Here is a selection of past and upcoming dates concerning my artistic activities.


2010


AUGUST

27.8.2010, 7:00-9:00, 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 a 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