The Kosminen gallery
was located on Pursimiehenkatu 13, 00150 Helsinki
and was open for roughly three years, from April 2019 until February 2022
The gallery was strictly non-profit with all proceeds from sales going directly to the artist(s) – this was made possible by funding from the Kone Foundation.
Our main purpose was to provide a space for emerging artists to show their art, with special focus on debut solo exhibitions and on young artists from other countries.
The programme of the gallery was curated by us on the basis of an annual open call. As a collective, we also curated four group exhibitions: our opening exhibition Hatching, the sales exhibitions Kosminen salonki and Kosminen kevätsalonki, and the participatory exhibition Lost and Found.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic we also hosted events such as book releases and open discussions. During our time running the gallery, we were home to two bookshops: the Khaos Publishing shop (2019-2020) and later The Temporary Bookshelf (2021-2022).
The Pursimiehenkatu space was renovated in March 2019, before the gallery's grand opening. Invaluable expertise and help in all matters concerning planning and building was received from our fantastic friends, architect Antti Auvinen and art conservator Pablo Laune.
Kosminen salonki, July 2020
Exhibitions 2019-2022:
Tuukka Kaila: Grams
6.–30.1.2022
Demelza Watts: Hands On
2.–19.12.2021
Johan Österholm: Luminous Reign
4.–28.11.2021
Anna Mäki-Jyllilä: Kuu, elo, ljus, o , iho, suru, jos
14.–31.10.2021
Roy Boswell: Three Waterdale Gardens
30.9.–10.10.2021
Siina Levonoja: Homage to 5867 Cattle
16.–26.9.2021
Laura Cemin: a slash is a dash is a splash
26.8.–12.9.2021
Emma Peura: Metsäsyövytyksiä ja muita merkintöjä
29.7.–22.8.2021
Löytötavaratoimisto - Lost and Found
20.5.–13.6.2021
Kosminen kevätsalonki
25.3.–25.4.2021
Mickael Vis: To Dance With The Devil
4.2.–7.3.2021
Eeva Lietonen: Karhisaari
7.–31.1.2021
Tero Niskanen & Antti Tolvi: Pisara
27.11.–20.12.2020
Kasia Gorniak & Karolina Janulevičiūtė: And Wardrobe Planning
17.11-21.11.2020
Antton Nuotio: Dissonance
29.10.-15.11.2020
Gunzi Holmström: Everything Has a Secret Soul
1.–25.10.2020
Suut ja syljet
5.–27.9.2020
Patrick Kuoppamäki and Carl Victor Nyman: Våt Blick
7.–30.8.2020
Kosminen salonki
2.–26.7.2020
Inma Herrera: Metaxu
5.5.–14.6.2020
Jyrki Nissinen: Nappia painellaan ja sää ikkunan takana vaihtuu
7.2.–1.3.2020
Hanna Hyy: A Snake Pierces a Felt Hat
10.1.–2.2.2020
Joonas Siren: Softbed
5.–22.12.2019
Emma Thomas: The World is Ending!
11.10–17.11.2019
Hikari Nishida & Albane Durand-Viel: Left Rain, Right Sand in the Middle Possibilities
3.–6.10.2019
Flis Holland: Gravity Doesn't Keep You Down I Do
6.–26.9.2019
Eevi Rutanen: Uncanny Dimple
25.7.–4.8.2019
Rosanna Lefeuvre: An Open Collar
27.6.–21.7.2019
Lisa Grip: Wet Knees
31.5.–23.6.2019
Glyph Drawing Club Gathering
7.–25.5.2019
Hatching
6.–28.4.2019
Events 2019-2022:
2022
26.2. – Funeral ceremony
28.1. – Leah Beeferman and Tuukka Kaila: If you show me what you know, can I tell you what I see? book launch and reading
2021
18.–19.12. – Kosminen christmas market
27.11. – The Temporary Bookshelf seasonal book launches
12–13.6. – Kosminen get-together & merch
2020
14.6. – Niko Hallikainen: Heat (blood moons & trapdoors)
27.2. – Home Alone #2 – zine launch
20.2. – Johannes Ekholm: Planet Fun Fun book launch
2019
23.11. – Active Art book launch
23.10. – Aapo Huhta: Omatandangole book launch
17.10. – Borrowing positions. Role-playing design & architecture book launch
4.7. – Tuntematonta ei voi suunnitella – release party
13.6. – Zeitguest – zine launch
11.6. – Ipek Burçak: The Autistic Turn + Kolonel Blip DJ Set
18.5. – Subjective Excess: Labour and Affects as Fields of Struggle seminar
11.5. – Artist Residency Swap ARS launch party
5.4. – Gallery grand opening