Exhibitions

15.1. - 18.4.2012

15.1. - 18.4.2012  (downstairs)
Arja Seppänen
paintings

Local artist Arja Seppänen has a special interest for the phenomena of daily life. Ideas for her paintings Seppänen finds from the pages of the morning news papers or from short stories of  Jiménez Juan Ramón. Various paintings of landscapes  are narratives of her journeys through the Europe.

15.1. - 18.4.2012  (upstairs)
Reija Kykkänen-Riskumäki
Installations, drawings and paintings

School is the context of the art teacher Reija Kykkänen-Riskumäki. She visualizes joy and sorrow of school world both in memories and in present. Kykkänen-Riskumäki brings up delicate issues like violence and loneliness among the students and teachers.

Coming:
valkeakoski Youth art school, yearly exhibition 29.4. - 27.5.2012
Ceramega, 80 Finnish ceramic artist represent their latest works 10.6. - 8.9.2012
Naturegate, naturephotographer Jouko Lehmuskallio 20.9. -


20.11.-21.12.2011
Sirpa Sillanpää, Sipuseiska - 7 Years of Felting

Sipuseiska has been felting as a profession for the last seven years. Voipaala Art Centre's top floor fills up with bright colours when Sipuseiska exhibits her humouristic and warm felt works. Her inspiration can be anything from an ice-hockey match heard from the radio to optic theory.

Pia Seppälä(1948-2010)

Pia was a local artist and an employee at Voipaala Art Centre. As an artist Pia was fascinated by pyramids and myths. Pia painted and during her last years consumed by decease, Pia photographed. Pia composed her works with her uncompromising aesthetics. Exhibition takes place at Voipaala Art Centre's first floor.

Highlights of past exhibitions:
2009

1.2. - 19.4. O-Heis-Grup

Artist Outi Heiskanen has co-operated several years with her colleagues and her family. The latest co-operation was done with a young only 14-years old Markus Jäntti, who draws together with Outi Heiskanen.

Janne Laine, graphic artist, share a long history of working together with Heiskanen. Laine prints Heiskanen´s graphics at Himmelblau Printmaking Studio.In 2003 their co-operation increased further as Heiskanen become aware of the spiritual similarities between the community of hybrid creatures she had created and the landscapes in Laine´s works. These landscapes were just waiting for Heiskanen´s enchanting people to move into their realms of timelessness.

Laine is the one who prints, but the artists create the works together. The combined artworks must always contain something new. It is essential that the incorporation of two images must give birth to something else than what was in the pictures before. Furthermore, they are not to become part of the production of one artist only. To gain this balance both of the artist must show discreet consideration, all the more so as the two of them are positioned very differently in the artworld.

Eero Yli-Vakkuri  is a performance artist co-operating with Outi Heiskanen constructing her installations. Also a Copper-project has prodused together and shown as an installation at Voipaala telling the story of making copper.

O-Heis-Grup exhibition represents also young ceramic artist Kersti Tainio and in the cafe of Voipaala give room for groquis drawn by the members of Taivaallinen Akatemia, The Heavenly Academy.

part of the O-Heis-Grup exhibition consists of the original  posters from Jyväskylä Summer festivals, which is one of the oldests summer festivals in Finland. The posters of different events of Jyväskylä Summer Festibals from 1960-70th tells the story of conserts and theatre events. Colorful handmade posters are made by Outi Heiskanen and Toivo Heiskanen. Poster exhhbition is shown untill March 15th. Latter part of the exhibition will give room for visiting artists from Hutheesing Art Centre Ahmedabad India with Pilvi-art group who had workshop in Ahmedabad last November.

2008
Backlight 08- Tickle Attack

The theme of the Backlight 2008 Photo Festival was Tickle Attack,  Humour, Laughter, Irony, Parody and the Absurd. Laughter is a reaction to both physical and mental tickling. Each gallery and museum exhibits its own ensemble.

The photos in the Voipaala Art Center in Valkeakoski provoked laughter through a documentary representation of circus and clowns. The photos at the Goethe-Institut Finnland in Helsinki took a humoristic approach on the characteristics of Germans by presenting national stereotypes in a hilarious light. Later on in October, the Pori Art Museum  inaugurated three alternating exhibitions of photographs and videos.

www.backlight.fi

Tickle Attack - VALKEAKOSKI / VOIPAALA
Albin Biblom; Sweden
Barbara Veronika Donaubauer; Germany
Jonathan Gitelson; USA
John Goto with soundscape by Michael Young; UK
G.R.A.M. (Gunther Holler-Schuster & Martin Behr); Austria
Jan von Holleben; Germany
Rafal Milach; Poland

For three artists, Albin Biblom, Daniela Cojbuc and Jan von Holleben, Backlight 08 offered a 10-days-residence in the rural Finnish countryside area of the Voipaala Art Centre, which is about 35 km in the east of Tampere near the city of Valkeakoski.

Albin Biblom (Ruotsi) (s. 1975) www.albinbiblom.com
Mechkar

Barbara Veronika Donaubauer (Saksa) (s. 1975)  www.babbsch.com 
Dogs Exchange

Jonathan Gitelson (USA)(s. 1975) www.thegit.net

John Goto with soundscape by Michael Young (Iso-Britannia)(s. 1949) www.johngoto.org.uk
John Goto’s New World Circus

G.R.A.M. (Gunther Holler-Schuster, Martin Behr) (Itävalta) (Gunther Holler-Schuster  s. 1963) (Martin Behr s. 1964)
Unschuldige Anarchisten

Jan von Holleben (Saksa) (s. 1977 ) www.janvonholleben.com
Dreams of Flying

Rafal Milach (Puola)(s. 1978) www.rafalmilach.com
Disappearing Circus