Exhibitions

Tensional Integrities

Tensional Integrities


Opening: Saturday, 29 June 2024, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibition: 29 June – 31 August 2024
Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35, 10969 Berlin

Persons Projects is pleased to announce its summer exhibition Tensional Integrities. This exhibition brings together a group of artists who infuse into their works through their use of line, sound, space, and color to form a condition of visual and physical harmonious tensity. This presentation represents five distinctly different material approaches in how they pursue their own narratives in exploring their innate sensibilities.

Dominik Lejman | Step Aside

Exhibition: 25 April – 22 June 2024
Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35

Persons Projects presents 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.

Dominik Lejman | Step Aside
Ea Vasko | Reflecting Spatiality

Ea Vasko | Reflecting Spatiality

Opening: 15 March 2024, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition: 16 March – 20 April 2024
Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 34, 10969 Berlin

Ea Vasko can easily be called one of the most innovative artists from the Helsinki School. She has been working abstractly since the beginning of her artistic career, with her work taking an outstanding position within the Finnish art scene of the early 2000s. Even now, Vasko remains one of the few artists from this platform that continues to operate outside of figurative art. Staying true to her initial ideas, her work questions the basic principles of photography from the act of seeing to the objectivity of an image. Furthermore, she interrogates the different mechanisms of human perception, such as valuation or categorization. Vasko’s interests lie in an urban environments ability to fluidly move and change over the course of time. She utilizes reflections as a method of testing the limits of abstraction, sometimes driving her initially figurative subjects to a point beyond recognition. The exhibition will present a selected group of works, all which deconstruct various aspects of architecture and spaciality, and investigate further into our relationship towards urban space and space that is not perceived at all.

The Helsinki School – Out of the Depths of Photography

Milja Laurila | Anni Leppälä | Niko Luoma | Jussi Nahkuri | Jyrki Parantainen | Niina Vatanen

Opening: Friday, 15 November 6 - 8 pm
Exhibition: 16 November 2024 - 25 January 2025
Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35, 10969 Berlin 

The exhibition The Helsinki School—Out of the Depths of Photography continues in its longstanding tradition of pushing the boundaries of how we perceive and interpret the photographic image. This presentation features a range of explorations into how different materials—such as fabrics, layered collages, and folded film negatives transformed into sculptures—can be utilized to form a new visual language within the photographic process today. It represents a collective effort to redefine the material qualities of the photograph, attempting to recover its magic as a physical object. This is the first fully dimensional overview from any previous Helsinki School presentations to conceptually challenge these existing parameters.
The Helsinki School – Out of the Depths of Photography
Mikko Rikala | So Little Changed, So Little Remained

Mikko Rikala | So Little Changed, So Little Remained

10 September - 31 October 2024
Opening: Friday, 13 September 6 - 9 pm
Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35

Persons Projects is proud to present Mikko Rikala’s solo exhibition So Little Changed, So Little Remained, a poetic reflection on the paradoxes of time and memory. The title evokes both the subtle shifts in time’s passage and the illusion that everything remains constant. Drawing inspiration from German Romanticism, Rikala’s body of work alludes to the sublime and to being fully immersed in nature as a way of slowly observing natural phenomena and cultivating an awareness of the present moment. His images balance the fleeting yet pivotal moments of daily life with the essential role of memory in shaping identity, offering a nuanced exploration of humanity’s relationship with the natural world.