LOU & KUNSTHALLE LISSABON: AN EVENING OF PERFROMANCES
WHEN: Saturday 15.2. 2025, at 19 (doors open at 18:30)
WHERE: rendezvous (Hauhontie 6, 00550 Helsinki)
Lou Gallery and Kunsthalle Lissabon present an evening of performances in Helsinki. Featuring MSL, Odete, Lou Vives, and Murrettumeri, the event brings together a diverse range of practices that blend music, performance, and contemporary art. In the event, the invited Finnish and Portuguese artists explore emotional landscapes, transformations, embodiment, and investigations of time.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
MSL (Antti Jussila and Jade Kallio) is a duo that has been working together since 2008, exploring themes of body, gender, and alienation. Their work is characterized by visceral sounds, ambiguous syndromes, and references to popular music icons.
Odete works at the intersection of performance, text, visual arts, and music. Her practice delves into historiographical writing, using erotics and paranoia as somatic tools for engaging with archival materials. Odete performs ‘Eunuchian Tales’ (20 min), a tale of eunuchs lending their old hands to the present to show possibilities of dealing with modern threats. What could we learn about transition periods from the eunuchs themselves?
Lou Vives, born in Iberia in 1999, is an artist and performer whose work spans language, performance, and drawing. Vives explores memory, pop culture, and collective authorship, using rehearsal as a space of transition to transform personal experiences and cultural fragments into poetic investigations of identity and time. Lou Vives performs (Best Song Ever) (10 min), a performative collection of moments of reorientation, an ecstatic and melancholic symphony about impossibilities and transformation.
Murrettumeri creates music that evokes deep emotional responses, moving fluidly between genres and artistic mediums. Described as “the best gig ever, honestly” and “blurring the lines between, in, and around genres and mediums of performing” (Jussi Hertz, World Canvas), Murrettumeri performs a musical act.
PARTNERING GALLERIES
The event is a collaboration between Lou Gallery and Kunsthalle Lissabon.
Lou Gallery is a non-profit, curator-run art space that hosts exhibitions and performances. A shapeshifting entity with experimentation and community at its core, Lou was founded in 2024 by curator Remi Vesala and currently inhabits the premises of Outo Olo gallery on Vaasankatu, Helsinki. The gallery is supported by the Kone Foundation.
Kunsthalle Lissabon was founded in 2009 with the goal of reflecting on and reimagining institutional models in contemporary art. Through its multidisciplinary collaborations, Kunsthalle Lissabon actively contributes to new approaches in artistic and curatorial practices. The institution is supported by República Portuguesa / DGArtes, Lisbon Municipality and Vasco Collection.