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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For CHART 2024, Persons Projects will present five 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 Marcin Jasik. 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)

Pawel Książek’s main medium is painting, along with drawings. He focuses on the origins of modernism and explores avant-garde aesthetics through analytical studies, as well as how the human body relates to objects in space, nature, and culture. In his “Constructions” series, Książek explores film and architecture and notes historical parallels, focusing on Eastern European modernism and Latin American influences like Oscar Niemeyer, Luis Barragán, and Lina Bo Bardi. Książek’s paintings blend these influences into new compositions, speculating on connections through archival research and vibrant Barragán-inspired colours, capturing moments in time by combining old film clips with architectural details - shifting his artistic approach.

Paweł Książek (b. 1973, Andrychów; PL) 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).

Favela

Oil on canvas
2016

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Composition 05 (Rozalia)

Oil on canvas
2017

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Construction 05

Oil on canvas
2016

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Construction 10

Oil on canvas
2017

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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

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Meadow 08

Pigment print
2023

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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

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Sunrise at the Morning Walk (Joshua Tree National Park)

Archival pigment print, acrylic paint
2024

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

Archival pigment print, acrylic paint
2024

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

Archival pigment print, acrylic paint
2024

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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. 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.

Forest #08

Pigment print
2011

Forest #27

Pigment print
2016

Forest #59

Pigment print
2023

Forest #61

Pigment print
2023

Marcin Jasik (PL)

Marcin Jasik's abstract paintings emit a sense of lightness in how he utilizes an effortless score of gestures and strokes through a series of applied lines and shapes to create a state of ocular tensions. Jasik’s canvases address his basic questions about the nature of human existence. His source for this internal inquiry comes from the Legend of St. Francis fresco by Giotto di Bondone from the Basilica of Assisi. He utilizes the horizontal division of St Francis's action by combining it with his own interpretation, to create a visual dialogue between the secular (earth) and the sacred (heaven).

Marcin Jasik (b. 1990, Warsaw; PL) lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. Jasik graduated from the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland. He took part in several individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. In 2022, he was a finalist for the STRABAG Art Award in Vienna. His works are part of private and institutional collections such as the Svetlik Art Foundation (Ostrava; CZ), the STRABAG Artcollection (Vienna; AT), and the mBank Collection.

Untitled

Acrylic on canvas
2023

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Untitled

Acrylic and marker on canvas
2023

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Untitled

Acrylic on canvas
2023

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Untitled

Acrylic and marker on canvas
2024

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Persons Projects seen from the outside, Lindenstraße 34-35, 10969 Berlin

Persons Projects (DE)

Curated forCHART