Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen were central to the Nordic 90’s generation. Their retrospective at Kunsthalle Helsinki is consistent, playful and surprisingly universal.
“It sounds like art” was a mantra a few years ago when an increasing number of artists started to work in the borderland between sound and image.
My main message would be that changes are always necessary, and also possible. I always expose moral duality in my work and relation between sorrow and happiness.
With an eye set on the future, Barcelona-based artist Andrei Warren imagines alternative realities, ‘what if’ scenarios, and parallel dimensions through his practice. Despite envisioning a dystopian future, he believes the new generations are here to amend the many mistakes made by our predecessors, and he’s fighting for a better world through his 3D and CGI works.
Though it’s been over a year since Clottey first took to the streets in his mother’s clothes, his performance continues to spark debate around gender equality and the question of LGBTQ rights.
Serge Attukwei Clottey walked through Ghana’s capital city in his dead mother’s clothes to honour her memory – and to highlight injustice against women. It is the latest step in his art collective’s mission to create social change.
“I regard each of my works as a living being. Bioism extends life to lifeless subjects.” —Aljoscha.
Who is Aljoscha? The biological process, started 1974 in Ukraine.