The Helsinki School – Out of the Depths of Photography

The Helsinki School – Out of the Depths of Photography

Milja Laurila | Anni Leppälä | Niko Luoma | Jussi Nahkuri | Jyrki Parantainen | Niina Vatanen

Opening: Friday, 15 November 6 - 8 pm
Exhibition: 16 November 2024 - 08 February 2025
Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 35, 10969 Berlin 

The exhibition The Helsinki School—Out of the Depths of Photography continues in its longstanding tradition of pushing the boundaries of how we perceive and interpret the photographic image. This presentation features a range of explorations into how different materials—such as fabrics, layered collages, and folded film negatives transformed into sculptures—can be utilized to form a new visual language within the photographic process today. It represents a collective effort to redefine the material qualities of the photograph, attempting to recover its magic as a physical object. This is the first fully dimensional overview from any previous Helsinki School presentations to conceptually challenge these existing parameters.

A Line Has Time in It – Revision


Exhibition: 26 November 2022 – 25 February 2023
Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr 35, 10969 Berlin


David Hockney, once said, "drawing takes time, a line has time in it.” Inspired by this, Persons Projects is proud to present a group exhibition exploring the various approaches that shift the parameters of understanding what a line can be in the context of a drawing. These selected artists use a multitude of different materials as well as the passage of time to express their conceptual propositions in visualizing these linear representations.

A Line Has Time in It – Revision
Jussi Nahkuri | Every Passing Moment

Jussi Nahkuri | Every Passing Moment

Opening: Friday, 28 January 2022, 5 – 8 pm
Exhibition: 29 January – 23 April 2022
Venue: Persons Projects | Helsinki School, Lindenstr. 34, 10969 Berlin

Persons Projects is proud to present Jussi Nahkuri’s first solo exhibition, Every Passing Moment, which centers around his most recent group of works entitled Discussing Duration. The project exemplifies Nahkuri’s fascination for the complex theme of time and his passionate pursuit of perceiving momentariness. By exploring the range of possibilities of how to translate and shape the passage of time into physical forms, he has thereby found a very unique variation of conceptual art.