Exhibitions 2006

Fear+Desire

Carla Cruz | 10.12–21.12.2006

Every year thousands of people leave their home towns, their countries, in search of a better life, a bearable life. These people normally travel from countryside to bigger towns, from pourer countries to richer countries, from countries at war or with totalitarian regimes to democratic and peaceful countries.  These people – emigrants – are the motor of several high income developed countries that wouldn’t be able to maintain the level of production and quality of life without them.

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Just moved in

Yoko Iida | 19.3-26.3.2006

Just moved in is part of the Tea House Project: an artwork that started in 2004. Site and culturally specific, her work exists in a variety of forms.

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Artist in Residence

Vaasa by night

Dan Acostioaei | November 2006

The works of the Romanian artist Dan Acostioaei usually investigates the impact of consumerism and global ideologies on the transition and the social relations in Romania.

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One Mans Terror Is Another Mans Freedom

Mark Clare| 2.6-22.6.2006

At a time when the erosion of freedom of speech and expression propagated by a post 9/11 politics of fear, the topic of art is not an easy one.

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Symposium

Out on the edge

3.6-4.6.2006

The symposium is a spin-off of the idea that we automatically and inevitably look for and strive to place ourselves in relation to a common structure. Within this structure, some of us act geographically, historically or socially from out of a centre, and some of us, in one or more aspects, out of a more distant location or state of mind.

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Artist 2 Artist

Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov

We are identical twins, and we work together on each piece. Ideas for our projects evolve through discussions and shared observations.

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