ANTONI KNIGGE, MIRKA RAITO & METTE THIESSEN @HilbertRaum, Berlin, 2021
work
solo exhibition with painting drawing collage installation, 2020
How about sip of WONDER LOVE HATRED DESIRE JOY or SADNESS?
I do smell the flesh of a human!
a play with the body and contours of a painting. Collages and objects with a temporary and variable look made out of sketches, cardboards, plants, paintings and photos. Things that were found, things that were laying around on the street or in the bush, small treasures. Things that disturb and/or fascinate.
Pull the string and participate the game. An interactive mobilé. All the parts are movable but which string belongs to which object?
Life is loose things: loose memories, loose moments, loose thoughts, loose relationships. To-Do lists, odd socks, stray cats, movabels, waste, displaced persons or people who lost themselves. Takeoffs, layoffs, missing pieces...
About present and absence. About viewing and observing. About feeling of spying or beeing spyed.
sketches of midsummer night's dream
is painting dreams, missing persons, lost persons, secretly loved persons, Alter Egos and muses
Notices about small disturbing or exhiting things and situations. Something like a flirt or embarrassment or unclear hunch. Or that thing when friend of mine took secretly a photo of a woman he was enamored in. A beautiful photo came out. Based on this photo I made a painting. I gave this painting as a birthday present to this friend. He was kind of embarrassed and hided the painting.
Next to the big public park PLANTEN & BLUMEN in Hamburg is a remand prison. The prisoners and their relatives or friends can comminicate with each other by shouting. These dialogues are part of the daily audiovisuals of that certain place.
2003 solo exhibition, gallery Huuto, Helsinki
since 2009. JOKAklubi combines performance, music, video and paintings in their engaging shows and exhibitions. Inspired by people, JOKAklubi welcomes guest stars to their acts. Local audiences and other artists find space on JOKAklubi´s stage and depending on who, what and where, unique ambience emerges. JOKAklubi´s members, Finnish visual artists Niina Lehtonen Braun, Mirka Raito and Tellervo Kalleinen, have a long history performing together – including the group Voukkoset (1999-2001).
ISLAND THAT NEVER EXISTED
two installations from the year 2013
collages about the sea and longing, yearning,hankering...since 2016
Gettogether among the cardboard boxes before leaving the longtime space. A wall and a barrier with a hidden entrance and a mini bar.
I asked friends and relatives to write down a memory based description. This description should tell about an important or unforgettable person, place or even a situation. I asked the description to be as visual as possible, like a picture. No name should be mensioned.
Many years ago I took a series of photographs of my sleeping friends.