Flow with Matter

Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum
2020

Curated by Ma Nan, CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou

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.

Exhibited works: One 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

Pneumatic Landscape, 2020

Pneumatic Landscape

LED Horizon

Wire Installation, 2020

Wire Installation

One Pair, 2015

Light projection, projector box
35 x 35 x 20 cm

First presented at Pairs, Kastelli Community Centre, Oulu, 2014

One Pair

Plane, 2013

Magnets, stainless steel weights, stainless steel wire, fixtures
20 elements, approx. 230 x 300 x 400 cm (height variable)

First presented at Gallery Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2013

Plane

Spring Field, 2012

Coil springs, solenoids, control unit, electric leads, attachments
Approx. 400 x 300 x 300 cm, height variable

First presented at Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2013

Spring Field

Stream of Matter, 2012

Steel balls, anodized aluminum, laminated wood, stainless steel, painted MDF, electric actuator, limit switches, control unit, power source
60 x 300 x 30 cm

First presented at Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, 2012

Stream of Mattter

Lunar Eclipse, 2007

Projector, circular mirror
Dimensions variable

First presented at Galerie Salvador Diaz, Madrid, 2007

Lunar Eclipse

Reel to Reel, 2005

Aluminium frame, aluminium disks, bearings, electronic motor, rubber belts, spotlight
171,5 x 100 x 40 cm

First presented at Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2005

Reel to Reel