. They are either citizens of Damascus or have explored it as visitors. The project is an attempt to build a conceptual archive of Damascus as the oldest capital city in the world – while also establishing an idea of the current situation in the city. The exhibition mounted in the Project Room at the Pori Art Museum will consist of works selected from the archive that open up a vision of the present and vision about the future of the City of Damascus. All participating artists have experienced the city personally. Some are still living there, while others have current situation in Syria, which goes beyond media imageries.
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CAMBECK, (2010)
Binelde Hyrcan
[08.08.2017 - 08.10.2017]
Screening STAIRCASE
«A poignant short video in the Angola Pavilion by the young artist Binelde Hyrcan sums it up: Four young boys sit chest deep in holes in the sand, looking out to the sea, and they talk about the future. The littlest one in front is the limo driver, and the two in the back are the “big shots” arguing about who will have the better life. “I’m going to America,” one says, “and live in a building; you’re going to stay here and live in a house made of cans!»
- the Wall Street Journal.
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Binelde Hyrcan
[08.08.2017 - 08.10.2017]
Screening STAIRCASE
«A poignant short video in the Angola Pavilion by the young artist Binelde Hyrcan sums it up: Four young boys sit chest deep in holes in the sand, looking out to the sea, and they talk about the future. The littlest one in front is the limo driver, and the two in the back are the “big shots” arguing about who will have the better life. “I’m going to America,” one says, “and live in a building; you’re going to stay here and live in a house made of cans!»
- the Wall Street Journal.
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THINKING OF INVERTEBRATES (2017)
NABB+TEERI
[06.06.2017 - 06.08.2017]
Screening STAIRCASE
8 September/ In the botanical gardens, a bank has sponsored a flowerbed and a telecommunications company a park bench, the historical greenhouse has been renovated with EU money. Indoors, a woman waters plant beds with a garden hose. I find the fungi growing on the rotten wood between the labelled plants most impressive. Some of the mushrooms look like small, soil-coated almond potatoes. One minuscule pale-yellow fungus, decorative like a hedgehog mushroom, is washed invisible with the pressure of the water from the hose. In the cactus room, a Stapelia grandiflora is opening its buds. A dark squirrel hides hazelnuts from its cheek pouches into a plastic flowerpot by the building.
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NABB+TEERI
[06.06.2017 - 06.08.2017]
Screening STAIRCASE
8 September/ In the botanical gardens, a bank has sponsored a flowerbed and a telecommunications company a park bench, the historical greenhouse has been renovated with EU money. Indoors, a woman waters plant beds with a garden hose. I find the fungi growing on the rotten wood between the labelled plants most impressive. Some of the mushrooms look like small, soil-coated almond potatoes. One minuscule pale-yellow fungus, decorative like a hedgehog mushroom, is washed invisible with the pressure of the water from the hose. In the cactus room, a Stapelia grandiflora is opening its buds. A dark squirrel hides hazelnuts from its cheek pouches into a plastic flowerpot by the building.
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PROCESS SUMMER
[01.06.2017 - 10.09.2017]
PROCESSwall / Café
PROCESSwall is an exhibition space that showcases the processes of public programming and audience experiences in the Pori Art Museum. Exhibition programme for the space is drawn up by Pori Art Museum in collaboration with Pori Centre for Children's Culture – Network of Children's Culture in Satakunta.
PROCESS Summer presents ongoing public programming in the Pori Art Museum. Organised by Pori Art Museum in cooperation with Pori Centre for Children's Culture – Network of Children's Culture in Satakunta.
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[01.06.2017 - 10.09.2017]
PROCESSwall / Café
PROCESSwall is an exhibition space that showcases the processes of public programming and audience experiences in the Pori Art Museum. Exhibition programme for the space is drawn up by Pori Art Museum in collaboration with Pori Centre for Children's Culture – Network of Children's Culture in Satakunta.
PROCESS Summer presents ongoing public programming in the Pori Art Museum. Organised by Pori Art Museum in cooperation with Pori Centre for Children's Culture – Network of Children's Culture in Satakunta.
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TIGER PHASED
Thomas Hawranke
[04.04.2017 - 04.06.2017]
STAIRCASE
Tiger Phased is a meditation about the standardization of the wild in video games. 300 tigers fight each other on territory and supremacy in the digital vastness of the game-editor view. On the auditory layer, two 12-tone sequences can be heard, which have the same tone height but are played at slightly different speed. From this interference, new melodies emerge and create a trance-like experience in the interplay with the images: The motion of the tigers, the highlighting in their fur at the moment of death and the music make the underlying rhythm of the game-engine aesthetically experienceable and unmask the complex simulation of the wild as standardization.
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Thomas Hawranke
[04.04.2017 - 04.06.2017]
STAIRCASE
Tiger Phased is a meditation about the standardization of the wild in video games. 300 tigers fight each other on territory and supremacy in the digital vastness of the game-editor view. On the auditory layer, two 12-tone sequences can be heard, which have the same tone height but are played at slightly different speed. From this interference, new melodies emerge and create a trance-like experience in the interplay with the images: The motion of the tigers, the highlighting in their fur at the moment of death and the music make the underlying rhythm of the game-engine aesthetically experienceable and unmask the complex simulation of the wild as standardization.
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