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
Jani Leinonen’s School of Disobedience – exhibition is now open for the public at the Finnish Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma.
The School of Disobedience is not only a real school, but a metaphor for the entire exhibition, which also is a retrospective of Leinonen’s work to date. Visitors are treated as students, receiving lessons from the more than 100 works on view or through workshops that encourage to civil disobedience. To the the school’s workshops Leinonen has invited experienced activists and opinion leaders to teach people how to effectively confront and solve any social problem. The workshops will include, for example, lessons on social movement formation (Li Andersson), media criticism (Riku Rantala and Tuomas Milonoff), music as a tool for revolution (Paleface), and social media to critique big-name corporations (Sampsa). All the classes will focus on social media as a key tool for mobilising people.
Leinonen’s School of Disobedience has received worldwide media attention and the exhibition will continue from Helsinki to ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark in the spring of 2016.
The School of Disobedience is open from September 4, 2015 – January 31, 2016
http://www.kiasma.fi/en/calendar/jani-leinonen/
Jani Leinonen is included in world-renowned street artist Banksy’s latest project called “Dismaland Bemusement Park” in Weston-super-Mare, UK.
The exhibition opening August 22, 2015 is described as “a festival of art, amusements and entry-level anarchism” and features works by 58 handpicked artists from around the world including a never-before-seen collection of Banksy satirical art and sculpture as well as works by artists such as Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, and Jimmy Cauty.
“It’s a showcase for the best artists I could imagine, apart from the two who turned me down.” – Banksy
Dismaland is open daily from August 22 to September 27 from 11am – 11pm.
More information at: www.dismaland.co.uk
Jiri Geller’s sculpture Sugared II (2), 2013 is included in the exhibition Art In Music – Works from the ACT Art Collection at Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany from April 23 to October 25, 2015.
The selection of the works on display focuses on the top echelon of the ACT collection, including works by Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol, as well as on new acquisitions from the last four years, among which are pictures and sculptures by such artists as Katharina Grosse, Olafur Eliasson, Daniel Richter, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Jiri Geller and Philip Taaffe.
More information about the exhibition at: http://www.weserburg.de/index.php?id=849&L=1
Jani Leinonen, Jiri Geller, Aurora Reinhard, Mari Keto, Sampsa, Joonas Kota
2016
January 29 – March 13, 2016
Zetterberg Gallery
Jani Leinonen, Jiri Geller, Aurora Reinhard, Mari Keto, Sampsa, Joonas Kota
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”
– Goethe
