Persons Projects (DE)

Persons Projects was founded in 1995 in Helsinki, Finland and relocated to Berlin in 2005. Its primary focus has been the artists of the Helsinki School and the Nordic region. In 2019 Persons Projects expanded its activities to include artists from Eastern Europe. The gallery represents a selected group of established and emerging artists who work both conceptually and with the photographic process as a tool for thinking.

Lindenstrasse 34-35
10969 Berlin, DE
(+49) 30 2888 3370

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CHART

For CHART 2023, Persons Projects will present five different artistic positions to emphasise how the artists that have been associated with the Helsinki School are joined in a mutual dialogue with other artists from the gallery’s programme, like Paweł Książek and Jakub Julian Ziółkowski. The selection of works focuses on various characteristics that could be used to develop the concept of how we visually understand nature, beyond the physical world of animals, plants and landscapes.

Eeva Karhu, Path (moments) Spring 4, Archival pigment print, 2021

Sandra Kantanen, untitled (Refraction 1), Pigment print, 2022

Paweł Książek, Afterimage 03, Oil on canvas, 2023

Santeri Tuori, Water Lilies #20, Pigment print, 2022

Jakub Julian Ziółkowski, Ant Power, 2022

Eeva Karhu (FI)

Eeva Karhu is an artist who uses the photographic process of layering one image on top of another as a method for registering the passage of time. Much in the same way as Impressionist painters made repeated studies of the same subject, she takes a photo every day at the same point during her walk home. She then compiles all of her photographs from one month or one season, using layering or collaging techniques to create a unique image from different fragments.

Eeva Karhu (b. 1980, Kirkkonummi; FI) is a Finnish conceptual artist whose work primarily focuses on landscape photography. She graduated from Aalto University, Helsinki (FI) in 2014. Recent international solo and group exhibitions of her work include The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki (FI) and The Lahti Art Museum, Lahti (FI).

Path (moments) Winter 1

Pigment print
2019

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Path (moments) Spring 4

Archival pigment print
2021

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Path (moments) Autumn 6

Pigment print
2019

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Path (moments) Summer 3

Pigment print, framed
2019

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Paweł Książek (PL)

Paweł Książek’s primary medium is painting. Since the beginning of his career, he has been interested in the roots of modernism. The methodology which the artist uses is based on working with archives, encyclopaedia and source material collected from the Internet. Książek finds common motifs for seemingly disparate themes, which he connects in a collage-like way on canvas. He treats painting as the final stage of a long process of research. The artist places enormous value not only upon the content but also upon the techniques and technology of painting, seeking technical perfection. Every element of the painting is essential to him: from the quality of the canvas to the varnish.

Paweł Książek (b. 1973, Andrychów; PL) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow (PL), and Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main (DE). He lives and works in Krakow (PL) and Szczecin (PL), where he lectures at the Academy of Art – since 2020 as associate professor. Książek was a resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE) in 2011 and SOArt, Vienna (AT) in 2013. His work has recently been exhibited at The National Museum, Szczecin (PL); The National Museum, Krakow (PL)

Fig. 51 (after Man Ray)

Oil on canvas
2014

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Afterimage 03

Oil on canvas
2023

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Fig. 45

Oil on canvas
2014

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Composition 03 (Susanne)

Oil on canvas
2021

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Santeri Tuori (FI)

Santeri Tuori has been engaging with the properties of nature and its power of change over the past two decades. Forests, skies, water lilies, and wind are only some of the basic elements you might find in any Nordic landscape, and all become items of Tuori's interest and observation. His subjects have their roots in traditional landscape painting and drawing as seen in the watercolors of William Turner or the biblical paintings of El Greco.

Santeri Tuori (b. 1970 in Espoo, Finland) has received a Master of Law degree from the University of Helsinki in 1999, and obtained Bachelor (2000) and Master of Arts (2003) degrees in photography at Aalto University. Since 1997, his works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and are included in the collections of the Espoo Museum of Modern Art, the Finnish Museum of Photography, the FRAC Haute-Normandie, the Malmø Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, as well as countless private collections worldwide. He is a member of The Helsinki School focusing on contemporary landscape and nature photography.