Ville Lenkkeri
EXHIBITIONS
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The Place of No Roads - 23.September - 25.October 2009
Gallery Taik berlin
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Civil Courage- 18.September - 18.October 2009
Korjamo
Galleria
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2009 - Publication / 'The
Place of No Roads' book
by Ville Lenkkeri, published by Hatje
Cantz
ISBN 978-3-7757-2399-2
2009 - Solo Exhibition / The Place of no Roads, Finsk-norsk kulturinstitutt,
Oslo
2009 - Solo Exhibition / Ingen mans land, Kulturhuset,
Stockholm
2009 - Group Exhibition / Vårsalongen,
Liljevalchs konsthall,
Stockholm
2008 - Solo Exhibition / Ballad of a Troubled Dream,
Point of View Gallery, New York
2008 - Solo Exhibition / Civil Courage
(Nos réalités),
Le Quartier, Quimper
2008 - Solo Exhibition / True Story, Maerz Galerie, Leipzig
2008 - Group Exhibition / CLINIC, Griesmar&Tamer,
Paris
2008 - Group Exhibition / Mäntän
kuvataideviikot, Mänttä
2008 - Group Exhibition / Maan asema
/ La position de la Terre,
CRAC Alsace, Altkirch
2008 - Group Exhibition / Vårsalongen,
Liljevalchs konsthall,
Stockholm
2008 - Group Exhibition / Dark, Korjaamo,
Helsinki
2006 - Publication /
'Reality in the Making' book by
Ville Lenkkeri, published by Hatje Cantz.
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more information up to date please visit: villelenkkeri.blogspot.com
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'The
Place of No Roads'
Ville Lenkkeri (*1972 in Oulu, Finland) is one of the graduates of the
famous Helsinki School, whose brilliant works have drawn worldwide attention
to Finland’s contemporary photography scene. Hatje Cantz published
Lenkkeri’s debut book, Reality in the Making, in 2006, and the reception
was enthusiastic: “If the strength of Finnish photography is in
gathering together irony, skillful craftsmanship, humor, and reflection
on media, then it has found one of its most talented representatives in
Ville Lenkkeri,” wrote PHOTO International.
For his new book, Lenkkeri made several visits to two Russian towns on
Spitzbergen. To him, a now-deserted mining settlement appeared “not
as a depressing . . . scar on the Arctic landscape, but as a formerly
just and happy commonwealth . . . where competitive hierarchies had been
abolished in favor of equality.” The journey became a “personal
quest for alternative ways of living,” the place itself “a
utopia in many respects, not least for having failed to exist” (Ville
Lenkkeri).
Exhibition schedule: Kulturhuset, Stockholm, February 14–May 17,
2009 / Finsk-norsk kulturinstitutt, Oslo, May 28–August 16, 2009
/ Synart Art Gallery, Frankfurt/Main, September 2009 / And further venues
(graphic design: Reka
Kiraly)
2007 Looking at Life, Finlands Institutet, Stockholm
2007 Sisätiloja, G.A.Serlachius museum, Mänttä
2007 Näytös, Korjaamo, Helsinki
2007 Reality in the Making, Peter Lav Photo Gallery, Copenhagen
2007 Natura Morte, Pole Image, Rouen
2007 Reality in the Making, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin
2007 Synart art gallery, Frankfurt
2005 Galleri Flach, Stockholm
2005 Reality in the Making, Honkahovi, Mänttä
(for more information on solo exhibitions prior to 2005 please download the cv)
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Group Exhibitions (selected 2006-2007)
2007 Toden ja unelmien välissä, Photographic Centre Nykyaika,
Tampere / Finland
2007 Photo Finish, Stenersens Museum,Oslo
2006 What’s Up North, Rantagalleria, Pohjoinen valokuvakeskus,
Oulu / Finland
2006 What is Photography, Borås Konst Museum
2006 Museum!Museum!, Oulu Art Museum
2006 Dialog, Langhans Galerie, Prague
2006 Fermente, Maerz Galerie, Leipzig
2006 Alone Together (POC), Gallerie Nouvelles Images, Den haag
2006 Nu Nordisk Fotografi, (10 finalists), Hasselblad Center,
Gothenburg / Sweden
2006 Fotofinlandia, (10 finalists), Sanomatalo, Helsinki and
VB-valokuvakeskus, Kuopio
(for more information on group exhibitions prior to 2005 please download the cv)