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The POLAROID Exhibition includes Polaroids by big international names ranging from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol, plus a selection of Finnish Polaroid images. Instantaneous mood pictures from a legendary collection: self-portraits, still lifes, conceptual art and collages. Common features are playful snapshot-taking and the thrill of colour.
POLAROID is part of Helsinki Festival 2012.
 Andy Warhol: Andy sneezing (1978). Polaroid SX-70. WestLicht collection, Vienna.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc.
The Polaroid company regularly gave artists cameras and film, and from their responses it built up a huge, nostalgic collection of photographs. Vienna’s WestLicht Museum acquired the European section in 2010, some of which can now be seen by the Finnsih public. Polaroid’s successor, The Impossible Project, is also represented.
 Mary Ellen Mark: Untitled (1987). Polaroid Spectra. WestLicht collection, Vienna.
© Mary Ellen Mark.
The WestLicht collection contains 4400 works by 800 artists from 1970–90 from which Chief Curator Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger and Museum Director Elina Heikka were able to make their own selection.
The Finnish component has been compiled by critic Otso Kantokorpi and photographic artist Martti Jämsä. Next to the original Polaroid artworks, contemporary images taken on new Impossible Instant Film are also represented. Impossible manufactures new film for classic Polaroid cameras.
The exhibition is accompanied by a theme edition of Kamera magazine. Visitors can listen to the curators and artists on the Museum’s mobile-phone guide.
 Sandi Fellman: Trophy (1984). Polaroid Polacolor. 50 x 60 cm. WestLicht collection, Vienna.
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PROJECT SPACE
Marcus Hansson: Souvenir
8.6.-5.8.2012
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The Swedish artist Marcus Hansson views the world through the torrent of news reports, incorporating news images from the BBC and Al Jazeera into his artworks. In this “souvenir shop” everything is for sale at an affordable price.
Hansson’s works occupy the terrain between documentary, fiction and art. Anything or anyone captured from the news stream could become material for his work.
Hansson photographs this material from TV transmissions while on his own sofa at home. From the stream of news our gaze turns to production and commercialism. Hansson has had paintings made of his photographs in Shen Zhen, China. There, in the oil-painting village of Dafen, hundreds of painters mostly work hand copying the masterpieces of painting. Hansson first found the village on YouTube.
Viewers can order a painting to be commissioned based on one of the photographs in the set of works on display. Everything in the exhibition is also for sale.
www.marcushansson.com
 Marcus Hansson: Refugees in the Sun
Mats Bergsmeden: Border Line
10.8.-9.9.2012
Bergsmeden depicts double-edged scenes. A beautiful landscape is also a place where people have lost their lives in their efforts to enter the EU illegally.
Ann Eringstam: Escape to Reality
14.9.-14.10.2012
Eringstam uses Boy Scouts to symbolize boys who are moulded early in life to fit into roles that are hard to break out of.
 Ann Eringstam: From the Series Escape to Reality (2010)
Tanja Koponen
19.10.-18.11.
Minna Rainio & Mark Roberts: Our Land
23.11.-6.1.2013
Our Land highlights the fact that Finland is a multicultural country, and emphasizes the point that nationality is a malleable concept and subject to change.
PROCESS SPACE
Studio – a Moment between body and clothes
1.6–26.8.2012, Note! Exhibition only open at weekends June 4–22.
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Press briefing on Thursday 3.5. at 11. Opening on Thursday 3.5. at 17–19.
 Merja Hannikainen and Vappu Jalonen
On two weekends in February, photographer Merja Hannikainen (b.1982) and artist Vappu Jalonen (b.1979) set up a studio in the Museum’s Process space.
More than 40 participants designed and constructed temporary clothes for themselves out of a pile of fabrics, and were then photographed. This designing and dressing gave them a chance to express a fantasy, a role, or a part of their identity not often seen in everyday life. Because the clothes were not readymade, they may also have left room for different corporealities.
“It was important to us that less visible bodies were also on display in the project: queers, people with disabilities, fat people, and not just young people. In the shoots we also wanted to provide an unrestricted opportunity for expressing masculinity or femininity, regardless of gender.”
The exhibition takes the form of a projection.
Exhibition partners: Cultural accessibility project Utopia Helsinki, www.utopiahelsinki.wordpress.com and supporters Angel Films and Color-Kolmio.
http://studiotemporaryclothes.tumblr.com/
Events: Meet the artists, Thursday 23.8 at 18:00. Free entrance.
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Pekka Elomaa: Paha maisema -sarjasta. Alrik Wiljasalon hautapaikalla. The Finnish Museum of Photography.
