Here is a selection of happenings concerning my artistic activities.
JULY
1.7.–16.9.2013
Artist residency at Neuer Shed im Eisenwerk followed by my first solo exhibition in Switzerland, my home country! Looking forward to it!
More info follows little later!
MAY
31.5.2013 at 7pm, Opening
The Rentyhorn project was invited to be part of the second part of the Research Exhibition „SWITZERLAND IS NOT AN ISLAND #2" at the Shedhalle in Zurich.
13.5.
The Remedies project that I made in collaboration with Petri Saarikko is introduced on the Italian the Rai Edu Arte & Design website.
APRIL / MAY
April and May 2013
Participation in the group exhibition Contra Escambos in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (April) and Recife, Brazil (May) curated by Beto Shwafaty and Leandro Cardoso. Partners are JACA (Jardim canada centro de arte e tecnologia) in Belo Horizonte and Espaço Fonte in Recife. Press info.
MARCH
13.3.2013
Participation in the Exhibition After the Arc: An Island Findings by Team B curated by Joanna Sandell. The project consists of two exhibitions. The first opens on 13.3. at the Finnish institute in Stockholm and the second on 13.4. at the Botkyrka Kunsthall.
7.–10.3.2013
The ARC magazine will display my RENTYHORN monograph at VOLTA NY art fair.
6.–9.3.2013
Participation in the exhibition and seminar ”[nordic art] Between Miracles” in Tbilisi, Georgia. The project is produced by Leslie Johnson, Josefina Posch and Wato Tsereteli who will curate and host the exhibition with the CCAT Center for Contemporary Art - Tbilisi in collaboration with local venues and partners; the Georgian National Museum and the Tbilisi State Art Academy and more. The exhibition will open March 7, 2013 and the seminar will take place the following day March 8 and the exhibition will run for 4 weeks. The exhibition will present works of artists living in diverse parts of the Nordic region and is curated by the Georgian artist and curator Wato Tsereteli. The seminar is a day to discuss the expanding role of the artist as entrepreneur.
6.–10.3.2013
My video piece I love JaNY was selected to the Tampere Film Festival's program Crocodile Tears - Glamour through the eyes of Media Art.
FEBRUARY
15.–17.2.2013
Again, we bring Kallio Kunsthalle to Super Market, Stockholm's independent Art Fair.
JANUARY
15.1.2013, Neuer Shed, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
Kickoff meeting with curator Katja Baumhoff at NeuerShed where I will be artist in residence from 1.7.-15.9.2013 which will end with my first solo exhibition in Switzerland. I'm very excited about this and started planing and preparing already now. More about the exhibition follows later.
2013
DECEMBER
21.12.2012, Queens, New York
Legendary painter Geo Remponeau, who was born in 1916 in Port-au-Prince Haiti passed away in Queens, NY where he resided for 47 years. He was my grandfather, mentor and greatest inspiration. Rest in peace PaGeo.
"Georges Remponeau, Legendary Haitian Artist, one of the co-founders of the Centre d'Art in the 1940s. He was a great artist who brought pride in the way he painted the rural Haitians and the landscape of his land of birth, Haiti. He was a teacher, a mentor, a Father, a joyful and generous man endowed with a sense of humor and a philosophy of life that allowed him to love and respect all. He was well traveled and everyone who met him always remembered him. He touched many generations and leaves us with a sense of innate self worth as Haitian, as Humans! He was a wonderful man revered by his community, his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. He is missed but will never be forgotten. We love you Pageo!" Jany Tomba, daughter
17.12.2012
Last week I gave my first skype interview for the ART web portal of Italian Public Televison RAI. You can view it here.
15.12.2012
My video Louis Who? is screened at Madatac 04, Contemporary Festival of New Media Arts in Madrid. It is a VIDEOFORMES 2012 selection curated by Gabriel Soucheyre.
NOVEMBER
26.11.2012
The Encyclopedia of Afro-European Studies included me within the group African Diaspora in Finland.
4.11.2012
The ARC Magazine republishes text by Suzana Milevska from our book (T)races of Louis Agassiz: Photography, Body and Science, Yesterday and Today.
OCTOBER
4.10.2012, ARC Magazine, issue 6
ARC Magazine is a Caribbean art and culture magazine dedicated to highlighting emerging and established artists. In this new issue: "Educator and writer Janice Cheddie investigates the formal works of Sasha Huber who investigates familial and historical bonds with Haiti while confronting sites of colonization and belonging. Huber claims a space and the right to construct narratives that challenge and question historical assumptions. Her self-representation suggests a renaming and unveiling, one which positions creolized subjects as an important constituent of history."
3.10.2012, 5-7pm, Lokal Art Space, Annankatu 19, Helsinki
Welcome to the opening of PIKKU LOKAL exhibition with one of my new staple artworks: Black Skin II.
SEPTEMBER
21.9.2012, 11am-3.30pm, Fiskars Forum, Fiskarsintie 9, Fiskars
We were invited to speak at the seminar Finnish Artist Residency Event 2012. Petri Saaikko and me talk about our experiences made during residencies with focus on the Residence Botkyrka that we attended in Winter 2011. This event is arranged by The Finnish Artists' Studio Foundation, Arts Council of Finland and the Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars.
19.9.–2.10.2012
We are happy that our video Remedies will be shown at the trinidad+tobago film / 12 festival! Founded in 2006 and presented by Flow, the trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff), is the largest event of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean. It continues to evolve and expand in celebrating expression and empowerment through film.
14.9.2012, 6-9PM, Linnunlaulu Studio, Eläintarhantie 18, Helsinki, Finland
Our studio participates to the Open Studio tour as part of the Helsinki Design Week. Welcome to see where we work!
13.–16.9.2012, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
I'm showing a new series at the Art Fair Suomi. Welcome!
3.–6.9.2012
Visiting Gothenburg in Sweden to install my exhibition Transatlantic Interventions at the Hasselblad Foundation project space. The exhibition opens Wednesday, 5.9. at 6 pm and lasts until the 14.10.2012. Curated by Dragana Vujanovic.
JULY
31.7.2012
Interesting article by documentary film maker and journalist Alex Frank Larsen on our exhibition Gletscherforscher, Rassist: Louis Agassiz (1807–2012) in the Danish paper INFORMATION. Further press can be viewed here.
9.7.2012
We are very happy that the selection committee of the Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival 2012 has selected our video Remedies. The festival takes place 19.9.–2.10.2012 in Port of Spain, Trinidad+Tobago.
JUNE
29.6.2012, 6pm, Grindelwald's Museum of Local History, Switzerland
Welcome to the opening of the exhibition Gletscherforscher, Rassist: Louis Agassiz (1807–2012).
Selection of press articles: Berner Oberländer, 28.6., Berner Oberländer, 12.6., 20min, 27.6, Tages Anzeiger, 4.7., Boston Globe, 27.6.
Complete press article list on Hans Fässler's website.
15.6.2012, 5-6PM, Gallery Virka, Helsinki City Hall, Sofiankatu 1 or Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13 Helsinki, Finland
Artist talk at the FLUSH exhibition at the gallery Virka. With Petri Saarikko I will speak about the Remedies project. Welcome!
11.6.2012
Review in Kunstkritikk about the group show Public Hair held at Kallio Kunsthalle in Helsinki from 20.4.–27.5.2012.
9.6.2012 – 28.8.2012, Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju, Finland
Welcome to see my Louis Who? project at Retretti's Summer exhibition Cave Allegories – Finnish Contemporary Art and Images of Our Time.
1.6.2012, 10am-5pm, Karen Blixen Museum
Welcome to the BAT Bridging Art & Text Seminar curated by Michelle Eistrup. I will give an artist talk as part of the Black Identity group.
MAY
29.5.–1.6.2012
Participation of seminar and workshop Bridging Art and Text (BAT) curated by Michelle Eistrup at the Karen Blixen Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.
8.5.2011, 17-19h, TR1 Taidehalli, Tampere
Video screening of Louis Who? at Break It!, Media Museum Rupriikki.
8.–28.5.2012
First artist residency above the Arctic Circle! At artist residence program AiR Up Here and with exhibition at Small Projects together with Petri Saarikko. Small projects is a art space run by artist Jet Pascua in Tromsø, Norway.
APRIL
20.4.–27.5.2012, Kallio Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
Welcome to see the Public Hair group exhibition with a new project of mine named Mr. Sasha Huber.
The exhibition is part of HpB Helsinki Photography Biennal.
MARCH
30.3.2012, Gothenburg, Sweden
Happy news that the pedagogy department of Botkyrka Konsthall, Sweden lead by Kerstin Gezelius received the award Sveriges museers prize for children workshops healed during my exhibition in 2011. The workshops, Who has the right to give names to a place were inspired by my exhibition.
23.3.–30.9.2012, Gallery Virka, Helsinki City Hall
We're happy that our Remedies project is presented in Helsinki as part of Flush group exhibition curated by Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger. The project is part of the Helsinki Photography Biennale.
Friday, 16.3.2011 at 10pm - Maison du Peuple, Clermont-Ferrand, France
My video "Louis Who? What you should know about Louis Agassiz" was selected to Video Formes Festival's competition Prix de la Création de vidéo in the category Revolutions.
1.–25.3.201, Media Box, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
"Louis Who?" was invited to the new space for media art at Forum Box curated by Nina Toppila in collaboration with Av-Arkki.
FEBRUARY
17.–19.2.2012
We bring Kallio Kunsthalle to Super Market, Stockholm's independent Art Fair.
JANUARY
12.1.–31.1.2012, Kallio Kunsthalle, Toinen Linja 31, Helsinki:
Within the first group exhibition this year, Kallio Kunsthalle presents the project Remedies Huskurer that I made in collaboration with Petri Saarikko. We collected urban lore in Stockholm’s suburbs. Remedies Huskurer consists of videos based upon domestic healing methods told by the inhabitants of Botkyrka. Finnish premiere – as well for the book!
2011
DECEMBER
1.–19.12.2011
After 27 years, I am especially excited to finally travel to Haiti together with Petri Saarikko to participate to the 2nd Ghetto Biennale curated by Andre Eugene, Jean Herard and Leah Gordon. Our project was kindly supported by FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Arts Council Finland and the Aalto University/Media Factory.
1.12.2011
Måg magazine interviewed me in their 6. issue! It is published by Nabroad.
NOVEMBER
12.11.2011
Suzana Millevska wrote about my project Rentyhorn in the article Artistic and Theoretical Strategies Challenging Racism published in the e-journal Red Thread, issue 3 (2011).
OCTOBER
22.10.2011, 9:00PM
Welcome to the opening of my first solo exhibition at Drugo more: Galerija SIZ, Molekula, Delta 5/1, Rijeka.
17.10.2011
Opening of Kallio Kunsthalle in Helsinki, Finland. I am part of the working group. Check the website for more info.
15.10.2011
The Finland Institute in Stockholm invited me along further speakers to talk about my work and work done within artist residencies. The event starts at 3pm at the Finland Intstitute, Snickarbacken 2-4, Stockholm. Welcome!
6.10.2011
Ingrid Melano wrote a post about my project I love JaNY on #Horst und Edeltraut.
SEPTEMBER
10.9.–16.10.2011
The 2nd edition of Fittja Open will open on 10.9. at the Botkyrka konsthall and at the Residence Botkyrka. Petri and me take part with our new project named Remedies. More coming soon...
AUGUST
25.8.2011
Kaunas Photo Festival presents photography and contemporary art from Baltic, Nordic and other European Countries. The presentation of Finnish photography is curated by Elina Heikka, director of the Finnish Museum of Photography. She will present artists participating in the Alice in Wonderland exhibition. My project I love JaNY is going to be part of her presentation.
24.8.2011, 6:00-8.00PM, Botkyrka Konsthall, Tumba torg 105, Tumba, Sweden
Writer Sven Lindqvist is visiting Botkyrka Konsthall for a public conversation about post-colonialism, anti-racism and art. The event is held within my exhibition TRANSATLANTIC PASSAGES: AGASSIZ, HAITI AND AFRICA IN THE WORKS OF SASHA HUBER.
19.8.2011
Kenya Hunt wrote about my work on VOGUE.IT.
1.8.2011
Review on my work within the HIAP summer exhibition More or less, a few pocket Universes by Helsinki based curator Saara Hacklin.
JUNE-JULY
29.6., 30.6., 1.–27.7.2011
First solo exhibition named Transatlantic Interventions in London at the Next Level Project space (58 Hanbury Street, Londonw EI 5JL) on the occasion of the Midnight Sun / Finnish Contemporary Photography Series. Curated by Sheyi Bankale. 30.6. opening from 6.30-9PM. Welcome!
25.6.–25.9.2011
I was invited to participate with my Rentyhorn project to the Screaming from the Mountain: Landscapes and Viewpoints group exhibition at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand, Norway. Curated by Pontus Kyander.
19.6.2011
Review on I love JaNY on Repeating Island online journal with News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature and the arts.
16.6.–28.8.2011
WIth My Shoes part of the More or less, a few pocket Universes Summer exhibition curated by Valentinas Klima¨auskas at Gallery Augusta, HIAP Suomenlinna.
5.6.2011
Article on the Strange Fruit installation in the Aamulehti newspaper in Tampere.
6.–12.6.2011
The Annikki Poetry Festival, one of the major poetry events in Finland has invited me to become the festivals artist.
I will make an outdoor installation on the Väinö Linnan aukio where the festival will be hosted.
2.6.2011
Article on I love JaNY in the Defend Haiti newspaper.
MAY
5.5.2011 at 9am:
Invitation to give a artist talk to students of the Design and Culture Module course at the Design / Industrial and Strategic Design MA programme of the Aalto University in Helsinki.
APRIL
23.4.–8.5.2011:
Solo exhibition Haiti Cherie at Gallery Kluuvi, Unioninkatu 28 B, 4.floor, Helsinki
20.4.2011:
A further review on my exhibition at Botkyrka konsthall in the Nyheter newspaper.
7.4.–15.5.2011:
Rentyhorn and Louis Who? video presented within the exhibition: Rastros e Raças de Louis Agassiz: Fotografia, Corpo e Ciência at the University Maria Antonia in São Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Maria P.T. Machado.
3.4.2011, 3:30am, Helsinki, Finland:
I'm very happy to announce that our son Basil Solomon Elias was born!
1.4.–2.5.2011:
With the Rentyhorn video and Rentyhorn book at The Niche in the Fine Arts Library, the new media project of the Fine Arts Library at the University of Virginia, USA. Curated by Lydia Moyer.
MARCH
16.3.2011
More press on my exhibition at Botkyrka konsthall in the Aftonbladet culture section.
10. and 11.3.2010
Press on my solo exhibition at Botkyrka konsthall in: Pastan.nu, Swedish culture news radio program on P1 and an interview at the Epstein program on P1.
5.3.–28.8.2011:
Botkyrka Konsthall hosts my first solo exhibition in Sweden:
TRANSATLANTIC PASSAGES: AGASSIZ, HAITI AND AFRICA IN THE WORKS OF SASHA HUBER
Curated by Joanna Sandell, director at Botkyrka Konsthall. Exhibition architecture by Birger Lipinski.
The opening is on Saturday, 5.3. from 1-4PM. Botkyrka Konsthall, Tumba Torg 105, 14730 TUMBA. Take the pendeltåg (train) until Tumba centrum.
1.3.2010
Press on my exhibition at Botkyrka konsthall in: Mitti - Botkyrka Salem.
JANUARY
End of January - beginning of March:
Petri Saarikko and me were invited
to Residence Botkyrka to produce our joint project that will be
presented in Botkyrka Konsthall in September 2011.
16.1.–18.12.2011:
My I LOVE JaNY installation was invited to be shown in the group exhibition Alice in Wonderland
at Logomo in Turku, Finland. The largest exhibition of contemporary art
photography ever seen in Finland as part of Turku, European Capital of
Culture. Alice in Wonderland is curated by editor-in-chief, curator
Sheyi Bankale (UK) and art historians Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger and Elina
Heikka. The event is being produced by the Finnish Museum of
Photography.
15.1.–6.2.2011:
I was invited to participate with a new staple artwork to the group show RE/VOLT at the Gallery Kalhama & Piippo in Helsinki. Curated by Pilvi Kalhama.
11.1.–27.2.2011, Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland:
I was invited to participate with my staple artworks to OPEN 140 - School of Art and Design since 1871, the anniversary exhibition at the Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland.
7.1.2011 at 9.30 PM:
Sanna Stellan from the culture TV program STRADA
(screened on YLE1), interviewed me and we visited together my solo
exhibition at the Taidehalli Studio, my other work at Kiasma's
collection exhibition and also my studio in Kallio, Helsinki.
2010
DECEMBER
3.12.2010
Opening of my solo exhibition I LOVE JaNY at Taidehalli Studio in Helsinki. Jany Tomba attended the opening! Curated by Suvi Saloniemi.
NOVEMBER
26.11.–2.12.2010
Cover story in Helsingin Sanomat NYT supplement magazine on my aunt Jany Tomba and myself due to my upcoming exhibition I LOVE JaNY at the Taidehalli Studio, Helsinki.
5.–7.11.2010
Marita Muukkonen will show my work at the Alternative north - Aspects of contemporary art in scandinavia. Hafnarhús – Symposium beside other contemporary artists from Finland.
4.11.2010
Nina Gaul in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil will keep a work shop to student of Oi Kabum! Escola de Arte e Tecnologia and will introduce my projects made while in Rio during this Summer.
OCTOBER
The new issue of NEXT LEVEL Magazine, #21 (Zurich Issue) features my work.
21.10.2010 at 7:00 PM at the Helsinki Klub, Geroldstrasse 35, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland:
Swiss Rentyhorn book release and book signing with Hans Fässler and me.
6.–12.10.2010
Research trip to Residence Botkyrka in Sweden. Invited by Botkyrka Konstall.
Our exhibition in São Paulo got extended until 30.10.2010:
(T)races of Louis Agassiz:
Photography, Body and Science, Yesterday and Today curated by Capacete Entretenimentos on the occasion of the 29th São Paulo
Biennial 2010. The
opening hours are: Wednesday-Saturday from 3:00-8:00 PM. Teatro de Arena, Rua Dr. Teodoro Baíma, 94, São Paulo.
SEPTEMBER
30.9.2010:
Presentation of my artwork at the Museum Paço das Artes to students of the Escola de Comunicação e Artes (ECA) of the University of São Paulo by lecturer and artist Daniela Castro.
16.9.2010 at 6:00-8.30 PM:
Launch of the online exhibition Photo Paradigm by Culture Gallery at Simon Preston Gallery, 31 Broome Street, Lower East Side, NYC.
Curated by Karen E. Jones. Culture Gallery is a digital showcase of contemporary creators based in Finland.
AUGUST
27.8.2010, 7:00-9:00 PM, Cable Factory, Helsinki.
Opening of the 6th ART FAIR SUOMI.
I'm presenting my new work: 'Trophy', Metal staples on birch wood, 120 x 150 cm. It depicts a skull of a Rhino from Africa.
26.8.2010, 8:00 PM, Teatro de Arena, Rua Dr. Teodoro Baíma, 94, São Paulo.
The exhibition opening and book launch of: (T)races of Louis Agassiz:
Photography, Body and Science, Yesterday and Today with lectures by Maria Helena P. T. Machado,
John M. Monteiro and me. Curated by Capacete Entretenimentos on the occasion of the 29th São Paulo
Biennial 2010.
The exhibition period is from 26.8.–25.9.2010. The
opening hours are: Wednesday-Saturday from 3:00-8:00 PM.
JULY
Press Release of the "De-mounting Louis Agassiz" Committee:
RENAMING OF AGASSIZHORN REJECTED BY THE COMMUNITIES WHO SHARE THE SUMMIT. PLANS FOR AN AGASSIZ EXHIBITION.
In their letter dated end of July 2010, the three communities who share
the Agassizhorn summit (Grindelwald BE, Guttannen BE, Fieschertal VS)
have rejected the petition
to have the Swiss Alpine peak of 3953 metres above sea level renamed.
2500 men and women from all over the world had voiced that demand
because in the 19th century Agassiz was one of the champions of the
so-called "scientific" racism and a pioneering thinker of apartheid, who
had commissioned the photo of Renty, a slave from the Congo, to be
taken, in order to prove the "inferiority of the black race". The
"De-mounting Louis Agassiz" committee, who had demanded the renaming
since May 2007, is sadly disappointed by this decision and particularly
deplores that even the submitted compromise of giving the name of
"Rentyhorn" to an unknown peak in the vicinity of Agassizhorn has not
met with the approval of the Oberland communal authorities.
The De-mounting Louis Agassiz committee accepts this decision, which
has been taken in a democratically correct manner. During the so-called
"round table talks" between representatives of the committee and the
authorities from the Bernese Oberland in September 2010, the idea of an
exhibition in the local history museum introducing the general public to
the "dark side" of Louis Agassiz was put forward by the Mayor of
Grindelwald. The committee would very much like to get back at this
proposition and is inclined to take up work on such a venture in the
months and years to come, an exhibition which could notably also be
shown in Guttannen and Fieschertal.
In the meantime, the racism of Louis Agassiz has definitely become an
international issue. The Swiss-Haitian artist Sasha Huber has
exhibited in Helsinki's museum of contemporary art Kiasma her project
"Rentyhorn", for which she symbolically renamed the peak and in whose
context she has edited the book Rentyhorn (ISBN 978-951-53-3267-7).
These days she will exhibit at the program curated by Capacete on the
occasion of the 29th São Paulo Biennial her latest photographic work Agassiz: The Mixed Traces Series as well as the video Louis Who?.
Moreover, she co-edited the book (T)races of Louis Agassiz:
Photography, Body and Science, Yesterday and Today (ISBN
978-85-63537-02-7) together with Brazilian historian Maria Helena P. T.
Machado, with texts both in English and Portuguese. For the first time
ever, the book will print some forty of the photographs which Louis Agassiz
had commissioned during his journey to Brazil in 1865-66 in order to prove –
just like in the case of the South Carolina daguerreotypes – the
"inferiority of the black race" and the mixing of races, which to
Agassiz was the most repulsive of ideas. These photographs are as well part of the exhibition.
26.7.–9.8.2010
The Rentyhorn book was part of the artist book exhibition Volume Collection curated Nemanja Cvijanovic at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice.
19.7.–4.9.2010
Artist-In-Residence at Capacete in São Paulo and Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. I will be working on a new book, an exhibition project and research in collaboration with Maria Helena P. T. Machado and Petri Saarikko.
16.7.2010, 5:30-9:00 PM
Acid Rain Productions invited my Rentyhorn video to the Gallery Crawl which will be hosted by the Future Tenant Gallery in Pittsburgh, USA.
MAY
28.5.2010 at 5:00-6.30 PM, Kiasma seminar room, Helsinki, Finland
I'm happy to announce that Hans Fässler will be coming to Helsinki to give a lecture named: What's in a name? Louis Agassiz, his mountain and the politics of remembrance. After his lecture we will launch the Rentyhorn book that will be published by Kiasma. You can mail me your contact if you wish to get an invitation mail about this.
APRIL
5.–29.4.2010
During April I will be working on my new project in NYC for my upcoming exhibition at the Taidehalli Studio space in Helsinki, Finland in December 2010.
MARCH
29.3.2010
We Make Money Not Art published a nice feature about Rentyhorn.
26.3.2010 – 20.2.2011
IT'S A SET-UP, Kiasma collection exhibition, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Welcome to the opening reception: 25.3.2010 from 6-8 pm.
10.3.2010
I am invited to give an artist's talk at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.
FEBRUARY
19.2.2010
Petri and I will attend the Re-thinking Diaspora symposium, part of the Afro Modern - Global Exhibitions - Contemporary Art and the African Diaspora exhibition at Tate Liverpool.
1.–28.2.2010
Acid Rain Production presents my Rentyhorn video work during February. ARP is a televised video-art series and an unique venue for contemporary video work that reaches over 100'000 households and businesses in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel HIll region.
JANUARY
18.2.2010
The Finnish online magazine fifi/voima invited me to write about the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on 12.1.2010. There is an English translation here.
2009
NOVEMBER
20.–22.11.2009
Participation at the First Pilot for the Arts Assembly which is a Perpetuum Mobilezation initiated by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen. Helsinki, Finland.
20.11.2009, 9:30 PM
Portrait about my work in the culture program Strada screened on channel YLE TV1 (Finnish national TV).
17.11.2009
Joint artist talk titled Elsewhere/Within together with Nurri Kim at the The Knowledge of Arts
and Culture, Degree Program for Cultural Management, Novia University
of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland.
SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER
26.9.–4.10.2009
I show a new art work named 'Strange Fruit Bowl' at the Art Fair Suomi, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland.
24.9.2009
Petri Saarikko and me are invited to speak at the first Interesting Helsinki event. We talk about our 5 Gramps. Korjaamo cultural factory, Helsinki, Finland.
5.9.2009
We hand over the signatures to our Rentyhorn petition to the Swiss federal (government and the two chambers of Parliament) and the cantonal authorities in Berne.
6.9.2009
A "Round Table Talk" will be held in Switzerland, i.e. a first round of negotiations about our request to have Agassizhorn renamed. Our delegation will consist of: Sasha Huber, Swiss-Haitian artist (Helsinki, Finland), Roger Buangi Puati, minister of the Swiss Reformed Church and historian, with Congolese origins (Lausanne, Switzerland), Kanyana Mutombo, journalist with Congolese origins and director of the "African People's University" (Geneva, Switzerland), as well as Hans Fässler, historian and founder of the Transatlantic committee "De-mounting Louis Agassiz" (St.Gallen, Switzerland). The communes bordering on Agassizhorn will be represented by the mayors of Grindelwald, Emanuel Schlaeppi, and of Guttannen, Hans Abplanalp, the UNESCO World Natural Heritage area by Beat Ruppen (Naters, Switzerland).
7th September 2009
Participation at Eternal Tour in Neuchâtel / Val de Travers, Switzerland, together with Hans Fässler.
4.–6.9.2009, 10 AM - 5 PM
Rentyhorn video at Eternal Tour, Maison blanche in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
JULY & AUGUST
Two month Artist-In-Residence at Capacete in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
17.8.2009
Public artist talk as part of the Capacete residency events, Gloria, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
13.8.2009
Distribution of bilingual (English - Portuguese) flyers about the Rentyhorn petition at "The 19th Century and the new frontiers of slavery and freedom" Seminar. Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Thank you to Maria Helena Machado for the Portuguese translation and for her support.
19.–24.8.2009
The Rentyhorn video was invited to the International Mountain Film Festival "Ushuaia Shh..." in Argentina.
11.7.–23.8.2009
Variations on Transcending the Finiteness of Human Vision
Finnish contemporary art exhibition curated by Marita Muukkonen, FRAME (Finland) at Riga Art Space.
JUNE
Feature about my work in FRAMEWORK magazine #10.
Presence at launch: Finnish Pavilion, Giardini, Venice, 5.6.2009, 4-6 pm.
MAY
20.–23.5.2009
The Renaming Machine group exhibition & conference curated by Suzana Milevska.
Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic
Zagreb, Croatia
APRIL
4.–30.3.2009 / extended until 13.4.2009
Nom Propre - Exhibition
Gallery Käytävä
Cable Factory
Tallberginkatu 1C, 2. Floor
Helsinki
In collaboration with French Cultural Centre Finland as part of Frakofonia Juhlii.
MARCH
18.–20.3.2009
TACTIC event series.
Participation in the debate: You stole my idea! and
workshop about power and collaboration arranged and facilitated by Aine Ivers.
The Lab
Foley Street, Dublin 1
Ireland
19.3.2009
Rentyhorn project presentation at
Dublin Art and Technology Association event.
The Oak
Dame Street, Dublin 2
2008
DECEMBER
10.12.2008
Rentyhorn presentation during the 60th birthday of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
celebration event arranged by Amnesty International Finland.
Kirjasto 10
Helsinki
NOVEMBER
20.–30.11.2008
Rentyhorn at Lens Politica exhibition.
Gallery Fafa
Lönnrotinkatu 35
Helsinki
9.11.2009
Artist talk during seminar arranged by Kolmas Tila:
The Birth of Modern Man? – The world at the end of the 18th century, feminism, antiracism and us.
Vanha Raatihuone
Vanha Suurtori 5
Turku
OCTOBER
29.10.–9.11.2008
Rentyhorn - Solo exhibition
Gallery Huuto
Uudenmaankatu 35
Helsinki