Tensional Integrities
Grey Crawford, Nanna Hänninen, Marcin Jasik, Niko Luoma, Finnbogi Pétursson
Persons Projects
Lindenstrasse 34-35 10969 Berlin
+49 30 2888 3370 e-mail:
29 June > 31 August, 2024
ABSTRACT :
Persons Projects (formerly TaiK Persons) is a contemporary art gallery located in Berlin Kreuzberg, in close neighborhood to the Berlinische Galerie and the Jewish Museum. Founded in 1995 in Helsinki, Finland and relocated to Berlin in 2005, the gallery is specialized in modern Nordic art with a focus on conceptual photography. It originated as a site specific virtual experimental gallery that eventually evolved into the primary platform for the Helsinki School – a selected group of artists associated with the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland. Since the merging of TaiK Persons Gallery with ZAK | BRANICKA in 2019, Persons Projects is representing a very singular and selected group of established and emerging artists from Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Poland, and the US. Yet, they are not primarily defined by nationality or discipline, but by their shared artistic approach that is based on both working conceptually and with the photographic process as a tool for thinking.
Niko Luoma, Picture 258, Corner over Long Edge Off Midpoint, 2020, archival pigment print, Diasec, 226 x 127 cm.
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ABOUT ARTISTS : Grey Crawford, Nanna Hänninen, Marcin Jasik, Niko Luoma, Finnbogi Pétursson
Grey Crawford
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web : https://www.greycrawford.com/
country : U.S.A.
city : LOS ANGELES CA
abstract :Grey Crawford (*1951 in Los Angeles, California) is a conceptual artist who became famous for being one of the first artists from the West Coast challenging the photographic medium through his darkroom experiments with both black and white and color photography. After receiving his BA degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology, he attended the Claremont Graduate University, where he was in charge of designing and building the school’s darkroom facilities. It was during these years (1975-84), where Crawford’s main bodies of works, Umbra, El Mirage and Chroma were created.
Nanna Hänninen
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web : https://www.nannahanninen.com/
country : FINLAND
city : KUOPIO
abstract :Photographic artist Nanna Hänninen was born in 1973 in Finland, in Rovaniemi and she lives and works in Finland in Kuopio. She graduated in 2002 from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, renamed Aalto University School of Art and Design in 2010. Nanna Hänninen’s international career began at the Berlin Art Fair in 2000. Over the past decades she has been presented by many frontline galleries like Galleri Bo Bjerggaard in Copenhagen, taubert contemporary in Berlin, Bryce Wolkowitz in New York, Galerie Anhava in Helsinki and Camara Oscura del Arte in Madrid. Currently her works are presented by Persons Projects in Berlin, Camara Oscura del Arte in Madrid and gallery Ama in Helsinki.
Nanna Hänninen is one of the first members of Helsinki School artists. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections around the world.
Marcin Jasik
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web : https://www.marcinjasik.com/
country : POLAND
city : WARSAW
abstract :Marcin Jasik, born in 1990 in Warsaw, visual artist, painter, author of objects and sculptures. Graduated from the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He earned the diploma in the field of painting in the studio of professor Wojciech Cie?niewski with a sculpture specialization in the studio of professor Jakub ??cki. He took part in many individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. In 2022, he was a finalist in the STRABAG Artaward International in Vienna, Austria. The artist's works are in private and institution collections such as the Svetlik Art Foundation, STRABAG Artcollection and the Mbank Collection.
Marcin Jasik's paintings are a constant search in the area of the painterly language of abstraction. The artist draws inspiration from both his own experiences and the history of painting, by re-processing iconic images or motifs. What is visible in his works is free, intuitive utterance, however, guided by a conscious system of meanings and logic forms. These seemingly contradictory forms emphasize the narrative structure in pictures. The final result is a clear composition with which the artist asks questions about the nature of human existence.
Niko Luoma
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web : https://nikoluoma.net/
country : FINLAND
city : HELSINKI
abstract :Niko Luoma has played a key role internationally for the past twenty years with his experiments in photographic abstraction, combining multiple exposures on the same negative by using light as a raw material. His uniqueness is based around his system-based experiments where the negative becomes a record for its own realization, for the compositions of overlapping planes of color and dimensionality. His analogue working method incorporates the properties of chance into the process of his working, using it as fuel to enhance his attraction to the unknown. Influenced by order, structure, constitution and modification of space and the ideas of sound, flux and velocity.
He is represented in the international collections, including those of Finnish National Gallery (Helsinki, FI), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, FI), Danish National Museum of Photography (Copenhagen, DK) and Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul, TR). His monographs “And Time Is No Longer an Obstacle” was published by Hatje Cantz Verlag in 2012 and “For Each Minute – Sixty-Five Seconds” was published be Hatje Cantz Verlag in 2021.
Finnbogi Pétursson
mail :
web : http://www.finnbogi.com/
country : ICELAND
city : REYKJAVIK
abstract :Finnbogi Pétursson, born in Reykjavik in 1959, has been exhibiting since 1980 and is one f Iceland's most prominent artists. He is known for works that fuse sound, light, sculpture, architecture and drawings. Sound, a crucial element, is typically incorporated into spare sculptural installations. Pétursson represented Iceland at the Venice Biennal in 2001 with his monumental sound installation Diabolus.
Collections include TBA21, Vienna; Michael Kirchman and Carnen Cuenca collection, USA, Malmo KunstMuseum, Sweden; Nordiska Akvarell Museum, Schweden; and the National Gallery of iceland. Permanent installations are at Landsvirkjun, Vatnsfellsvirkjun (an electric power plant) Reykjavik University and Reykjavik Energy Headquarters. Finnbogi lives and works in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Gallery Opening Hours : Tue–Sat 11am–6pm
Opening reception :Saturday, 29 June 2024, 6 – 9 pm
mpefm GERMANY art press release
Persons Projects is pleased to announce its summer exhibition Tensional Integrities. This exhibition brings together a group of artists who infuse into their works through their use of line, sound, space, and color to form a condition of visual and physical harmonious tensity. This presentation represents five distinctly different material approaches in how they pursue their own narratives in exploring their innate sensibilities.
ABOUT ARTISTS : Grey Crawford, Nanna Hänninen, Marcin Jasik, Niko Luoma, Finnbogi Pétursson
Grey Crawford mail :
web : https://www.greycrawford.com/
country : U.S.A.
city : LOS ANGELES CA
abstract :Grey Crawford (*1951 in Los Angeles, California) is a conceptual artist who became famous for being one of the first artists from the West Coast challenging the photographic medium through his darkroom experiments with both black and white and color photography. After receiving his BA degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology, he attended the Claremont Graduate University, where he was in charge of designing and building the school’s darkroom facilities. It was during these years (1975-84), where Crawford’s main bodies of works, Umbra, El Mirage and Chroma were created.
Nanna Hänninen mail :
web : https://www.nannahanninen.com/
country : FINLAND
city : KUOPIO
abstract :Photographic artist Nanna Hänninen was born in 1973 in Finland, in Rovaniemi and she lives and works in Finland in Kuopio. She graduated in 2002 from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, renamed Aalto University School of Art and Design in 2010. Nanna Hänninen’s international career began at the Berlin Art Fair in 2000. Over the past decades she has been presented by many frontline galleries like Galleri Bo Bjerggaard in Copenhagen, taubert contemporary in Berlin, Bryce Wolkowitz in New York, Galerie Anhava in Helsinki and Camara Oscura del Arte in Madrid. Currently her works are presented by Persons Projects in Berlin, Camara Oscura del Arte in Madrid and gallery Ama in Helsinki.
Nanna Hänninen is one of the first members of Helsinki School artists. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections around the world.
Marcin Jasik mail :
web : https://www.marcinjasik.com/
country : POLAND
city : WARSAW
abstract :Marcin Jasik, born in 1990 in Warsaw, visual artist, painter, author of objects and sculptures. Graduated from the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He earned the diploma in the field of painting in the studio of professor Wojciech Cie?niewski with a sculpture specialization in the studio of professor Jakub ??cki. He took part in many individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. In 2022, he was a finalist in the STRABAG Artaward International in Vienna, Austria. The artist's works are in private and institution collections such as the Svetlik Art Foundation, STRABAG Artcollection and the Mbank Collection.
Marcin Jasik's paintings are a constant search in the area of the painterly language of abstraction. The artist draws inspiration from both his own experiences and the history of painting, by re-processing iconic images or motifs. What is visible in his works is free, intuitive utterance, however, guided by a conscious system of meanings and logic forms. These seemingly contradictory forms emphasize the narrative structure in pictures. The final result is a clear composition with which the artist asks questions about the nature of human existence.
Niko Luoma mail :
web : https://nikoluoma.net/
country : FINLAND
city : HELSINKI
abstract :Niko Luoma has played a key role internationally for the past twenty years with his experiments in photographic abstraction, combining multiple exposures on the same negative by using light as a raw material. His uniqueness is based around his system-based experiments where the negative becomes a record for its own realization, for the compositions of overlapping planes of color and dimensionality. His analogue working method incorporates the properties of chance into the process of his working, using it as fuel to enhance his attraction to the unknown. Influenced by order, structure, constitution and modification of space and the ideas of sound, flux and velocity.
He is represented in the international collections, including those of Finnish National Gallery (Helsinki, FI), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, FI), Danish National Museum of Photography (Copenhagen, DK) and Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul, TR). His monographs “And Time Is No Longer an Obstacle” was published by Hatje Cantz Verlag in 2012 and “For Each Minute – Sixty-Five Seconds” was published be Hatje Cantz Verlag in 2021.
Finnbogi Pétursson mail :
web : http://www.finnbogi.com/
country : ICELAND
city : REYKJAVIK
abstract :Finnbogi Pétursson, born in Reykjavik in 1959, has been exhibiting since 1980 and is one f Iceland's most prominent artists. He is known for works that fuse sound, light, sculpture, architecture and drawings. Sound, a crucial element, is typically incorporated into spare sculptural installations. Pétursson represented Iceland at the Venice Biennal in 2001 with his monumental sound installation Diabolus.
Collections include TBA21, Vienna; Michael Kirchman and Carnen Cuenca collection, USA, Malmo KunstMuseum, Sweden; Nordiska Akvarell Museum, Schweden; and the National Gallery of iceland. Permanent installations are at Landsvirkjun, Vatnsfellsvirkjun (an electric power plant) Reykjavik University and Reykjavik Energy Headquarters. Finnbogi lives and works in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Gallery Opening Hours : Tue–Sat 11am–6pm
Opening reception :Saturday, 29 June 2024, 6 – 9 pm
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