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.
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
Exhibition: 25.2-23.3.2024 Open on Kolonie Weekend, Sun 25.02. 24, 2–6pm
Toolbox Kabinett: Hildegard Skowasch
Iris Germanica, a plain flower seen all over Europe Iris Germanica is Goddess of Everything Iris Germanica is my sad song of time passing by
I think my painting as a living organism. In the beginning there is a seed of idea, something that bothers me and wants to see the light. First painting is a sprout, second is a leaf, third is maybe a flower and ten paintings makes a body. I’d say: I paint for pleasure, pleasure of the recognition: that’s what it’s meant to be! I’d hope: there are seeds of all seen sprinkled on you!
In my painting I’m guided by association and desire. I want to paint something that I yet never saw, but still when seeing it feels obvious. This feeling of recognition is what declares painting ready.
I moved to Berlin ten years ago, and while painting these paintings I also relived that time, time that made life permanently dichotomous, it goes on two tracks.
Iris Germanica is fragmented saga about time, loss, immigration, nation, myth, botanic, cities and evolution. Some parts were lost, some altered, its old but not original. It’s sincere but not true.
I am a visual artist based in Helsinki and Berlin. I did my MFA degree in 2011 in University of Fine Arts in Helsinki, where I’m also doing my PhD about meanings of colours an seeing. My works were shown in several soloshows and group exhibitions in Finland, Denmark and Germany like Helsinki Kunsthalle, Forum Box Gallery and Kunst am Spreeknie/Transformart festival.
Siiri Haarla Helsinki 23.1.2024
artwork: Iris Germanica ‘Nibelungen’ oil painting on canvas, 140x100cm, 2023
Toolbox Kabinett: Hildegard Skowasch
Hildegard Skowasch
*born in Essen. Lives and works in Berlin.
Studied at the Kunstakademie Münster and at the Ecole supérieure des Arts Plastiques, Tourcoing (France).
Hildegard Skowasch’s work focuses on sculpture (paper/ceramics), drawing and printmaking. Starting from form, she uses different materials to create projection surfaces and a world of her own with shifts in content, possibilities and perspectives on being.
She is the initiator of artistic collaborations such as the “Hildegard Project” and “Generator”.
Since 1989, she has held numerous residencies, including at Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, USA, the Saari residence of the Kone Foundation, Finland and the KKVV Luleå, Sweden.
She exhibits internationally.
In 2019, she was represented with a comprehensive exhibition at the Polish National Museum in Gdansk and in 2022 with another major solo exhibition at the BWA Municipal Gallery in Olsztyn.
She is showing ceramic wall works in the Toolbox Gallery cabinet.
Hildegard Skowasch, untitled, 2019,ceramics glazed, ca 20 x 20 x 20 cm
The exhibition is complemented by smaller works on the same topic by Toolbox members Maija Helasvuo, Sampsa Indrén, Mika Karhu, Niina Räty, Juha Sääski and Ilkka Sariola.
Ergänzt wir die Ausstellung durch kleinere Werke zum gleichen Thema von den Toolbox-Mitgliedern Maija Helasvuo, Sampsa Indrén,
Mika Karhu, Niina Räty, Juha Sääski und Ilkka Sariola.
Curated by | kuratiert von Farhad Gavzan and Ilkka Sariola
The exhibition “Wounds” is very special. Toolbox is honoured to present Iranian art, in particular drawings by eight contemporary Iranian artists: Sahar Nahvandi Nejad, Atefeh Mehrvarz, Minoo Kiani, Azin Rostami, Rheleh Ghavipanjeh, Farhad Gavzan, Behnam Bakhshi and Behnam Bakhshizadeh. In addition to Iranian art, some of our TOOLBOX members, Maija Helasvuo, Mika Karhu, Juha Sääski, Sampsa Indren and Ilkka Sariola, will also be presenting some smaller works.
The theme of the exhibition, wound, is ambiguous; everyone has their own invisible wounds, the wounds of violence may appear as scars and the traces of war as open bleeding wounds. We live in critical times and societies are threatened by the Corona pandemic and the war in Ukraine. In fact, the pandemic and the ‘quarantine galleries’ on Instagram, which took place in the year 2020, were the starting point for this exhibition. In the difficult early stages of the pandemic, Iran ended up in a complete lockdown and quarantine. The artist Mr Farhad Gavzan was interested in my artworks on Instagram and he presented some of my artworks in the “Quarantine Gallery” he founded. This gave me the idea to create a cultural exchange project “Quarantine gallery, drawings from Iran and Finland”. I ended up posting 78 days, Instastories and on my wall, from 18.3. – 1.6. 2020, representing as many artists from Iran and Finland. During this project I received many messages from Iranian and Finnish artists who appreciated this cultural art exchange. Many asked if I could represent their artworks. I was impressed by the powerful expression of the works of Iranian artists, often women. I experienced how a drawn picture touches across cultural borders. Now, after more than three years, I have the honour of presenting the works of 8 Iranian artists live in the Toolbox Gallery. This exhibition is curated by my friend Farhad Gavzan and I. The process has been challenging for many unfortunate reasons, but also rewarding. I thank I thank everyone involved in organizing the exhibition in Iran, Berlin and Finland, especially Farhad Gavzan, Andreas Wolf and rest of our Toolbox crew.
Image: Sahar Nahavandi Nejad, untitled, pencil on cardboard, 50 x 70 cm
