Flow with Matter
Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum
2020

Curated by Ma Nan, CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou

Pair, Pneumatic Landscape, LED Horizon, Reel to Reel, Music Box Installation, Color Mixer, Lunar Eclipse, Kylmäkalle/Frozen Cube, Variations on a Theme, Stream of Matter, Spring Field, Wire Installation, Lines & Circles, Electromagnet Installation, Plane, Ciclón, Orbita, 24 hours, Solar Incidences 1&2, High Frequency Installation, Liquid Diagram, Wire Installation, Arranged Randomness 4

Flow with Matter was a mid-career retrospective in Minsheng Art Museum, one of Shanghai's largest museums focusing on contemporary art. The exhibition is curated by Ma Nan, who besides her own practice works in CAA Art Museum in Hangzhou, and it continues until the end of November.

The exhibition makes use of the museum's 2500 m2 exhibition spaces in two floors and it includes works ranging from large-scale kinetic , light and sound installations to objects, reliefs, silkscreen prints and photographs. Several new installations were built at site on site-specific bases.

The exhibition is the artists first solo exhibition in China and first international contemporary art exhibition in Shanghai after the Covid-19 pandemic which closed the city last spring. According to the museum, Flow with Matter is also the largest solo exhibition of a Finnish contemporary artist ever organized in China.



Pneumatic Landscape


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LED Horizon


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Flux of Matter


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Wire Installation


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Lunar Eclipse


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Pair


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Plane


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Reel to Reel


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Spring Field


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