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until 25.04. | #4942ARTatBerlin | Persons Projects shows from 21. March 2026 (Opening: 20.03.) the exhibition Phantasma by the artist Ritta Päiväläinen.
The series, titled Phantasma, was created in the dramatic, isolated landscapes of Iceland and Lapland. Phantasma evokes the fleeting, ghostly presence of her textile installations, capturing ephemeral moments where memory, imagination, and nature converge.
Since 1997, Päiväläinen has photographed and produced site-specific fabric installations within natural environments. She has developed a singular visual language, creating delicate, temporary interventions in remote, pristine places seemingly untouched by human activity. She selects her locations with care, choosing forests, valleys, or riverbanks as the stage for her work. Using second-hand clothing and found fabrics, she constructs temporary organic sculptures that engage with the landscape, forming fragile shelters and intimate spaces that evoke childhood memories and invite reflection on our relationship with nature.
The installations are ephemeral, existing only briefly in the landscape before being carefully dismantled. Their memories are preserved through a single photograph that captures their delicate presence, with the artist patiently awaiting the perfect interplay of light, wind, and atmosphere. These images transform ephemeral gestures into enduring works of art, revealing a poetic tension between the familiar and the unfamiliar, between personal history and collective memory. The fabrics, imbued with traces of human experience, are woven seamlessly into the terrain—sometimes camouflaged, sometimes accentuating the essence of the landscape.
Opening: Friday, 20. March 2026, 6–8 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 21. March – Saturday, 25. April 2026
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Title image caption: Ritta Päiväläinen, Fairytale, 2026, 140 x 201 cm
Exhibition Ritta Päiväläinen – Persons Projects | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
