Ebb and flow

The works of the artists participating in Ebb and flow will unfold from the observation of events, temporalities, and tensions at work in the new facilities of the University of the Arts. The works will create relations to different bodily, material, human, and other-than-human processes, that don’t necessarily have a goal. The set of works strives to approach artworks as tentative spaces of cognition, affection, and sensation.

The new Sörnäinen campus of the University of the Arts Helsinki is home to the Academy of Fine Arts and the Theatre Academy. Both are also represented in the artist selection for Ebb and flow. One of the questions behind the exhibition is what kind of potentialities the physical coming together of the two academies can open up to the public presentation of art.

The artists participating in the exhibition are students, doctoral and post-doc researchers from both the Academy of Fine Arts and Theatre Academy. Ebb and flow has taken form through discussions between the exhibition’s curator and the artists throughout 2021. The works in the exhibition have found their place in the gallery space through this shared process of sensing and becoming affected.

Curator

The curator of the opening exhibition is Riikka Thitz, a curator of contemporary art and performance. The curator was selected by the Exhibition Division at the Academy of Fine Arts based on exhibition proposals that were requested from four Praxis alumni or students at the final stage of their studies.

Participating artists

Miina Aho, Ramina Habibollah, Taru Happonen, Simo Kellokumpu, J. Koho, Heini Korhonen, Tuomas Laitinen, Tuomas Lehtomaa, Tuure Leppänen, Stephanie Misa, Kristiina Mäenpää, Ellenor Rose Nish, Tuuli Ojala, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Daniel Palpa, Jaakko Pietiläinen, Vincent Roumagnac, Mira Vornanen.

Media picks

Aistien tilassa – Haastattelussa Riikka Thitz

Sanna Lipponen / EDIT, 23.1.2022

Yh­des­sä, ti­las­sa: Ku­vas­ta, näyt­tä­mös­tä, ti­las­ta

Sini Henttu, Tuija Huovinen, Eero Karjalainen / Uniarts.fi 24.1.2022

Ebb and Flow juhlii siirtymää vanhasta uuteen teoksilla, jotka suuntaavat huomioon uuteen rakennukseen sekä siellä tehtävään taiteeseen.

Sini Mononen / Helsingin Sanomat, 3.12.2021

Ebb and flow använder sig utmärkt av de spatiala möjligheter som det nya Kuva/Tila-galleriet erbjuder. (—) Thitz urvalsprocess känns inte uppenbar, och är just därför lyckad.

Helen Korpak / HBL, 10.12.2021

Ebb and flow

Kuva/tila, University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts
3.12.2021–30.1.2022

Images: Petri Summanen, Aukusti Heinonen