2017
EGILL SAEBJÖRNSSON: TIMEBRIDGE
As part of the Berlin Art Week, the view through the window of the Concierge room at Salon Dahlmann is revealed again after a long time. In it will be the Icelandic artist Egill Saebjörnsson’s installation Timebridge curated by insitu.
TERIKE HAAPOJA: GRAVITATION
Terike Haapoja is a Finnish visual artist based in New York. Over more than a decade her work has focused on examining the boundaries of our communities, our relationship with the nonhuman world and how the “otherness” of nature, animals or other humans is constructed.
EIJA-LIISA AHTILA: ECOLOGIES OF DRAMA
A gigantic spruce, it’s branches swaying gently in the wind, which is blowing through myriads of very fine needles. The video installation Horizontal (2011) is the portrait of a single tree, almost large as life and tilted by ninety degrees. This is not the only work that gives anyone willing to open themselves up to the multi-dimensional complexity of Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s art a pleasant sensation of dizziness.
MIKA TAANILA: The Earth Who Fell To Man
Helsinki-based artist and filmmaker Mika Taanila is one of six artists represented in the Nordic Pavilion at the 57th Biennale di Venezia. Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, together with Balzer Projects, Basel, is pleased to present some of Taanila’s most recent projects, centered around a video installation entitled The Earth Who Fell To Man, premiered in Basel in May 2017.
ATTEMPTING IDEAL. EMERGING ARTISTS FROM KIASMA – MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, HELSINKI
Bang, bang, bang. Balls bounce against a wall, over and over again. One shot after another, in an unrelenting rhythm. Only a perfect shot will hit the target. Winning the game is possible, but it takes talent, a sharp eye, and good luck.
LENNART MÜNCHENHAGEN: HARD ART CLUB
The Hard Art Club is a club sculpture which shows the anti-genial attempt to transfer an event as readymade into the context of art. In the club, a black cube with sparse neon-coloured markings and a floor made of golden pebbles, the boundaries between guests, sculpture and dancers dissolve in the semi-darkness.
TOUKO LAAKSONEN. THE MAN BEHIND TOM OF FINLAND
Distinctive faces with moustaches, sculpted bodies in leather boots and over-dimensional penises stand out in the explicit illustrations of gay sex that have become known throughout the world under the pseudonym Tom of Finland.