Oooooooh!
20th Anniversary Exhibition
10–31 December 2022
Around Christmas and New Year, the exhibition is open Dec 20-22 and 27-31 normally at 12-7pm.
On Sunday 18 December from 1 pm to 2:30 pm, Pauliina Turakka Purhonen and Päivi Allonen will take visitors on a guided tour of the anniversary exhibition.
Galleria Huuto started to organize exhibitions in 2002, first at Viiskulma in Helsinki. After many eventful and art-filled years, Galleria Huuto is currently located in Kamppi, in the courtyard at Kalevankatu 43. Promoting a sense of community and diversity and offering an outlet for artistic experiments, the project launched by 25 young artists has gradually grown into Finland’s largest artist-run gallery. Today Huuto has 140 members. Every year, more than 50 exhibitions are held at Galleria Huuto, which makes it the biggest operator in Helsinki’s visual arts scene based on its exhibition volume.
In order to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Galleria Huuto will bring together a wide selection of works from its members. In accordance with the gallery’s exhibition policy, the anniversary exhibition Oooooooh! will also be surprising and exceptionally diverse, representing big and small art and everything in between. For the duration of this exhibition, Huuto will double its floor area as works will not only be on display in the actual gallery space but also on the third floor of the building where additional spaces have been rented for this special occasion.
The opening event on Friday 9 December will feature Huuto members’ choir performance* led by Tellervo Kalleinen, a Bird Disco performance** by Pasi Autio and Saku Koistinen, a poetry reading by Maimu Brushwood*** and DJ’s Duo Duras Duras.
* Galleria Huuto invited Tellervo Kalleinen to compose a choir song to Huuto’s opening choir. The words are from our action plan for 2003.
** The Bird Disco by media artist Pasi Autio and dance artist Saku Koistinen gives people an opportunity to dance to a “chirpy beat”. Autio has worked on birdsong to create rhythmic, minimalist and psychedelic “disco music”. Dance artist Saku Koistinen has created dance moves for the songs based on bird movements and will instruct dancers at the Bird Disco.
*** Drag poet Maimu Brushwood, née Huolirinta, is artist Timo Tähkänen’s alter ego who loves art and tries to fix the world through her poems.
There are works from the following 90 Huuto’s member artists in the exhibition:
Päivi Allonen, Pasi Autio, Jesse Avdeikov, Anni Arffman, Veikko Björk, Marina Ciglar-Tuominen, Laura Dahlberg, Laura Ukkonen, Anu Haapanen, Kaarina Haka, Hannah Hamberg, Sini-Meri Hedberg, Helka Heinonen, Terhi Heino, Vesa Hjort, Gunzi Holmström, Janette Holmström, Juliana Hyrri, Antti Hämäläinen, Mirka Hämäläinen, Sampsa Indre´n, Rita Jokiranta, Beata Joutsen, Salla Järvinen-Siren, Aino Jääskeläinen, Mikko Kallio, Elina Katara, Lotta Kjellberg, Piia Kokkarinen, Saija Koponen, Nuutti Koskinen, Mauri Kuitula, Kimmo Kumela, Tuomo Laakso, Heidi Lahtinen, Johanna Lecklin, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Marjo Levlin, Simo Mantere, Sasha Rotts, Sampo Malin, Aleksi Martikainen, Paula Martikainen, Tiia Matikainen, Christelle Mas, Tiina Mielonen, Titti Miettinen, Kalle Mustonen, Kasper Muttonen, Pasi Mälkiä, Pink Twins, Paula Puoskari, Pilvi Ojala, Kaarina Ormio, Laura Pakarinen, Reija Palo-oja, Siiri Pohjolainen, Laura Pohjonen, Maria Pääkkönen, Synnöve Rabb, Mirka Raito, Satu Rautiainen, Antti-Ville Reinikainen, Miia Rinne, Markus Rissanen, Linda Roschier, Pasha Rotts, Sasha Rotts, Jaakko Rustanius, Hanna Saarikoski, Hans-Peter Schütt, Maiju Salmenkivi, Katariina Salmijärvi, Johanna Sipilä, Elina Strandberg, Minna Suoniemi, Elli Terho, Aleksi Tolonen, Rose-Mari Torpo, Tapio Tuominen, Tatu Tuominen, Kalle Turakka Purhonen, Timo Tähkänen, Milja Viita, Marja Viitahuhta, Ville Välikangas, Dominik Wlodarek, Eero Yrjölä, Heli Änkö, Charlotta Östlund
Thank you for all our supporters!
The event is supported by the City of Helsinki, Oskar Öflund Foundation and Art Promotion Centre Finland.
The opening is sponsored by Olvi, Smilco´s, The Gutsy Captain Company and Olutposti.
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