Helsinki Contemporary (FI)

Located in the heart of Helsinki downtown, Helsinki Contemporary works internationally with a strong curatorial emphasis, focusing on long-term collaboration with its artists. Helsinki Contemporary exhibits distinguished contemporary art by emerging and established artists from Finland and abroad, spanning all artistic media. In its strategic work the gallery focuses on creating international networks between artists, curators and galleries.

Bulevardi 10
00120 Helsinki
Finland
(+358) 9 278 5301

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Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2026, Helsinki Contemporary is proud to show a duo presentation of works by Ken Matsubara and Roland Persson. Both artists work with themes of individual and collective memory. Matsubara’s video and photographic installations deal with memory, time, and the transience of being, and explore the invisible forces and collective memory invested in objects. Roland Persson’s hyperrealistic silicone sculptures draw on psychoanalysis, exploring the individual and collective unconscious. His dream-like works that depict humanity through representations of nature are at once both familiar and uncanny, real and surreal.

Ken Matsubara (JP)

Ken Matsubara is known for his installations combining video, photography and found objects, exploring themes of memory and impermanence. His work explores the fluctuating manner of memories that reside deep within our consciousness. By working with media such as photography and video, he visually draws upon the reflective property of images to explore the nature of memory. Matsubara believes such recollections are genetically inherent in our DNA, which contains vast knowledge from the past, extending beyond the individual self.

Ken Matsubara (b. 1949 in Tokyo, Japan, lives and works in Tokyo) has held solo exhibitions and participated in museum shows in Japan and internationally since the 1980s. His works are in major collections in Europe, the US, and Asia. Matsubara graduated from the Musashino Art University in Tokyo (1973).