Anni Porrasmäki

how to start a fire II

A group exhibition curated by Anni Porrasmäki

7.3.2025 - 4.4.2025

RAUMERSTR. 23, Berlin

Works by Arina Baranova, Minna Etein, T. K. Jestoi, Emile Lenoir, Jussi Lipasti, Veera Pelkonen, Anni Porrasmäki, Inari Raaterova, Al Reed, Noah Regan-Roach, Esko Routamaa.

The group exhibition exhibits works from 11 artists, including paintings, drawings, printmaking, photographs, text, and video. The exhibition reflects on processes of grief, loss, death, embodiment, alienation, love, an apocalyptic future, resilience, and nostalgia. How to start a fire without causing destruction.

“I bring doom into the conversation to show that it is a place to begin, not to end. Once I started thinking of doom as liberatory, I felt free from the dread it constitutes when it looms in the future. How many of us have already met our doom and then had to get out of bed and go on? How many groups of people have had their worlds end, keep ending, and still they found ways to cook for each other? How privileged are you if you first require hope in order to act? What about those where hope was a luxury they couldn't afford, and still they wrote books, they made music, they sang? They keep singing.”

Johanna Hedva, 2024

OPENING HOURS

Tue - Fri 13-29

Sat 12-20

Raumerstr. 23

10437 Berlin