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Jani Leinonen’s School of Disobedience got a warm welcoming in Denmark, when the slightly adjusted version of the School of Disobedience seen at Kiasma, opened at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, in March.
The exhibition got 5 out of 6 stars in a review by Jyllands-Posten which also is Denmark’s largest newspaper both in its printed version and on the Internet.

The exhibition is open until June 12th 2016.
For more information visit: www.aros.dk

Read the review here: www.jyllands-posten.dk

Two of Helsinki’s major contemporary art museums, the Finnish National Gallery Kiasma and Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) both started their fall of 2015 with a solo exhibition by an internationally renowned artist; Kiasma with Finnish Jani Leinonen and HAM with Chinese superstar Ai Wei Wei.

Leinonen’s School of Disobedience and Ai Wei Wei’s Ai WeiWei @ Helsinki both started in September 2015 and lasted for 5 months. Leinonen’s exhibition attracted 123 984 visitors which was slightly more than Ai Wei Wei’s exhibition that attracted 119 000 visitors.
Leinonen’s exhibition was open from September 4, 2015 to January 31. 2016 and Ai Wei Wei’s exhibition from September 26, 2015 to February 28, 2016.

Sources:
Ai Wei Wei at HAM: http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/a1456799797516
Jani Leinonen at Kiasma: http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/a1454388889504

Aurora Reinhard is included in the exhibition From Heino With Love at HAM (Helsinki Art Museum). The exhibition presents the first glimpse of the Heino foundations extensive collection of Finnish contemporary art. The collection consists of 1416 works of which 100 are displayed at the exhibition.

From Heino With Love is open until August 28, 2016.

For more information visit: www.hamhelsinki.fi

Antoine de Caunes from The French TV channel Canal plus visited Jani Leinonen’s studio in Helsinki for his show Lemission d´Antoine in February 2016.

See the show here: http://www.canalplus.fr/c-emissions/pid8329-c-l-emission-d-antoine.html?vid=1364307

Zetterberg Gallery is pleased to announce that Jani Leinonen’s School of Disobedience-building is now part of the Finnish National Gallery Kiasma’s permanent collection.
The school building that plays a central part in Leinonen’s exhibition, School of Disobedience has been acquired by Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. The exhibition that started in September 2015 will now continue to Denmark, where it will be shown at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum from March to June 2016. Eventually the school building will return to its new home in the Kiasma Collection.

About Kiasmas acquisition: http://blog.kiasma.fi/blog/?p=2683
ARoS: http://www.aros.dk/besoeg-aros/udstillinger/…/jani-leinonen/

Jani Leinonen – School of Disobedience, 2015

Jani Leinonen’s widely recognized solo exhibition School of Disobedience will continue from the Finnish Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma to ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark in March 2016.

Leinonen’s exhibition is part of ARoS Focus/New Nordic program and is open from March 19th – June 12th 2016.
For more information visit: http://en.aros.dk/exhibitions_/2016/jani-leinonen/

Jani Leinonen / The Most Terrible Things, 2015 / Acrylic on polystyrene / 920 x 391 x 40 cm