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Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma presents Camouflage. Visual Art and Design in Disguise

The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma presents Camouflage. Visual Art and Design in Disguise, an exhibition on view 15 June–7 October 2012.

“The focus of the Camouflage exhibition is on the interplay between contemporary art and design, and also their fluid boundaries. Camouflage serves as a metaphor for the intertwining of these two areas,” says curator of the exhibition, Leevi Haapala, reassuringly.

Sebastian Errazuriz, Occupy Chair, 2011. Photo: Leevi Haapala

Both camps feel attracted to the ideas and practices of the other, yet they frequently try to preserve the dividing lines. With their actions, works, active discussion, and concept definition, designers and artists alike have opened the intersecting area in interesting new directions.

The Camouflage exhibition focuses on how designers and artists work when they filter impulses, process ideas, seek a direction for their work. The ideas presented here are suggestions, discoveries, and carefully aimed provocations that hint at the authors’ future work in relation to the ongoing discussion on the topic.

The 19 artists, designers, duos, and collectives live in different parts of the world. In addition to Finland, they come from Argentina, Great Britain, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. Many of them work between two or more cities and cultures. They come from a range of cross-disciplinary backgrounds, and their changing projects provide them with changing professions and identities.

The exhibition is part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programme.

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Mannerheiminaukio 2
00100 Helsinki, Finland
www.kiasma.fi

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