Breath
28.2.–23.3.2025
About the exhibition
The Breath exhibition presents the traditions of making kinetic and mechanical art through works created by artists who are current or former students or current teachers at the Academy of Fine Arts. Curated for the Kuva/Tila gallery, the exhibition centres around Grönlund-Nisunen’s installation Pneumatic Cloud (2007/2012/2021). Resembling an abstract cloud, this installation artwork moves slowly in response to changes in air pressure. The work creates a breathing, landscape-like situation in the exhibition space. The other works, deliberately arranged around the installation, are a kind of independent means of observation. They have been selected to engage in a dialogue with the Pneumatic Cloud.
The brutalist, minimalistic and open architecture at Kuva/Tila leaves the functional features bare in the ceiling, creating tension between the elliptical object floating in the gallery space. The installation’s placement makes the viewer aware of the exhibition space and its dimensions. The installation’s artificial breathing creates a situation where the viewer can focus on being and observing their own bodily presence in the exhibition space, recognise their own breathing and relate their own experience, energy level and senses to the impulses offered by the works.
The exhibition gives Petteri Nisunen the chance to introduce himself to the community in his role as the vice dean for education at the Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition has been curated by Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts Leevi Haapala.
Artists
Inka Bell
Petri Eskelinen
Tommi Grönlund ja Petteri Nisunen
Sofia Haapamäki
Eetu Huhtala
Eeva Juuti ja Ville Laurinkoski
Diana Luganski
Priss Niinikoski
Raisa Raudas
Viktor Sundman
Emppu Veinola
Timo Viialainen
About the exhibition
The Breath exhibition presents the traditions of making kinetic and mechanical art through works created by artists who are current or former students or current teachers at the Academy of Fine Arts. Curated for the Kuva/Tila gallery, the exhibition centres around Grönlund-Nisunen’s installation Pneumatic Cloud (2007/2012/2021). Resembling an abstract cloud, this installation artwork moves slowly in response to changes in air pressure. The work creates a breathing, landscape-like situation in the exhibition space. The other works, deliberately arranged around the installation, are a kind of independent means of observation. They have been selected to engage in a dialogue with the Pneumatic Cloud.
The brutalist, minimalistic and open architecture at Kuva/Tila leaves the functional features bare in the ceiling, creating tension between the elliptical object floating in the gallery space. The installation’s placement makes the viewer aware of the exhibition space and its dimensions. The installation’s artificial breathing creates a situation where the viewer can focus on being and observing their own bodily presence in the exhibition space, recognise their own breathing and relate their own experience, energy level and senses to the impulses offered by the works.
The exhibition gives Petteri Nisunen the chance to introduce himself to the community in his role as the vice dean for education at the Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition has been curated by Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts Leevi Haapala.
Artists
Inka Bell
Petri Eskelinen
Tommi Grönlund ja Petteri Nisunen
Sofia Haapamäki
Eetu Huhtala
Eeva Juuti ja Ville Laurinkoski
Diana Luganski
Priss Niinikoski
Raisa Raudas
Viktor Sundman
Emppu Veinola
Timo Viialainen