Galerie Anhava (FI)

Galerie Anhava focuses on contemporary Finnish and Nordic art, with an active role in providing representation at an international level. The gallery’s exhibition program engages with visual art across all media. Galerie Anhava is committed to the long-term representation of its artists and aims to be part of an ongoing dialogue between artists, institutions and audiences alike.

Fredrikinkatu 43
00120 Helsinki
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CHART

For CHART 2023 Galerie Anhava will present works by Kari Vehosalo and Marko Vuokola. Both artists have an exceptionally clear and distinctive conceptual approach to their art practice, and work with a wide scope of techniques. Be it with paintings, videos, photography or sculpture, their works manage to miraculously zoom in and widen the view at the same time – in their works we find ourselves marveling at an extreme close-up of a detail, and simultaneously becoming aware of the expanding horizon of human existence, desires, and the passage of time.

Marko Vuokola (FI)

Marko Vuokola is particularly interested in issues of seeing, perception, knowledge, and above all, time. His conceptual works range from physical installations to pieces employing light and sound, drawings, paintings, photographs, and video pieces. Time is the common denominator throughout each of these unique pieces and ensembles of work. The surprising nature of time is that it is endless, relative and precisely measurable. In his works, Vuokola captures the fleeting microsecond inaccessible to our senses.

Marko Vuokola (b. 1967, Toijala; FI) has exhibited in various galleries and museums around the world, recently in Tempelhof Airport, Berlin (DE); Amos Rex, Helsinki (FI) and K-U-K, Trondheim (NO) with an extensive solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Helsinki (FI) last spring. He has created several public works in Finland, and his works are included in numerous private and public collections.

Doppler Effect II

2x3D prints, laser sintered polyamide, oak, optiwhite glass
2023

Courtesy of Marko Vuokola and Galerie Anhava. Photo by Hanna Huitu

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Doppler Effect

Diptych
2021

Courtesy of Marko Vuokola and Galerie Anhava

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The Seventh Wave, Act Three

Digital c, print, diasec
2010

Courtesy of Marko Vuokola and Galerie Anhava

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'OCEAN OF LOVE' Installation view at Kunsthalle Helsinki, 2023

Courtesy of Marko Vuokola and Galerie Anhava. Photo by Patrik Rastenberger

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Kari Vehosalo (FI)

Kari Vehosalo’s works address concepts fundamental to humanity, such as death, beauty, sexuality and power. His detailed paintings are the products of postmodern ideology: ironic and playful, with beauty, horror and ludicrousness very close to each other. In his paintings, existence and the human condition are characterised by searching, uncertainty and fragility. Through an aesthetic experience, his works explore the psychopathology of everyday life and the structures of reality.

Kari Vehosalo (b. 1982) has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and an extensive mid-career retrospective was shown at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere in 2021. He was awarded the prestigious Ars Fennica prize in 2017. In addition to private collections, his works are in several notable public collections.