Pictures

I paint pictures and events from everyday life. Lovable animals, people and absurd meetings on the surface are matters with the help of which I try to create confusion and joy.
Light-hearted and sometimes even humorous pictures may conceal serious themes: pickled cucumbers in a sweet pudding.

When I am painting, I want to wander in the no-man’s land between the clumsy and the controlled, occasionally highlighting very strict expression and sometimes letting random expression rise to the surface. Unfinished touches are emphasised in a fumbling line. I want to leave a mistake in my painting, something that irritates myself and perhaps makes even the viewer ask questions.

One part of my exhibition is a wall that changes and is supplemented each day. Because I supervise the exhibition,
there is time to stop and make observations from everyday life both inside and outside the gallery. I sketch out my thoughts on paper. The wall is a visual diary where I record events over a period of two weeks.

Hanna-Riikka Heikkilä
050 326 3533
hanna-riikka.heikkila(at)kolumbus.fi

 

 

Pictures

We were both working on projects which took too long time to realise. The desire is simple: We want to work together. Straight forward. No long discussions, no long production, no long whatever. We meet in my studio in Vienna and start from the scratch. Seven days. We have computers, cameras, hard disks, a green box and a huge videoarchive. Others are documenting the process. We do some digital compositing and mix it with performative elements. We invite others. We argue, we laugh, we drink, we jump into paintings, we are selfish, uninterrested, ambitious, frustrated, enlighted, tired and we go home afterwards.

Two weeks later we met in Berlin again. Ulu worked on the compositings. We edit the selected material and finish the project in four days. We named the produced video „REKORDER“ [reconduction through the heart]

A week later we present it at a Video Festival called „Videonale 11“ at the Kunstmuseum Bonn and discuss it publicwise. We are touched by the reception, having no distance to it.

From this point, we choose pictures, graphics, paintings, photos, screenshots and objects we created during the process and recombine them in a gallery space: Galleria Huuto, Helsinki. Here we are: TIKI TAKA, the Videoinstallation REKORDER.

Extra Screening:
At wendsday 28.3.2007 / 6pm, there is a screening by Ulu Braun & Roland Seidel in the Goethe-Institut.

Goethe-Institut, Mannerheimintie 20 A, Helsinki, 6. kerros / Free entry

Link:  http://www.goethe.de/ins/fi/hel/prj/ver/fi2036105.htm

Information about Ulu Braun & Roland Seidel:

www.rolandseidel.net

www.ulubraun.com

www.bittebittejaja.de