Performance by Guda Koster & Frans van Tartwijk 15:30
Since 2015, Guda Koster and Frans van Tartwijk have been creating performances with sculptural figures, which are mostly made from various sorts of textiles. The sculptures incorporate influences from abstract art, avant-garde fashion and traditional ritualistic figures.
The performances are done in public space. The puzzled passers-by may wonder what the true nature of these surreal apparitions is. Are they machines or performers? Are they male or female? This ambiguity raises questions about identity, existence, and the boundaries between art and reality.
Seit 2015 machen Guda Koster und Frans van Tartwijk Performances mit skulpturalen Figuren, die meist aus verschiedenen Arten von Textilien gefertigt sind. In die Skulpturen kommen Einflüsse aus abstrakten Kunst, Avantgarde-Mode und traditionellen rituellen Figuren zusammen.
Die Performances finden meist im öffentlichen Raum statt. Die Passanten fragen sich vielleicht, was die wahre Natur dieser surrealen Erscheinungen ist. Sind sie Maschinen oder Performer? Sind sie männlich oder weiblich? Diese Mehrdeutigkeit wirft Fragen über Identität, Existenz und die Grenzen zwischen Kunst und Realität auf.
Welcome to the opening of the on Fri 29 November 2024 at 19:00–22:00
Opening hours on Kolonie Wedding weekend: Sat: 30.11.2024: 15:00–18:00 Sun 01.12.2024: 14:00–18:00
Exhibition running until 4 January 2025 Opening hours from 2.–14.12.2024 by arrangement e-mail: mail@galerietoolbox.com
Finissage: 4 January 2025 (13:00–18:00) At at 15:30 there will be a performance by Frans von Tartwijk with Guda Koster
Galerie Toolbox presents ‘Motifs récurrents’, a groupshow with works by Amsterdam-based artists Frans van Tartwijk (NL), Jean-Philippe Paumier (Fr) and Jean-Philippe Rousset (Fr). The show will run from friday november 29th until saturday january 4th. The opening will take place on november 29th.
The exhibition consists of a three-way conversation between drawings, paintings and installations. Displayed in the gallery space, they reveal mutual influences, references and correspondances between the artworks. Each in their own way the artists explore differents aspects of reality and incorporate these into their works.
‘Motifs récurrents’ does not intend to draw any conclusion, but offers a common ground for formal shared interests on which each artist develops his own visual grammar and aesthetic statement.
Jean-Philippe Paumier, ‘Solde de tout compte’ (2024), Spraypaint on cardboard boxesFrans von Tartwijk: Everyone, Everything, Always, Everywhere #40 (2024)Jean-Philippe Rousset : ‘A stone I found’ (2023), acrylic paint on canvas
Frans van Tartwijk (NL, 1963) is a dutch painter and performance artist. His work has been exhibited in many galleries and art spaces in the Netherlands and abroad. He recently took part in a residency in Chengdu (China), together with Guda Koster.
Jean-Philippe Rousset (Fr, 1973) graduated at the Art Academy of Clermont-Ferrand. His lives and works in Amsterdam. Since 2018 he forms an artistduo with Jean-Philippe Paumier (JP&JP) and exhibits regularly in and around Amsterdam.
Jean-Philippe Paumier (Fr, 1980) mostly creates sculptures and installations based on the principles of ‘ready-made’ and ‘objet trouvé’. His work has been showed in several artspaces, art fairs and galleries in the Netherlands and abroad.
Cordial invitation to the guest exhibition with Dutch artists at InteriorDAsein and Toolbox. As part of the project space association Kolonie Wedding. In collaboration with Kunstruimte 411, Haarlem, Netherlands. Curated by Hans Kuiper and Archi Galentz.
With works by Marius van Zandwijk (painting), Aquil Copier (painting), Piet Zwaanswijk (collage/print), Jessica Assmann-Zwaanswijk (painting), Sina Khani (painting), Ilja Warmerdam (painting), MC de Waal (photography), Antonio Rego (digital drawing prints), Gerard Veldman (painting), Daan van Houten (drawing/woodcut), Rene Bosch (photography/painting), Tarik Sadouma (AI print) and Hans Kuiper (drawing/painting).
In dialog with Berlin artists: Gisa Hausmann, Jelisaweta Klutschewskaja, Edwin Dickman, Klaus Jürgeit, Jovan Balov, Thomas J.Richter, Cristina Artola, Svenja Schüffler, Markus Schaller, Gagik Kurginian, Julia Katan, Patrick Huber, Julia Kissina and others.
Opening on Friday, October 25 from 7 pm in InteriorDAsein, hosted by Archi Galentz and simultaneously in ToolBox, hosted by Hans Kuiper.
Opening hours on Saturday and Sunday, October 26 and 27 from 4 to 7 pm. After the colony weekend by appointment.
Finissage on November 24 from 4 to 7 pm in ToolBox and from 7 to 10 pm in InteriorDAsein.
Addresses: InteriorDAsein, Steegerstraße 2, 13359 Berlin ToolBox, Koloniestraße 120, 13359 Berlin Transportation from InteriorDAsein to Toolbox: 3 stops by bus 255 or 18 minutes on foot.
Storage plan of Kolonie Wedding and list of further exhibitions of the project space association: https://koloniewedding.de/
Toolbox is open on the Kolonie Wedding weekend only on Sunday, 29.9.2024 from 2–6pm
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Jussi Pyky
It gave him fire. He cooked the meat and ate. He heated the ore to separate the iron. He forged a sword, an axe, a plow and a scythe. He built a shelter for the cattle and harnessed his horse to pull the plow. He took over the land, cleared the forests, sowed the field and reaped the harvest. It gave him simple machines. He dug his way into the ground. He built great machines that spewed the contents of the earth into the sky. It gave him electricity. He built engines and robots to do jobs that humans would have needed. It gave him radio waves. He developed the radio and used it to spread his propaganda. It gave him artificial intelligence. He amassed vast material to control, rule and maximize his profits. It gave him power. He had blind faith in his vision and infallibility. He considered all the misery and suffering he caused to be necessary. That’s the price of progress.
Jussi Pyky (born in Tyrnävä, Finland 1985 ) lives and works in Helsinki. He graduated from the Lahti Institute of Fine Arts in 2009 and from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Pyky has presented his works in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad. His work is found in Seppo Fränti Collection in Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and private collections. Download CV Jussi Pyky (PDF)
The exhibition has been supported by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation and the Finnish Art Promotion Center.
Artwork: Jussi Pyky Worldview, 2024, charcoal and ink on paper, 195 x 150 cm
Carola Ernst – Wirkung [Effect]
Solar, 2021 indian ink, watercolor – wax pastell, oil pastel chalk, acrylic, graphite on canvas 136 x 121 cm (artist framed)
Conundrum images, tilt figures, hidden object images, forms of multi-stable perception, and multi-perspective are well-known forms of expression in art. I am engaged in the exploration of new perceptual strategies in painting and drawing. On a scientific level, my work is influenced by the theories of advanced psychophysics and the findings of neuroscience on processes of perception and consciousness. The limits of perception with the question of reality, fantasy, and imagination are essential components. The experience of different levels of reality in the visual arts, as they can be experienced, for example, in shifts of consciousness in dreams or intoxication, as well as the intensification of impressions through provoked emotions or intrusive memories, are here the core of my artistic work.
Herzliche Einladung zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung am Freitag, 27.9.2024, ab 19 Uhr
Am Koloniewochenende ist die Toolbox nur am Sonntag, 29.9.2024 von 14–18 Uhr geöffnet.
Victory over Nature and Man [Sieg über Natur und Mensch]
Es gab ihm Feuer. Er kochte das Fleisch und aß. Er erhitzte das Erz, um das Eisen zu trennen. Er schmiedete ein Schwert, eine Axt, einen Pflug und eine Sense. Er baute einen Unterstand für das Vieh und schirrte sein Pferd an, um den Pflug zu ziehen. Er eroberte das Land, rodete die Wälder, säte den Acker und erntete die Früchte. Es gab ihm einfache Maschinen. Er grub sich in den Boden. Er baute große Maschinen, die den Inhalt der Erde in den Himmel schleuderten. Sie schenkte ihm Elektrizität. Er baute Motoren und Roboter, um Arbeiten zu erledigen, die Menschen gebraucht hätten. Er schenkte ihm Radiowellen. Er entwickelte das Radio und nutzte es, um seine Propaganda zu verbreiten. Sie schenkte ihm künstliche Intelligenz. Er häufte riesige Mengen an Material an, um zu kontrollieren, zu herrschen und seine Gewinne zu maximieren. Das gab ihm Macht. Er hatte blindes Vertrauen in seine Vision und Unfehlbarkeit. Er hielt all das Elend und Leid, das er verursachte, für notwendig. Das ist der Preis des Fortschritts.
Jussi Pyky (geboren 1985 in Tyrnävä, Finnland) lebt und arbeitet in Helsinki. Er schloss sein Studium am Lahti Institute of Fine Arts im Jahr 2009 und an der Finnischen Akademie der Schönen Künste im Jahr 2016 ab. Pyky hat seine Werke in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen in Finnland und im Ausland präsentiert. Seine Arbeiten befinden sich in der Sammlung Seppo Fränti im Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst Kiasma und in privaten Sammlungen.
Vexierbilder, Kippfiguren, Wimmelbilder, Formen der multistabilen Wahrnehmung und Multiperspektive sind in der Kunst bekannte Ausdrucksformen.
Ich beschaftige mich mit der Erforschung neuer Wahrnehmungsstrategien in der Malerei und Zeichnung. Auf wissenschaftlicher Ebene wird meine Arbeit von Theorien der weiterfuhrenden Psychophysik und Erkenntnissen der Neurowissenschaften uber Wahrnehmungs- und Bewusstseinsprozesse beeinflusst. Die Grenzen der Wahrnehmung mit der Frage von Wirklichkeit, Fantasie und Imagination sind wesentliche Bestandteile. Das Erleben verschiedener Realitatsebenen in der Bildenden Kunst, wie sie z. B. auch bei Bewusstseinsverschiebungen im Traum oder Rauschzustand erfahren werden konnen, sowie die Intensivierung von Eindrucken durch provozierte Emotionen oder intrusive Erinnerungen bilden den Kern meiner kunstlerischen Arbeit.
Simo Ripatti (Fi) and Patrick Huber (Berlin) in Toolbox.
Opening: 26. 7. 2024, 7pm, you#re welcome!
Exhibition 28.7.–24.8.2024
Simo Ripatti Possessed, 2023 Videoinstallation
The work describes observation based on memory and how continuous observation of new things affects the memory image reliability. The starting point is my thoughts on the contingencies of existence and events and how they meet one’s own understanding and thereby form a point of view. Formed through this the point of view also determines how the memory is colored and how long you can consider the memory reliable. Perception is the basis for connecting to reality, but only comparing to memory, memory and perception questioning and conscious thinking form a reliable experience. In my opinion, it is in many ways the characteristic that defines the experience of this work.
Patrick Huber
Drawings and Objects
Patrick Huber: Füßeln – from the series “Techtelmechtel”wood, wax, approx 100 x 40 cm
Yö ry Artists’ Association is an advocacy organization for professional artists from various fields, primarily operating in Helsinki. YÖ in BERLIN is a group exhibition organized by Yö ry, featuring works by its member artists. Yö has over 300 member artists and a gallery in Helsinki on Lönnrotinkatu. The space is free for all exhibiting artists, not just members of the association. At the core of Yö is its members’ desire to act. Yö ry is not merely an artist-run gallery but a coalition of proactive and enthusiastic professionals from various fields. Yö is a movement and community, whose large membership enables even the most ambitious initia- tives to be realized.
YÖ IN BERLIN is the first exhibition exchange between Yö ry and Galerie Toolbox. The exhi- bition is curated by Toolbox’s founding members together with Yö ry members Mia Makela and Henriikka Pöllänen.
Yö’s exhibition at Galerie Toolbox includes video art, visual art, and a portfolio showcase, where you can browse the works of Yö’s member artists on a screen. The video works and portfolios were selected through an open call.
All the videos have been produced during 2020´s. The video works have been curated into 3 different screening programs. Remnants of the Wild presents videos exploring our partner- ships to non-human world from Earth Forces, Mia Makela and Lau Rämö. Tapestry of Time contains video works unraveling the echoes of past in the present time from Johanna Väisä- nen, Hanna Råst, Joonas Jokiranta and Airbakers (Toivola & Wager). Close Encounters presents a collection of videos focused on exploring intimacy through per- formance art from Juhani Koivumäki, Kainulainen&Latva, Mari Hokkanen, Eoin O`Dowd, To Kosie, Henttu&Nummi&Kin and Ginko Hsu.
The paintings and sculptures in the exhibition bring forth the diversity of materials. Isabel Pathirane’s paintings are bound together by the strong use of color and expressiveness. Tuo- mas Holst blurs the lines between painting and sculpture with works that are made from re- cycled materials. Krista Blomqvist’s series “Creatures of the Night” consists of paintings on copper, which evolve over time as the copper itself changes. The glass sculptures of Henriik- ka Pöllänen and Kimmo Reinikka bring out different dimensions of glass as material.
Curatorial team consisted of Toolbox founding members Maija Helasvuo and Niina Räty in collaboration with Yö Association board members Mia Mäkelä and Henriikka Pöllänen.
Opening program includes a performance from Tapani Pirog and an opening talk by Yö cura- torial team. Some of the artists will be present. Artist meetings on Saturday 1. 6 from 16 until 20 at the gallery.
Galerie/Projektraum TOOLBOX Koloniestraße 120 13359 Berlin Wedding we-sat 3-7 pm U Bahn Osloerstraße
Mortality is elsewhere, mixed media on paper (watercolour, acrylic, colouring pencil, drawing charcoal on paper), 40 x 60 cm, 2022
Juha Sääski is showing a collection of mixed-media works, which are dealing with lights and shadows of human life. Mixed media in this case means: : acrylic color, watercolor, colouring pencil, drawing charcoal, pencil on paper.
The starting point for this theme was an own experience of the fragile dividing line between life and death. The works are shared in two parts, the larger area is filled with colorful and happy world of life, the smaller area shows black and white and cold shadows of death. Sääski uses cliche-like, naive , happy and sad contradicting elements and some humoristic tools. In combining tragic-comical and contradicting elements he is striving to describe the paradoxes, the fragility and the beauty of human life. According to Charlie Chaplin: ”Life is tragic at close up, but comedy from distance”.
Juha Sääski is a finnish artist, born in Helsinki 1952, living and working at west-south of Finland. He has exhibited mostly in Finland but also internationally, in Berlin in several solo shows and in several group exhibitions and in Germany also for instance in Galerie Nord, Nuremberg, Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten Berlin, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz and Kunstverein & Kunsthaus Viernheim. Sääski has also participated exhibitions in UK, USA, Sweden, Italy and Estonia. More information and CV at homepages: www.juha-saaski.fi and also www.galerietoolbox.com.
Nadja Schöllhammer invents methods of expanded drawing. At Toolbox Gallery, she is showing a selection of drawings and paper assemblages. Schöllhammer is interested in the mutability of human consciousness and the connection between individual and collective existence. In her group of works “Human Tangle”, she develops graphic transformations of human body forms. Using pencil, cutter knive, hot glue and Indian ink, she explores the material paper and thus creates a structure in which the individual bodies are integrated into a larger organism. She describes her approach as follows: “By expanded drawing, I approach a condition that seems impossible in so-called reality: a parallel world in which the (supposed) boundaries between human/animal/plant, male/female, beautiful/ugly disappear. An alternative world to the usual hierarchies of perception and meaning, in which many things are possible at the same time and contradictions are overcome.” Nadja Schöllhammer, born 1971 in Esslingen am Neckar (Germany), has shown her work in Germany and abroad, e.g. at Kunsthalle Tübingen, Galerie Nord/ Kunstverein Tiergarten Berlin, Fengxian Museum, Shanghai, Marta Herford Museum, ARTER Istanbul, Arp Museum Rolandseck, Remagen and many more. She has received numerous grants and awards, including grants by Kunstfonds Bonn, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral`s grant and art award, the Tokyo residency by Berlin Senate, DAAD travel grants for Colombia and Mexico, a grant by Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, and many more. Since 2024, she holds a professorship for drawing at Hochschule Hannover. Schöllhammer lives and works in Berlin and Hannover. More information at www.nadjaschoellhammer.de
We cordially invite you to the opening with works by Joakim Sederholm and Anton Laiko on Friday, 29 March 2024 from 7 pm.
I have always tried to express humanity with my work. I have expressed what it meens to be a fragile human being. I hope my art would increase tolerance and understanding between people. Often my work take the shape of a man or woman and sometimes a dog. I mostly use wood as material.
Joakim Sederholm
Artwork. Sorrow, 2023, 21 x 21 x 83 cm, painted wood
