Excess and Ascesis
Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland,
22.1–28.2.2010
Kalhama&Piippo is proud to present photographic and video artist Saara Ekström’s recent body of work in the exhibition where the artist deepens her journey of exploration into the aesthetical and physical, the ugly and beautiful, the real and unbelievable. The gutlike fruit and plant clusters in the large-scale photographs seem to live their own uncontrollable life; the formal and ascetic still lifes find their opposite in excess.
www.kalhamapiippo.com
Carnegie Art Award 2010
Saara Ekström is participating in the juried Carnegie Art Award 2010 exhibition tour. The award has been established to promote Nordic contemporary painting and to recognise and support distinguished artists born or living in the Nordic countries. It’s one of the most prestigious art awards in the Nordic countries.
Schedule for the exhibition tour in 2010:
Listasafn Islands, Islands Nationalgalleri, Reykjavik, Iceland, 15.1 – 28.2.2010
Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden, 19.3–9.5.2010
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, 21.5.–1.8.2010
798 Art Space, Beijing, China, 9.9.–10.10.2010
Royal College of Art, London, GB, 12.11–21.11.2010
Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finalnd, 3.12.2010–30.1.2011
www.carnegie.se/sv/Art-Award/artists/Saara-Ekstrom/
www.carnegie.se/sv/Art-Award/
Memory Traces
Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany, 31.1– 21.3.2010
Galerie Kuma, Berlin, Germany, 16.4.– 23.5.2010
Saara Ekström is among the 15 artists invited to take part in the exhibition Memory Traces at the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, Germany. The exhibition presents Finnish contemporary art and it is a result of a cultural project aimed at promoting Finnish art internationally, created by Mikko Ijäs and Mika Karhu.
Memory Traces. Contemporary Art from Finland 31.1-21.3.2010
www.ludwigmuseum.org/engl/exhibitions/current.htm
www.memorytraces.com/Memory_Traces/Home.html
Floromania
Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland,
29.1.–30.5.2010
www.turuntaidemuseo.fi/00/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=89
Dallas Art Fair
Richard Levy Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA,
5.1.–7.1.2010
www.dallasartfair.com/
www.levygallery.com/projectroom/saara_ekstrom/artist.html
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