COMING EXHIBITIONS

COLLECTORS GAZE - THE ART COLLECTIONS OF KRISTIAN AND KIRSI GULLICHSEN & JUHANI AND HANNELE PALLASMAA [07.06.2013 - 08.09.2013] HALL, WING, MEDIApoint, PROJECT ROOM, LOBBY The architect of the museum building of Pori Art Museum, the colleagues and the collections of the colleagues meet – mainly Finnish and Nordic contemporary art, as well as works by French modernists. At the central point of the exhibition are those tensions that arise from the relationship between the art of the public room – the museum room – and private art, that suits well in a home. Our aim is to investigate the architectonical questions that emerge as a result of this.

THE FOREST IS YOUNG AND FULL OF LIFE JAANA KOKKO [07.06.2013 - 08.09.2013] Stair The Forest Is Young and Full of Life is a film which consists of parallel conversations representing different perspectives. The fictive and factual material weave together to form a whole that sheds light on urban people’s relationship to animals, nature and the built environment.

VIIVAIN TOMMI GRÖNLUND & PETTERI NISUNEN [07.06.2013 - 08.09.2013] Liner is an installation, which is constantly reacting to the weather conditions and the circadian rhytm.

BODIES, BORDERS, CROSSINGS Jaakko Heikkilä, Riikka Kuoppala, Raakel ­Kuukka, Elena Näsänen, Marja Pirilä, Minna Rainio & Mark Roberts, Hannele Rantala, Catarina Ryöppy and ­Minna Suoniemi [27.09.2013 - 19.01.2014] HALL

PERFORMERS – PORTRAITS OF PERFORMANCE ARTISTS JOHNNY AMORE [27.09.2013 - 24.11.2013] MEDIApoint The exhibition is the first part of a series on International performance art I Perform, Therefore I am Curated by Pia Hovi-Assad Performers is a unique photographic project, which is portraying the worldwide active artists in performance art and live art. It is a visual profile of this scene for the last decade that through a wide spectrum also encloses an artistic photo archive. Yhteistyössä: museum FLUXUS+ (Potsdam)

KOVA REUNA JA KOSKETUSPINTA. UUSIA KYSYMYKSIÄ MG-KOKOELMALLE [27.09.2013 - 19.01.2014] PROJECT ROOM Curated by Mirja Ramstedt-Salonen and Anni Venäläinen

HEIJASTUS JUHANI KOIVUMÄKI [27.09.2013 - 23.11.2013] STAIR PORI SCREENINGS: EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS ON LIFE AND DEATH A newborn child´s vision about the world before having absorbed the ideas of the surrounding environment in regard to time, place and the distinction between me and the other.

PUUT PUNALLE, MAAT SINELLE CHERIE SAMPSON [29.11.2013 - 19.01.2014] MEDIApoint The exhibition is part of an series on International performance art I Perform, Therefore I am Curated by Pia Hovi-Assad The exhibition is a comprehensive look at video-performance works Cherie Sampson have made in the Finnish landscape from 1998 to the present. The Kalevala epic and the tradition of the rune poetry of Karelia itself have been profoundly influential on her live art and video-performance work.

IN MEMORIAM NIINA SUOMINEN [29.11.2013 - 19.01.2014] STAIR PORI SCREENINGS: EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS ON LIFE AND DEATH In Memoriam addresses the temporariness of human beings. Images of desolate houses and sounds from an auction combine to form a meditation on what will be left of us when we have left the stage.