Vienna International Apartment


Vienna International Apartment is an exhibition venue for contemporary visual arts in Helsinki, Finland. It was created in Vienna, Austria in 2001, moved to Turku, Finland in 2003, to Helsinki, Finland in 2005, to Brussels, Belgium in 2007, to Geneva, Switzerland in 2010, to Helsinki, Finland in 2014, and to Berlin, Germany in 2015. In 2004, the Vienna International Apartment Art Association, a not-for-profit association established to support the activity, was registered in Finland.
Vienna International Apartment has run two exhibitions a year in the apartment of its founder Silvio Salgado, artist and curator. The aim of the project has been, through the art works and their presentation, to discuss issues related to the relation between public and private. As another distinctive feature, the exhibitions have aimed at bringing together artists and audiences from different backgrounds and experiences, nationalities, ages, interests and media, and the events have incorporated public talks and performances.
Vienna International Apartment has been involved in creating exhibitions in other museums and galleries including Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Finland; Helsinki School of Economics, Finland; Thomas K. Lang Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Museum Baluarte de la Candelaria, Cádiz, Spain; Instituto Camoes, Lisbon, Portugal; SECONDroom/ moorDNOCES Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; and PILOT International Art Forum, London, UK.
Vienna International Apartment exhibitions have been supported by Arts Council of Finland, Southwest Finland Arts Council, British Council, IASPIS - International Artists Studio Programme in Sweden, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, KulturKontakt Austria, Federal Chancellery of Austria, Arts Division, Geneva City Council, Turku City Council, Embassy of Finland, Vienna, Embassy of Austria, Helsinki, Embassy of Poland, Helsinki, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Ministry of Culture, Polish Institute in Vienna, and Vienna City Council; as well as the collaborators Secession, Exhibition Hall for Contemporary Art, Vienna, Wai Wai Space, Brussels, Sibelius Museum, Turku, FRAME - Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, IC - Instituto Camões, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, Ibero-American Institute of Finland, Madrid, Embassy of Finland, Lisbon, Webster University, Vienna, Halikko Municipality, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum - Turku City Art Museum, Gallery Nunes, Helsinki, Helsinki School of Economics, Museum Baluarte de la Candelaria, Cádiz, Spain, and Cádiz City Council, Spain. Also private companies such Przekrój Magazine, Warsaw, Stilissimo BVBA, Brussels, LVI-Pepe Oy, Turku, Stockmann Oyj Abp, Turku, Bauhaus Finland, Raisio, Pub Uusi Apteekki, Turku, Zdenko Dworak Ges.mbH, Vienna, Salon Autosähkö, Salo, and House Etuve, Brussels have supported the projects.

Exhibitions

in situ / ways to measure time 29 April - 20 May 2017: Sílvio Salgado
How did I get here 19–20 June 2015: Walt van Beek - Ariel Hassan - Ida Koitila - Jukka Korkeila - Roland Persson - Jussi Niva - Marguerite van Sandick
How Did I Get Here 13 December 2014 - 18 January 2015: Sílvio Salgado
Do Not Touch Please!
19 June - 8 August 2010:
Panagiotis Balomenos - Sabine Jelinek - Jukka Korkeila - Leung Hoi Yat Jonathan - Céline Prestavoine - Walt Van Beek - Tamara Van San
Pleurer et Bonheur
18 December 2009 - 28 February 2010:
Michel Couturier - Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost - Korneel Devillé - Jörn Quandt - Philippe Van Wolputte - Mehdi-Georges Lahlou
building dwelling thinking across the horizon line
18–31 July 2009:
Sílvio Salgado
Land. A sense of place
4 December 2008 - 30 January 2009:
Jan Verbruggen
Common-place
15 May - 20 June 2008:
Aglaia Konrad - Willem Oorebeek - Krüger & Pardeller
Welcome to the Kingdom of Belgium. Homage to Marcel B.
22 November - 20 December 2007:
Panagiotis Balomenos - Petri Huurinainen - Lukas Schaller - Sílvio Salgado
The cat inside
11 May - 8 June 2007:
Panagiotis Balomenos - Aku Korhonen - Nikola Uzunovski
Kiss me just once more
23 November - 21 December 2006:
Charlie Birch - Hannaleena Heiska - Midori Mitamura
This is not a Finnish landscape
2–21 June 2006:
Sílvio Salgado
In This Country. Art from Poland
25 November - 22 December 2005:
Dorota Buczkowska - Pawel Ksiazek - Robert Kusmirowski - Marcin Maciejowski - Marzena Nowak - Jan Simon
Voyage in Place
26 May - 23 June 2005:
Panagiotis Balomenos - Philippine Hoegen - Tiina Laitanen - Hannele & Helena Romppanen - Jürg Schmoll
I Like It Here
22 October - 26 November 2004:
Päivi Häkkinen - N.I.C.J.O.B. - Elin Strand
Mum is not at home
14 May - 11 June 2004:
Anja Behrendt - Colin Guillemet - Sabine Jelinek - Kalle Turakka Purhonen - Tine Thorup
IN&OUT
20 November - 12 December 2003:
Sílvio Salgado
COME IN
8 May - 4 June 2003:
Laura Cull - Ursula Mayer - Niamh McCann - Elena Nemkova - Anna Nyberg - Johanna Rille
Much Depends on the Viewer
16 October - 16 November 2002:
Charlie Birch - Lali Chetwynd - Sabine Jelinek - Paola Junqueira - Doris Krüger - Silvia Reneses - Elin Strand - Marta Traquino - Sylvia Wagner_Weger
Within/Without Appearances
25 April - 15 May 2002:
Petri Huurinainen - Susi Jirkuff - Suse Krawagna - N.I.C.J.O.B. - Marina Seilern - Gerhard Treml
Transcriptions
15 November - 14 December 2001:
Sílvio Salgado

Collaborations

First we have to learn how to work together. In Situ
5 - 28 July 2019, Mittelhessischer Kultursommer, Hirzenhein & Geder, Hesse, Germany
What colour has the sky got now?
22 May 2010, SECONDroom/ moorDNOCES Gallery, Brussels:
Martha Traquino
9 Voices, 9 Places - Finland
19 December 2008 - 1 March 2009, Museum Baluarte de la Candelaria, Cádiz, Spain:
Adel Abidin, Panagiotis Balomenos, Päivi Häkkinen, Minna L. Henriksson, Petri Huurinainen, Kati Immonen, Jukka Korkeila, Harri Pälviranta, Roi Vaara. Curated by Silvio salgado.
9 Voices, 9 Places - Finland
16 April - 9 May 2008, IC - Instituto Camões, Lisbon:
Adel Abidin, Panagiotis Balomenos, Päivi Häkkinen, Minna L. Henriksson, Petri Huurinainen, Kati Immonen, Jukka Korkeila, Harri Pälviranta, Roi Vaara. Curated by Silvio salgado.
building dwelling thinking across the horizon line - work II
Project in Stilissimo design studio, Brussels 2007:
Sílvio Salgado
The landscape within
Project in a private apartment, Lauttasaari, Helsinki 2007:
Sílvio Salgado
building dwelling thinking across the horizon line
Project in the Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki 2007:
Sílvio Salgado
4133 Strokes - 4133 vetoa
Project in a private apartment, Lönnrotinkatu, Helsinki 2006:
Sílvio Salgado
It Could Be You
20 December 2006 - 7 January 2007, Gallery Nunes, Helsinki:
Jonathan Stiles
Without Boundaries
30 Sept. - 27 Nov. 2005, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art - Turku City Art Museum, Turku:
Panagiotis Balomenos, Pirmin Blum, Karin Frank, Colin Guillemet, Petri Huurinainen, Doris Krüger & Walter Pardeller, Sabine Jelinek, Paola Junqueira, Niamh McCann, Anna Nyberg, Hannele & Helena Romppanen, Unstable Society of Flexible Production: Linus Elmes, Milo Lavén & Elin Strand. Curated by Silvio salgado.
Intermission: without Sibelius
12 January - 13 February 2005, Sibelius Museum, Turku:
Sílvio Salgado
PILOT International Art Forum
15–18 October 2004, Limehouse Town hall, London:
Päivi Häkkinen, nominated by Sílvio Salgado
Zeig mir was
8 September - 29 October 2004, Thomas K. Lang Gallery, Vienna:
Sílvio Salgado
Treffit
4 January - 29 February 2004, Franssintalo Culture Centre, Halikko:
Sílvio Salgado
Aurinkoinen tulevaisuus - Solig Framtid
6 June - 15 July 2004, Westers - Mathildedal - Salo, Finland:
Environmental art exhibition with 25 artists
Sílvio Salgado: "Beyond the Museum: Art, Institutions and People"
8 November 2007, in the series of Thursday Lectures at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki.
Sílvio Salgado: "Please come in!"
15 February 2003, Christine König Gallery, Vienna:
A discussion on private/public spaces and their relation to the viewer in contemporary art presentation, with the focus on the Vienna International Apartment. In the series of Saturday Lunch Lectures at the Christine König Gallery.

Articles

“Pleurer et Bonheur”, TV Brussels, 20 Dec. 2009.
Colette Dubois, “Common-place pour Konrad, Oorenbeek, Krüger et Pardeller”, H Art Magazine, 29 May 2008.
Marja-Terttu Kivirinta, “Yksityisen ja julkisen rajalla”, Helsingin Sanomat, 18 Dec. 2006.
“Mum is not at home”, May 2004, Flash Art Online.
Päivi Ojanperä, “Salgadon siirtolavat vapisuttavat yksityisyyden rajoja”, Turun Sanomat, 12 Jan. 2004.
Minna Aalto, “Meditationer kring olika teman”, Åbo Underrättelser, 6 Dec. 2003.
Jere Hakamäki, “Kurkistus liikkuvaan kotiin”, Turun Sanomat, 26 Nov. 2003.
“Taidenäyttely yksityisasunnossa”, City, Dec. 2003.
“Come In”, eSeL Arts Online, May 2003.
Nicole Scheyerer, “Kunst kurz”, Falter 42/02, 18-24 Oct. 2002.
Manisha Jothady, “Vienna International Apartment”, FRAME Magazine, 11 April - 2 May 2002.