Exhibitions

Teaser

Jani Leinonen, Aurora Reinhard,
Jiri Geller & Mari keto
Salon Dahlman, Berlin
2013

by leenal 22 January 2015

TEASER
Salon Dahlmann Berlin
January 20 – February 17, 2013

Zetterberg Gallery presents TEASER – a selection of works by the most influential young Finnish contemporary artists. Founded in 2008, the gallery Zetterberg Gallery is showing the highlights of its programme at Salon Dahlmann Berlin. Combining a critical perspective and meticulous craftsmanship with a humorous and aesthetic treatment, the works of Jiri Geller, Mari Keto, Jani Leinonen and Aurora Reinhard explore the boundaries between constructed, commercial culture and individual, materialistic addiction. TEASER presents these prominent Finnish artists by composing a strong body of works from international private and institutional collections. By including elaborate sculptures, accusatory installations and tenacious imagery, the exhibition provokes observant attention to the prevailing phenomena of society.

Jani Leinonen throws light on the tactics of commercial operations by turning them into objects of ridicule, parodying the unstated assumptions of our marketing society and economic daily life. Jiri Geller’s accomplished, detailed sculptures serve up cold irony and raw critique by questioning the dominant, neoliberal iconophilia. Aurora Reinhard creates controversial artworks that explore tensions and structures in contemporary society – in particular our obsessive representation of gender and female sexuality. Mari Keto focuses on the tensions and structures of our contemporary culture by using predominantly diamonds, crystals, pearls and other materials used in making jewelry to depict icons and symbols in her delicate installations and portraits.

Time Is A Luxury We Don’t Have

Mari Keto & Jani Leinonen
2012

by leenal 22 January 2015

**Time Is A Luxury** 2012 / Oil on wood / 200 x 160 cm Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

**Sugar Rush** 2012 / Acrylic on wood / 160 x 200 cm Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

**Power** 2012 / Oil on wood 207 x 159 x 9 cm Photo: Vilhem Sjöström

**Some men just want to watch the world burn** 2012 / Imitation stones, acrylic, mdf, silk / 100 x 120 cm Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

Mari Keto & Jani Leinonen
Time Is A Luxury We Don’t Have
Zetterberg Gallery December 1 – 22, 2012
Opening Hours Wed-Fri 4-7pm, Sat-Sun 12-4pm

Overwhelming details, offensive décor, punchlines we do not want to acknowledge. The works of Mari Keto and Jani Leinonen put us all into cold sweat.
In Mari Keto’s works the conceptual underpinning and high degree of craftsmanship merge into an artwork. Keto explores the tensions and structures of our contemporary culture by portraying icons and symbols predominantly surrounding us. The fierce stare of a lost Joker Face arrests the attention with an unpleasant recognition of the decomposing moment.

Jani Leinonen attacks symbols and marketing strategies, turning them into objects of ridicule, clichéing our agreed marketing society and economical everyday. With these strikes Leinonen unfolds the chain reaction we all are voluntarily involved and plays up the iconographies of the global brand land.

Memorial Service

Jani Leinonen
2012

by leenal 22 January 2015

**Death of Apple** 2012 / Sand blowing, leaf gold and silver on black granite / 47,5 x 51 x 20,6 cm Edition of 3 + 1 AP Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

**Death of Dom Perignon** 2012 / Sand blowing, leaf silver on black granite / 17 x 50 x17 cm Edition of 3 + 1 AP Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

**Death of Brillo** 2012 / Sand blowing, leaf gold and silver on black granite/ 44,5 cm x 44,5 x 36 cm Edition of 3 + 1 AP Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

**Death of Starbucks** 2012 / Sand blowing, leaf gold on black granite / 30,5 x 40 cm Edition of 3 + 1 AP Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

**Death of Budweiser** 2012 / Sand blowing, leaf gold and silver on black granite / 19 x 38 cm Edition of 3 + 1 AP Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

**Death of Rolex** 2012 / Sand blowing, leaf gold on black granite / 53 x 40 x 24 cm Edition of 3 + 1 AP Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

**Death of Ferrari** 2012 / Sand blowing, leaf gold and silver on black granite / 32 x 45 cm x 15 cm Edition of 3 + 1 AP Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

**Death of Gucci** 2012 / Sand blowing, leaf gold and silver on black granite / 39 x 45 x 16 cm Photo: Vilhelm Sjöström

Jani Leinonen
Memorial Service

The world-famous Death of Capitalism gravestones are now shown at the Zetterberg Gallery. The exhibition will be open from 5th of October until 11th of November 2012.

Opening hours:
Wednesday – Friday 6pm – 8 pm
Saturday – Sunday 12pm – 4pm

Sugared

Jiri Geller
2012

by leenal 22 January 2015

Zetterberg Gallery proudly presents Jiri Geller’s new works
Welcome to the opening on Friday May 4 at 4-8pm!

Jiri Geller presents his new, long wrought works at the SUGARED solo exhibition opening at the Zetterberg Gallery, on May 5. Geller continues his detailed craftsmanship by presenting a new perspective to his conceptual nihilism. His accomplished works serve cold irony and raw critique by questioning the dominant, neoliberal iconophilia. SUGARED aggravates the global ideal of individual freedom and property rights by blowing up the high right before the crash hits you.

Jiri Geller (b. 1970 lives and works in Helsinki) is known for his detailed sculptures exploring the contemporary pop culture phenomena. Geller has exhibited his works in various solo exhibitions around Nordic countries as well as in innumerous international exhibitions globally.

The exhibition is open May 5 – June 10 Wed-Fri 13-19 and Sat-Sun 11-16.

Perfect

Aurora Reinhard
2012

by leenal 22 January 2015

AURORA REINHARD
PERFECT
Zetterberg Gallery March 4 – April 8, 2012

Aurora Reinhard is known for her controversial work exploring the tensions and structures of contemporary society – in particular our obsessive representations of gender and female sexuality. In her new solo exhibition Perfect Reinhard plays with the addictive, accelerating mannerisms that she sees predominating in commercial definitions of gender.

With Perfect, Reinhard presents new work, including photography and craft-intensive sculpture, which is not a departure from – but rather a continuum of – her established oeuvre. She significantly expands on the fetish-based and surrealist approaches she has worked with in recent years. By including both detailed sculptures and quite haunting photographs she develops a richly multi-layered statement, giving painstaking attention to the prevailing, escapist maneuvers. Instead of settling for Freudian slips or righteous ideologies, Reinhard advances a bold statement questioning the widespread acceptance and condescendence to a female role determined by commercialized society and conducted by its members.

Aurora Reinhard (b. 1975, lives and works in Helsinki) works with video, photography and hyper-realistic objects fetishizing the everyday. Reinhard holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Her works are internationally renowned, with exhibitions at the Shedhalle, Zürich; Fridericianum, Kassel; Ludwig Museum, Cologne and Platform Garanti, Istanbul. Her experimental documentary Boygirl (2002) won the International media art award from ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany.

Exhibition is open
March 4 – April 8, 2012 Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-7pm, Sundays 12-4pm.
Meet Aurora Reinhard at the exhibition on Sunday March 25, 1-3pm.