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IRRGARTEN
11.-20.10.2024
Charlotte Crome, Elmar Lause, Joachim Jacob, Franziska Nast, Frauke Hänke, Claus Kienle, Irina Frederich, Sarah Hildebrand, Katharina Gschwendtner,
Liv Pedersen, Mirka Raito,Patricia Kleeberg, Susanne Thurn, Katrin Bethge, Stephanie Wunderlich, Til Mette, Thomas Jehnert
und als Gast das finnische Künstlerinnenkollektiv JOKAklubi (Niina Lehtonen Braun, Tellervo Kalleinen & Mirka Raito)
Anlässlich seines 10-jährigen Bestehens präsentiert das Künstler*innenhaus Achterhaus e.V. (Ruhrstraße 88, Hamburg) die Ausstellung „Irrgarten".
Gezeigt werden Werke von 26 interdisziplinären Künstler*innen, die die breite Vielfalt des Achterhauses widerspiegeln.Am 12. Oktober bekommt der Irrgarten Besuch vom finnischen Künstlerinkollektiv JOKAklubi mit ihrer Performance „The Theory Show“.
Im Labyrinth verliert man sich nicht - Im Labyrinth findet man sich.
Im Labyrinth begegnet man nicht dem Minotauros - Im Labyrinth begegnet man sich selbst
Wie navigiert man durch dieses Labyrinth der Künste? Fließende Stoffe verändern die Pfade, Schneeverwehungen schaffen neue Landschaften. Brücken verbinden unbekannte Wege, während Trampelpfade zu neuen Spuren führen. Die Gemeinschaft der Künstler*innen wächst und wandelt sich stetig, ihre Wege kreuzen und verweben sich im Irrgarten. Sackgassen bieten Momente des Innehaltens und Reflektierens. Manchmal bedarf es eines Blicks von oben, um die Gesamtheit und Verbundenheit der einzelnen Elemente zu erfassen. Wir brauchen Zeit in diesem Irrgarten, um uns zu verwirren. Im Labyrinth ist die Zeit eine paradoxe Erfahrung. Jeder Schritt führt uns tiefer hinein, aber statt Bewegung zu erfahren, erleben wir sie als eine Schleife, in der Anfang und Ende verschwimmen. Das Labyrinth lehrt uns, dass Zeit nicht linear verläuft, sondern sich in Windungen und Umwegen offenbart. Die Sackgassen, in die wir geraten, stehen nicht für unser Scheitern sondern sind notwendige Momente der Reflexion, in denen wir innehalten und die Illusion der Linearität durchbrechen. Im Labyrinth ist die Zeit eine ständige Begleiterin, die uns herausfordert, unseren eigenen Weg ständig zu überdenken und neu zu definieren.
https://www.westwerk.org/achterhaus-irrgarten.html
https://www.instagram.com/achterhaus_artists/
M U T T E R
Vernissage: Fr 27.09., 19:00 Uhr & Finissage: Sa 05.10., 14:00 – 19:00 Uhr.
„Eine Mutter haben, keine Mutter (mehr) haben, eine Mutter sein, keine Mutter sein, sich wie eine Mutter fühlen, eine Mutter erträumen, eine Mutter vermissen.“
Das Thema „Mutter“ ist ein weites Feld, ein Feld voller Projektionen.In der Mitte des Lebens verändert sich das eigene Mutter- oder Kind-sein noch einmal sehr. Dieser Prozess war der Anlass für eine Einladung an Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die eigene Situation zu reflektieren und daraus ein gemeinsames Ausstellungsprojekt zu machen.
MUTTER zeigt 25 künstlerische Positionen. Die Arbeiten kreisen um die eigene Mutter und fremde Mütter, um das eigene Muttersein, aber auch um die Idee einer „Mutter-Erde“ – sie reflektieren gute und schlechte Beziehungen, Liebe und Konflikt, Geheimnisse und Wahrheiten.Die Probebühne in der Rentzelstraße wird zum ersten Mal zum Ausstellungsort und gibt Raum für Malerei, Fotografie, Zeichnung, Installation und Performance.
mit Alex Meyer (Hamburg) / Anne Vaupel (Hamburg) / Anne-Thrine Jackwitz (Oslo) / Astrid Walenta (Wien) / Babsi Daum (Wien) / Bianka Buchen (Göttingen) / Birte Hennig (Braunschweig) / Brigitta Höpler (Wien) / Carsten Krieger (Hamburg) / Erika Kronabitter (Wien/Bregenz) / Gwendolin Taube (Hamburg) / Gundi Wiemer (Hamburg) / Hanna Mittelstädt (Hamburg) / Katrin Wulfers (Bremen) / Krischa Weber (Hamburg) / Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi (Hamburg) / Lars Vaupel (Hamburg) / Marialuisa (Hamburg) / Maria Frodl (Wien) / Mathias Will (Hamburg) / Mirka Raito (Hamburg) / Nikos Valsamakis (Hamburg) / Rita Kämmerer (Wien) / Susanne Amatosero (Hamburg) / Ute Eisinger (Wien/Istanbul)
KONGLOMERAT
KONGLOMERAT
working process
Antoni Knigge & Mirka Raito
Zusammensetzung Anordnung Vielfalt Mischung Gemisch Vielerlei Allerlei Mixtur Laurie Durcheinander Gemenge Hildegard
Sammelsurium Vermengung Lust Zusammenfügung Verschmelzung Kunterbunt Zusammenballung Yoko Potpourri Mittelding
Ragout Zwischending Sammlung Zusammengetragenes Bündelung Haufen Komposition Kreuzung Brei Gemenge Matsch
Pippilotta Melange Gebräu Mengung Mansch Gepansche Gemengsel Gemansche Mix Mischmasch Synthese Polly Jean
Lärm Wirbel Verwirrung Unruhe Panik Aufruhr Salat Unordnung Spektakel Ballaballa Durcheinander Wust Tumult Krach
Hexenkessel Bescherung Gedränge Geschrei Schabernack Louise Kunterbunt Radau Konfusion Klamauk Gewirr Wirrwarr
Knäuel Desorganisation Cindy Tohuwabohu Regellosigkeit Krawall Getöse Gehabe Zirkus Trubel Kuddelmuddel Marisol
Getümmel Ramasuri Pallawatsch Chaos Unordnung Ungehorsamkeit Missordnung Menkenke Krimskrams Gewurstel
Gepolter Gemischmenge Gemengsel Geknäuel Niki Durcheinander Mischmasch Wirrnis Schmutz Quatsch Dreck Janis Abfall
Müll Verschwinden Zerfall
Opening Day with Charlotte Do 7.12.23, 19-21 Uhr
Open Workshops Fr 8. + Sa 9.12.23, 15-18 Uhr
Closing Day So 17.12.23, 15-18 Uhr
PROJEKTRAUM DOSE
Dosenfabrik Hamburg
Stresemannstraße 374
22761 Hamburg
Sunday Salon
September 3rd 2023, 11-16
ar 14 UNDER YOUR SKIN performance by Mirka Raito
with sounds by Gnomes of the black Lodge (K.Mustonen)
Joint finissage of the exhibitions Spiderwomen & Monkey and a Machine
The salons were open to all - if you brought your own work to the conversation and a good whisky or chocolate.
the works and themes are linked like a never-ending story or a constantly reweaving web.
On the last Sunday, Louise's spirit waves a knee-high foot under the table, and Venus offers her own gifts and is reborn.
Kalle Mustonen's Monkey and a Machine installation is on display at Gallery Fikka. It is an automaton, a clockwork. It is a soundsystem and a meditative space.
Under Your Skin performance duration about 30 min.
A warm welcome!
Motherhood I
Concepts of Motherhood
22. - 30-4.2023
HilbertRaum and Retramp Gallery, Berlin
Performance UNDER YOUR SKIN / IN DEINER HAUT by Mirka Raito on Sunday 30th, 5pm (HllbertRaum)
SUGAR & SPICE
SCOTTY Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst und experimentelle Medien
SUGAR & SPICE 37 x painting
1 April - 6 May 2023
curated by Bettina Weiß
Opening : 31 March 2023, 7 - 10 pm
Yvonne Andreini, Sabine Banovic, Carl Baratta, Darren O´Brian, Niina Lehtonen Braun,
Joanna Buchowska, DAG, Jasmina Danowski, Ulrike Dornis, Franziska Goes, Jesse Farber,
Undine Goldberg, Johanna Hochholzer, Jasmine Justice, Mikko Kallio, Heike Kelter, Frank
Maier, Daniel Mohr, Moritz Neuhoff, Patti Oleon, Justine Otto, Mirka Raito, Hannah Rath,
Gabriele Regiert, Lucas Reiner, Matthias Reinmuth, Kerstin Serz, Max Presneill, Daniela
Trixl, Maik Schierloh, Eva Schwab, Peter Scior, Zuzanna Skiba, Carlos Silva, Anke Völk,
Marco Wachsmuth, Daniel Wiesenfeld
Painting goes beyond the frame. It holds a power that reaches far beyond the boundaries of
the painting into the world. It is a power that can cause fear, irritation and resistance, and
bring well-being and healing. It is located between departure and tradition, it is colour, sound
and form, which the material becomes and as which we resonate, as painters as well as
viewers. It is formative, agitational, ordering, disturbing, strong.
These inherent powers of painting do not depend on whether it is figurative or abstract,
monochrome or polychrome, whether the paintings were created in our times or 30,000 years
ago as cave paintings. They are energies that emanate from painting and at the same time
dominate painting itself: superpowers. They are journeys in time, capturing the past and
anticipating the future, revealing the invisible. Painting is gift and poison at the same time:
"Sugar and Spice", full of passion, zest and sweetness. A power that is fed, among other
things, by the fact that painting is created out of nothing, obeying an inner mandate, a trust in
the material that rests in the primal trust in its own rules and laws, in its very own gaze.
This passion, which is sharp and sweet in one, seductive and dangerous, which works in and
with painting, is the title of the exhibition "SUGAR and SPICE" in the SCOTTY project
space. The first exhibition in the series curated by Bettina Weiß opens on 31.03.2023 at 7
p.m. and closes on 06.05.23. It shows works by 37 artists whose juxtapositions and
collaborations give rise to frictions, refusals, references and cooperations that, in short, open
up a power space of painting.
SCOTTY, Oranienstrasse 46, 10969 Berlin
open Thu,Fri 3-7pm, Sat 2-6pm
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UNDER YOUR SKIN / IN DEINER HAUT
Under your skin
by Mirka Raito
Exhibition February 17th 2023, 7 pm.
& Performance 8:30 pm. with DJ Pluto!
HINTERCONTI Balduinstraße 24, 20359 Hamburg
Opening hours: Sa 18th - Su 19th 3-6pm
Under your skin
I invite you to dance with Venus. She is filled and her body is open. I crawl under her skin.
I am stronger. I drink wine and milk. She eats yeast, chocolate and liquorice and laughs out loud.
I mix up cellulite and cellulose. I pass out and she's been asleep for 30,000 years.
It's drunken love. To capture all this will be funny and healing. Come, let's dance with Venus!
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OLD SALT
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Snow is delighted to present OLD SALT, Mirka Raito’s first solo exhibition at Snow. Essential for life, the eternal, ubiquitous substance, the preserving, destroying, seducing salt has been a continuous ingredient in Mirka Raito’s working process, visible and invisible, pulling the colour together or glistening on the surface of the paper. In the exhibition OLD SALT she presents new paintings and collages in ensemble with different frames and fabrics. “Old salt, vanha suola, makes you thirsty, like the alluring ex-lover’s pull, in a Finnish saying. In more general terms, there are things and ingredients in life such as salt that never vanish, but morph into another form appearing again as a mark, stain, tears, sweat, from skin…With my art, I am working through old bumps of my past, that still today affect life, that still sting like salt in a wound. I find something intimate and universal, something exquisite in salt, evoked images of landscapes and traces, of taste and scent ” Mirka Raito, Hamburg, 13.11.2022 Mirka Raito (1975) is a Finnish visual artist based in Hamburg, Germany. She grew up in Helsinki, Finland and spent a lot of time playing in spinneys and backyards between concrete and trees. The atmosphere of transit, waiting and longing for somewhere else that prevailed in her childhood had a strong influence on Raito's artistic work and on her way of being in the world. Mirka Raito’s work encompasses multiple mediums like painting, drawing, installation, performance and collage. Essential for her artistic work are intuitive and playful working processes as well as emotional and intimate atmosphere. Raito studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and graduated from the department of painting in 2002 (MA). Since 2003, Raito has lived in Hamburg and completed postgraduate studies at the Hamburg University of Arts in 2006-08.
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NAKED FLAMES
26.8. – 4.9.2022
Opening: Friday, 26th August, 6–10 pm
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In a world where everything flows and nothing is still, Naked Flames presents a dialogue of disciplines that captures its own version of this continuity.
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus tells us… ”An everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures”. In a much changing world… fire, like water, is an element that is constantly in flux. In fact Heraclitus talks of fire as the physical incarnation of the abstract notion of a universe with constantly changing elements.
This exhibition brings together the work of seven international artists based in both Berlin and London. Laid Bare, Naked Flames showcases various forms of “the figuration of ideas”, combining sculpture, painting, video and photography. The work in is lit up by its own sense of flux and order combined and also reveals its own stories and personal narratives. It is the second project between HilbertRaum (Berlin) and ASC Gallery (London). The collaborative project titled “asc hilbert” looks to connect and exhibit artists affiliated with both organisations creating authentic links and threads and new potentials in both venues.
HilbertRaum
Reuterstr. 31
12047 Berlin
www.hilbertraum.org
Opening hours
Fridays 4 pm - 7 pm, Saturdays + Sundays 2 - 7 pm
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NAINEN EI OLLUT YKSIN // WOMAN WAS NOT ALONE
Niina Lehtonen Braun & Mirka Raito
WOMAN WAS NOT ALONE
22 July–14 August 2022
Galleria Huuto, Huuto III.
The joint exhibition by Niina Lehtonen Braun and Mirka Raito is based on the intensive correspondence that began during the pandemic
and became an essential part of both artists’ studio work. A text written by Emma Puikkonen based on letter quotations is also part of the exhibition.
—But! The mail came last night just before bedtime! I heard a slam and went to have alook: a light blue envelope. On the rear side a picture of a woman,
with colourful balloons floating out of her stomach………I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it’s ripe; it will be exquisite by September……………
A letter is also a way of loving. I’m inspired by the ones I write to. Most often by their thoughts? …………… And what could I mention about the soul of a model – there they sit and someone gives them something from what surrounds them, what radiates from them, softens everything and this is what one wishes to paint…… but a human has so much more than their thoughts, something they are not aware of consciously………. I need to use three or even five dots, they include thereaches / flames that we wrote and which don’t fit in even by shoving, how could one place all the years in a row there is just no way no way……….
Galleria Huuto Kalevankatu 43, 00180 HELSINKI, FINLAND // Open Tue-Sun 12-5pm
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JOKAklubi's audio work in LA!
Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA is proud to present:
CRACK UP, a group exhibition featuring Carl Baratta, Niina Lehtonen Braun,
Eli Cornejo, Mathias Deutsch, JOKAklubi (performance group with Niina Lehtonen Braun, Mirka Raito, Tellervo Kalleinen),
Liz Nurenberg, Jackie Rhines, Eva Schwab, Katya Usvitsky, Daniel Wiesenfeld, and Clemens Wilhelm.
Address: 1206 Maple Avenue, #523, Los Angeles CA 90015
Opening hours: July 9th 7-10 pm
On view: July 9-24, Sat + Sun: noon-5pm
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THE THEORY SHOW
by JOKAklubi 20.3.2022 - 7.30 - 8.30 pm @HilbertRaum Berlin, supported by telepART
The Theory Show
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Olento Orchestral (FI)
The Spermbankers (FI-CZ-NL)
DJ Takay-Sin & DJ Kalervo Salsa
JUNE 11, 2022
at WestGermany Skalitzer Str. 133, Berlin
doors open at 8pm / showtime 9pm
Entrance 10€
The Theory Show opens the stage for six artists and their theories about anything!
The topics, approaches and point of views remain a surprise.
Olento Orchestral (FIN) sings Finnish mystery songs between the theories,
and the concert of The Spermbankers (FI-CZ-NL) closes the show.
JOKAklubi is a group of three visual artists Niina Lehtonen Braun, Mirka Raito and Tellervo Kalleinen.
JOKAklubi has combined performance, music and visual art since 2009. 
suported by Cicus Maximus ry
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WINTER'S GARDEN
Galleria Snow in Berlin
November 27, 2021 - January 15, 2022
Unseen. Seen. Known. Unknown. Touched. Untouched.
In the dark play the hidden. In Winter’s Garden.
Snow is delighted to present works from the three artists,
Mirka Raito, Florence Libotte, and Aura Hakuri.
Featuring paintings, drawings and collages,
the show explores the idea of the ever-present play
of the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious in life.
Curated by Susanne Johansson
SNOW: website & instagram
Galleria Snow, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 9, Berlin
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FOLDED BODIES
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ANTONI KNIGGE
MIRKA RAITO
METTE THIESSEN
FOLDED BODIES oder absence de marquage
28.8.-5.9.2021
HilbertRaum, Berlin
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Soft Finissage 5.9.2021, um 15 Uhr
FOLDED BODIES 28.8.-5.9.2021
Ausstellung geöffnet: Freitags 16-19 Uhr, Samstag und Sonntags 14-19 Uhr
HilbertRaum, Reuterstraße 31, 12047 Berlin. www.hilbertraum.org
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DIE GRUPPENREISE
JOKAklubi invites you to join a group trip, which we organise February 20, 2021, at 19.00 CET / 8PM EET in zoom!
A group trip without travel insurance. Together we share both risk and fun.
Pack a candle, a drink a sun hat and sunglasses – and show up!
Anyone who has experienced JOKAklubi´s live performances can expect a familiar wild and engaging spirit online as well.
For the first-timers - just say YES! to JOKAklubi's invitation to join a group trip, even if it doesn't seem to make any sense...
You will come back home lighter, and feel the sun on your skin long after the return.
For all of you: Pack a candle, a snack, a drink, a sun hat and sunglasses in your suitcase and show up online February 20 at 19.00 CET.
We will experience a lot together over the 1.5 hour trip!
Get your free travel ticket: EVENTBRITE and you will receive a zoom link.
JOKAklubi´s online performance “Die Gruppenreise” is part of KISMET exhibition by Niina Lehtonen Braun and JOKAklubi at SCOTTY
(February 20 – March 20, 2021). SCOTTY is an artist-run project space in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Learn more about your travel guides, the performance group JOKAklubi (Niina Lehtonen Braun, Tellervo Kalleinen and Mirka Raito) here.
Thank you: Kone Foundation
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KISMET
Niina Lehtonen Braun & JOKAklubi @SCOTTY
Exhibition: February 20 – April 03, 2021
Online opening & performance: February 19, 2021, 7 pm CET.
In KISMET, Finnish artist Niina Lehtonen Braun shows a selection from her extensive series of drawings and collages entitled These Foolish Things Remind Me of You (2014 – present). Since 2014, Lehtonen Braun has been collecting things that remind people of someone special.
In addition, the artist collective JOKAklubi, consisting of Tellervo Kalleinen and Mirka Raito with Lehtonen Braun, presents three humorous and heartwarming audio works that collect phrases such as I Almost Said (2016), I Shouldn't Have Said (2020) and I Will Never Forget When You Said ... (2021).
SCOTTY
Oranienstrasse 46
D 10969 Berlin
U-Bahnhof/subway station Moritzplatz
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vesihiisi sihisi hississä
tm•galleria
Erottajankatu 9 B 00130 Helsinki
Exhibition open: Tue, Thu, Fri 11–17 Wed 11–18 Sat 11–16 Sun 12–16, 5.1. 11–15
Epiphany 6.1. 12–16 Closed: 22.12.20–1.1.21
Thank you for the Kone Foundation for supporting this exhibition and my artistic work.
