Take Care (Home), Pikisaari Biennale, Art Hub Pikisaari, Oulu, Finland, 2022
PIKISAARI BIENNAALI 2022
Pernille Egeskov 8.9.-23.10.2022 Take Care (Home)
Pernille Egeskov’s exhibition consists of several smaller works ‒ collages and installations ‒ which all have reminiscences of objects from a home. A home is understood as a space where life is lived. Where things ‒ objects, feelings, experiences ‒ tangible as well as immaterial ‒ accumulate. Home is a space that contains both sorrows, joys, community and loneliness, birth, death, and sexuality. It is a place where time swallows up the life that is lived, and where pursuits and hidden matters reflect the days that disappear like sand between our hands and where the actions we do – or don’t do – are passed on to the next generations.
ART HUB PIKISAARI
Pikisaarentie 8, 90100 Oulu Finland www.arthubpikisaari.fi info@arthubpikisaari.fi
3D image from Pikisaari Biennale 2022
PIKISAARI BIENNAALI 2022
The Pikisaari Biennale is a new contemporary art event in Pikisaari, Oulu, which will take place for the first time in 2022. The venue is Art Hub Pikisaari, which is a small-scale art center and art project space in Pikisaari, founded in the autumn of 2020. The Pikisaari Biennale is open to the public from 18 August to 23 October 2022 from Thursday to Sunday from 12:00 to 18:00.
The Pikisaari Biennale is a site-specific art biennale that takes place every two years and brings contemporary art to the historic environment of Pikisaari island. In general, a biennial means an international contemporary art exhibition that repeats every other year. The oldest of these events is the Venice Biennale, which started in 1895. Today, more than 200 international biennales are organized worldwide, including the major biennales in Gwangju, Shanghai, São Paulo, Berlin, Istanbul, and Liverpool. But how small can a biennale be? The Pikisaari Biennale may be the world’s smallest biennale. Two artists have been invited to it: composer, performer and media artist Makiko Nishikaze from Berlin and visual artist Pernille Egeskov from Copenhagen, whose works the biennale presents as two consecutive entities. By being small, the Pikisaari Biennale challenges to think about the meaning and importance of small art events. First Pikisaari Biennale 2022 directs its gaze to the immediate surroundings with the theme “You are here”.
Pikisaari Biennale 2022
Makiko Nishikaze 18.8.‒4.9.2022
“I am here” ‒ site-specific audio and video works
Pernille Egeskov 8.9.‒23.10.2022 Take Care (home)
ART HUB PIKISAARI
Pikisaarentie 8, 90100 Oulu Finland www.arthubpikisaari.fi info@arthubpikisaari.fi
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