DECEMBER
29.12.2014
A article on artdaily about the Haïti exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris.
24.12.2014
The new magazine IAM - Intense Art Magazine interviewed me on the occasion of the Haïti exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. The interview was conducted by Virginie Ehonian
22.12.2014
Haitian Canadian novelist and journalist Dany Laferrièr commenting on my Shooting Back works within the Haiti exhibition.
17.12.2014
Mikko Oranen wrote a review on my Shooting Stars exhibtion on Skenet.
3.12.2014–13.1.2015
A adaption of the I love JaNY installation was invited to Rome (IT) and is presented in the gallery LaStellina ArteContemporanea.
The exhibition is curated by Stella Bottai. Review: Cult Finlandia by Laura Scacco.
NOVEMBER
19.11.2014–15.2.2015, Paris
The Grand Palais Galerie Nationale in Paris will be hosting a retrospective exhibition looking at 200 years of Haitian art, entitled Haiti. Focusing on Haitian art from the 19th century to the present day, the exhibition takes an approach that is simultaneously historical, social and cultural in its approach. I'm pleased to be a part of such a significant exhibition. The show will run from 19th November 2014 to 15th February 2015.
17.11.-2.12.2014, Korjaamo Gallery, Helsinki, FI
Welcome to my solo exhibition Shooting Stars which is dedicated to victims of gunshot assassinations perpetrated for political, ethnic, ideological or economic reasons.
OCTOBER
31.10.2014, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
On October 31, 2014, Port-au- Prince will inaugurate its first “White Night” event, in fact, a first in the Caribbean, after having graced Montreal, Belo Horizonte, Buenos Aires and La Paz on the American continent. The 1st inaugural White Night in Port-au-Prince will present itself as a luminous path through the city that explores a ten spaces, linked by a free shuttle service. A showcase of urban scenography, illuminated installations, performances and video projects – more than 20 Haitian and international creators will propose an imaginary voyage inspired by the theme “Urban Utopias”. I am participating with my video Haïti Chérie.
29.10.14–9.11.14, Teufen, CH
The exhibition on Louis Agassiz: "Glaciologist, Racist: Louis Agassiz
(1807-2012)" has been touring in various places in German-speaking as
well as French-speaking Switzerland since 2012, It is now on show at the
Zeughaus Teugen, SG under the title Wie die Landschaft zu ihren Namen kommt. A part of my Demountig Louis Agassiz works are included. The exhibition is curated by Ueli Vogt, Director of Zeughaus Teufen.
Press clip in the Swiss culture magazine Saiten.
AUGUST-NOVEMBER
Working on the new project Shooting Stars for my upcoming solo exhibition opening on the 27.11.2014 at the Gallery Korjaamo, Helsinki, FI.
JULY
1.7.–3.8.2014
Summer holidays and working at temporary studio in the finnish countryside. There I created the Runaway and the Sea of the Lost works.
JUNE
6.6.–5.7.2014, Copenhagen
Participating to the groupshow Possession: Art, Power and Black Womanhood group exhibition at New Shelter Plan,
Copenhagen, Denmark. Possession: Art, Power and Black Womanhood brings
together the artwork of 12 female artists of African descent from around
the world, representing contemporary expressions of Black womanhood in
the 21st century and reflecting on the historical journey from
ethnographic subjects to autonomous creators. As the first exhibition of
its kind in Denmark, the show marks the beginning of a process that
seeks to connect the work of Afro-Scandinavian women artists with those
of others around the transatlantic Diaspora. Artworks exhibited will
naturally reflect the colourful nuances, similarities and divergences of
“racial” and gender identities of Black womanhood. Curated by Dr. Temi
Odumosu and artist Patricia Kaersenhout.
MAY
2.–31.5.2014, Berlin and 15.–18.5.2014, Copenhagen
Participation in the BE.BOP 2014. SPIRITUAL REVOLUTIONS AND THE "SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA" exhibition and conference at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse in Berlin and the Danish Art Workshop in Copenhagen. Curated by Alanna Lockward with guest curator Jeannette Ehlers.
APRIL
30.4.2014, Mexico City
The project Remedies
I made in collaboration with artist Petri Saarikko was invited to join
the PARALLAX group exhibition alongside 21 finnish artists at El Laboratorio Arte Alameda (LAA), Mexico City. Curated by Giovanna Esposito Yussif and Marketta Haila. The exhibition runs from 1.5. to 6.7, 2014
11.4.2014, New York City
Curator and author Alanna Lockward screended beside others my HaÏti Chérie video as part of her presentation at the conference: Coloquio: Islas y Diásporas del Caribe Hispano en el Siglo XXI at the Princeton University.
10.4.2014, Pohiojs-Haaga railway station, Helsinki
Inauguration of public artwork Re-Action,
made by youth of the Kannelmäkt youth centre in coorporation with IHME
Contemporary Art Festival and the Helsinki Youth Department. I
conceptualized and lead the workshop during nine evenings in January and
February with the help of Jonna Kalliomäki and Nisse Ekblom.
4.–6.4.2014, IHME Contemporary Art Fesival, Helsinki
My latest video My Racism is A Humanism. A Lecture (2013) will premiere in Finland during the IHME Festival and on saturday I will present the workshop I conceptualized for the Youth Department of Helsinki in coorporation with the IHME Festival.
4.4.2014, Norsborg, Kommun Botkyrka, Sweden
Inauguration of the public art work Circle of Light for the newly built elderly home Tornet
for people with dementia. The work was commissioned by the Arts Council
of the Kommun Botkyrka, Sweden and in coorporation with Botkyrka
konsthall.
MARCH
17.–22.3.2014
Opening week of the 19th Biennale of Sydney - You Imagine What You Desire. I'm going to be in Sydney from 13.–23.3.2014.
Artist talk: 21.3. at 2PM, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1.3.2014
Journalist Peikko Pitkänen wrote a article on me in the March issue of Maailman Kuvalehti (in finnish).
FEBRUARY
20.2.–20.3.2014, Kallio Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
Participation in the group exhibition Flower Power.
Press
text: In the dawn of optimism we spend a momentum, to contemplate what
remains. Marcel ¦tefančič writes: "A hundred years from now no one will
know who these politicians were, what their names were, but everyone
will still know what these flowers are called."
Bullet can kill from a mile away. The shortest, yet the longest imaginable gap can occur between separate pairs of eyeballs.
From
the trenches of high security summits – Peterlin snipes the stillness
of flowers. In his text 'Arboretum' – ¦tefančič accounts the extinction
of corporeal weeds. Balomenos serves the royal brunch for the stars
among us and RR Marki manifests the ROMANISTAN millennial tensions.
Huber exorcises 'nailed' El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz onto a solid plank of
oak.
"… – chrysanthemums, lilies, roses, baby’s breath, scarlet
stars, poppies, kangaroo paws, Chinese grass, dragon trees, elephant’s
feet, orchids, palm fruit, spathiphylla, water lilies, gloriosas,
gerberas, flamingo flowers, ground cherries, Benjamin’s figs, ferns,
Zanzibar gems, tulips, carnations and calla lilies. That's it – Flower
Power."
Participants: Anders Wettler's 'Beauty of the Beast' /
Borut Peterlin, Flower Power / Marcel ¦tefančič, Arboretum / Panos
Balomenos, We Are All Made of Stars / RR Marki, Romanistan / Sasha
Huber, Shooting Stars
Curated by Kallio Kunsthalle.
JANUARY
29.1.
IHME Contemporary Art Festival
and the City of Helsinki Youth Department invited me to develope and
lead a workshop for the Kannelmäki Youth Centre during a three-week
period, starting from 29 January 2014. In the workshop named IHME Re-Action, youth from Kannelmäki, Haaga and Malminkartano districts get to realize an artwork to be presented on IHME Days at the Old Student House on April 5, 2014 and after permanently displayed at the Pohjois-Haaga railway station. Welcome!