Blackout

Aleksi Tolonen
Heta Kuchka
Inka Nieminen
Jaakko Rustanius
Juhana Moisander
Kasper Muttonen
Kimmo Kumela
Minna Suoniemi
Sari Palosaari
17.09 – 10.10 2010
Komediebakken 9


The title of the exhibition refers to the ambiguous notion of control, or the lack of it. Nordic societies are known for trying to organize freedom and life within very strict forensic structures, but the hard consequences of this idyll are problems such as suicide, alcoholism and violence. Blackout explores the intersections of the functional and the dysfunctional, the sane and the insane, the rigid and the promiscuous.

In December 2009, Hilde Jørgensen and Maya Økland initiated an art exhibition exchange with Galeria Huuto in order to promote Finnish artists in Norway, and Norwegian artists in Finland. The collaboration is based upon a direct switch where Flaggfabrikken Presenterer curates a show with selected Huuto members and vice versa. The exchange will result in three exhibitions; Blackout Helsinki at gallery KNIPSU, Bergen, Blackout Bergen at Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, and Blackout Oslo with both Finnish and Norwegian artists at Finsk-norsk Kulturinstitutt, Oslo.

Supported by: Bergen kommune, Nordic Culture Point, the Norwegian Arts Council, Norsk-finsk kulturfond, BEK.

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