Our Story
Gallery Persons Projects (formerly Taik Persons) was founded in 1995 in Helsinki and is since 2005 located in Berlin. The gallery represents a select group of established and emerging artists. The program is centered around a conceptually rigorous artistic practice with a main focus on the photographic process. It is the prime gallery for those selected artists who now make up what is known as the Helsinki School.
The gallery participates in international art fairs and tours museum exhibitions for its primary artists. Moreover the gallery works actively with independent publishing houses in creating limited edition art books.
Organising between seven and eight shows a year, the programe varies between solo and group exhibitions by the Gallery’s main artists as well as guest artists curated by the gallery.
Bemerkungen
FOCUS ON — Grey Crawford! During Gallery Weekend, Crawford’s series “Chroma Figura 1978-84” will be exhibited for the first time. These highly original works use color masking techniques in the darkroom that were groundbreaking in the 70s and 80s. Feel free to keep reading about this series on our website!
Image Credits:
“Chroma #73”, 1980, Archival pigment print, 120 x 170 cm
“Chroma #8”, 1981, Archival pigment print, 120 x 170 cm
“Chroma #63”, 1980, Archival pigment print, 120 x 170 cm
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FOCUS ON - Milja Laurila! For Gallery Weekend Berlin, we will present a very special show about Laurila's new works from her series 'Untitled Women' in which she modifies old medical images. To find out more about the art, please visit our website here:
https://personsprojects.com/exhibitions/milja-laurila--untitled-women
Image Captions:
'Untitled Woman VII', 2022, archival pigment print, mounted on aluminum, 63,5 x 50,5 cm
Exhibition view
'Untitled Woman Sketch IV', 2022, archival pigment print, mounted on aluminum, 62 x 51,5 cm
SAVE THE DATE! Gallery Weekend Berlin is coming up very soon. On this occasion, Persons Projects will open up two new exhibitions that are focusing on the works of Grey Crawford and Milja Laurila. Stay tuned for more!
Image Credits:
Grey Crawford, 'Croma #119', 1981, archival pigment print, 120 x 170 cm.
Milja Laurila, 'Untitled Woman Sketch II', 2022, archival pigment print mounted on aluminum, cut paper, 66 x 59 cm.
Last couple of days of Art Düsseldorf! We will be at booth A05 from 11am to 7pm today, Saturday April 9, and tomorrow, Sunday April 10. Come by and see the works!
Image credits:
Eeva Karhu, “En Plein Air, Summer 3”, 2021, archival pigment print, 120 x 180 cm.
Jakub Julian Ziółkowski, “A Spirit Guide”, 2021, mixed media panel, 90 x 82.5 x 12 cm.
Milja Laurila, “Untitled Women” series, 2022, archival pigment print mounted on aluminium.
Jakub Julian Ziółkowski, “Logos”, 2021, oil and mixed technique on canvas, 210 x 160 x 23 cm.
Today! We are opening our new group exhibition "Notes from a Seamstress' Daughter" at Persons Projects and cordially invite you to join us today, on Friday, 11 March, from 6 – 8 pm.
The exhibition will run from 11 March to 23 April 2022.
The show presents a unique selection of female artists – Zofia Kulik, Anni Leppälä, Ragna Róbertsdottir, and Niina Vatanen – who share a common ground within their artistic practices as they all incorporate and draw from their own personal histories. Their work and overall creative development were influenced by a female presence that played a significant role in their upbringing. Under this aspect, this group exhibition intends to explore four different female perspectives and how they are joined together through the process of objectifying their own fears and doubts in their search for their own identity. Their artistic arsenal ranges from threads and pins to textile ornaments and patterns. Regardless of the materials used, the works collected in this exhibition reflect a tactile sensibility in the way the artists apply them.
Find out more on our website:
https://www.personsprojects.com/exhibitions/notes-from-a-seamstress-daughter
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Happy Birthday wishes to Katarzyna Kozyra!
Katarzyna Kozyra is well known all around the world, stirring controversy for years and never ceasing to surprise. This wonderful photo by Mateusz Stankiewicz comes from an interview with the artist that is being featured in the latest issue of Kmag Magazine.
Photo credits: Mateusz Stankiewicz
Today is the last day of Karl Ketamo's solo exhibition "Among Other Things”. Don't miss the chance if you haven't seen the show yet! We welcome you at our gallery at Lindenstraße 34 from 11 am - 6 pm. Looking forward to seeing you there!
This has been Ketamo's first solo exhibition, presenting his photographic works from his series "Landscapes of Authority" (2016). By using images commonly printed on the pages of passports, Ketamo not only explores the more unusual forms of representing landscape, but questions the meaning of national identity, as well as the authority that is issued to the passports owner. The project sets itself against the events of 2014-2015, later to be labelled as the ‘European migration crisis’. The selected images highlight nations benefitting from freedom of movement that is denied to others even in a deep humanitarian crisis.
We are very happy to share the latest review of Zofia Kulik's book, "Zofia Kulik: Methodology, My Love", by Joanna Turowicz at “Woman’s Art Journal”.
"This contemporary context is also stressed by Murawski, who, however, speaking from the position of an anthropologist of Warsaw’s architecture and urban spaces, notices a potential of revolt and resistance in the marching and disciplined human masses shown in Kulik’s works. At the time of Poland’s ongoing Women’s Strike (Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet or OSK) and recurring mass street protests fomented by the introduction of radically strict anti-abortion laws in October last year at the height of the pandemic crisis, these interpretations and Kulik’s works themselves gain a pressing topical urgency."
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Woman’s Art Journal, Vol. 42, no. 2 (Fall/Winter, 2021), pp. 62-65.
https://womansartjournal.org/42-2.php
Image: Zofia Kulik, Ethnic Wars. Large Vanitas Still Life (fragment), 1997
Happy Birthday, Jyrki Parantainen!
We wish you all a wonderful New Year's Eve and a great start in 2022!
Artwork: Jyrki Parantainen, Alphabet of Possibilities, 2004, archival pigment print, 100 x 130 cm, courtesy: Persons Projects
We are pleased to inform you that Ragna Róbertsdóttir’s work “Landscape for Donald Judd” (2007) is currently on view at Cloud Seven in Brussels, where it is exhibited as part of the Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection.
In a room next to works by Herman de Vries and Gareth Moore, these pieces speak of the artists’ memories and address them through elements collected while traveling, often remaining unaltered. It is a question of restituting the world through samples, maps, the earth, and collected objects. This poetical dimension also reflects an attentiveness to the environment and its small details that inspire both the artist and the collector.
Cloud Seven
Open Wed – Fri, 3 – 7 pm, Sat 2 – 7 pm
https://www.cloudseven.be/
Image: Installation view at Cloud Seven, 2021, photography: Hugard & Vanoverschelde, courtesy: Cloud Seven, Brussels
Happy Birthday, Sanna Kannisto!
We are happy to announce that Sanna Kannisto’s book “Observing Eye”, with texts by Barbara Hofmann-Johnson, is now available in the 2nd edition at Hatje Cantz Verlag!
"As individuals, in pairs or in groups, in the centre of the image, sitting on branches, some of them with leaves or berries, or in flight, in the Finnish artist’s purist-aesthetic stage sets the birds pose as in portraits. With their colorful, graphically patterned plumage and individual physiognomies, they demonstrate once again why, in the diversity of their species, Charles Darwin already considered them belonging to the most aesthetic animals in nature”. Barbara Hofmann-Johnson
The forth and current edition of our Image to Image "All the Pretty Landscapes" is on display until 15 January! We welcome you at the live streaming every day from 3 to 8 pm or take a look at the exhibition online on video.personsprojects.com.
"All the Pretty Landscapes", does not only explore different angles of landscape representation but also looks at humanity’s responsibility to our environment. Curator Olaf Stüber has therefore assembled a range of very individual and personal looks upon mother nature, all devoted to the fight against climate change. Featuring artworks by Bigert&Bergström, Almagul Menlibayeva, Lukas Marxt, Bjørn Melhus and Maryna Makarenko. Curated by Olaf Stüber.
“Imperial Valley (Cultivated run-off)” is the unique artistic approach of Lukas Marxt towards one of California´s most important regions of industrial agriculture which attained sad notoriety through the Mexican migration movement. Accompanied by baleful, alarming, whistlingbooming electro sounds (Jung An Tagen), the speedy drone flight over the valley becomes a journey in an extinct, abstract, uncanny, hostile landscape: a dystopian science fiction scenario, anchored in the reality of the present.
Video excerpt: Lukas Marxt, Imperial Valley (cultivated run-off), 2018, HD video, single channel, 14 minutes
