- Platform Live 18.12.2011
- Welcome to Platform Live, 18.12.2011, 15.00 at the Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art. On the program is an artist talk by Dutch artists Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis. Also, before & after the artist talk, there are guided tours of the To have/To own exhibition: 14.00 Tuomo Väänänen, in Finnish 16.00 Ulrika Ferm (curator of [...]
- To have/To own
- A group show organised by Platform. Kuntsi museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland, 4.12.2011–31.1.2012. Welcome! Dragos Alexandrescu (FI/RO) & Sarah Browne (IE) Maria Nordbäck (FI) & Brynhild Bye (NO) Stefan Constantinescu (SE/RO) Kane Do (DE/US) Audun Eriksen (NO) Maria Ångerman (FI) & Miha Erman (SI) FinnFemFel (FI) & Simo Brotherus (SE/FI) Rasmus Hedlund (FI) & [...]
- Platform Live: Autumn Darkness 18.11.2011
- Autumn Darkness Friday 18.11.2011 19.00 at Doo-Bop Club (Kauppapuistikko 12) ––– Nice experimental music to lighten up the dark autumnal atmosphere… Live sets: Hei (www.myspace.com/heiei) Ig Noir (www.myspace.com/ignoirmusic) Rasmus Hedlund/Tuomo Väänänen (www.facebook.com/Ljudverket) + DJ Arvid van der Rijt
- TO HAVE / TO OWN
- During 2011 Platform has chosen to work with the theme To have / To own; both because it fits well as a theme for a late 10th (11th!) anniversary, and as a reaction to the current cultural situation where art as well as other cultural fields have gone through big social, cultural, economic and ecologic [...]
- Forgo
- The project “Forgo” focuses on people who, for one reason or another, have chosen to or been forced to forgo something. The project is a collaboration between artists Brynhild Bye (NO), current artist-in-residence at Platform and Maria Nordbäck (FI). Together they will arrange several sewing and embroidery workshops in cooperation with local women’s groups in [...]
- Vaasa in Luck
- Vaasa in Luck is a project by Esther Pilkington (GB/AT/DE), current artist-in-residence at Platform, which will be conducted during her stay in Vaasa; Esther has a piece of gold, which she offers to trade for something of lesser value. The object she gets in return she will again offer for exchange, and again, and again [...]
- Platform Live 2.9.2011
- SQUID project is an online, ever-expanding archive of texts, written by professionals from the cultural field from all over the world. It is also a framework for offline activities such as public readings, artists’ presentations and discussions. SQUID was started in 2005 and is run by the artists Katja Aglert [SE], Martijn van Berkum [NL], Janna [...]
- Platform Live 11.8.2011
- Non Grata – Force Majeure More info: http://www.nongrata.ee/ Tomasz Szrama – Dress Rehearsal Also DJs Ufo-Matti, Arvid & Ljudverket DJs. Address: Kasern 14, Korsholmsesplanaden 6-8 Free entrance. Welcome!
- Platform Live 22.6.2011
- Kane Do Kane Do (US/DE) is in Vaasa during June-July to carry out a project, which will be presented in a group exhibition arranged by Platform at Kuntsi in December 2011. This evening he will talk about his practice. “As his predominant means of artistic expression, the artist Kane Do employs industrially pre-fabricated materials. His works [...]
- Platform Live 25.5.2011
- Audun Eriksen – Adopt a Bird The next Platform Live will include an artist talk and sound performance by Platform’s current artist-in-residence Audun Eriksen, as well as a presentation of a new project developed in Vaasa, Adopt a Bird. Live electronic music will be performed by Arvid van der Rijt, Rasmus Hedlund and Tuomo Väänänen. [...]
- Platform Live – Artist Talks
- Friday 25.2.2011 starting at 19.00 – at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art Helga Steppan Helga Steppan is a Swedish artist who’s at the Platform residency during February and March. She’s working mainly with photographic media in combination with installation and elements of performance. One of her main interests lies in the meeting-point — or space — between the two- [...]
- Platform Live 21.1.2011
- Thursday 21.1.2011 starting at 19.00 – at Kuntsi Pernilla Ljungqvist Pernilla Ljungkvist is a Swedish artist based in Gothenberg. Sometimes she’s living someone else’s life, acts like them, think their thoughts and takes over their identity. Sometimes she writes letters to them, plants herself in their subconsciousness and controls even their tiniest movements. Sometimes she [...]
