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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Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2024, Persons Projects will present six different positions to emphasise the mutual artistic dialogue between the artists that have been associated with the Helsinki School and the Polish artists from the gallery's programme, such as Paweł Książek and Dominik Lejman. The selection of works represents a wide variety of artistic approaches and aims to highlight the harmonic interchange between photography and painting. In the merging of these two media, the artists seek to blur the line between what we see in the image and how it makes us feel.

Paweł Książek (PL)

Since the beginning of his career, Książek has been interested in the roots of Modernism. The methodology which the artist uses is based on working with archives, encyclopaedic and factual sources. He develops his path of investigation by using the analytical studies of avant-garde aesthetics. He researches the mutual relations between the human body and objects in space, nature, and culture through their construction and deconstruction. The result of Książek's creative process has several layers. It begins with a series of text-image works on paper based on a very careful selection of photos and motifs. These conceptual works are materials that will eventually develop into large-format oil paintings.

Paweł Książek (b. 1973, Andrychów) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main. He was a resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2011) and SOArt in Austria (2013), and was holder of the scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2008. Recent exhibitions include: Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg; AT), Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art (Kraków; PL); Polish Institute in Berlin (Berlin; DE), Foksal Gallery, (Warsaw; PL).

N.N. 71

Oil on canvas
2021

Courtesy of the artist and Persons Projects

Composition 02 (Susanne)

Oil on canvas
2021

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Fig. 48

Oil on canvas
2015

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Composition 19 (Vivien Leigh)

Oil on canvas
2017

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Fig. 57

Oil on canvas
2015

Courtesy of the artist and Persons Projects

Sandra Kantanen (FI)

Sandra Kantanen has delved into the world of landscape photography combining a sense of painting with photography. Her process is digital; she stretches the pixels to the point where they appear as if they were dripping paint. This fascination with creating her idealized sceneries lies between an Eastern way of seeing and the Western sense of romanticism.

Sandra Kantanen (b. 1974, Helsinki, FI) is a conceptual artist with a focus on manipulated landscape photography. She studied photography at the University of Arts and Design in Helsinki as well as at the Central Academy of Fine art, Beijing, China. Kantanen has had several international solo and group exhibitions most recently at Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung (Berlin, 2018), Denver Art Museum (Denver, 2018), Rovaniemi Art Museum (Rovaniemi, 2017) or Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen, 2017).

Meadow 06

Pigment print
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Persons Projects

Meadow 08

Pigment print
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Persons Projects

Pond (reflection)

Pigment print on archival paper
2023

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Meadow 03

Pigment print
2023

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Nanna Hänninen (FI)

Nanna Hänninen's 'The Painted Desert' series oscillates between the depiction of reality and illusion. Rather than being straightforward representations of the landscape, Hänninen alters her photographs to create a personal response to a common reality. Her selected landscapes shown to have an assortment of paint pulled across the image serve as a reminder to her audience how fragile these endangered environments are.

Nanna Hänninen (b. 1973, Rovaniemi; FI) lives and works in Kuopio, Finland. She graduated from Aalto University School of Art and Design in 2002. In 2023, she received for the second time a 5-year artist grant from the National Council for Photographic Art in Finland. Her work has shown internationally and extensively in the Nordic region, such as at Kuopio Art Museum, Gothenburg Art Museum, and Serlachius Museum as well as many works being acquired in the collections of Swedish National Public Art Council, Espoo Museum of Modern Art and Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Morning Sun in Color #1 (Joshua Tree National Park)

Archival pigment print, acrylic paint
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Persons Projects

Sunrise at the Morning Walk (Joshua Tree National Park)

Archival pigment print, acrylic paint
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Persons Projects

Balanced Rock at Malapai Hill Sunrise (Joshua Tree National Park)

Archival pigment print, acrylic paint
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Persons Projects

In Beaty We Walk #1 (Joshua Tree National Park)

Archival pigment print, acrylic paint
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Persons Projects

Santeri Tuori (FI)

Santeri Tuori has been engaging with the properties of nature and its power of change over the past two decades. After taking many photographs throughout the seasons, he then layers the images one on top of one another, sometimes interweaving a black-and-white negative with the colour ones, to create his own unique compositions of "time being".

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.