De Se -asenne / De Se Attitude 

The works in the exhibition  De Se -Attitude  constitute a compendium of situatedness and places – personal, temporal, and work-filled; material traces that put forward perspectives and showcase the layered nature of artistic knowledge production.

The exhibition features works by artists Jaana Kokko, Ghislaine Leung, Charlotte Posenenske, Salla Tykkä, and Mare Vint. Through the documentation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ work, a case study from the exhibition history of Pori Art Museum is highlighted. New works are also being created for the exhibition from artists Mia Wennerstrand and Melanie Jame Wolf and artist Anni Puolakka. Curator and researcher Helen Kaplinsky will revisit the exhibition history of Pori Art Museum and especially related to the work of artist Carolee Schneemann.

De Se Attitude – exhibition is curated by Miina Hujala, who is currently working on her doctoral dissertation at the University of the Arts Helsinki on exhibiting art.

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The exhibition period included changes in the installation. Mare Vint’s graphic works’ loan period ended in May and from beginning of June Anni Puolakka’s works were put on display and a text commissioned from Stanislava Ovchinnikova was brought into the space.

The exhibition included also two event days 13.6. and 30.8.2026 when ’WOMAN/DEATH: an augury’, a new play by Mia Wennerstrand and Melanie-Jame Wolf which has been commissioned by Pori Art Museum for the De Se Attitude- exhibition is performed.

The event day 13th of June also included other programming: A performance Skin Kin by Anni Puolakka and a documentary work by Nicole Widart ’Chantal Akerman, écrivain cinema’ and Carolee Schneemann’s Mysteries of the Pussies’ were screened as well as Helen Kaplinsky revisited the work ’Vulva’s Morphia’ by Carolee Schneemann through archives and conversations with those involved in its production and commissioning as part of the exhibition ’ANIMAL.ANIMA.ANIMUS’ which took place at Pori Art Museum and toured internationally between 1998-2000.

During the exhibition a film screening will also be held in collaboration with SHASHAT Woman Cinema, a Palestinian organization focusing on films made by women.

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ATTENTION

In the exhibition space at the museum’s Wing there is an artwork related to the De Se -attitude exhibition which instructs the space to be left uncleaned during the duration of the exhibition 28.3. – 30.8.2026. For this reason, there is an unusual amount of dust and dirt in the room. 

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We would like to thank all those who have loaned works to the exhibition:

Art Museum of Estonia
Maxwell Graham
Saastamoisen säätiön taidekokoelma / EMMA – Espoon modernin taiteen museo
Saastamoinen stiftelsens konstsamling / EMMA – Esbo moderna konstmuseum
Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection / EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art

IMAGE:

Ghislaine Leung, Hours