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"Connected" in Valssaamo, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki

07 Apr 2015 - 15 Apr 2015
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The Cable Factory was built during 1939-1954 and was at that time the largest building in Finland. In the 1960s Nokia set up production here until 1980s when they shut down the plant. During a transitional period the empty spaces were rented out to artists amongst others and there were serious plans to demolish at least parts of the factory. In order to preserve the factory artists and other influential cultural persons established the Pro Kaapeli association. This grassroots action attracted a lot of media attention and succeeded in preserving the factory with its valuable industrial envir...

"The Heat is On" Rocca Flea, Gualdo Tadino, Italy

10 Jan 2015 - 31 Jan 2015
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The name of Rocca Flea derives from the nearby river Flebeo, later called Flea, and it appears already in the 12th century documents. Damaged during many conflicts, the fortress was restored by one of the most powerful Roman Emperors Frederick II around 1242 and later several times renovated by for example Biordo Michelotti, the lord of Perugia. During the Renaissance the Rocca became the residence of the papal legates and, as a consequence of it, part of the interiors were decorated with frescoes. After the Unification of Italy, it was used as a prison until 1985. After that it was restore...

"Third Encounter" Sweden - Estonia, Winter 2014 in NK-villa, Nyköping

22 Nov 2014 - 05 Dec 2014
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The architect of this imaginative Swiss style villa was Ferdinand Boberg, one of Sweden's greatest architects in the beginning of the 20th century. Many of his works can be found in Stockholm as for example the residence of the Swedish government Rosenbad, the Thielska Art Gallery, Waldemarsudde -the museum of Prince Eugen and the NK department store.

The villa was designed in 1906 as an exhibition space for the Nordic Company for an industrial show in Norrköping which lies about 60 km south of Nyköping. Here they displayed "the newest and most exclusive furniture and interior decorations f...

"557 Reasons" A Tribute to Life, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK

23 Oct 2014 - 02 Nov 2014
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Our exhibition in London will have mysterious surroundings. The Crypt of St Pancras' Church was used for funerals in the middle of the 19th century and became the last resting place for a total of 557 people - hence the theme of our exhibition.

In 2002 an art gallery was opened in the crypt.  With its underground passages it creates a very special atmosphere and different light settings for the artworks on display.

"Second Encounter" Estonia - Sweden, Edward Wilde Museum, Kastellaanimaja Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

04 Jun 2014 - 29 Jun 2014
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The writers Oscar Wilde and Edward Wilde never met, even though they are sitting together on the same bench in Tartu, Estonia. But we can meet! Join us for this second encounter between Estonian and Swedish artists in the gallery of Edward Wilde's Museum.

You find Kastellaanimaja Gallery in the park of Kadriorg, a favourite spot for the inhabitants of Tallinn for taking their weekend stroll and popping in to the museums like the ultra modern KUMU the Art Museum of Estonia and the baroque Palace of Kadriorg, to name a few. The palace was built as a summer residence for Catharine I (Kadri ...

"Longing for Freedom" in Oxford Castle Gallery, Oxford

27 Aug 2013 - 01 Sep 2013
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"The essense of liberty has always lain in the ability to choose as you wish to choose, because you wish so to choose, uncoerced, unbullied, not swallowed up in some vast system; and in the right to resist, to be unpopular, to stand up for your convictions merely because they are your convictions. That is true freedom, and without it there is neither freedom of any kind, nor even the illusion of it"
Isaiah Berlin, "Freedom and its Betrayal", 1952

Oxford Castle is a large, partly ruined Norman medieval castle situated on the west edge of Oxford. The original moated, wooden motte and bailey ca...

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