Opening: 26 April 2024, 6 – 9 pm

Exhibition: 25 April – 15 June 2024

Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35

During the Gallery Weekend Berlin, Persons Projects will be presenting Dominik Lejman’s solo exhibition Step Aside, assembling a selection of works that focus on the perception of artworks as being both screens and painterly surfaces. Lejman is known to challenge and extend the definitions of artistic disciplines. By mixing paintings with video projections, the artist has created his very own medium that does not only overcome the limitations of painting, but initiates a new dialogue in how to perceive it. As one of the most established multimedia concept artists, Lejman has been exhibiting in numerous international shows and received, amongst others, the prestigious prize of the Akademie der Künste in 2018 for redefining the medium of painting.

Joakim Eskildsen | Katarzyna Kozyra | Paweł Książek | Zofia Kulik | Milja Laurila | Dominik Lejman | Jorma Puranen

Opening: Friday, 17 November 2023, 6 – 8 pm

Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 34–35, 10969 Berlin

Persons Projects is delighted to present the latest group exhibition titled Portraiture as Social Commentary; this exhibition not only highlights the different aspects of the genre but also links together a variety of artistic perspectives. A portrait is a painting, a photograph, a sculpture, or any other representation of a person in which the face and its expressions are predominant. They reveal the presence of the subject viewed from the perspective of the artist – a merger of contrasts between what’s projected by one and perceived by another. These images become mirrors of many faces that reflect both the political and cultural undercurrents relevant to the time period in which they were conceived.

Ulla Jokisalo | Katarzyna Kozyra | KwieKulik | Dominik Lejman | Santeri Tuori

Opening: Friday, 3 March 2023, 6 – 8 pm

Exhibition: 3 March – 22 April 2023

Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 34, 10969 Berlin

Persons Projects is proud to present a group exhibition, The Veneer of Happiness. The show focuses on the various myths and stereotypes associated with how success equates with happiness. These collected works exemplify the art of observing and displaying various states of happiness through altered realities from different perspectives: While Dominik Lejman and Katarzyna Kozyra share a common interest in challenging common concepts of beauty, we experience another perspective in the work of KwieKulik and Ulla Jokisalo whose works question and confront how western culture bends reality to fit certain norms or expectations in politics, economics or gender that define our presumed narrative for what happiness should look like.

Janne Lehtinen | Dominik Lejman | Jyrki Parantainen | Mikko Rikala | Santeri Tuori

Exhibition: 14 September – 19 November 2022

Persons Projects is proud to present a group exhibition In the Sky Unlike a Bird which is a collection of five artists’ interpretations of how an individual weighs and ponders upon the different volumes of nothingness. It’s an exhibition that creates a space where words float in the air and islands hang by a thread pinned to an infinity of blue on blue. Imagine an image of gravity dangling by its arms or a man in the moon who teases the tides by splashing the ocean one wave at a time. Howard Altmann says it best in his poem used in collaboration with Dominik Lejman’s painting, "could it be the sky has changed its colors? The natural order is where I turn now to turn myself around”. It’s not about what we see but more so how we perceive the place we are in.

Kristján Gudmundsson | Jarosław Kozłowski | Ville Kumpulainen | Milja Laurila | Dominik Lejman

We proudly present the group exhibition Inconsistent Ways of Seeing, highlighting the correlation between image and language. The five artists selected for this presentation all work in different medias and share a mutual interest in exploring their diverse points of view dealing with the relationship between text and visual art. They are all connected by how they challenge the subject of association with what we see and assume based upon our knowledge and experience of correlating the image with the words that define it. This disassociation process disrupts the identity relationship between the verbal and the visual encouraging abstract thinking.

Combining text with images has a long history in art and especially so in the last century, with Dadaism, Surrealism, Fluxus and the emergence of Conceptual Art. The artists in the 1960s and 70s treated language as an equal element in their works, creating a new perspective on interpreting and presenting ideas. This exhibition continues this dialogue with works spanning over the last three decades.