handful

handful is a gathering of six artists that embraces the loose, open idea of a ‘handful’— a small  measure, something felt rather than counted, a temporary container. The exhibition spans one weekend, mirroring the group’s interest in the passageways between the everyday and the special, and the shared and the private within spatial contexts.  handful exhibits works in various mediums, from sculpture to printmaking, with a focus on  smaller-scale pieces.  Maija Käyhkö’s sculptural practice involves casting and mold-making techniques, using replicating and serial production to explore matter’s potential in shaping norms and behaviors. Her work finds inspiration in day-to-day choreographies, systems of logistics and layers of past actions embedded in materials, viewed from both personal and collective perspectives.  Anna Mészáros’ practice moves between fields of sculpture, installation, image-based processes and textual research. Her work is shaped by engagements with entangled spaces, it concentrates on situations that carry traces of different contexts.  Henrike Katharina Wilkens is mostly working in sculpture with a focus on materials and techniques that are informed by directness and the haptic. Her work is influenced by the means of architectural practice and its modes of representation.  Alvar Bohrmann’s artistic practice spans drawing and installation. His site-specific installations are rooted in observation and a strong sense of physicality, often incorporating materials that relate to the body to offer new ways of experiencing space. His drawings, much like his installations, are shaped by a spontaneous, physical response and a playful approach to creating counter-narratives.  Tuomas Lehtomaa, based in Helsinki, works with sculpture and installation, often in a site-specific manner, drawing from everyday life, things and being. The work takes shape through a process of intuitive, non-verbal dealing with matter, space and the situation at hand.  Barbara Mährlen focuses on themes surrounding the living and residing, the everyday and the daily, models and scale. She handles these topics mostly sculpturally, using techniques such as casting or woodworking, and often Ready-Mades.