OFFSIDE #2
Vasa Art Hall, Finland

P erformance Festival 24.8.2024

Offside #2 Opens on August 24, 2024 with a performance festival – a one day event featuring 9 international performance artists mostly based in Finland, and a group of performance artists from Umeå.

Artists: Willem Wilhelmus FIN/NL, Irma Optimisti FIN, Marcus Lerviks FI, Magnús Logi Kristinsson FIN/IS,  Natalia Koziel-Kalliomäki FIN/PO, Diana Soria Hernandez FIN/MX, Tomasz Szrama FIN/PO, Liina Kuittinen FIN, Ulla Thögersen SE, Hannes Iversen SE, Sub Astra SE


Exhibition by Verkligheten 29.8 – 24.9.2024

Offside #2 continues from August 29 to September 24, 2024 with the exhibition “We dug in the earth, and” by Verkligheten from Umeå (Sweden). The exhibition opens on the 28th of August. The exhibition is reaching out to Vaasa’s western neighbour city Umeå, exhibiting artists working in similar settings and on similar terms as we are – making, showing and promoting contemporary art in a peripheral region.

Artists: Gerd Aurell SE, Helena Wikström SE, Mattias Olofsson SE, Fanny Carinasdotter SE, Simon Gran Danielsson SE, Maria K Olsson SE, Moa Ryman SE, Hannes Iversen SE, Michaela Frycklund SE


more information about offside#2 at www.offside.fi 

Curator : Marcus Lerviks & Jimmy Pulli


mope16

2-3. september 2016


is an international performance festival now organized for the fourth time by Platform rf., previously the festival has been held in 2002, 2005 and 2008. Originally named "Movement to performance" soon changed in to the short version of the title Mope. In the beginning the aim was simply to gather all so called performances from Vasa and elsewhere which were not directly related to "Art", e.g. Wasa Tattoo shop did a hook-hanging performance with the tunes of Bon-Jovi in the background. Alongside with professional performance artists it made a new and strange combination! This uncanny mixture of different performances might be areason that all three festivals have been successful in terms of audience and reception. 

This year the event will take place on 2-3 of September at Theatre Casa located on the old barracks area in Vaasa. The festival will begin on Friday 2nd at 18:00 and continue on Saturday 3rd at 14:00. 

The event has no entrance fee!

Participating artiasts:


Curator : Marcus Lerviks & Geir Byrkjeland



VAASA BY LIGHT

21.11.-7.12.2014


"Hang the DJ" by Jimmy Pulli and Marcus Lerviks. Vaasa by Light is a yearly cultural event that is organized in the end of November. Lighting designers and artists come together to create art with lights. The meaning is to share light and joy to the darkness of autumn. The park is lit up by lighting designer Michael Berndtsen and artists Jimmy Pulli and Marcus Lerviks with the artpiece "Hang the DJ". The event is organized by BEMI Lighting design office and City of Vaasa's Cultural Centre.


ESHU ETAEB

28.04-20.06.2011 (e-mail to the participating artists) 


The title of the exhibition for the new art space of Gallery Sinne is "Eshu Etaeb" If you try reading it backwards it may remind you of a worldwide in some circles a very famous brand (please keep this top secret!). The reason we chose this title is because of the former activities in the new art space we are about to inaugurate. A new space in the center of Helsinki. 

The simple act of mirroring a logo brought us to the question: "Is this the most analog thing you can do, or is this a digitization of the word?" This way of mirroring also gave logic to the transformation that the space is going through. "Is this transition digital?" Today the word analog has commonly devolved to a word that describes a feeling. So how can analog and digital live together nowadays?
(or is it as simple as wikipedia informs us:) "Analog" and "Digital" describe two different kinds of computing machinery. The word, "analog" did not come into common use until after digital computers were invented. 

All artists presented in the exhibition have in their work a personal approach to what may be analog or digital, more or less consciously. We as curators together with the artists have the first opportunity to compose a comprehensive picture of individua components into this new room. The artists and their individual work that we have chosen for the show is the first visual compositior for what the new exhibition space can be used for. Everyone takes their own responsibility in relation to others and otherwise, together in one place. That is the challenge for the participating artists and us. Nothing more, nothing less! ...There is a lot! Our choice of artists and works are highly personal. It is built on trust, personal touch, friendship and experience. There is no major
cross-cutting theme in addition to the above mentioned topics. This exhibition is, is exhibition this ."ART IS, IS ART" (John Court). 

p.s. As curators for the exhibition we are also contributing with a work for the show based on "Eshu Etaeb", after all "curatorship" is a strangely appearing hobby for us!


Marcus Lerviks & Albert Braun

mope08
19.9.-20.9.2008,in Kuntsi museum and Vaasa City Arty Galler, Vaasa, Finland 


For the third performance festival, Platform invited the artists:Peter Lüttge (FIN/DE) Pekka Luhta (FIN) Tanja Koistila (FIN) Christian Rupp (AT) Juha Valkeapää (FIN) Jaana Kokko(FIN) Dragos Alexandrescu (FIN/ RO) Marina Ciglar, (FIN/ SWE) and Helena Eriksson (SWE) Stephan US (DE)"demonstrate for nothing" KÄL -gruop (FIN) Mark Ward (FIN/ IRL) Paul Murnaghan (IRL) "Memorious" Elina Harzell (FIN) Leena Kela (FIN) "The (F***ing) Peep Show" Sinämies (FIN) Makkaleena (FIN) John Court (FIN/ENG) Rasmus Hedlund (FIN) Marianne Saapunki (SWE) Maurice Blok (FIN/ NL) Lauri Luhta (FIN) Mattias Olofsson (SWE) Willem Willhelmus (FIN/ NL) Nina Boas (NL) LadyBurst (GR) and Dimitris Halatsis (GR) Tomaz Szrama (FIN/ PL), Jaap Klevering (FIN/NL) and Otzir Godot (FIN) Irma Optimisti (FIN) Herman Hiller (DE) Live music by Jim Videgärd (FIN
and LadyBurst (GR)


curator: Marcus Lerviks


mope05

23.9.05-24.9.05 AT VAASA CITY ARTGALLERY (TAIDEHALLI/KONSTHALL) 

PLATFORM INVITES > DRAGOS ALEXANDRESCU (ROMANIA), CAPTAIN HEROIN (FINLAND), MARINA CIGLAR (SWEDEN/FINLAND), COMPAGNIE 72/73 & FRÉDERIC LOMBARD (SWITZERLAND/FRANCE), PAUL COUILLARD & ED JOHNSON (CANADA). JOHN COURT (ENGLAND/ FINLAND), MIA DAMBERG & MARIA NORDBACK (FINLAND), CHARLES DREYFUS (FRANCE), JEAN DUPUY (FRANCE), DOMINIC GAGNON (CANADA), JOANNA HOUSEHOLDER (CANADA), HUMOBISTEN (HOLLAND), LEENA KELA (FINLAND), TANJA KOISTILA (FINLAND), AAPO KORKEAOJA (FINLAND), PEKKA LUHTA (FINLAND), RICHARD MARTEL (CANADA), OLEMISEN VARTIJAT (FINLAND), IRMA OPTIMISTI (FINLAND), MARKKU RUOTSALAINEN (FINLAND), WILLEM WILLHELMUS
(HOLLAND/ FINLAND)


CURATOR: MARCUS LERVIKS

movement to performance 

17-19.5.2002 Vaasa art Hall and Platform 

Platform invited the artists: Irma Optimisti (Finland) Pekka Luhta (Finland) Lauri Luhta (Finland) Suvi Helin (Finland) Panu Tyhtila (Finland) Oblivia (Finland) Suspended (Finland) Jouni Partanen (Finland) Captain Heroin (Finland) Sonja Lillvis (Finland) the Adventures of Michel and Ernest (Finland) Marcus Lerviks (Finland) ros-ka (Finland) Willem Wilhelmus (Finland/Holland) Nico Vascellari (Italy) Humobisten (Holland) Andrus Joonas (Estonia) Pawel Kwasniewski (Poland) Artur Taiber (Poland) Tomasz Szrama (Finland/ Poland) Marianne Saapunki (Sweden) Máns m Müllner (Sweden) Mate Beienaru (Romania) John Court (Finland/England) Maria Cosmes (Spain) Tanis Koistila (Finland) Pessi Parviainen (Finland) Erika Wagner (Finland) Anna-Kaisa Lukka (Finland) Johanna Torkkole (Finland) Henna Sjöberg (Finland) Tina Pitkäjärvi (Finland) Timo Konttinen (Finland) Markku Ruotsalainen (Finland)


curator: Marcus Lerviks