Galleria Norsu / Uuden taidekäsityön yhdistys ry

ÅT SKOGEN? 9.6. – 8.8.2010

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The last week of Sale

Goddess, her Phoenix and the Shadows of the Past are now all on sale. Dresses from 30 to 50 €. Come get your own Asplund costume to wear in the golden summer nights.

Welcome to my white temple to find out why Goddesses never sleep!

We are open 19.7.-23.7. 12-18.

Iso Roobertinkatu 38

SEASON SALE

Wellcome to Piucca season sale, Kluuvikatu 1, Helsinki.

We have allready got Fall 2010 new collection from Michael Kors first line.

ÅT SKOGEN? 9.6. – 8.8.2010

Galleria Norsu celebrates it's 5th anniversary 9.6. – 8.8.2010.

Caroline Lindholm, Inni Pärnänen, Åsa Lockner, Kirsi Kivivirta, Karin Widnäs, Nathalie Lahdenmäki , Erna Aaltonen, Tuulia Penttilä, Rudi Mertz, Markku Kosonen, Soili Arha, Aino Kajaniemi, Nina Nisonen ja Rutsuko Sakata, Nithikul Nimkulrat, Janna Syvänoja, Irina Pått sekä Camilla Moberg and Tuomas Ervamaa.

Photo: Nithikul Nimkulrat

Asplund's SALE IN JULY

SALE begins on 1.7.2010

Goddess, her Phoenix and the Shadows of the Past are now all on sale. Some dresses even -70 %. Come get your own Asplund costume to wear in the golden summer nights.

Welcome to my white temple to find out why Goddesses never sleep!

In July we are open on Wed-Fri 12-18 and on Sat 12-16.

Iso Roobertinkatu 38

New impressions – new graphic art – exhibition

Jewellery artist of the month: June

Galleria Norsu

EUN YEONG JEONG
I discovered Eun Yeong Jeong's jewelry for the first time in Munich where her work was shown at Talente 2009. Her jewellery pieces are complex organic forms which take inspiration by nature for their shape and for their material. They are beautiful art ornaments which stimulate all senses with their tactile properties, intricate patterns and surfaces, emotional associations to life and death.

Eun Yeong lives and works in the US, where she has been largely awarded and granted. I am fond of her approach to jewellery art as a place of investigation of natural phenomena and mystical enquiries.(By Serena Holm)

Photo: Eun Yeong Jeong

Heidi Hirvonen - REMIX 28.7 - 15.8.2010

Galleria BE´19

Oil paintings on canvas.

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Andrea Bricchetto "Faces" 23.5.-22.6.2010

Taidesalonki PiirtoA

ndrea was born in Celle Ligure, a small town on the Riviera Ligure. He has always been drawing for passion, since tender age. Now he gets his inspiration from daily life, movies, theatre, music, fashion. Copic or watercolors are his media at the moment, but he is keeping on experimenting new media all the time. Faces are of great importance for him, since they are source of interesting expressions and shades. He moved to Helsinki one and a half year ago and he is in love with the Finnish culture.

Photo: Andrea Bricchetto

Tigerkontoret, Piipahdus & Late Night (S)hopping!!

Wednesday 19.5. / "Piipahdus" gallery night, 5-8 pm.
www.piipahdus.tk

Piipahdus gallery night 19.5. gathers together all artist-run galleries in Helsinki. Take part in the stroll! In Napa Gallery: book release party of Nora and Kasper Strömman's latest childrens book Tigerkontoret. Welcome!

Napa's Late Night (S)hopping: A free flipbook day - come and get your free blank flip book! For inspiration: see the whole Napa flipbook collection. Open until 9 pm.

Photo: Kasper Strömman

Päivi Kukkasniemi - Water colours 12.5. - 30.5.2010

Galleria BE´19

Surrender
There is a colour at first, a tempting and seductive colour. Then another colour begins to tempt. All that is needed are brush, colour, paper, water, moment, silence and surrender. I paint points, lines, surfaces without any limitations, conducted by desires and temptations. – The painting takes over and tells me what must be done. And life starts to be reflected on the paper.

-Päivi Kukkasniemi-

FINNISH DESIGN YEARBOOK 2010-11 NOW AVAILABLE!

Design Forum Finland
Published now for the third time, Finnish Design Yearbook 2010–11 is an extensive overview of contemporary Finnish design, presenting over 200 products, designers and manufacturers. The yearbook also contains articles by experts and interviews with leading names in the field providing more information on current developments in Finnish design.

Read more about the Finnish Design Yearbook 2010–11

Jewellery artist of the month: May

Galleria Norsu

Serena Holm

"Antique porcelain dolls, precious stones and diamonds, gold and silver and many more materials embroider Serena's pieces creating a very well-set theater where reality and fantasy blend , where fairy tales and fables meet each other. Every single compositional and technical tiny detail draws you into another world, mesmerizes and astounds you. Give a meticulous look to her pieces. Her antique dolls may talk to you, color of stones may blind you and all of a sudden you may find yourself in wonderland." by Özay Emert

PETIT o

Galleria Norsu

Take Away exhibition by Ornamo and Artist-O!

Milla Piirainen - Paintings 29.4.-19.5.2010

Taidesalonki Piirto

"DANCE IS MY PASSION"
Paintings 29.4.-19.5.2010
"downstairs"

Photo: Milla Piirainen

Sergio Rodas - Paintings 23.4.-20.5.2010

Taidesalonki Piirto

Sinfonía Tropical -paintings
Nicaraguan art

The exhibition ”Tropical Symphony” was created by me to reflect on nature and the threat of destruction that it is currently facing. It is a process of catharsis to transmit emotions through colour and form. The marine fauna, in this case turtles and fish, become the heroes and the expressive starting point of my works. So, this is my highly sensitive interest, both artistic and personal, towards the nature and its conservation. A call for attention in the face of global contamination and especially the threat against the defenceless and fragile beauty of the marine fauna.

Photo: Sergio Rodas

Kyösti Pärkinen - Paintings 21.4-09.05.2010

Galleria BE`19

The paintings of Kyösti Pärkinen, loosely based on observing the nature and photographs, include references to landscape like states, which are formed by colour and light. The works have, side by side, reduced geometry easily conceived as common urbanism and structures and forms referring to nature´s basic elements and phenomena.

The mutual contrasts of the traces of painting can be considered analogies and studies of different concepts of painting. The figurative parts of the paintings are cumulative on the physical elements of the art works.

The memories and documents of perceptions have become contemplative layers of artefacts studying the painting and ways of observing.

Kirsi TERVO - Paintings 31.3. – 18.4.2010

Times painted for revisiting

Kirsi Tervo very often paints unities, where the whole is more than the sum of its parts. There may be diptychs, triptychcs, quadtychs etc. consisting of individual parts, though every part belongs essentially to the unity. The paintings base on abstract colourism and at first give the sense of harmony. Observing the nature is also apparent.

Jewellery Artist of the Month: April

Galleria Norsu

Özay Emert is a very talented jewelry artist from Turkey. In 2008 she got her MFA degree at HDK (School of Design and Crafts) in Gothenburg.

In this project, she has drawn inspiration from her Turkish cultural heritage. The collection of jewelery called "Either seem as you are or be as you seem"
is inspired by objects used by Sufi Dervish for head resting during their pray in 13 century.

When I look at Özays jewelry I am usually dazzled by its beauty, fragility and toughness. A mixture of old fashioned romance, spirituality, and the modern day tough climate. As they are portrayed with much heart and soul, it is hard not to fall in love with them.

by Elisabeth Kvist

Past is Prologue 25.3. – 24.4.2010

TUULA KARJALAINEN Fairy tales on linen 21.3.-20.4.

TUULA KARJALAINEN 21.3.-20.4.2010
“Still waiting” - Fairy tales on linen

The textile art works tell stories embroidered on white and black linen. The atmosphere is dreamlike and motionless. Little things happen. One ponders, one rejoices and one grieves - like life itself.
Life is a circle - black and white.
The hand weaves stories on a pure linen and the story guides the movements of the hand stitch by stitch.
Cotton - and linen yarns, pearls and spangles form different patterns on the fabric - lines of life. One can feel the touch of human and nature in the works.

Photo: Lauri Karppinen

Friends & Friends – 100 % Finnish

The 130th anniversary exhibition of Friends of Finnish Handicraft, where contemporary design and traditional craft skills are combined.

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Jewellery Artist of the Month: March

Galleria Norsu

Elisabeth Kvist is a young Swedish jewellery artist who is currently apprenticed to a goldsmith in Gothenburg. She received her BA in Jewellery Art from HDK (School of Design and Craft) in 2007.

In this project she has made highly personal interpretations of images ranging from famous works of art to homemade embroidered pictures she found at flea markets. She tries to find a balance between proper
goldsmith's work and the playful freedom of artistry. In order to illuminate them she has used techniques that are disappearing in today’s society. She has also deliberately used techniques she has not tried
before in order to evolve and loose some of her own taboos.

-Therese Berg

MAIJA HELIN-ÅVALL - Paintings

Galleria BE´19

ABOUT PAINTING

Italy has had a powerful influence in my artistic work. During my travels there I have experienced how the past and modern times meet, how the wall coats reveal underlying layers marked by the periods of time, how the worn, decaying surfaces tell you about living, and how all that creates an atmosphere of peace and silence.

Mixed media is mainly my painting method. I use acrylic, charcoal, sand etc. The textures vary from light watercolours to thick, sometimes almost relief-like constructions.

Asmo K. DIKOTOMIA -photographs

Taidesalonki Piirto 19.2.–18.3.2010

Asmo Kärkkäinen, Master of Arts, Turku University, anthropologist. Photography at Västra Nylands Folkhögskola. Started photographing at the sixties.

Asmo K usually works with one theme at the time. Now, with dichotomy, there are two themes at the exhibition: nightmares and desired women.

There are 26 photos in the art gallery, colered and B&W. Sizes are from 40 cm x 60 cm to 100 cm x 200 cm.

Photo: Asmo K

KORUT 19.2.-20.3.2010

Jewellery Artist Of The Month: February

Galleria Norsu

"Therese Berg is a young Swedish artist, in 2009 she received her BA from HDK (School of Design and Craft) in Gothenburg.

In her degree project called “beauty tinged with…” she worked with poems and fragments of text as a source of inspiration.The texts where about subjects that she can relate to: solitude, vulnerability and the longing for love, but at the same time they talked about strength and about being safe. Beauty with an undertone of sadness.

The pieces where made to tell a story, not only to adorn the wearer. For Berg it was important that the pieces where interesting from all angles, the backings is a contrast to what you first see, and when it is worn it is a secret only the wearer knows. This was to reflect the feeling of being sad on the inside but keep a happy facade.

Berg finds a beauty in worn things, she sees that they have been used and loved, this was a quality she wanted to give to the pieces she made. In this projects as in many before she worked with a large range of different materials Iron, epoxy resin, plaster etc. The value of the piece is not the price of the material, it is the time and emotions you put into them."

Lisa Björke

URSULA KIANTO - paintings

STATE OF MIND – STATE OF SPACE

The layer by layer composed paintings of Ursula Kianto are inspired by reflections, images and associations. – One layer leaves some separate fragment on the painting, the next layer brings another to its side, and little by little the painting manifests itself.

The completed painting, in most cases, is an abstract state of mind, a spacious scenery, where – in the middle of desolation and silence – appears to be nature and buildings. Opposing to the paintings´ tranquility are the joyful and happy colours, which actually seem to be holding back their playfulness.

The exhibition works are oil paintings completed in Italy and Finland.

FINNISH DESIGNER AWARDS ’10

The Association of Professional Graphic Designers Grafia and Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo award annually six distinguished designers. The exhibition presenting the work of these designers will be on show at Design Forum Finland 15 January - 21 February 2010.

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VILLE VUORENMAA ART WORK

Ville Vuorenmaa art work in Helsinki Secondhand / Fasaani-Antik until 6th of december 2010. Open hours: 10-18 (sat 10-16)

IT'S NORWEGIAN

14.01– 13.2.2010

Product designers from the participating companies:

Anna Øren; Ann-Tove Engenes & Katrine Nylund & Kristine Dybwad & Åsne Midtgarden; Bleed; Bjørn Refsum & Hilde Angelfoss; Cathrine Kullberg; Formel Industridesign; Fredrik Melby & Kjetil Wold; Frostprodukt AS; Hans Bleken Rud; Hans Brattrud; IDW Inc.; Jac Jacobsen; Johan Ringdal; Johan Verde; Jostein Magerøy; Jens Olav Hetland; Ksenia Movafagh; Martina Carpeland; Norway Says; Olav Joa; Pentti Hietanen & Per Bjørnsen & Pia Bjørnstad; Peter Natedal & Thomas Kalvatn Egset; Peter Opsvik; Rudi Scherf; Sara Skotte; Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni; Shawn Littrell; Tias Eckhoff

Photo: Scandinavian surface

Rauni Sipilä - Paintings

There are no precise plans, when I start to work on a new painting. To work on a painting is a process during which numerable choices are made. Some of them prove to be wrong tracks, the others bring to the right direction.

When the painting is completed – it is vital to become aware of the moment – it possesses the feeling of that very moment, but also the earlier moments and layers, which have been building up the work.

In the works of this exhibition I have more than ever tried to get far away from all distinct outer impulses and visual references.

Jewellery Artist Of The Month: January

Lisa Björke is young Swedish jewellery artist who is currently doing her MA in Konstfack, Sweden.

Björke works with jewellery because she thinks it’s a clever and never ending way of expressing her thoughts in. Björke likes the fact that she always has the body to relate to....but it doesn't have to be a human body.....just a body to adorn.

Björke says that she loves the fact that she can choose any material, if she decides it is a material for jewellery...well, then it is. The value is not the price of the material I start of with....it's the time and love she puts in the material that makes the piece valuable in the end. To make jewellery is to love and to be inspired of the world around her or the world
she has in her mind....

Aiko Tsukahara Exhibition at Lisn Helsinki

LAURINEN, ELINA - Paintings

A human being as a subject of a painting has always interested me. Likewise oil is interesting as the material, as well as the traditional way of painting. At present I am keen on a fairly realistic expression.

Memories turn into paintings, in which important, in addition to the portrayed person, is the feeling.

While painting I sometimes move so far away from the original situation, that I realize to have created a new, invented memory, which the painting is telling about. In the exhibition there are numerous images of persons, who do not actually exist in reality, but undoubtedly a part of the paintings are self portraits or portraits.

Beautiful frames for Christmas

Beautiful frames for christmas presents and for decoration. Welcome! On weekdays 11am - 4pm.

Photo: SvE

The independence day gala

Defender can be seen on Maarit Partanen from SECCO at the Independence day gala.

Jewellery Artist Of The Month:December

"Märta Mattsson is a young jewellery artist from Sweden. She graduated from HDKSchool of Design and Craft in Gothenburg and is currently studying at the
Royal College of Art in London. Märta is an open – minded artist who makes exciting and strongly intriguing jewellery. Her pieces are based on the tension that exists between attraction and repulsion. Memories and experiences from her childhood as
well as nature are her source of inspiration. She translates her bizarre fantasies in a unique way. Her jewellery speaks its own and strong language which makes the viewer to marvel over there oddity."

Francisca Bauzá Förster

Napa Christmas Shop & Late Night (S)hopping!

Napa Gallery's Christmas Shop and December's exhibition "Family and Friends" opens on Wed the 2nd.

Thursday the 3rd is the opening night of the exhibition, and Late Night (S)hopping event, so please stop by!
From 6 to 9 pm.

Photo: Jenni Rope

Leena Juvonen-Beyond the Glance

26.11. – 9.1.2009

"I am used to search shapes and surfaces from environment. That was my only plan also in Guldagergaard. Usually I am seeking something manmade, but with the surface that is like smoothed by nature, like marks of water, rust, sun and wind. Using plaster moulds I try to reach something between nature and manmade. I need the presence of a human in the form, but there is charm in nature mould surfaces that attracts me. That’s what I have found in wood firing. The kiln finishes the surface, like it would have been made without hands or tools. First I took the moulds of the stones in the yard, but they were too organic for me. The right combination I got from the concrete plate on the back of the studio. I enjoyed working outside on the grass grey birds singing around.
Still the content of my work is in the pictures. I use iron oxide from printers ink to make decals from photographs on clay. Theme of my series “Beyond the Glance”concern about connections and communication."

Leena Juvonen

Pilar Cólas - Paintings

The Moment Between

The lines in my works are like roads meeting each other constantly and usually having a cyclic course. The intersections and knots are creating a moment between a dream and timeless memory. It is the moment where images and characters from our subconscious mind, like old eyes, old hair, free birds or the protective lion within us, are coming out and embracing each other in roots and branches.

The recomposition of the “moment” is giving life to my dreams and also memories that branch out of the same land.

Un momento entre...

Si las lineas son caminos... En mis cuadros estos caminos se cruzan constantemente y tienen un rumbo cíclico. Las intersecciones y nudos crean un momento entre el sueño y la memoria sin tiempo, donde imágenes y personajes del subconsciente aparecen como el viejo ojo, el pelo viejo, el pájaro libre o el león protector dentro de no...Entrelazándose de raíz a rama.

La recomposición del «momento» le da vida ramificada a mis sueños y recuerdos dentro de una misma tierra.

Pilar Cólas

Jewellery Artist Of The Month: November

Francisca Bauza is a young jewellery artist from Germany. She studies Gemstone and Jewellery Design in Fachhohschule Trier in Idar-Oberstein,Germany. Textile is an essential material in her work. It's a feminine
material, which is really closely related to the body. Francisca's pieces are beautiful, strong and yet tender. They tell stories about inner strenghts of people. by Hanna Aav

Paula Tella - Scratch

These works were taken by camera obscura, a camera, which I made out of cardboard boxes. The negatives were developed in the darkroom and exposed of a long time.

The personal need for slowness and the yearning for nature influenced on my choosing the camera obscura method. Camera obscura method also allows connecting the low tech and the slow tech, which is important to me, without any technology groan.

I also was attracted by the idea of working “blindly” – to set the camera obscura box somewhere on the landscape, let the box photograph while the “photographer” sits beside and gives a chance to the box. At the same time nature gets the chance, too.

The camera obscura method, the marks and scratches it leaves and the long exposure are drawing visible something that otherwise were not noticeable to the eye.

KVARTS2: CAMILLA MOBERG AND KARIN WIDNÄS

KVARTS2: CAMILLA MOBERG AND KARIN WIDNÄS
22.10. – 21.11.2009

Galleria Norsu, Kaisaniemenkatu 9, Helsinki

Photo: W. Zakowski

Rockin' Reino

NEW APPROACHES TO JEWELLRY ART

17.9. – 17.10.2009

Last chance to visit this exhibition!

Among this works is Elo Uibokand's interesting jeweleries.

She states:

"Healing

The emphasis of my theme lies on healing and compassion.
Compassion demands for warmth, security and care.
The materials are, mostly, brown ceramics and dark-grey woollen cloth.
The chosen materials both involve basic warmth for me; it’s about human touch, the touch of a hand, the warmth of the touch."

Maria Lavonen - Paintings

To Maria Lavonen drawing is the fundamental method in all her art.

At present she is very keen on studying, how the light focuses on different motifs. How the colour, the direction and the strength of light determine the look of the motif. - How the motif looks and how it really is, are two different things. Her aim is to capture on the canvas or paper, the image of how the motif looks like at a certain moment, on a certain light.

Finnish home in 1809

Visit a finnish neoclassical home of 1809! Address Yrjönkatu 18, open 1.-11.10.2009. More info www.kotietthem.fi.

Jewellery Artist of the Month: Hanna Aav

Hanna Aav studies jewellery and stone object design in the Saimaa University of Applied Sciences in Lappeenranta. Her jewellery is imposing and unique, with unconventionally used materials and colours. The jewellery series ”Sweetness” was born while she was working in Japan. The themes of the jewellery are youth and innocence. They have been dealt interestingly with the aid of sweets, but her jewellery also works independently, without knowledge about its background.

SORI YANAGI KETTLE

Sori Yanagi, born 1915, has been one of his country's best-known designers ever since the creation of his famous butterfly stool in 1954. In 1994 he designed a kettle, which combines timeless design with superb functionality. The steam holes on the side of the lid prevent the handle from getting hot, the wide base makes boiling fast, the large opening makes it easy to clean on the inside and the spout is absolutely drip free. The kettle is made in Japan of high-grade steel and is a product which will last a long, long time. Available in polished or brushed steel. Suitable for all heat sources including induction. Price 102e.

NEW APPROACHES TO JEWELLRY ART

Eight newly graduated jewellery artists, Eeva Kotiharju, Elo Uibokand, Taru Kauris and Janica Hiipakka from Saimaa polytechnic and Anna Kantanen, Anne Kokkonen, Kristiina Suokas and Minna Vainikka from Lahti institute of Design,
presents their newest works. Two schools - eight approaches to jewellery art.

Irina Havaste - Visible Silence

Since I graduated from the Free Art School in 2008 the subject of my paintings have been plants and different forms of nature. My interest has now also turned towards water and it´s surface. The way it ripples, it´s abstract image and how plants and light are reflected upon the surface of the water.

Often the starting point of my paintings is something you can recognize, a three dimensional form, plants or water, for example. At the same time I am interested in and fascinated by the two dimensional surface of the painting and the line of paint itself, the play of paint on canvas.

Uniques in Galleria Norsu 17.9 -17.10.2009

Kristian Venäläinen, Pekka Vuorisalo and Petteri Huotari uses various materials and techniques in their works. Common for this exhibition is experimental production method, even using the same technique each piece is different from each other. Studying also how material creates the shape by itself.

NAPAXPEKKA, Sep 8 to 11 / Cable Factory

Finnish illustration agencies Napa Illustrations and Agent Pekka turn 2 years in September! To celebrate this event, the illustrators of Napa and Pekka join forces and organize an exhibition together at the Helsinki Design Week.

Napa's part of the exhibition, "Sea View", is a project by Napa illustrators Terhi Ekebom, Ilja Karsikas, Pauliina Mäkelä, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jukka Pylväs, Kati Rapia, Jenni Rope, Kasper Strömman and Jenni Tuominen. Main theme for this exhibition is the sea, and it's an extension of a bigger project called Shadow Harbour, a street art project done by Napa artists at Kalasatama, an old harbour - and soon to be residential - area in eastern Helsinki. See how the artists get inspired by the area's past and future stories, it's haunting workers and the surrounding sea.

Welcome!

Open Studios at Galleria Osuma 10.9.

Open Studio 12-18 PM. At the basement studio of Gallery Osuma designer Soila Hänninen presents fresh pattern and color examples for LED light panels of hers. Gallery Osuma Collections are on display and available as well.

Galleria Osuma
Wecksellintie 8
00150 Helsinki

galleriaosuma(at)gmail.com
+358405409736

Photo: Yksityiskohta Elokuu-paneelista. Soila Hänninen

10th September Open studio 12-19pm

Come and experience the atmosphere of old times' design! Gilding demonstrations. Wellcome!

Photo: SvE

imabari towel japan @ habitare 09 ahead!

now available at common!

Shadow Harbour

NAPA ILLUSTRATIONS agency (2 years) and NAPA BOOKS publishing house (12 years) celebrate their birthdays together in Kalasatama harbour! Napa's artists and illustrators will do street paintings to the harbour area. By following these paintings, the citizens can freely explore Kalasatama area, until September 27.
Please find the map for the area's paintings in here: www.napaillustrations.com/ newsletter.html

Documentary of the Kalasatama painting process will be seen at Napa Gallery
Sep 9 to 27. The documentary is made by Noomi Ljungdell. Napa is open again from Sep 9, Wed-Fri 12-18, Sat-Sun 12-16. Address: Eerikinkatu 18, Helsinki.

Welcome!

Jewellery Artist of the Month: Taru Kauris

Taru Kauris was graduated from Saimaa University of Applied Sciences as stoneobject and jewellery designer in spring 2009. In her diploma work she explored chains and history behind them. Taru’s work indicates her own standards of beauty. In her work she brings together new and old creating original and impressive modern jewellery.

Bravoo UniqueGlass in The Finnish Glass Museum

Photo: Rauno Träskelin

MARJA BLOMSTER Great Urban Expectations Marja Blomster 19.8-6.9.2009

Thoughts and object on the move SEMINAR 5.9.2009

Gésine Hackenberg
Monica Gaspar
Love Jönsson
Pontus Lindvall
Gabi Dewald

The seminar language is English.
The seminar is free of charge. Please register to the seminar and evening party to galleria@norsu.info by September 2nd 2009.

Seminaari on maksuton. Pyydämme teitä ilmoittautumaan sekä seminaariin että iltatilaisuuteen 2.9.2009 mennessä osoitteeseen: galleria@norsu.info.
Seminaarikieli on englanti

Jewellery Artist of the Month: Eeva Kotiharju

Eeva Kotiharju is a young jewellery artist from Lappeenranta.
In Galleria Norsu she is exhibiting some of her older works from her thesis with some brand new jewellery.
The theme for her work has been interdependencies that people have via different kind of facial expressions.

Masters on the Road

Design from 19th century

Antique atmosphere: beautifull russian gilded mirrors etc.

Photo: SvE

Luksus 09

treasure extravagant rare frivolous? unique expensive handmade quality renewed experiences skills permissible? hedonistic ecological design

Design Forum Finland’s summer exhibition Luksus offers perspectives on luxury from traditional luxus to eco-luxury and from customized products to experiences generated by outstanding design.

Welcome!
Free Entrance.

Photo: Morganite ring, Pekka Kulmala

TATJANA SEMANE & SINIKKA HUrSKAINEN 30.5.-23.6.2009

TATJANA SEMANE & SINIKKA HURSKAINEN
"DANCE OF LOVE"-paintings 30.5.-23.6.2009
Art in itself and the exuberance of colors joined artist TATJANA SEMANE and
MP SINIKKA HURSKAINEN together.

Art will always find a way. When the spouse of the ambassador of Latvia,
Tatjana Semane and MP Sinikka Hurskainen met via work, a common tone for the
exhibition Dance of love was discovered instantaneously.

In the contrast filled art of Tatjana Semane the main theme discusses the
boundary separating the choice of doing and not doing. The choice is
reserved for the people. Will you dance?

In it s naivety and color saturation, the art of Sinikka Hurskainen is made
with a twinkle in the eyes.

Photo: Tatjana Semane

JUHANI NISKANEN 29.5.-28.6.2009

JUHANI NISKANEN "FROM THE NORTH" - Water Colour paintings 29.5.-28.6.2009

The gist of the present exhibition is to portray impressions of the North of today, focusing on the environment of extreme conditions. Our Stone Age forefathers negotiated terrain to gain livelihood in the midst of hardships unimaginable today, and still were able to create art in rock carvings and paintings as well as artefacts such as the 8000-year-old wooden moose head of Lehtojärvi, or the stone figures of Alta and Tromsa at the coast of the Arctic Ocean. The water colour paintings now displayed walk in the footsteps of those artists of olden times in Finnish Lapland as well the north of Norway all the way to the ocean and the archipelago.

Photo: Juhani Niskanen

SKILL

SKILL
4.6. – 8.8.2009
GALLERIA NORSU, HELSINKI

THOUGHTS AND OBJECTS ON THE MOVE
about think tank’s exhibition concept

This is an unusual display of objects. They have been chosen by the members of Think Tank, as a part of our ongoing discussion on different aspects of craft and the contemporary applied arts. Every year we meet in the city of Gmunden (Austria), to give papers and discuss around a certain theme that changes from year to year. With us, we bring two objects, more or less in the size of a hand luggage, or even a trouser pocket. With their in-dispensable presence, these objects function as extensions of our thoughts, keep our debate focused and later on allow us to communicate with the public. This ongoing, ’incidental’ collection of objects speaks of different working conditions, ways of thinking, concepts, materials and cultural positions.

Dynamo 0:1

0:1
Young Nordic glassart: Kjersti Johannessen, Tuva Gonsholt, Louise Olsson, Anna Bäckman, Lene Lunde ja Ina Kristin Hove

Photo: Louise Olsson

Animal series

LEM is group formed in a petrol station in Finland in 2008 while the members were enjoying a pit
stop on a high way on their way to Helsinki. They had met previously while chopping wood on a night watch for a wood-firing kiln. The group consists of three Helsinki University of Art students,
Saara Kaatra, Laura Itkonen and Lotta Veromaa who all study at MA Applied Art and Design.

‘Animal Series’ is the first project by LEM and it is sponsored by Iittala Group. ‘Animal Series’ tells
stories through animals in everyday ceramic tableware, creating new life and meaning for everyday common objects.

Photo: Saara Kaatra

Jenni Tuominen: Diamond Monkey 29.4. - 24.5.2009

Napa gallery's exhibition in May is Jenni Tuominen's Diamond Monkey. Jenni is one of Napa agency's illustrators.

Photo: Jenni Tuominen

EIJA-ELINA BERGHOLM

EIJA-ELINA BERGHOLM-paintings
"A place on earth" 26.4.-26.5.2009

Photo: Reima Kekäläinen

THREE THREADS 29.4. – 30.5.2009

THREE THREADS

Aino Kajaniemi, Kristin Saeterdal ja Ane Henriksen

The Finnish textile artist Aino Kajaniemi presents her work in collaboration with her colleagues from Norway and Denmark, Kristin Saeterdal and Ane Henriksen. “Three Threads” exhibition is the dialogue between minimalism and abundance; the Scandinavian clearness and the scarcity meets the decoration and stories around us. The art pieces of each artist are the essential part of this whole, they complete each other’s work and their tapestries show versatile tapestry weaving and way of working.

modernica by Ilse & Yrsa Lindqvist

modernica by Ilse & Yrsa Lindqvist
in Finnish Glass museum 22.4. – 31.5.2009

Finnish Glass museum, Tehtaankatu 23, 11910 Riihimäki. Open: 10-18. Mondays closed.
Entrance fees: adults 6/ 4 €, children (7-16) 3 €, family 12 €.

More information: Tel. +358 (0)19 758 4108, www.suomenlasimuseo.fi

Nathalie Chavieve-paintings

"Renaissance remembering"- paintings 28.3.-23.4.09

Curious by nature and perfectionist Nathalie Chavieve has always enjoyed a challenge. Her paintings are never simple : they tell more than the story depicted on the surface and are often have deep philosophical statement in themselves revealing great thoughts, secrets and symbols. They can be poetic or full of humor. Her recent exhibition refers to incorporating traditional methods of painting and drawings into contemporary modes of expression with a surreal flair.

Photo: Nathalie Chavieve

Nanna Bayer: NASIENIE II

Nanna Bayer is a ceramic artist living in the village of Fiskars. Her new works are extreamly fragile and sensitive, borrowing their colours from flowers and forms from shells.

Nina Nisonen: BLACK PEARLS

EILA EKMAN-BJÖRKMAN Paintings 11.3. – 29.3.2009

ELEGIA

Eila Ekman-Björkman finds inspiration in everything that she comes across. She is flooded with ideas that yearn to be fulfilled and this is a basis of a passionate continuous lifework. The result is a pictorial tale of the soul´s visions, decorative and at the same time a profound world of colours.

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Fennia Prize 2009

The Fennia Prize 2009 results have been announced!

The results of the Fennia Prize 2009 design competition have been announced. The Fennia Prize 2009 Grand Prix was given to Genelec Oy from Iisalmi.

THE FENNIA PRIZE 2009 EXHIBITION 20 February–29 March 2009
at Design Forum Finland

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PETRA GIACOMELLI - Taiteilijakirjoja ja kollaaseja 18.2. – 8.3.2009

Sampsa Sarparanta paintings 1996-2008

Sampsa Sarparanta paintigs from 1996 to 2008 on sale

A journey

A JOURNEY

Ten Finnish ceramic artists present their work after a month in a recidency program, FuLe, in China: Erna Aaltonen, Risto Hämäläinen, Leena Juvonen, Catharina Kajander, Miia Kallio, Kirsi Kivivirta, Maarit Mäkelä, Heikki Rahikainen, Satu Syrjänen and Riitta Talonpoika.