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Jani Leinonen’s beggar sign installation Anything Helps is included in the exhibition Far From Home – the last exhibition in a trilogy based on the ARoS museum’s collection.

The trilogy is intended to present alternative ideas as to how a museum can showcase and talk about relevant themes from our times through text, format, orchestration, and juxtaposition of works. The first exhibition, Out of the Darkness, 2014, thematised the structure and power of the great narratives, addressing the global challenges facing humanity. The second exhibition, No Man is an Island – The Satanic Verses, 2016, used the forceful political, economic, and cultural changes which Europe underwent at the time as a backdrop. Whereas the first exhibition was structured around a global perspective, the next had a specific geographical focus. Far From Home moves in with you – to the core of people’s mental sphere. From the global world to the individual’s experience of feeling at home in this world.

The closing date for Far From Home has not yet been decided.

The exhibition is inspired from an idea by Erlend G. Høyersten and is curated in collaboration with Erik Nørager Pedersen and Jakob Vengberg Sevel, both curators at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum

Read more about the exhibition at: www.aros.dk

Zetterberg Gallery is pleased to announce that Aurora Reinhard is one of the five nominees for the Ars Fennica Award 2019, an award granted by the Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation (est. 1990).

The award is presented to a visual artist in recognition of distinctive artistic work of high merit and includes a monetary prize of 40,000 euros.
The candidates will have a group exhibition at Amos Rex, Helsinki from June 19–Sept  8, 2019 and the winner will be announced in September 2019.

The nominees have been selected by the Award Panel, comprising chair Leena Niemistö, MD, and members; Jussi Kivi, visual artist, Kai Kartio, director of Amos Rex, and Leevi Haapala, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. The winner will be selected by an international art expert appointed by the Panel. During the exhibition visitors can vote for their favourite artist.

The other candidates are: Petri Ala-Maunus (FI), Miriam Bäckström (SE), Ragnar Kjartansson (IS) and Egill Sæbjörnsson (IS).

Read more about the candidates and the award at www.arsfennica.fi

Jani Leinonen is represented in the exhibition Upside Down at Kuopio Art Museum, presenting contemporary art from the Saastamoinen Foundation’s Collection dating from 2010 onwards.

The soon 50 years old Saastamoinen Foundation’s art collection has grown from a home collection of the Saastamoinen industrial family to one of Finland’s most important art collections with more than 2,600 works from both Finnish and international artists. 

Upside Down is curated by the chairman of the Saastamoinen Foundation Arts Committee Päivi Karttunen and visual artist Anna Tuori. The exhibition has been implemented in cooperation with EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art and is open from September 21 until February 3, 2019.

Read more about the exhibition at: www.saastamoinenfoundation.fi

Jani Leinonen is taking part in the exhibition The Comedy of Being – Art and Humour from Antiquity until Today at Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland running through September 23, 2018 to January 6, 2019.

The Kunsthaus Zug is giving its visitors seven-league boots and sending them off through the history of humour in art. An in-house working group has spent the last six years collaborating with students and scholars to research the relationship between art and humour, going back to Ancient Greece, taking a detour through the Middle Ages to the Reformation, and on to the wealth of material on the topic composed in the last century up to the present day.

The Comedy of Being brings together over 300 works – loans from collections in Switzerland and Europe as well as the museum’s own holdings.

More information at: http://www.kunsthauszug.ch