SASHA HUBER
 
 
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.