Meet the Artist: Jessica Andrey Bogush
Location: Library
Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 18:00–19:00
FIX Arena, Design Museum (1st floor)
Fee: 20/12/0 € or Museum Card | Pre-regstration
Meet the artist of the FIX: Care and Repair exhibition, Jessica Andrey Bogush.
Jessica Andrey Bogush’s work “Speculative Absences as Queer Care (An Invitation) ” is an installation and a kind of alternative museum collection. Bogush examines the gaps and silences within the collections of the Museum of FinnishArchitecture and Design Museum. What objects does the museum choose to include in its collection, and what does it leave out?
Discussing the work and its background with the artist is Kaura Raudaskoski, Audience Engagement Producer at the Museum of Finnish Architecture and Design Museum and a visual arts educator, who is also the chairperson of the association Friends of Queer History. After the discussion and presentation of the work, the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions to both the artist and the museum representative.
Welcome to meet the artist, artwork, and exhibition! Maximum capacity: 30 participants.
The FIX: Care and Repair exhibition brings together architecture, design, and contemporary art. The exhibition focuses on the repair of objects and buildings, the maintenance of the environment, cleaning, and the aesthetics of dirt and wear. The exhibition presents museums as places of care, where collection management and conservation preserve carefully selected objects.
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Artist Jessica Andrey Bogush resides and works in Helsinki and Berlin. In Bogush’s images and installations, the fantastic and the familiar merge inextricably. Surprise and the grotesque are combined with care and consideration, focusing on the intersection of life and death, particularly within the queer community as well as all living beings, not only humans.
Meet the Exhibition Artists
Meet the Artist events introduce the contemporary artists selected for the FIX: Care and Repair exhibition and their artworks. The Museum of Finnish Architecture and Design Museum have commissioned a total of four contemporary artworks to comment on and complement the themes of the exhibition. The event is part of the public programme of the FIX: Care and Repair exhibition.
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 18:00–19:00 | Design Museum
Meet the Artist: Liisa Ryynänen
Language: Finnish | Participation: 20/12/0 € or Museum Card
Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 18:00–19:00 | Design Museum
Meet the Artist: Jessica Andrey Bogush
Language: English | Participation: 20/12/0 € or Museum Card
Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 18:00–19:00 | Design Museum
Meet the Artist: Sini Henttu
Language: Finnish | Participation: 20/12/0 € or Museum Card
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, from 17:00–18:00 | Museum of Finnish Architecture
Meet the Artists: Helmi Kajaste & Petra Vallila
Language: Finnish | Participation: 20/12/0 € or Museum Card
Accessibility
Accessibility information for the Design Museum is available on the website.
For more information
Kaura Raudaskoski
Audience Engagement Producer
Museum of Finnish Architecture and Design Museum
+358 45 773 10479 (Mon-Wed)
kaura.raudaskoski@mfa.fi
Photo: Anni Koponen