Persons Projects

Persons Projects Persons Projects is the prime gallery for those selected artists who now make up what is known as th

Persons Projects (formerly Gallery Taik Persons) was established in 1995 in Helsinki Finland. It is the prime gallery for those selected artists who now make up what is known as the "Helsinki School". It has grown into one of the leading photographic galleries in northern Europe with its permanent exhibition space situated in Berlin since 2003.

💥 As part of Berlin Art Week 2026, Persons Projects is proud to present ‘Rhizome,’ a solo exhibition by Paweł Książek, b...
02/09/2026

💥 As part of Berlin Art Week 2026, Persons Projects is proud to present ‘Rhizome,’ a solo exhibition by Paweł Książek, bringing together the black-and-white drawings of his ‘Narrations’ series and a selection of new paintings. The exhibition unfolds as a collection of ideas, images, and associations rather than a single, linear story. Visual form and language enter into dialogue, creating a space where the visual and the written coexist in tension and resonance.⁠

The title ‘Rhizome’ refers to the philosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, describing an open structure that develops in many directions without a fixed beginning or end. Książek’s exhibition follows this principle: each work remains autonomous while forming part of a wider network of thoughts, memories, and references.⁠

The black-and-white drawings of the ‘Narration’ series bring together image and text, Fragments of bodies, faces, mechanical forms, textures, and undefined landscapes move between figuration and abstraction. They appear almost as images retrieved from memory or a subconscious archive, suspended between recognition and disappearance. The accompanying texts do not explain or describe the images. Instead, words and images exist as parallel forms of thought, occasionally meeting and influencing one another while retaining their independence.⁠

📅 Opening: 10 September, 18:00 - 22:00⁠
Exhibition: 11 September - 31 October 2026⁠
📍 Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35, 10969 Berlin⁠

29/08/2026

💫 We are ready for the weekend at CHART 2026 in Charlottenborg! Come by Booth 7 today and tomorrow to discover works by:⁠

⁠- Nanna Hänninen⁠
- Sandra Kantanen⁠
- Eeva Karhu⁠
- Paweł Książek⁠
- Jussi Nahkuri⁠
- Jyrki Parantainen⁠
- Timothy Persons
- Mikko Rikala⁠
- Santeri Tuori⁠

BOOTH 7 ⁠

📅 VIP Preview: 27 August 2026 ⁠
Fair: 28 - 30 August 2026 ⁠
📍 Charlottenborg, Copenhagen ⁠

27/08/2026

🙌 Behind the scenes with Jussi Nahkuri.⁠

As we prepare for CHART, we’re excited to share moments from our artists’ studios, offering a glimpse into the thinking and making behind the works you’ll encounter at the fair.⁠

Beyond the actual shooting, most of Jussi Nahkuri’s working time is spent at the computer in his digital studio. There, he combines hundreds, sometimes thousands, of individual images into a cohesive visual surface, where the captured span of time, sequence of events, or performance takes on a new form. He also iterates and builds 3D models of the artworks to test how the image surface behaves when applied to a three-dimensional object. So, essentially, a lot of pixel pushing.⁠

‘Fortunately, my digital studio moves with me wherever summer takes me’ - from the artist⁠

Flower clip: Gathering flowers for the performance behind the work shown⁠.⁠

Stay tuned as we continue this behind-the-scenes series leading up to CHART.⁠

📅 VIP Opening: 27 August 2026⁠
Fair: 28 - 30 August 2026⁠
📍 Charlottenborg, Copenhagen⁠

22/08/2026

We are very happy to announce Timothy Persons’ return to his artistic practice after nearly three decades, with ‘Dreamscapes,’ a new series of ceramic sculptures to be presented for the first time at CHART 2026 in Copenhagen.⁠

The return to the studio is not about looking back. Dreamscapes picks up a dialogue that Persons began in Southern California in the late 1970s, when he approached ceramics beyond the traditional boundaries of the medium, bringing together sculpture, painting, and drawing. Almost thirty years later, he returns to these ideas from a new perspective.⁠

Dreamscapes combine hand-built ceramic vessels with painterly and graphic surfaces. Colour, line, texture, and construction become equally important, transforming each work into a sculptural landscape — somewhere between something remembered, imagined, and dreamed.⁠

Timothy Persons (b. 1954, Narvik, Norway) is a US-American artist, curator, and writer raised in Southern California. Educated under Paul Soldner in the tradition established by Peter Voulkos, Persons developed his ceramic practice from the late 1970s through the 1990s. After moving to Finland, he increasingly dedicated himself to curating and education and became internationally recognized as the founder of The Helsinki School.⁠

📅 VIP Opening: 27 August 2026⁠
Fair: 28 - 30 August 2026⁠
📍 Charlottenborg, Copenhagen⁠

14/08/2026

💫 Behind the scenes with Jyrki Parantainen.⁠

As we prepare for CHART, we’re excited to share moments from our artists’ studios, offering a glimpse into the thinking and making behind the works you’ll encounter at the fair.⁠

In this video, Jyrki Parantainen shows us the process of creating his new work ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ by connecting words to various parts of the image through the use of pins and taut brass wires. This way, he maps the visual space, creating tension throughout the work.⁠

Parantainen reinterprets the original illustrations with dark humor, satire, and irony. His work engages deeply with cultural and art history, touching on political and social themes, and reflects a strong interest in everything that lies beyond the everyday. His references range widely, from cinema to biblical imagery.⁠

Stay tuned as we continue this behind-the-scenes series leading up to CHART.⁠

📅 VIP Opening: 27 August 2026⁠
Fair: 28 - 30 August 2026⁠
📍 Charlottenborg, Copenhagen⁠

13/08/2026

Happy Belated Birthday to Grey Crawford.⁠

To celebrate, we’re sharing a video of Grey Crawford discussing Baltz, his remarkable photographic series revisiting all 51 locations from Lewis Baltz’s landmark ‘The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California’ (1974).⁠

Lewis Baltz transformed the way we see the American landscape, replacing romantic ideals with the stark realities of suburban expansion and industrial architecture. Five decades later, Crawford returned to those same sites, to continue the conversation.⁠

Drawing on his signature use of masked geometric forms and color, rooted in the hard-edge traditions of Karl Benjamin and John McLaughlin, the series reflects his singular visual language while documenting the evolving Southern California landscape.⁠

You can watch the full video, by clicking the link in our bio.⁠

05/08/2026

🌟 We are very excited to announce that we will be taking part in CHART 2026!⁠

This year’s presentation presents a curated selection of artists whose practices engage with landscape and the subtle relationship between human and the environment. It also brings together artistic positions that expand the conventions of the photographic medium, while highlighting The Helsinki School as an ongoing and continuously evolving art platform.⁠

We are looking forward to see you at Booth 7. This year we are presenting works by:⁠

⁠- Nanna Hänninen⁠
- Sandra Kantanen⁠
- Paweł Książek⁠
- Jussi Nahkuri⁠
- Jyrki Parantainen⁠
- Mikko Rikala⁠
- Santeri Tuori⁠

BOOTH 7⁠

📅 VIP Opening: 27 August 2026⁠
Fair: 28 - 30 August 2026⁠
📍 Charlottenborg, Copenhagen⁠

05/07/2026

We would like to share a few of our favorite moments from yesterday’s opening of Sandra Kantanen’s solo exhibition ‘Bamboo Whispers in Fading Light! Thank you to everyone for joining us!
Come by our gallery to discover more, or visit the link in our bio.
17 4 July - 29 August 2026
Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35, 10969 Berlin

01/07/2026

🎍 We are almost ready for our upcoming exhibition, ‘Bamboo Whispers in Fading Light,’ a solo show by Helsinki School artist Sandra Kantanen.⁠

The exhibition brings together works that reflect Kantanen’s long-standing fascination with idealized Asian landscapes. The show continues her search for environments threatened or already damaged by human activity, which she then reinterprets through her artistic intervention.⁠

📅 Opening: 3 July, 18:00 - 20:00⁠
Exhibition: 4 July - 29 August 2026⁠
📍 Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35, 10969 Berlin⁠

🌸 Persons Projects is pleased to announce ‘Bamboo Whispers in Fading Light,’ a solo exhibition by Finnish artist Sandra ...
23/06/2026

🌸 Persons Projects is pleased to announce ‘Bamboo Whispers in Fading Light,’ a solo exhibition by Finnish artist Sandra Kantanen, one of the leading figures of the Helsinki School. ⁠

Inspired by classical Chinese shan shui painting and Japanese aesthetics, Kantanen creates photographic landscapes that exist between reality and imagination. Ever since her studies in Beijing in the early 2000s, the artist has explored Eastern philosophies that engage with nature not as something to conquer or merely document, but as a source of contemplation and spiritual reflection. ⁠

Combining photography with painterly techniques, Kantanen digitally transforms her images through diffused light, layered colors, and dissolving pixels that resemble brushstrokes or ink washes. Suspended between photography and painting, her works question the truthfulness of the photographic image while echoing the meditative sensibility of traditional Asian art.⁠

Beneath the meditative beauty of her images lies a subtle ecological awareness. These works reflect the fragile relationship between nature and the 21st century’s ever-accelerating indifference expressed through pollution, urbanization, and environmental neglect.⁠

📅 Opening: 3 July, 18:00 - 20:00⁠
Exhibition: 4 July - 29 August 2026⁠
📍 Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35, 10969 Berlin⁠

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Lindenstrasse 34/35
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Dienstag 11:00 - 18:00
Mittwoch 11:00 - 18:00
Donnerstag 11:00 - 18:00
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