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Current exhibition
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
Hox! Note that the exhibition lasts longer than the Facebook event!
“Vika Näyttely” (“vika” in engl. fault or final) is the 40th and final exhibition at Pasila Urban Art Center, marking the end of the gallery’s five-year journey as a space for urban and street art.
The exhibition brings together works from sixteen artists specializing in urban and street art under one roof. The artists’ styles and techniques vary, resulting in a diverse exhibition presenting the multitude of street art. The artists have drawn inspiration from the exhibition’s name in both of its meanings: faults and finality are explored through various forms of urban art. Street art is never permanent by nature, and this is also the story that “Vika Näyttely” tells.
Admission to the opening and the exhibition is free.
The exhibition can be freely viewed until November 9th during the gallery’s opening hours.
DON PORO
Don Poro is a 30-year-old artist from Oulu. During his 10-year career, he has made murals and participated in exhibitions around Finland, designed product illustrations, album and book covers, made and sold hundreds of paintings, prints and t-shirts around the world, held painting workshops, made videos and tried a little bit of everything that came to mind. The art is often technically realistic and the themes revolve around hip hop, graffiti, comics, law enforcement and/or popular culture.
Instagram @Donporo900
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EKA TERIINA VEA
Eka Teriina Vea Kosonen is a visual and community artist from Kotka who specialises in public and community art projects. Her work combines artistic expression with local culture and strives to promote a sense of community.
FABU PIRES
Fabu Pires (BR/FI) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Taubaté, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1978. He lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Fabu Pires’ work is an ingenious mix and match of images and colors from our globalized culture.
GORBE
“Gorbe” is a graffiti artist and illustrator based in Iran whose passion for art began at a young age. He was inspired by his mother’s portrait painting and animation movies and has since been honing his skills in various mediums, including spray paint, stickers, and digital art tools.
Bold, vibrant colors and detailed designs and illustrations characterize Gorbe’s unique artistic style. He is the creator of “Gorbe,” a character that combines a “Spray Can” and a “Cat” and has been fighting against CCTV cameras on the walls of the city since 2014. From graffiti masterpieces on walls to paper toys on shelves, Gorbe’s art can be anything and everything!
JUKKA HAKANEN
Jukka Hakanen is a visual artist and designer from Turku. Special interests include urban cultures and public art. Hakanen holds a master’s degree in industrial design, and his path to visual arts began with his interest in street art at the turn of the 2000s. During the past decade, Hakanen has specialised in large-scale murals and has been involved in developing Finnish mural culture. In the gallery works, Hakanen uses the paint layers he has collected from graffiti painting sites, which he recycles and further develops the art with.
JUKKA PELTOSAARI
Jukka Peltosaari is a visual artist who lives and works in Helsinki. Peltosaari’s artistic work stems from his background in illustration, graphic design, graffiti and street art.
JUSSI TWO SEVEN
I am a visual artist from Helsinki, Finland with a background in street art. I am known for photorealistic paintings that I paint using stencils. Over the years, my own technique and style have become unique and recognizable. In addition to stencils, I only have three tools to paint my works: black bucket paint (diluted with
water), and white and black spray paint. Recently, I have also made sculptural experiments, of which this work in the exhibition serves as a good example.
My artistic activity is roughly divided into two main themes; for exhibitions and large public works such as murals. In recent years, I have held approximately one larger solo exhibition per year, in addition to smaller exhibitions and group exhibitions, as well as a few large public works.
SHEIKKI
Sheikki, self-taught artist from Espoo. I used to study to become a wood artisan, and around the same time, my interest in visual arts and self-expression from primary school also grew. In my art, I reflect things that resonate and evoke memories.
Abandoned and dilapidated places are always very fascinating, structures revealed beneath decay, broken and cracked walls, graffiti, the power of nature and timelessness.
The miniatures on display in the exhibition depict that raggedly sensory atmosphere.
Everything is handcrafted using cardboard, paper, wire, mosaic plaster and miscellaneous paints.
LIGISD
Liigisd, is a graffiti artist from Stockholm who has been active since the early 1990s. His artistic journey began with a strong focus on graffiti, primarily painting trains and tags. In recent years, Ligisd work has evolved toward mural art, placing more emphasis on the artistic and creative aspects. His style blends abstract, organic forms with a 3D aesthetic, aiming to create art that leaps off the wall and invites the viewer into a world of imagination.
MIKAEL RAITA
I am a Helsinki born and based art education student. I use mixed media in my work, focusing on spray paint and acrylics.
NORA HELSINKI
Nora Helsinki is a contemporary urban artist who lives and works in the rural area of Porvoo. Her paintings reflect the relationship between humans and nature, and the connection with all living things. The proximity to nature and her raw working technique result in earthy works and powerful encounters. Nora primarily paints on canvas and wood, as well as on concrete walls. Her recent works have been exhibited in Turku and Mexico City. Currently, Nora Helsinki is an artist-in-residence at the Porvoo Paintbrush Factory.
PLAN B
Plan B uses different kinds of techniques and materials for street art and urban interventions. Artworks are often based on some familiar structures and models, which are then used for totally different means. The art of Plan B often takes a critical stance on political and social topics, but in a bittersweet way.
POPPAMAIJA
Poppamaija is an artist specialised in street art and murals and also a part of the Mimmit peinttaa -collective. She’s painted her characters all over Asia and Europe for over a decade, and her latest conquest is Latin America. Poppamaija’s colourful characters are known for their dark eyes and mysterious gazes.
SMAK
SWAGARONI
Swagaroni is my third name, received in the morning mist. I am from the innermost and dimmest ring of Saturn, D. Ressu Redford made a song of this when we met in -93 in a grill queue at Vieremäki, where I also lived for a while, and was inspired by my home planet and yellow hair. I’m still one of his muses, and he mine, but from afar and secretly. Ressu, if you read this, I love you forever.
TOMI ASIKAINEN
Tomi Asikainen (b. 1974) is a Helsinki-based graphic designer, photographer and craftsman.
In his photographic art, he deals with the interfaces between the present and the past, focusing on places and situations where normal people do not get lost. Asikainen graduated as an advertising graphic designer in 1996. He started painting and photographing graffiti in 1986. Asikainen’s work has been awarded for e.g. London and New York. His day job is working as a leading visual designer in an international human rights organisation.
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