I will be participating in the upcoming “Ihmemaa X” exhibition by Purkutaide, opening on June 1st, 2024 at 10:00 AM. Located in the heart of Kerava, this extraordinary exhibition takes place in the former Anttila department store, spanning a vast 4000 m². Purkutaide, known for … Continue readingPurkutaide – Ihmemaa X
The Finnish National Gallery has published a new NFT platform called Alusta. GIF versions of the images from my series “No Innocent Images (Media)”, along with works from other artists, are available to be collected for free as an opening gift for anyone interested. 🎁 … Continue readingAlusta.art
The Girl in Green installation and three images from the series No Innocent Images (Media) featured in Mänttä Art Festival 2021 To Err is Human, curated by Anna Ruth. The exhibition is open 13 Jun – 31 Aug 2021 in Pekilo, Mänttä.
Taiteen Kotitalo (The Home of Art) demolition house exhibition is open in Kerava!
Celebrating the 100 years of the so-called independence of Afghanistan at Kuntshalle Turku 13.12.2019-12.01.2020 … Continue readingAfghanistan 100
Anna Knappe & Amir Jan
Warland
12.09 – 06.10.19 … Continue readingWarland in Bærum kunsthall
Short Love Talks –What Does Love Mean To You? Short discussions about love.
Kiasma Theatre, 1st floor … Continue readingPerforming Love
A Camp is a Wall in a Forest screened at Athens Ethnographic Film Festival on 25th of November 2018 as part of their Critical Encounters: The European Refugee Crisis programme. … Continue readingAthens Ethnographic Film Festival
1.6. – 24.6.2018
OPENING / VERNISSAGE 31.5.2018 6pm
UUDENMAANKATU 23 F, HELSINKI
WED–SAT 12–18, SUN 12–17, MON–TUE CLOSED … Continue readingAnna Knappe & Amir Jan: Sham Marriage at Gallery Myymälä2
The Camp is Closed, part III of A Camp is a Wall in a Forest series in Demolition house exhibition,
Krimi Art Center, Imatra … Continue readingOld news
VIDEO INSTALLATION Anna Knappe & Amir Jan 2 HD VIDEOS: Sham Marriage Duration: 16 minutes MOTHER(-in-law)S Duration: 25 minutes Sham marriage usually refers to marriages in which the intent of the marriage is not to live together or to start a family but to circumvent … Continue readingSham Marriage (2018)
Østfold kunstsenter, Fredrikstad, Norway VIDEO INSTALLATION: HD video (duration: 17 minutes) Prints on aluminium Carpet Windows A camp is a place where mohajers live in a state of waiting. Mohajers are asylum seekers, refugees, and other migrants in precarious situations and their camps are reception centers, … Continue readingA Camp is a Wall in a Forest (2018)
HD video 2017 duration: 6:45min Camp Europe welcomes you. Camp Europe labels you and stores you accordingly. After processing, Camp Europe deports you. ”I think that the label ‘refugee’, when they say people are refugees, they think that them coming here and living and being … Continue readingCamp Europe (2017)
Amir Jan, Anna Knappe and Pekka Niskanen. Mobile Diaspora is a series of short videos in which asylum seekers talk about their lives on their own terms. The videos portray asylum seekers as active participants who talk about their lives in camps and the endless … Continue readingMobile Diaspora (2017)
Anna Knappe, Amir Jan and Laura Böök HD video 2016 Duration: 21 min Mohajer (Camp-e-forsat) narrates the experiences and struggles of Afghans born and living in exile. The film was shot in an asylum seeker reception center in Forssa, a small industrial town in Finland, … Continue readingMohajer (camp-e-forsat) (2016)
Two ends of the waste line is one work in two parts: a video installation consisting of a video projection (East) and a crocheted carpet (West). The work is a discussion between two geographical locations, which are connected by textile waste, a byproduct of textile … Continue readingTwo Ends of the Waste Line: East and West (2015)
Photographic series Inkjet prints 43 x 65 cm When the land is occupied, every image of it becomes political. In the wrong hands, any innocent looking photograph can be used for gathering information and for justifying oppression. I travelled to West Bank, Palestine, in the … Continue readingNo innocent images (2015)
video installation The installation consists of an open tent with two videos, one playing outside the tent (Welcome to Finland, duration: 7:43 min) and one playing inside the tent (Immigrant Birds, duration 14:22 min). In autumn 2012 in Helsinki, two Afghan asylum seekers held hunger … Continue readingImmigrant Birds & Welcome to Finland (2014-2015)