Persons Projects

09/02/2021

Searching for the Shapes Within is a group exhibition presents works by Grey Crawford, KwieKulik, Teresa Murak, Riitta Päiväläinen, Finnbogi Pétursson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir and Ryszard Wasko at Persons Projects.
The Art World of the 1960-70’s experienced a healthy transformation in perception with the emergence of Performance and Land Art. These new modes of artistic expression challenged the traditional white cube scenario of what art is and how it should be exhibited.
What we see, breathe and stand on is part of the natural world we build our state of being from. Yet in reality it’s a combination of numerous elements and shapes all converging together to form an environment that’s in constant flux. What all these artists share in common is a mutual sense for experimentation that creates new frames for thought. Their works form a 50-year timeline, beginning in the early 1970’s up until the present, that engages in a joined dialogue that spans from California, Iceland, Finland, Poland to Israel.

On view until February 27, 2021
Due to the current lockdown restrictions we are open by appointment only. Please contact us: [email protected]

06/02/2021

Artist Interview: Mikko Rikala

Interview with Mikko Rikala on the occasion of his solo exhibition Paradigms of Chance at Persons Projects.

Mikko Rikala is an artist who uses the photographic process as tool for gathering and recording material to help him in his philosophical pursuit of finding different ways to explore what’s behind the rational self. Rikala states, "I’m trying to uncover the relationship between what is seen as rational on one hand and what is perceived as irrational on the other.” His work is a reflection that merges mystical and philosophical thoughts through the empirical process of observation. Unlike his previous works, where he used the photographic process to record the now and then, these new pieces focus on the mysteries that lie beneath the unseen. He asks, "What are the possibilities for a person to observe and understand the world beyond the rational mind?”

Interview with Mikko Rikala on the occasion of his solo exhibition Paradigms of Chance at Persons Projects. Mikko Rikala is an artist who uses the photographic…

02/02/2021

Niko Luoma`s new exhibition One of Many Epilogues at Galerie Nikolaus Rizucska

Our new exhibition by finnish artist NIKO LUOMA is all set but no one can see it due to lockdown 🥺 but you can take a peek at our homepage : ruzicska.com!
#nikoluoma @niko_luoma_studio #salzburg #gallery #contemporaryphotography

15/01/2021

Mikko Rikala’s solo show is featured on Photo London
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Currently, we are open by appointment only.

Until 27 February, @persons.projects, Berlin, presents the exhibitions ‘Searching for the Shapes Within’ and ‘Paradigms of Chance’.

‘Paradigms of Chance’ is a solo exhibition of Finnish artist Mikko Rikala.The exhibition’s most prolific group of works ‘A Year in My Pocket’, features photographs that Rikala took over four seasons from specific places in the Finnish archipelago, where he focuses on the water in its various seasonal cycles. He subsequently prints and folds one photograph for each season and places it in his pocket, which he then carries throughout that season. Every so often he would pull out the trousered photograph to document its transformation and condition, then place it back into his pocket. Like the memories we keep in our heads, the image is transformed over time through its everyday use of being transported and carried.

‘Searching for the Shapes Within’ is a group show focusing on the earth as a common base for different land art interventions. It features work by Grey Crawford, KwieKulik, Teresa Murak, Riitta Päiväläinen, Finnbogi Pétursson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir and Ryszard Wasko.

Images: Mikko Rikala: "are made of (just) carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams*", 2020, pigment print, 86 x 65 cm, edition of 6 + 2AP, from the series Paradigms of Chance. Both images courtesy of Persons Projects, Berlin 2020.

#SearchingfortheShapesWithin #MikkoRikala #ParadigmsofChance #PersonsProjects #photolondonexhibitor #photolondonfair

06/01/2021

Sandra Kantanen’s artwork Untitled (Forest 5), 2016/2017 is exhibited at the group show Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph. The exhibition is presented by the Houston Center of Photography and open until the 10th of January 2021

Venue: Houston Center of Photography
Address: 1441 West Alabama, Houston, Texas 77006, USA

31/12/2020

We would like to thank you for being with us!

It's been a challenging time, but we are feeling confident about the future. We thoroughly understand the struggles and frustrations these Covid-19 times have caused you, and we, on our side, are doing our best to be creative despite it. We are optimistic about the upcoming year and the reopening of the fairs, Gallery Weekend, the summer group show of young artists in Berlin, and the Taidehalli (Kunsthalle Helsinki) exhibition in September, celebrating 25 years of the Helsinki School. We especially look forward to upcoming new publications by Joakim Eskildsen, Zofia Kulik, Niko Luoma, and Jari Silomäki.

Moreover, we invite you to become a member of the Helsinki School’s Circle of Friends: With this membership, you will support the diverse activities of the Helsinki School and thanks to your patronage, we can improve the promotion of our artists by publishing books and organizing exhibitions, among many other possibilities. Please find more information about the Helsinki School’s circle of friends and how to become a member on our website: www.helsinkischool.fi/friends

It reminds us now more than ever of the significance of the words Elie Wiesel once said, “think higher and live deeper”.

Very best wishes for the New Year 2021!

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Artwork:
Joakim Eskildsen, Aeroplane, 2008
Pigment print on archival paper
65 x 54 cm / Edition of 21+2AP
109 x 130 cm / Edition of 7+2AP

15/12/2020

Dear Visitors,

Persons Projects and Persons Projects | Helsinki School is open by appointment only from the 16th of December 2020.

Our current shows:

Persons Projects
Searching for the Shapes Within
Grey Crawford | KwieKulik | Teresa Murak | Riitta Päiväläinen | Finnbogi Pétursson |
Ragna Róbertsdóttir | Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir | Ryszard Wasko
21 November 2020 – 27 February 2021

Persons Projects | Helsinki School
Mikko Rikala | Paradigms of Chance
21 November 2020 – 27 February 2021

Please do not hesitate to contact us:
+49 177 5018190

Sincerely,
Your Persons Projects Team

11/12/2020

Blind - Movies: Joakim Eskildsen, Nothing Special

"[…] Joakim seems to have just an ease with making intimate pictures. You feel like you`re close to the person, you feel like somehow he understands the subject in a way that he gets something about their heart, who they are." - Kathy Ryan, Director of photography, The New York Times Magazine

We are glad to share that the full documentary movie of Persons Projects artist Joakim Eskildsen is now available to watch!

Filmed by Martin Zarka

Joakim Eskildsen is a Danish documentary photographer praised for his work on the Roma people and poverty in the United States. After traveling the world to document the stories and the lives of others, Joakim is now telling his own story and that of the people around him in this 38-minutes film. At...

11/12/2020

Grey Crawford is an American artist residing in Los Angeles, California. His photographic works from the 1970’s and early 1980’s have recently been discovered and represent some of the first experimentations with manipulating black and white and color photography. During this time period he also simultaneously, explored a series of performance enhanced works connected with Land Art.
These recently discovered works in this exhibition mark the first time they have ever been exhibited and establish Grey Crawford as one of the most unique artists to evolve out of Southern California from the 1970s. His El Mirage series created in the Mojave Desert represents a group of performance-enhanced photographic works from the mid- 1970s that captures his very early experimental play. Crawford, utilizing steel and glass plates, one to be thrown into the air to randomly land within a designated space, the other as a building material for momentary structures.
“I started with metal shapes and I would throw them into the air and document their flight and how they would plunge into the ground. Then I would mark an area with either string or chalk and throw the plates in the air, hoping to land within the framework of his designated space. Metal has a permanence and integrity of its own. Realizing this and how it looked, I wanted to experiment with the opposite. I started using glass for building basic architectural structures to emphasize the contrasting qualities between the hard and sharp edges of metal with the soft transparent, visually arresting, ultimately breaking traits associated with glass.”
Using the vastness of the desert plane as his ultimate stage, Crawford uses the photographic process to record his multifaceted performances using both Black and White and color photography. These minimal performance-based constructions reflect Crawford’s fascination with exploring the possibilities that emerge through the photographic perspective of angle and view combined with light and time, motion sequencing, to create new architectural realities.

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On view now:⁠
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Grey Crawford, El Mirage #23, 1976 / 2018 ⁠
Silver gelatin print, 50,5 x 66 cm ⁠
Edition 2 / 12 + 2AP⁠

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Searching for the Shapes Within, group exhibition featuring Grey Crawford, KwieKulik, Teresa Murak, Riitta Päiväläinen, Finnbogi Pétursson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Ryszard Wasko
Exhibition: 21 November 2020 – 27 February 2021
Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35, 10969 Berlin

04/12/2020

Helsinki School artist Jari Silomäki's solo exhibition Atlas of Emotions is open until the 6th of January, 2021, at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki. The show features works from his same name series along with pieces from My Weather Diary (2001- ongoing).

26/11/2020

INDEX Berlin

“Searching for the Shapes Within”
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Groupshow until Feb. 27
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with works by
Grey Crawford, KwieKulik, Teresa Murak, Riitta Päiväläinen, Finnbogi Pétursson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Ryszard Wasko
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Image: Teresa Murak, sculpture for the earth, 1974
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@persons.projects
#galleriesremainopen
#teresamurak
#indexberlin

21/11/2020

Mikko Rikala’s solo exhibition Paradigms of Chance is open now and you are most welcome to join us for the opening today, from 12 - 6 pm!

20/11/2020

We invite you to join us today and tomorrow for the opening of our new group show, Searching for the Shapes Within, an exhibition featuring Grey Crawford KwieKulik Teresa Murak Riitta Päiväläinen Finnbogi Pétursson Ragna Róbertsdóttir Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir Ryszard Wasko.

Opening: Friday, 20 November 2020, 12 – 9 pm, Saturday, 21 November 2020, 12 – 6 pm
Exhibition: 21 November 2020 – 27 February 2021
Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35, 10969 Berlin

18/11/2020

Berlin Art Link

You are most welcome to join us on Friday and on Saturday for the opening of our two new exhibitions:

Searching for the Shapes Within, which will present works by Grey Crawford, KwieKulik, Teresa Murak, Riitta Päiväläinen, Finnbogi Pétursson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Ryszard Wasko

and Mikko Rikala’s solo exhibition Paradigms of Chance!

For more information please visit our website:
www.personsprojects.com/exhibitions/upcoming

Happenings around town this week include events hosted by DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Buchmann Galerie, synthesis gallery, Persons Projects, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, KOW Galerie, Galerie Nordenhake, Future Gallery, Galerie Barbara Weiss, and more...

14/11/2020

Please come and join us today as this is your last chance to see our two solo exhibitions: Time Is No Longer Round by Santeri Tuori and Shadows Within by Eeva Karhu!

We are open from 11 am - 6 pm!

12/11/2020

Artist Interview: Eeva Karhu

Interview with Eeva Karhu on the occasion of her solo exhibition Shadows Within at Persons Projects. The show is open until November 14, 2020.

Eeva Karhu is one of the new generation of artists emerging from the Helsinki School who use nature and its seasonal passing as their personal barometer to measure and translate our world by the power of its presence in our daily lives.

She uses photographic process of layering one image upon another as her method for collecting the passage of time. This is most evident in her ongoing Path series, where she photographs the same walking route she takes from her home. After her walk, she compiles all the photographs together into one image to form the given moment they were taken in. Karhu continues this process throughout the year, creating her own visual calendar of time periods based on the harvesting of light from one moment to the next.

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Film and Music: Jouko Aroheinä
Edit: Eeva Karhu
Photographs copyright Eeva Karhu
Exhibition photographs copyright Emese Kiss

Interview with Eeva Karhu on the occasion of her solo exhibition Shadows Within at Persons Projects. The show was part of the European Month of Photography Berlin,…

04/11/2020

Congratulations to Sanna Kannisto and Santeri Tuori for receiving the silver and bronze award of Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2020 for their publications Observing Eye and Time Is No Longer Round by Hatje Cantz, 2020!

Santeri Tuori`s book is on view now in his solo exhibition until the 14th of November.

04/11/2020

In despite of the current situation we are allowed to stay open and welcome you to visit our ongoing shows at our usual opening hours:

Tuesday – Saturday, from 11am – 6pm

Stay safe and healthy!

Museums, Project Spaces, Cinemas and Private Collections can‘t show their contemporary art until December. But galleries are open! Please come visit!

@bq_berlin @mountains_berlin @nageldraxler @dittrichschlechtriem @neugerriemschneider @galerie_neu @danielmarzona @chertluedde @galerieklemms @soycapitangallery @kowberlin @koeniggalerie @carliergebauer @schiefe_zaehne @gregorpodnar @galerie_barbara_thumm @buchmann_galerie @galeriethomasschulte @persons.projects @galerie_nordenhake @alexanderlevygallery @galerierussiklenner @konradfischergalerie @aurelscheiblergallery @barbarawien @isabellabortolozzi @psmgallery @future_gallery @nomegallery @loockgalerie @galerietanjawagner @guidowbaudach @klosterfelde_edition @estherschipperberlin @galeriaplanb @tobiasnaehring @tanyaleighton #thomasfischergalerie ...

01/11/2020

Artist Interview: Santeri Tuori

Interview with Santeri Tuori on the occasion of his solo exhibition Time Is No Longer Round at Persons Projects.

Santeri Tuori uses a camera to engage with the properties of nature and its power of change over the past two decades. Forests, skies, lilies, and wind are only some of the basic elements you might find in any Nordic landscape, and all become items of Tuori’s interest and observation. How should we value these essential features that make up the northern scenery is the fundamental question that lies behind Tuori’s work and his fascination with the passage of time.

The show is open until 14 November 2020.
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⁠Filmed and edited by Daniel James Court
Photographs copyright Santeri Tuori
Exhibition photographs copyright Emese Kiss

Interview with Santeri Tuori on the occasion of his solo exhibition Time Is No Longer Round at Persons Projects. The show is part of the European Month of Photography…

01/11/2020

Join us today for SUNDAY OPEN organised by INDEX Berlin. We are open from 12-6 pm!⁠

Our two current solo exhibitions;
Eeva Karhu - Shadows Within
and
Santeri Tuori - Time is No Longer Round

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Installation view: Eeva Karhu - Shadows Within

24/10/2020

The new catalog of Elina Brotherus`upcoming solo show has been published! The exhibition `Why not?` opens on 25 October at Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst.

Große Freude! Der neue Katalog ist eingetroffen: Elina Brotherus. Why not?

Beiträge von J. de Vries, I. Clauß, G. Boulboullé
Text: Deutsch / Englisch
160 Seiten, 104 Abbildungen in Farbe
22,5 x 30 cm, gebunden mit Lesebändchen
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3684-5
29,90 €

Ab sofort im Museumsshop und überall, wo es tolle Bücher gibt!

Dank insbesondere auch an @hirmerverlag und @studio_lindhorst_emme

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Great joy! The new catalog has arrived: Elina Brotherus. Why not?

Contributions from J. de Vries, I. Clauß, G. Boulboullé
text: German / English
160 pages, 104 illustrations in color
22,5 x 30 cm, bound with ribbon
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3684-5
29,90 €

From now on in the museum store and everywhere where there are great books!

Thanks especially to @hirmerverlag and @studio_lindhorst_emme

#weserburg #elinabrotherus @elinabrotherus @janne.devries @ingo_clauss #ingoclauss