PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY HIPPOLYTE
Kalevankatu 18 B, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
+358 9 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi
Open: tue-fi 12:00-17:00, sat-sun 12:00-16:003-26 April 2009
URSLE SCHNEIDER & PATAPHYSICS PART II
IFUIFU-IBAIBA
This exhibition is about another “imaginary solution for a non-existent problem”. It is about searching for the views, stories, dreams, sense and nonsense that surround us: between mountains and Lapland, between times & places, in nature, in life, in our emotions. It is about works of art as indicators of moods and imaginations, about trying to get free of ideas to be open for ideas. It is about knowing to be influenced by our surroundings. Reflecting it, exposing creatively. Searching for confrontation, isolation, provocation, calmness, satisfaction. Collecting images, impressions, fascinations, symbols, thoughts and searching for their relations and their contrasts. Finding them and losing them.
It is about images and symbols chosen through a very personal interpretation of their meaning, often not rationally understandable. It is about being confronted with symbols captured by photography and life, thinking about what it evokes. With an open and elusive meaning. Freed from the traditional qualities of photography, the interest turns more on intuition and experiment.
I like to explore the edges of the medium of photography. And maybe this is less about the images themselves than about the images evoked in the spectator.
Ursle Schneider
Thank You: Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region, Swiss Embassy
Ursle Schneider (born 1980 in Bern, Switzerland) lives and works in Helsinki. She studied photography at the Ecole d`arts appliqués, Vevey, Switzerland, with Radu Stern, Arno Minkkinen, Arnaud Claass, Joan Fontcuberta and others. In 2004 Schneider moved to Lahti, Finland, where she graduated from the Department of Photography at Lahti Polytechnic, Institute of Design. She is currently studying for Master's degree in the Department of Fine Art Media at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.Ursle Schneider's exhibitions include: solo exhibition an imaginary solution for a non-existent problem, at Välivuosi Galleria, Helsinki, 2008; graduation show in the Gallery of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, 2007; still moving, a six-hour event, Välivuosi Galleria, Helsinki, 2007; Hanasaari A, FaFa Galleria, Helsinki, 2006; uneksia at Taidepanimon Laboratorio, Lahti, 2005
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Photographic Gallery Hippolyte Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary
Thirty years passed in December 2008 since the opening of Photographic Gallery Hippolyte. The gallery celebrates its anniversary year from 4 December 2008 to 29 November 2009 with a programme that includes exhibitions, a photographic festival, a cross-disciplinary art event and a residency. The anniversary events of Photographic Gallery Hippolyte are part of the Year of Photography 2009 programme. www.katse.orgPhotographic Gallery Hippolyte’s anniversary year has been supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
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Information and press images:
Petronella Grönroos, exhibitions co-ordinator
Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, +358 9 612 33 44, firstname.lastname@hippolyte.fi
www.katse.org
