The artists participating in Night On Earth: Helsinki

“A Performance of Space”, a selection of videos dealing with space, dreams, and desire. More concretely they present a zooming into performances in different spaces: lost landscapes, desolate city border zones, desolate city centers, spaces left by humans or fictional spaces filled by individuals.

Chen Wei (b. 1980), a graduate of the China Academy, has had his work shown throughout Asia, and most recently contributed a sound piece to the Serpentine Gallery’s China Power Station, Part I, at the Battersea Power Station in London…
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“…surely the closest dubstep has come to the hanting torch-song brilliance of Portishead. Singer Tiiu sends shivers down my spine as she sings about “clouds shaped like a sine wave”. The bittersweet tunes wrapped in dub are super-subtle and unique” - XLR8R (..read more)

Aamu Song and Johan Olin joined forces as the Com-pa-ny design team back in 2000. Com-pa-ny dabbles in fashion, furniture, graphic, and environmental design, showing up everywhere from print work to galleries and lecture series. (..read more)

Swiss-born Daniel Pflumm studied art at New York’s Columbia University and at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Pflumm focuses on media imagery, manipulating brand logos, commercials, and news reports in his light boxes, and..
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DJ CANDLE IN THE WIND started 1996 as a C-cassette mixtape DJ. Broken beats and misunderstood concept of a loop was his style, soon to be copied by all. After only one tape he disappeared for years, leaving only one or two tracks to be release later… (read more)

Eero Johannes makes synthetic funk, “high on sugar”- electronica. His background as a drummer has a big influence especially on the live-performances, which are mosly about electronic drumpads, percussive playing and improvisation. (..read more)

Fang Er’s work engages the viewer with a playful yet conscientious dialogue often blending chaotic elements of human constructs with elements in the natural world. Meng Jin’s exploration of the confines of interior space and…
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Though born in Sweden, Frida Hultcrantz pursued her creative development first at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki for Clothing Design, and subsequently moved on to study.. (read more)

est known for his yellow latex sculptures, Berliner Hans Hemmert also applies his yellow fixation to fiberglass sculptures as well as incorporating video projections and text into some of his installations. emmert studied at Hochschule der Künste Berlin… (read more)

Hugo Capablanca managed to become a resident DJ in every single hip club in Berlin. His style is extremely versatile, so you never know what to expect but a mix of Electric Disco, Hi-Nrg, Punkfunk and smash tracks
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While his international client list, including everything from corporations to magazines, keeps him busy, Auersalo finds time to exhibit his artwork. The Night On Earth event nights will showcase his VJ work. He currently lives in London… (read more)

amiliar contemporary images are reinvented in Helsinki-based sculptor, Jiri Geller’s work. Trained as a goldsmith at the Lahti Polytechnic Institute of Design, Geller now utilizes mostly synthetic materials, but his background in shiny materials.. (read more)

Konrad’s thematically architectural creations aim to provoke thought about the relation between a plan and its execution. He is currently based and frequently exhibiting in Berlin.
科诺徳主题性的建筑创意旨在启发规划和实行之间的联系。他目前定居柏林，并在柏林有频繁的展览.. (read more)

Starting off as a runway photographer, Kira Gluschkoff has risen to international heights as a sought-after photographer for fashion editorials. She has also worked closely with fellow Finland artists, Rinne Niinikoski and Noora Niinikoski.
齐亚·格拉斯克高夫以T台摄影师作为起点，现已在时尚界成为广受欢迎的国际摄影师。她和同样参与“地球之夜”的艺术家瑞尼·尼尼克斯也有过亲密的合作。
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Artist, photographer, and fashion designer of the now defunct fashion label, PusiPusi, Maija Luutonen has proven herself through a myriad of exhibitions domestically and abroad. She completed her MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, studying also… (read more)

American photographer Mark Maher has lived in Helsinki since 1996. His education in art history, social anthropology and long distance hitchhiking led to a second career as a writer, most notably of art criticism and social essays. Maher has produced several books of his artwork including… (read more)

Meiya Lin is a video artist originally from Xiamen, China currently based in Amsterdam. Her work introspect on place the interaction between dream and daily life.

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Tuomas Laitinen’s solo venture takes shape as veritable mash-up pandemonium.
Electronica that doesn’t loose sight of rock sensibility in the Ahab-ian quest for a good beat
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Part of the Revolutions on Request art collective with fellow Night on Earth participant, Jiri Geller, Panu Puolakka earned his Masters in Interior Design from the University of Art and Design, Helsinki. Displaying a breadth of capability…
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Pia Rinne and Noora Niinikoski met as MFA students at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, and later teamed-up creatively in 2000. Their designs, embellished with embroidery, are uniquely handmade, elevating clothes from sterile mass-production to art… (read more)

Samuli Kosminen, who started as a drummer and now explores flea-market percussions, beat apparatuses, melody making toys and tuneful data prosessors, has discovered new and strange dimensions of rhythm…
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Only a year after graduating from the Academy of Fine Art in Helsinki, Tatu Tuominen has become a visibly active part of the Helsinki art scene. Instead of relegating himself to one media Tuominen employs photography, printmaking, and painting, often mixing the techniques… (read more)

Versatile Tuomas Laitinen experimented in photography, graphic design, silk-screening, and so on, before arriving at his current material incarnation: light boxes. The Helsinki City Art Museum, the
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art… (read more)