Interview with Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual Artist Naser Bayat 2018

Naser Bayat visited and observed Jyväskylä for two weeks at the beginning of September. A selection of his photographs were shown in the 7th Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual. Here (below) we share the short unedited interview (conversation) we had with Naser during his stay.  Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/kkigalleria/naser-bayat

Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual 2017

This Wednesday, September 27th at 8pm we officially open the Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual exhibition.

Marica Kolcheva produced the project City of Light during a residency in Jyväskylä in August 2017.

The exhibition takes place in the cultural advertisement placements on Kauppakatu at the edge of the central Church Park in Jvyäskylä. The exhibition will be in place for 10 days and is visible 24 hours a day until the 8th of October. 

Artist in residency: Laurent Chehere

Announcing this year's Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual artist:

**Laurent Chehere**

Laurent will be in residency in Jyväskylä June 13th – June 21st, and his images will be presented in the Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual during the Valon Kaupungin festival at the end of September 2016.

www.laurentchehere.com

Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual artist Patrik Qvist

Announcing the 2015 Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual
September 30th – October 11th
Kirkkopuisto, Jyväskylä

This year's artist is performance artist/photographer Patrik Qvist from Stockholm, Sweden.

Patrik Qvist is best known for his work focusing on human interaction with nature, bordering on activism.

 from the performance piece "I am so sorry" in Gotland
This was an activist performance against the corporation Nordkalk in defense of a natural area on Gotland called Ojnareskogen.

 Patrik Qvist during the performance piece "I am so sorry" in Gotland 

For this year's photo annual, Patrik will create a new work in Jyväskylä. The photograph series he is currently working on is a mixture of private performance in nature, documentation, installation and sculpture.

The Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual will open on Thursday October 1st at 7:30pm.
Refreshments will be served.
The event is free of charge.
Everyone is welcome.

The Kirkkopuiosto photo Annual is a collaboration with:
The Centre for Creative Photography and The City of Jyväskylä.
JKL Massive, The Craft Museum of Finland,  The Alvar Aalto Museum, The Jyväskylä Symphony, The Jyväskylä City Theatre, The Museum of Central Finland and the Jyväskylä Art Museum.

Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual - Prasiit Sthapit

 photo: Juho Jäppinne

A solo exhibition by guest artist Prasiit Sthapit of Nepal shows photographs made during his 2 week residency in Jyväskylä.
The exhibition will be on display in the cultural announcement light-boxes along Kauppakatu in Kirkkopuisto (in front of the Kirkkopuisto Kioski), from Friday the 27th of September until Wednesday the 2nd of October.

Please join us for the exhibition opening on Thursday September 26th at 6:30pm.

The Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual is brought to you by Äkkigalleria, The Centre for Creative Photography and the Valon Kaupunki Jyväskylä event, in association with the Jyväskylä Art Museum, the Jyväskylä Theatre, the Jyväskylä Symphony, the Craft Museum of Finland, the Alvar Aalto Museum and the Museum of Central Finland.

Äkkigalleria 16 - Images of Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual, Patricia Driscoll

 Photographer Patricia Driscoll in the Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual, opening, view with a storm at sunset.

  Photographer Patricia Driscoll in the Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual, opening view with a rainbow. 

 Photographer Patricia Driscoll in the Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual, opening: gate to the Valon Kaupunki event. 

Photographer Patricia Driscoll in the Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual, view from the western side. 

Photographer Patricia Driscoll in the Kirkkopuisto Photo Annual, view from the eastern side.

 photos: Juho Jäppinen