- Night view from the Soap Factory
- Lewis & Taggart | Artist in residence November 2010 and other works for Vaasa Andrew Taggart and Chloe Lewis are Canadian artists based in Bergen, Norway. Their joint practice, established in 2006, investigates how sculpture can function as a vehicle for ritual and transformation, and how modest and readily available materials can serve to monumentalize [...]
- Platform Live Friday 26.11.2010
- Friday 26.11.2010 starting at 19.00 – at Kuntsi Museum for Modern Art Willem Wilhelmus, Myk Henry, Martin Renteria & Nathalie Mba Bikoro This year’s last Platform Live offers a wide selection of international performance art: Willem Wilhelmus (Finland/Netherlands), Nathalie Mba Bikoro (Gabon/UK), Myk Henry (Ireland/USA) and Martin Renteria (Mexico) will do performances on this week’s [...]
- Platform Live Friday 1.10.2010
- Kuntsi Museum for Modern Art Stefan Constantinescu Stefan Constantinescu, artist and film director, will present two film projects, Troleibuzul 92(8’00) and My Beautiful Dacia (72’00). He will also talk about an ongoing group project, The Iron Curtain, a box of memory, which is done in collaboration with Xandra Popescu, who will be present as well. Stefan Constantinescu [...]
- Platform Live Friday 3.9.2010
- Kuntsi Museum for Modern Art STEVE VANONI Performance art and live experimental electronic music! Address: Sisäsatama, Vaasa / Inre hamnen, Vasa Free entrance. Welcome!
- A collectors instinct – Leena Jokela
- Leena Jokela | Artist in residence August 2010 During my stay in Vaasa, I chose to work with A collector’s instinct, which is an ongoing project that I started in 2006. The work consists of the objects I found and collected at various locations, mainly in Stockholm, where I also live. The objects are what [...]
- SHuSH 3, Saturday 3.6.2010
- Here comes the third installment of SHuSH by Amal Laala, artist-in-residence during May and June 2010 The first two were crazy death-pop in Melbourne’s abandoned spaces. After being kicked out by a torch-wielding psycho, who claimed to be the owner but ended up being arrested and being shut down by police, we have decided [...]
- Platform Live Saturday 22.5.2010
- Kuntsi Museum for Modern Art Platform live presents artist talks by Platform artist in residence Amal Laala (Morocco) and Stundars artist in residence Sophie Dvořák (Austria), and Amal Laala’s performance “The next man who walks through that door I will marry”. Amal Laala is a socially engaged, site-specific artist, whose work is often temporary [...]
- Trajector Art Fair 23-25 April 2010
- Hotel Bloom 23-25.4.2010 in Brussels CFL was going to offer couples in love a hotel night for free in exchange for the story of how they met. In the hotel room during the fair there would’ve only been a video – shown in the hotel tv – of one person at a time telling a [...]
- Platform Live Wednesday 21.4.2010
- Kuntsi Modern Museum of Art in Vaasa Platform, in collaboration with Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, starts a new series of live art happenings called Platform Live. On the program for this first edition are performances by Tari Ito (Japan) and Irma Optimisti (Finland). Tokyo-based Tari Ito is one of the most important [...]
- Artist talk 5.2.2010, Ritz
- Jenny Baines | Artist in residence February and July 2010 Jenny Baines’ artistic practice exists in various forms that are all intrinsically linked by hope and the possibility of failure. When making films, Jenny performs repetitive actions for the camera, documenting herself carrying out apparently futile yet defiant physical feats. These actions can seem like [...]
- CFL, Tammisaari (Ekenäs) February 2010
- Land we have / Land vi ha Vasa 2010 | Exhibited in Elverket, Tammisaari (Ekenäs) The project is a site-specific initiative that explores notions about identity, and relationship to place and patriotism. The work is an audiovisual interpretation of an experiment where CFL members invited persons from different origins based in Ostrobothnia to sing the [...]
- Last landscape of pleasure 21 January 2010
- Jaša | Artist in residence December 2009–January 2010 On January 21st Platform was pleased to present a new project by Jaša (Slovenia). It was developed during the residency period and took place in the Platform Studio, Vasa. Art historian Jernej Kožar wrote about the artist: »Jaša found a way how to reinterpret the question of [...]
