Archive of artists
Since 2009, more than 100 exhibitions with professional artists have been presented in our Helsinki offices.
Jukka Siikala
January, 2019
The masterfully crafted visual art of Jukka Siikala is not for the faint of heart. As his own website helpfully informs in its brief, impeccably direct introduction: “Forms and ideas assembled into a silent scream oozing tension and ecstatic nausea – flickering between active sadism and complete indifference of being.” ...
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Arsi Keva
February, 2017
Arsi Keva’s current series of acrylic paintings, Up in the Ass of Timo – and other meme paintings, is a blunt expression of our contemporary zeitgeist… on steroids. Using the ubiquitous stream of Finnish internet memes as his starting point, Keva playfully re-visualizes them in a naive, primitivist mode...
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J.A. Juvani
March, 2019
The artist writes:
It is essential to me to take two or more things and make them crash into each other; Mix glitter with shit. I create paradoxes to reveal the complexity of the subject: that relentless grey mush, the contrast and the dynamics of things.
The result is not pretty or ugly, but something intrinsically more, something that is
comprehensively incomplete...
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The Space Between
October, 2016
Jasmina Haverinen
Nea Korpela
Jonna Pakkanen
Riina Raimi
In the yard’s tiny cashier office he noticed an informal display of small, very carefully drawn images of mysterious women, vibrantly alive animals and disturbingly fantastical beasts. “Who’s the artist?” was the curator’s simple question. “There are actually four of us. And we often draw in between serving customers…”
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Riikka Salminen
March, 2016
We celebrated the purchase and installation of a large-scale painting by artist Riika Salminen in the offices of hasan & partners!
The artist writes:
“My continuing interest in the concept of aggression partly has to do with the importance of challenging expectations and conventions, especially when it comes to the creative process.”
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Alvar Gullichsen
January, 2016
Alvar Gullichsen’s current, ongoing series – only a small sampling of which is displayed in this Love&Money exhibition – is directly concerned with transcultural visual pattern imagery. His advanced, highly personal explorations of this possibly universal geometric “language”, are closely related to his ongoing inquiries into shamanistic, transcendental experiences and traditions...
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Ian Bourgeot
November, 2015
This exhibit presents Bourgeot’s ink works from the years 2005-2015. In his drawings, Bourgeot combines a particular technique that involves ink, coffee – and occasionally gouache or gesso – with a sometimes disturbing subject matter. The works often portray solitude, anxiety and even violence...
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Nayade Martín
October, 2015
With shocking boldness, artist Nayade Martín explores and documents that most mysterious, magical and frightening of all places – the surreal borderlands between our waking and dreaming selves...
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Scott Caris
September 2015
Scott Caris’s output is as prodigious as it is diverse, encompassing a wide range of subtle – and not so subtle – popular and personal culture references. He shifts seamlessly from deliciously merciless portraits of well-known Finnish political figures, to local heroes of the 1980’s Michigan punk rock scene of his youth...
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Mark Maher
June, 2015
“Meltpoint is a personal exploration into the nature of things, especially the nature of love; into the seeing of another person, intensely, and with an intimacy both tender and brutal...”
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Charles Bukowski (tribute)
April, 2015
Choosing to present a tribute to Charles Bukowski seemed like a fitting deviation from our standard form.
Highlighting a writer with a profound gift for quickly getting right to the heart of things would seem to similarly connect with hasan & partners’ passion for great copywriting...
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Mikko Haiko
March, 2015
Nisola, Finland. It’s a place 25,000 light years away from the center of the Milky way and 700 kilometers below the Arctic Circle. Somewhere between Sweden and Russia.
Mikko Haiko writes:
“For several years I have documented my birthplace in the Finnish countryside in the village of Nisola, near the Russian border. With every frame I have tried to capture the identity of the place, which to me has in many ways to do with a strong bond between people and nature...”
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Emma Ainala
September, 2015
Emma Ainala creates profoundly imaginative paintings using a logic that works similarly to the logic of dreams, in which familiar things and memories appear in unusual contexts, yet seem to belong there.
Emma Ainala writes:
“I use eternal themes easily construed as cliché or banal, but at the same time, I'm entirely serious, so a certain ambivalence is always present in my work. The greatest thing in painting is the possibility to construct something contradictory yet harmonic. You don't have to be entirely sure what is going on – in fact, it’s sometimes much better when you’re not...”
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Tommi Hämäläinen
January, 2015
Fires warm us and bring us together, but they can also sometimes burn us badly – all the while throwing some very strange shadows indeed.
Tommi Hämäläinen’s current exhibition – his second with Love & Money at hasan & partners – chooses as its focal point the summer campfire. The Midsummer Finnish campfire in particular is a place of easy warmth, reflection and community, but is also a hazy place steeped in collective memory, in depressive personal and national history. And then of course the Finnish alcohol traditions are seldom very far away.
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Jukka Korpihete
December, 2014
hasan & partners invited leading Nordic designer Jukka Korpihete to create a light-based installation welcoming Eurobest Festival 2014 visitors to our Festival office party. Korpihete brilliantly transformed our entire premises into a tricolor-illuminated wonderland...
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Mark Maher
September, 2014
“These are portraits of live-cam sex workers. From ordinary rooms around the world, they're freely visible to anyone – for hours at a time. Their job is to find people eager to ‘go private’ with them.
My screen name is ‘Low Life’ and I’ve documented thousands of online performers...”
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Nanna Susi
February, 2014
Nanna Susi paints with discipline and enormous intensity: Her expressive style utilizes thick layers of paint and strong colors that fuse metallic glow into a voluminous texture.
An ebullient joy of life and peculiar obscurity are combined in Susi’s paintings, creating a tension that is impossible for the observer to escape...
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Susanna Majuri
October, 2015
“Imagination is my home, and in my dreams I often return to my childhood’s home. The red house in my photograph Talo perhaps partly represents a wish for a particular family or companion. The girl in this image studies the home from above and extends her hands: home is literally held in her arms. I suspect she is returning – as we sometimes return in dreams – to a memory. The image of course could also be interpreted differently: The girl is looking at the house freely, at a distance and from the sky. Nothing holds her any longer – perhaps now she can become herself...”
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Ben Rinner
January, 2012
‘The Chemnitz Mirror Portraits’ presents portraits of different leading citizens of the German town of Chemnitz.
Photographer Ben Rinner is concerned in this series with images of the self. In part, he is attempting to explore and reflect our own perceptions – especially as they relate to the illusions photography is offering.
Rinner developed a process that allowed people to photograph themselves as they appear in the mirror by using a special light set-up and a semi-transparent mirrored-glass...
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Katja Tukiainen
March, 2011
Katja Tukiainen states it simply: “I want to offer something sweet – and then make people think. Once the audience is willing, then one can talk seriously.” Tukiainen’s art blends innocence and seduction seamlessly – and quite conspiratorially. What lurks beneath is anything but simple, clear, or pretty in pink.
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Aurora Reinhard
October, 2015
For some years Aurora Reinhard has worked with issues of gender; how the male and female identities are constructed and represented in society. Her emphasis has extended of late to include fetishism as an all-around-us concept that underlies – and in fact often directs – our decision-making in every aspect of life.
Upending the orthodox meanings of things with irony is the standard currency of the trendy, the jaded, and the smart. In fact, it’s a sane and natural prophylactic to our absurdist’s world of marketing messages...
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Haliz Yosef
September, 2017
Haliz Yosef’s street documentary series ‘Budapest generation’ consists of three large-scale black & white photographs. Yosef refers to the method used in this project as "one-shot", meaning she approached each of her photo subjects on the street without prior arrangement or even much conversation...
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Kimmo Modig
April, 2017
Kimmo Modig’s print works at Love&Money are a collection meme-like images originally made by Modig for his Facebook page, plus two new images designed specifically for this show. Parallel with this L&M exhibition, Modig has a show running concurrently at Helsinki Art Museum...
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