Mikko Sinervo

Constellations of Thoughts

Niko Luoma | Jyrki Parantainen | Mikko Sinervo | Niina Vatanen

Opening: Saturday, 7 February, 3 - 6 pm

Exhibition: 7 Feb – 14 March 2026

Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35, 10969 Berlin

Persons Projects is pleased to present Constellations of Thoughts, a group exhibition featuring four Helsinki School artists: Niina Vatanen, Jyrki Parantainen, Niko Luoma, and Mikko Sinervo, who explore the visual language of the cosmos. Using photography as a conceptual and exploratory medium, their works offer new ways to imagine and perceive the universe. Each artist transforms cosmic principles, temporal rhythms, and metaphysical questions into images that act as a visual map of thought. Exhibited together, these works reveal how we perceive, imagine, and construct personal universes, from shifting structures of time and light to speculative architectures of distant stars. The exhibition presents the cosmos through a synthesis of science, philosophy, and poetic vision.

The Helsinki School Perspective

Opening: Friday, 30 June 2023, 6 – 8 pm

Exhibition: 1 July – 9 September 2023

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

Persons Projects warmly welcomes you to our summer exhibition: The Helsinki School Perspective. The show is presented in both gallery spaces Lindenstr. 34 and 35, featuring a selection of artists, all of whom had pivotal roles in the beginning of the Helsinki School. The exhibition is dedicated to the historical aspect, exploring how these artists use the photographic processes as a voice for abstraction and a tool for interpreting their emotional landscapes. The Helsinki School platform was created by Timothy Persons in the 1990s, who became inspired by his experience with the Open Studio Concept that was popular during his graduate studies in the mid-1970s in Southern California. It grew to become the most extended sustainable educational platform of its kind consisting of 6 generations of selected MA students originating from the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland. There are now more than 180 monogram books and 6 volumes of the Helsinki School book that have evolved from this program. This exhibition is curated to reintroduce a new perspective on the conceptual roots that built The Helsinki School.

Abstractions

Exhibition: 26 October – 16 November 2019

Address: Lindenstraße 34, 10969 Berlin

Participating artists: Timo Kelaranta, Niko Luoma, Teea Saanio, Mikko Sinervo, Ea Vasko

Persons Projects | Helsinki School is thrilled to announce the group show »Abstractions« with Helsinki School artists Timo Kelaranta, Niko Luoma, Teea Saanio, Mikko Sinervo and Ea Vasko. The presented art works are united in the self reflective approach, exposing the nature of light and photography itself, while moving away from the concrete object into fascinating abstraction.