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MORE THAN LIFE! Lars Göran Johnsson In the series Collector’s Eye [12.02.2010 - 30.05.2010] Hall, Entrance hall More Than Life! continues the Collector´s Eye exhibition series in the Pori Art Museum by presenting works from the collections of Lars Johnsson. The collection opens up perspectives on the tradition of Finnish and Scandinavian Modernism as well as the field of contemporary art. The collector´s personal and intellectual approach, one that is no stranger to powerful emotion either, delineates a subtle area in art that is informed by Nordic constructivist abstraction and the tradition of colour painting. Media release >> Read more >>

WHY DO YOU RESIST? [11.06.2010 - 05.09.2010] Hall/Wing/Entrance hall Zbynek Baladrán (CZE), Rebecca Bournigault (FRA), Thomas Galler (CH), Fabrice Gygi (CH), Thomas Hirschhorn (CH), 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.

BARE HOUSE . PORI - ROTTERDAM - ULASNBAATAR [29.05.2010 - 20.06.2010] Poriginal Gallery and Pori Art Museum/ Mediapoint, Sculpture Garden, Old Cotton Mill / Art Generation Space, Dyehouse Dugarsuren Batzorig (MN), Gregory Cowan(AUS/GB), Ser-Odin Dolgor(MN/GER), Togmidshiirevin Enkhbold(MN), Michael Fürst (AUT), Sedbazarin Ganzug(MN), Katrin Hornek(AUT), Aletta de Jong(NL), Sonia Leimer(ITA/AUT), Christian Mayer(GER/AUT), Ana Rewakowicz(PL/CAN), Christine Saalfeld(GER/NL), Yondonjunain Dalkh-Ochir(MN), Annu Wilenius & Oula Salokannel(FIN) BARE HOUSE. Pori - Rotterdam - Ulaanbaatar is an international exhibition and publication project that comments on the built environment, refl ecting upon the past and present ideals of modern society through Western welfare states and the Third World. The project focuses especially on architecture and the dimensions of personal existence. Modernisation with its belief in prefabricated construction and standards is challenged by the potential for autonomous construction. The artists and architects featured in the exhibition come from Finland, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and Mongolia. Most of the works in the show were created during artist residencies in Mongolia, the Netherlands and Pori. Curator: Annu Wilenius. In cooperation with: Aalto University/Pori School of Art and Design, Pori AIR - Artist in Residency, Foundation Kaus Australis, Open Society Institute & The Soros Foundations Network.

SCULPTURE! Educational exhibition in the Maire Gullichsen and Modernism series [12.02.2010 - 04.04.2010] Artists featured in the exhibition are Gunnar Elfgren, Laila Pullinen, Kimmo Pyykkö, Sakari Tohka Sculptures in bronze, iron or stone are by their very nature permanent. The sense of timelessness and immutability is only intensified by the idea of sculptures resting in the bosom of a museum in carefully regulated conditions. The Sculpture! exhibition investigates the solidity of the link between artworks and the ideas and ideologies of their time. Can present-day audiences approach artworks of past decades with the same freshness as contemporaries did, when the works engaged in the art discourse of their time by either challenging or confirming the then prevalent ideas and attitudes? Can features which challenged the taste of the age or enjoyed general acceptance still touch us in the same way? Does an artwork change because we are different? Media release >> Read more >>

MARGARITA ANDREU ENTREVEURE / VIEWER The gesture of the image [12.02.2010 - 04.04.2010] Wing, Mediapoint Espanjalainen kuvataiteilija Margarita Andreu (s. 1953) on syntynyt Kataloniassa, Cercsissä, joka on Barcelonan provinssi. Barcelona on toiminut hänen keskuksenaan. Sieltä käsin Andreu on tehnyt tutkimusmatkoja lähiympäristöön sekä maailman eri suurkaupunkeihin, tallentaen mm. rakennusten julkisivuja, rakenteita ja arkkitehtonisia yksityiskohtia. Margarita Andreu haluaa houkutella ihmiset havainnoimaan uudella tavalla ympäristöään. Hän tutkii valokuvan ja videon avulla valon, värin ja pinnan suhdetta. Hän kiinnittää huomionsa arkkitehtoniseen tilaan, sen fyysisiin vaikutuksiin ja siihen, miten se heijastuu ihmisen sosiaalisiin suhteisiin. Media release >> www.margaritaandreu.com Media release >> Read more >>

LARS BREUER, SEBASTIAN FREYTAG AND GUIDO MÜNCH MASTERCOPY [16.04.2010 - 30.05.2010] Wing, Mediapoint The young German artists Lars Breuer,Sebastian Freytag and Guido Münch founded in 2004 a group called KONSORTIUM. It is a dedicated community whose radicalidealistic aim was to place itself outside topical trends in art and the art market. The members of the group share an interest in early 20th-century avantgarde and its successors,such as the art trends of the Sixties, Minimalism and Conceptual Art. The motto of the group is taken from the Russian avantgarde artist Warwara Stepanowa:"Study and know the old, but create the new." By moving between the original and the copy, between the pattern and its actualisation, between personal ´handwriting´ and digital print, KONSORTIUM investigates the place of art in the field of globalising culture. Curators: Theresia Kiefer & Pia Hovi-Assad. In cooperation with: Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie / Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany www.konsortium-d.com