London opening
In the opening of the Art Below Summer Show 2018 at Herrick Gallery, Piccadilly, London, the crowd of guests enjoyed 50 bottles of prosecco!
Lethes Art has opened
The International Contemporary Art Exhibition Lethes Art has opened in Ponte de Lima, Portugal. The Finnish contemporary artist Ulla Karttunen presents a site-spesific installation, The Madonna of the Third and the Fourth Eye, a 5 metre high altarpiece in a church in the center of the old town. The opening of the exhibition also started from here, Chapel of Pereiras.
Electron Salon, Los Angeles
Electron Salon at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art LACDA, a group exhibition curated by the director of Lacda, Rex Bruce, continues until 7th July, 2018
Silent Red Scream, 2018, by artist Ulla Karttunen, on show at Electron Salon, Lacda, Los Angeles
MAW Mayfair Art Weekend
The Art Below Summer Exhibition at Herrick Gallery and Hyde Park Corner metro station in London participate in Mayfair Art Weekend (29 June – 1 July 2018), in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts. In this weekend-long festival the galleries and institutions celebrate the area as a unique arts district.
The Finland-based contemporary artist Ulla Karttunen is among the featured artists in the exhibition at Herrick Gallery and Hyde Park Corner station. Karttunen is exhibiting in the moment also at Electron Salon at LACDA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, and at LETHES ART, international contemporary art exhibition in Ponte de Lima, Portugal.
Taiteilija Ulla Karttunen esillä Lontoossa, Los Angelesissa, Portugalin Ponte de Limassa ja Italian Cremonassa
Ulla Karttunen: Totally Connected, 2018, Herrick-galleria & Hyde Park Corner -metroasema, Lontoo
Kuvataiteilija Ulla Karttusen teoksia esillä kesänäyttelyissä eri puolilla maailmaa: Lontoossa, Los Angelesissa, Portugalin Ponte de Limassa ja Italian Cremonassa. Ohjelmaan sisältyy maineikkaan julkisen taiteen järjestön Art Below’n kesänäyttely Lontoon keskustagallerian lisäksi metroasemalla ja Lethes Art -näyttelyssä portugalilaiseen vanhaan kirkkoon tehty paikkasidonnainen installaatio, 5-metrinen alttaritaulu.
Parhaillaan meneillään olevana viikonloppuna Lontoon Piccadillyn ympäristö kuhisee taidetta. Art Below osallistuu MAW2018-festivaaliin yhdessä Piccadillyllä sijaitsevan Kuninkaallisen taideakatemian ja alueen gallerioiden kanssa. Viikonloppu sisältää galleriaesittelyjä, luentoja ja kiertokäyntejä. Art Below Summer Show 2018, jossa Karttunen on mukana, avautui Hyde Park Corner -metroasemalla 18.6. ja Herrick-galleriassa 26.6. Galleria-avajaisissa oli melkoinen väentungos, järjestäjän mukaan avajaisvieraat tyhjensivät vaivatta pikaisesti 50 pullollista proseccoa.
Ulla Karttunen: Donna Criminale, 2016, ART-MAP, Capela das Pereiras, Ponte de Lima
Lethes Art -näyttely valtaa Portugalin vanhimman kaupungin Ponte de Liman eri historialliset rakennukset. Karttunen kutsuttiin näyttelyyn mukaan, koska kaksi vuotta sitten hän osallistui samassa kaupungissa järjestettyyn toiseen, ART-MAP-nimiseen nykytaidekatselmukseen. Karttusen vessapaperista rakennetusta, korkealle kirkon kattoon hirtetystä, Neitsythuorakirkko-teoksen vastaanotosta syntyneestä Donna Criminalesta tuli tuolloin näyttelyorganisaattorien mukaan näyttelyn katsotuin ja suosituin teos, josta ihmiset kuulemma puhuvat yhä. Sanovat nyt kahden vuoden jälkeen jopa, että Donna Criminalesta Pereiras -kirkossa on tullut osa kaupungin kulttuuriperintöä. Tämänkesäinen 120:n taiteilijan näyttely avautuu 30.6. ja on avoinna syyskuun loppuun.
Samanaikaisesti Karttusen taidetta on esillä myös Los Angelesin digitaalisen taiteen keskuksessa LACDAssa digitaalisen kuvan edustajia kokoavassa Electron Salon -näyttelyssä. Heinäkuussa Karttunen on kutsuttu mukaan Eurooppalaisia taiteilijoita -katselmukseen Cremonassa Italiassa.
Linkkejä
Art Below Summer Show Herrick -galleriassa
Suomen Lontoon suurlähetystö Art Below -kesänäyttelystä
Coming soon: Lethes Art
…this is just a small detail of 5-meter-long altarpiece (by artist Ulla Karttunen) to be installed to an old chapel…
Only some days, and LETHES ART, International Contemporary Art Exhibition ‘Cartography of Cultures’, curated by Isabel Patim, will open in Ponte de Lima, Portugal. Opening at Capela das Pereiras on Saturday 30 June, at 6 pm. You are invited!
Art Below has started at Hyde Park Corner station
The Art Below Summer Show is on display at Hyde Park Corner tube station from 18th June 2018 for two weeks. On 26th June the exhibition opens also at Herrick Gallery. The theme is the ‘Digital Age’, given by the curator Ben Moore: the artists have been asked to ’to voice and document their current relationship and place in the digital age and to channel their feelings and emotions about this rapidly changing time that we are living through’.
The artist Ulla Karttunen’s work is an ironic interpretation of the idea of man, the idea of human being, in the digital age. The illusion of being connected and the rise of narcissism characterize the digital age.
What is the difference between a sheep and a human being? A sheep knows that it’s cool without obsessional repetition of its face in asocial media.
Los Angeles opening
Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art LACDA, June 14 – July 7, 2018. The feautured artists include Ulla Karttunen.
Photographs © Rex Bruce.
Coming soon: Art Below
Art Below has selected the Finnish digital artist Ulla Karttunen to be one of the featured artists for its next exhibition. This illustrious public arts organisation has shown a wide range of international artists in London and other cities worldwide. The idea of Art Below is to turn advertising billboards at underground stations to art spaces but it has shown also at art institutions like Saatchi Gallery or The Victoria and Albert Museum. Artists in Art Below projects include also notorious names like Banksy, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor or Gavin Turk.
The Art Below Summer Show will happen in two very central places in London: Hyde Park Corner tube station, starting from 18th June, and the prestigious Herrick Gallery, in the heart of Mayfair, from 26th June. The theme of the exhibition, given by the founder and curator of Art Below, Ben Moore, is ’the digital age’.
Art Below: http://www.artbelow.org.uk
Herrick Gallery: http://www.herrickgallery.com/art-below/
One of the most impressive Art Below projects has been Anish Kapoor’s poster at Union Station, Los Angeles 2017. Kapoor’s self-portrait poster, referring to Joseph Beuys, was titled ”I like America and America doesn’t like Me” and protested against the immigration policies in Donald’s Trump’s era. The work warns other artists to adapt with silence to the politics of exclusion.
”I Like America and America Likes Me” (1974) was Beuys’ famous performance, in which he spent several days inside a gallery with a coyote, without seeing anything else from America.
Exhibition opens in Los Angeles
Electron Salon, curated by the director of Lacda, Rex Bruce, will be held at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art from June 14 to July 7, 2018. The Opening Reception is on Saturday June 16, 6-9pm. Featured photographers and digital artists include Ulla Karttunen.
