Jani Leinonen is one of the artists taking part in the summer exhibition Spark at the Fiskars Village. Spark exhibits critical contemporary art and design and is open from 12th of May until 15th of September, 2013. The exhibition takes place in the Granary and daily opening hours are from 11 am to 6 pm. www.fiskarsvillage.fi
Jani Leinonen’s work will be included in an international group exhibition called “Happy end?” at the Helsinki Art Museum. The exhibition explores the future of the human mind. It will take place in Tennis Palace and around the city. Besides Leinonen the exhibition shows works from Kim Simonsson and the Russian artist group AES+F. The exhibition will be open from 19th of June until 25th of August, 2013. www.hel.fi/
Jani Leinonen is one of the 13 artists taking part in the IHME Marathon 2013. IHME Marathon presents Finnish artists who talk about their art and their relationship toward citizen activism, the social and political nature of art. The Marathon will take place in the Great Hall of the Old Student House in Helsinki on Sunday 14th of April from 18:30 to 21:00. The other artists are Heta Kuchka, Terike Haapoja, Minna Heikinaho, Alma Heikkilä & Antti Majava, Erkki Pirtola, Minna L. Henriksson, Riikka Kuoppala, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and Tero Puha. The Marathon will be hosted by culture journalist Jonni Roos. …
Jani Leinonen and Riiko Sakkinen are the curators of Homelessness Fair – Taju 2013 exhibition held in Hyvinkää this summer. Since 1998, the Hyvinkää Artists’ Society has organised a modern art event called Taju in Hyvinkää. Since 2004, the Taju events have been organised in cooperation with the Hyvinkää Art Museum. The Homelessness Fair being organised next summer is the 13th Taju event, and it introduces a whole new exhibition concept to the Finnish art scene. Leinonen and Sakkinen have invited different civic organisations that deal with homelessness, social institutions and other active parties in the field to take part …
Jani Leinonen will be visiting Showroom Helsinki’s exhibition Teaser at Salon Dahlmann in Berlin this weekend. Artists Talk with Leinonen and Jiri Geller will take place on Saturday 2nd February 2013 from 14.00 to 16.00. Also the Minister of Culture and Sports in Finland, Mr Paavo Arhinmäki will attend the Artists Talk. In addition to Leinonen and Geller, the exhibition features works from Aurora Reinhard and Mari Keto. It will be open at Salon Dahlmann (Marburger Straße 3, 10789 Berlin) until February 17, 2013. www.marburger3.de www.showroomhelsinki.com
Superstar Beyoncé visited Art Basel Miami Beach with her husband Jay-Z in December. The singer posted pictures of some of her favorite artworks on her blog on Tumblr. Jani Leinonen’s work was one of the pieces that caught Beyoncé’s eye along with a painting from Picasso and a sculpture by Vito Acconci. Photo: Screen capture from Iam.beyonce.com
Showroom Helsinki presents works from Jani Leinonen, Jiri Geller, Mari Keto and Aurora Reinhard at Salon Dahlmann in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition shows a fine selection of works from private collections internationally and will be open from January 20 to February 17, 2013.www.marburger3.de
Jani Leinonen is presented by Galerie Gmurzynska at the 11th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the most prestigious art show in the Americas, taking place in Florida from December 6 through 9, 2012. More than 260 leading galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa will take part, showcasing works by more than 2 000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. miamibeach.artbasel.com Photo: Galerie Gmurzynska
Jani Leinonen is taking part in a panel discussion called “Culture Jammers in Public Space”, that the Lens Politica festival organizes in co-operation with the Voima newspaper on Saturday, 1st of December, 2012. The panel discusses spoof ads, the overlapping of commercial and anti-commercial cultures, occupying the urban space and different types of communication from promotion and advertising to journalism and social influence. Among the panelists in addition to Leinonen are journalist Jari Tamminen, artist Suvi Auvinen, the strategic director of the digital advertising agency Byroo and as the moderator the publishing manager of Voima, Tuomas Rantanen. The discussion begins …
Jani Leinonen’s new works will be shown together with some pieces from Mari Keto in an exhibition called Time Is A Luxury We Don’t Have at the Showroom Helsinki gallery in Helsinki, Finland. The exhibition is open from December 1 – 22.2012 and the opening hours are: Wed-Fri 4-7pm, Sat-Sun 12-4pm. www.showroomhelsinki.com