Photos from Äkkigalleria 24 - Moths Day and Night

 photo: Emily Tracy

  photo: Emily Tracy

  photo: Elizabeth Hobbs

  photo: Juho jäppinen

   photo: Juho jäppinen

   photo: Juho jäppinen

   photo: Juho jäppinen

  photo: Juho jäppinen

Äkkigalleria 24 - Moths Day and Night

An animation intervention proposed by Tracy & Hobbs.

Two British animation artists, Emily Tracy and Elizabeth Hobbs, will combine forces with local research entologist and nature conservationist, Jussi Päivinen from Metsähallitus, to create new animations inspired by Finnish moths.
This intervention includes two workshops, one for a class of school students and the other open to the public. The workshops will be followed by an exhibition of some of Tracy & Hobbs' animation films. The events will begin on Thursday January 23rd at 3pm.

Äkkigalleria 24 is located at Kauppakatu 25 (asuntogalleria real estate) and will be open to the public from January 23rd until the 25th.

Elizabeth Hobbs is an  illustrator, printmaker and animation artist, whose animation artist whose films have won many awards.  A large part of Elizabeth’s work is creating participatory animated films and devising visual art projects with young people and community groups with artist Emily Tracy.  She also lectures in animation at Anglia Ruskin University, in Cambridge, UK. Elizabeth was the first Pépinières residency artist to come work at the Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking. She came to Jyväskylä for the 6-month artist residency in 1996. We are very excited to have her back!

Emily Tracy is a visual artist specializing in public interventions, light installations and collaborative projects. She works with the lit form: Lanterns or large scale sculpture. Having trained as a painter she has developed techniques using shadow, colour and a diverse range of materials, including recycled ones, to create extraordinary spectacles which aim to startle, amaze and inspire. These installations often come about through research into local history, architecture, stories and working with a particular group of people and are therefore site-specific. Most recently she has been developing projects which highlight environmental issues through use of materials.

Jussi Päivinen is a research scientist, environmental conservationist and butterfly enthusiast who has been fascinated with butterflies since he was 7, he has a a doctorate degree in philosophy and currently works for the Metsähallitus. Jussi is joining this project as a consultant, sharing his expertise on Finnish moths with workshop participants. Data and facts that he supplies will be used in the creation of a new animation on Finnish moths.



The event is free of charge everyone, of all ages, is invited to join us!
Welcome!


The gallery will be open as follows:
Thursday 23rd,  3-6pm*
Friday 24th, 11-7pm
Saturday 25th, 11-5pm

*Everyone is welcome to drop by, watch and/or participate in the light-animation workshop on Thursday January 23rd from 4-6pm.

News for 2014

This year Äkkigalleria has received a grant from the Koneen Säätiö, enabling us to continue supporting artists and promoting art and artistic activity in the city of Jyväskylä!

Our first Äkkigalleria of 2014 will be at held near the end of January. This event will combine the expertise of local research and conservation scientists with two animation artists from the UK. More information will be posted soon.

Festive wishes for the end of this year! / Hyvää joulua ja toimeliasta tulevaa vuotta 2014!

drawing by Camille + Paul 11/12/13

Äkkigalleria would like to thank you for your support this year, 

and wishes you culturally rich year in 2014! A special thanks goes out to The Arts Promotion Centre Finland's Regional Office of Central Finland. 

2014 will be an exciting year, starting with a art meets science residency at the end of January, and much more...

Best solstice wishes, 

Anna et Juho

This year's card was made by Äkkigallery 15 residency artists Camille Girard and Paul Brunet.

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Äkkigallerian väki kiittää Teitä hyvästä yhteistyöstä
kuluneelta vuodelta ja toivottaa kulttuuririkasta vuotta 2014.
Erityiskiitokset vuodelle 2013Taiteen edistämiskeskuksen Keski-Suomen aluetoimipisteelle.
Vuosi 2014 tulee olemaan mieleenpainuva myös meidän osaltamme.
Laatikkomossa käynnistyy vuoden alussa neljäs kierros valokuvaistuvan
maapallomme kartoittamisessa ja Äkkigalleria tulee vuoden mittaa muun
muassa yhdistämään kansainvälistä taidetta ja suomalaista tiedettä,
sekä esittelemään maailmalla suomalaista nykytaidetta...

Hyvää talvipäivänseisausta,
Anna et Juho

Tämänvuotisen joulukortin ovat toteuttaneet Äkkigalleria viidentoista residenssitaiteilijat Camille Girard ja Paul Brunet.

Äkkigalleria 23 - Climate (ex)Change Images

"Siyakhuluma!" Fela Dlamini

"Beautiful Decay" Khulekani Msweli

 "Dr Pisodi's Pop-up" Dane Armstrong

Still from video "Coming/Going Home" Dane Armstrong

"...or not to wear?"  Celimpilo Dlamini 

"Walk in the Woods" Celimpilo Dlamini

"Trance" Aleta Armstrong



"No Passport!" Bhekani Dlamini

visitors study Aleta Armstrong's "Trance"

Äkkigalleria 23 is located at Kauppakatu 35

Äkkigalleria 23 will be open:

 

November 30th – December 5th, 2013 open daily from 11am until 6pm.

The opening will be held on Saturday November 30th 2-5pm.

Äkkigalleria 23 is  located at Kauppakatu 35, (Tawast/Hoviraitti commercial centre) Located on the ground floor at the former Tunn1n Kuva location.
Access from inside the commercial centre (accross from the Coffee House cafe at the Sokos Hotel) and/or from the outside corridor next to Halonen.

Everyone is welcome!!

Äkkigalleria 23 - Climate (ex)Change

Äkkigalleria 23 brings the work of 7 Swazi artists to Jyväskylä, Finland at the end of November, 2013.

sculpture by Fela Dlamini

Äkkigalleria presents artists: Sunshine Nxumalo, Khulekani Msweli, Fela Dlamini, Celimpilo Dlamini, Bhekani Dlamini, Dane Armstrong and Aleta Armstrong.

“Climate Change” is a title of this era, a common phrase, and a reality that affects all of us regardless of where we live. In general we take it to mean the melting of the polar ice caps, strong tropical storms and the extinction of certain delicate species. But there are other climate changes equally current and equally important: social and cultural climates being rapidly influenced by social media and the easy transportation; political climates currently changing under the weight of years of power imbalances, religious climates swelling as people strive to find balance in this fast shifting world. The fast pace of the capitalist machinery along with the tremendous flood of constant information make this constant flux ever more apparent.

The exhibition Climate (ex)Change, as an event, is cross-cultural exchange between the artists from Swaziland and the residents of Jyväskylä, Finland. As a platform the exhibition allows the artists to explore and assert their thoughts and opinions on what could be connections, similarities and differences of the two countries in their geography, vegetation, cultures, people and art. Two small countries, two strong cultural identities, that know little to nothing about the other, are given a chance to meet on the common ground of art.

For this exhibition seven Swazi artists have been invited to present new work at the Äkkigalleria in Jyväskylä, Finland for the exhibition Climate (ex)Change. The artists were carefully chosen to represent a divers array of practices in the visual arts. Contemporary expressions of painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, video and sound will be used to express the artists’ thoughts and feelings about the differences between these two polar countries.

To accentuate the differences between Swaziland and Finland (which are geographically situated directly North/South of each other in extremity) the exhibition will take place during a dead-cold, lightless Finnish winter at the same time as the Jacaranda flowers of a hot early summer arrive in a bright Swaziland. Through the work of these seven artists, this exhibition will bring the light and warmth of Swaziland to the cold north. And a longer-term exchange will become possible as the seed of collaboration is planted in the common language of art.

This kind of exchange is essential in eradicating stereotypes, by bringing artists and the public together in art, this exhibition will provide a live experience of another culture without any of the typical branding. Live experiences are key to exposing the humanity we all possess.

Climate (ex)Change will be the 23^rd Äkkigalleria exhibition in Jyväskylä Finland. The exhibition will be open to the public for one week at the end of November 2013. The exhibition is free of charge, everyone is welcome.

Äkkigalleria 23 will be open:

 

November 30th – December 5th, 2013 open daily from 11am until 6pm.

The opening will be held on Saturday November 30th 2-5pm.

Äkkigalleria is currently located at Kauppakatu 35, (Tawast/Hoviraitti commercial centre) Located on the ground floor at the former Tunn1n Kuva location.
Access from inside the commercial centre and/or from the outside corridor next to Halonen.

Äkkigalleria is an artist run gallery project and is partially funded by the Arts Council of Central Finland.