25.01.2025 – 7pm and 26.01.2025 – 1pm An audience gathers on a floor, ready to be asked to dance. Each of the event’s six songs has been chosen by a different person, who all share a life experience of not being in the lead. During the dance, they will lead the audience. Spaces are limited,…

M-Cult is pleased to launch the inaugural edition of the Minna Tarkka Lectures, a new annual initiative focused on discussing and debating the potential of art, media, and technology to participate in and shape current and future democratic societies. These yearly lectures and workshops will celebrate the legacy of M-Cult’s founder and long-time director, Minna Tarkka, honoring her…

JOKAklubi – a group of artists Tellervo Kalleinen (Helsinki), Niina Lehtonen Braun (Berlin) and Mirka Raito (Hamburg) brings The Theory Show to the stage of Westwerk, Hamburg, on 12th October 2024. JOKAklubi has 15 years of history organising playful club events, which engage professional artists. For “The Theory Show” they have invited seven artists and…

Suomenkielinen teksti alhaalla. We’re making the world’s most valuable clock in Oulu. Please donate your time to it! Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen invite people living in Oulu to co-create The Most Valuable Clock in the World. The clock combines at least 120 valuable personal moments from residents with 12 precious moments in nature, advised by scientists. The clock…

artists Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Anett Lau, Sao Sreymao, YKON Welcome to the opening on Saturday, 6.Juli 2024, 3-6 pm 6.Juli 6 pm – 6:30 pm Tellervo Kalleinen, “Recycling You” (Performance) As the name suggests, this is a recycling event. Together with Tellervo Kalleinen the audience exchanges their old opinions. An idea you no longer…

On its 35th anniversary, Y-Säätiö Foundation commissioned us to create a public artwork involving its residents. The work, which has been in progress since 2020, will be celebrated in June 2024!  Y-Säätiö Foundation is the largest nationwide non-profit landlord in Finland and an international expert in fighting homelessness. Y-Säätiö promotes social justice by offering affordable…

I am happy to make two performances at Sielu. ROOM TO BREATH 8th June 9.30pm: Artist and the audience meet in a room and play with metaphors related to the room -word. RECYCLING YOU 15th June at 12: Recycling You is a performance where opinions change hands. They are recycled like clothes – what no…

In the exhibition, Tellervo & Oliver show three works of participatory art. Collective Mindscape (2024) is a digital 3D world constructed of the inner mindscapes of eight people who have experienced cancer. The viewer can move freely in the open world, through simple hand movements. Collective Mindscape is a commissioned work for the Comprehensive Center…

Complaints Choir installation, including the choir documentations from Birmingham, Helsinki, St Petersburg, Tokyo, Singapore, Copenhagen, Chicago, Berlin, Khurvaleti and Teutonia, is part of Kiasma’s Feels Like Home -collection exhibition, curated by Satu Oksanen, Saara Hacklin and Saara Karhunen. Complaints Choir (2005 – 2014) is an art project of Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen.

Salo Art Museum in Salo, Finland, is organizing an event around our work 101 For All. Three locals, farmer Esa Ranniko, veterinarian Jerina Wallius and business coach Juho Nenose, each have 20 minutes to present the work from their own perspective without interruption. They are free to choose whatever they want from the sea of ​​30 topics…

In spring 2023 me and Oliver invited people in Finland to send ideas how an imaginary disaster movie could end. The only condition was that the scene must take place at Kansalaistori -square in the middle of Helsinki. Out of 105 proposals we filmed three, with the help of almost 100 volunteer actors. Welcome to the free premiere 17…

Why do we think like we think? For All put it’s focus on the people hidden inside statistics – and to the stories behind their opinions. The 100 people in the art piece forms a cross-section of the Finnish population in terms of gender, age, region, education, level of income, country of origin and mother…

ENG: Collective Mindscape is an interactive digital art work by Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, commissioned by the cancer department of Siltasairaala -hospital, HUS.  Collective Mindscape combines the inner places of eight people into one open world. When walking through the world, one can discover the participants’ virtual sanctuaries, but also more challenging landscapes reflecting their experiences of living with…

ENG: Final Scenes of Disaster Movies -project looks forward your input! Please send us ideas of what could happen in the end of an imaginary disaster movie of your choice. The scenes have to take place at Helsinki’s Kansalaistori. We also look for volunteering actors for the film shootings, which happen in the end of…

The Theory Show, OCTOBER 22, 2022, 4PM at ASC Gallery  JOKAklubi has invited artists Adrian Lee, Chrissie Tiller,Harriet Hill, Lynn Lu and David Sherry to share their theories about anything: Surprising ambiences, perspectives and approaches are created as the performers step into the absurd stage of JOKAklubi. We Were Made in the Dark-exhibition 21st October-4th November 2022 at ASC Gallery The performance is…

Olento Orchestral’s debut record Anatomia was released 26 August! You can listen it in all the streaming platforms, or buy the digital tracks or the vinyl from bandcamp or Levykauppa X. The music video by Niina Lehtonen Braun can be seen here. The record release concert will take place at Korjaamon vintti, Helsinki, 15 September.…

TUE 30 AUGUST 2022 5–7PM On 30 August 2022, Lönnström Art Museum and Studio Kalleinen will present and launch the English version of Conversation Park; a book exploring an in depth overview of a unique artistic experiment in transforming an abandoned plot of land into a public park in Rauma, Finland. The book, which is for…

KESKUSTELUPUISTO / CONVERSATION PARK BOOK PRESENTATION AND LAUNCH TUE 30 AUGUST 2022 5–7PM On 30 August 2022, Lönnström Art Museum and Studio Kalleinen will present and launch the English version of Conversation Park; a book exploring an in depth overview of a unique artistic experiment in transforming an abandoned plot of land into a public park…

A walk on the edge is a performative experience and a collective journey in Fenais da Luz, a village on the North coast of São Miguel Island. See the documentation video The pathway connects Azores’ history, a local tragedy from the 1980s, and the audience members’ personal relationship to owning. Starting from the overwhelming idea…

JOKAklubi and Olento Orchestral, as well  The Spermbankers band from the Czech Republic will perform at Westgermany club in Berlin. More info follows!

I am happy to announce that Anatomia, the depute album of Olento Orchestral, will be released 26 August! It was recorded by Juuso Norlund in the full analogue JJ Studio in Tampere, Finland. The album cover art is made by Niina Lehtonen Braun  Welcome to the record release concert at Korjaamon vintti 15 September!