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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

Aurora Reinhard’s solo exhibition High Rider continues from Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen to Salon Dahlmann, Berlin in a amplified version. In addition to the new works exhibited at Kunstverein Ruhr, the show will also be presenting works from the Miettinen Collection including Reinhard’s renowned Flowers-work.

The exhibition open from September 22–December 15, 2018.

More about the exhibition at: www.salon-dahlmann.de

Aurora Reinhard’s solo exhibition High Rider opens today, May 27th at Kunstverein Ruhr in Essen, Germany.
Reinhard has developed a number of new works for her Essen exhibition and has sought inspiration in pictures based on Western imagery. The exhibition runs through May 27–September 2, 2018 and is realized in collaboration with The Finnish Institute in Germany.

Read more about the exhibition here.

We are pleased to announce that Zetterberg Gallery will be opening its new gallery space at one of the prime locations in Helsinki.

The new premises will open at Ludviginkatu 3 – 5 A, where Zetterberg Gallery will present 4 – 6 exhibitions a year.
In addition to the downtown gallery, Zetterberg also runs a non-public space by appointment only.

The exhibition programme and inauguration of the downtown gallery starts with Jani Leinonen’s solo exhibition Do you want the truth or something beautiful? presenting a new work series by the artist for the first time in 2 years. The exhibition opens on March 9^th 2018.

Jani Leinonen’s widely recognized beggar sign installation Anything Helps 2009 – 2015, consisting of 42 genuine beggar signs, has been acquired by Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark as part of their permanent collection. The work is included in the exhibition No Man Is an Island – The Satanic Verses, that started in September 2016 and is on display at ARoS until October 28^th 2018.

Leinonen’s Anything Helps- installation has earlier been shown at the Finnish National Gallery Kiasma in 2015, and at the Venice Biennale, Nordic Pavilion in 2009 in a smaller setup curated by Elmgreen & Dragset.

ARoS is one of the largest art museums in Northern Europe, with a total of 20,700 square metres distributed on ten storeys. Each year, ARoS has about one million visitors, making it the most visited art museum in Scandinavia.

For more information visit: www.aros.dk