offside #1

21.5.-12.6.2022
Varastokatu 6, 65100 Vaasa, Finland

Offside #1 was an exhibition and happening that involved artists working in different media and artistic expression. In team sports, offside meant breaking the rules by mispositioning an attacking player. We used the term Offside to describe a challenge and opportunity—constantly seeking our place on the playing field while we risked breaking the rules. What happened when art was placed outside the given framework and regulations? Could it continue to work, or could the offside position and breaking the rules have a constructive effect?

A new game plan equaled a new framework, but the frame was not perceived as a limitation. On the contrary, it stimulated and inspired specific, conceptual, and formal solutions. The setting, as well as the surrounding walls, offered a resonant body. The individual artworks and actions created a polyrhythm. Dissonances were a part of music; offside positions were part of the game. At best, a new chord or composition with a distinctive timbre emerged!

The Program

Opening & Performance Festival

21.5.2022. at 16:00-23:00
Varastokatu 6, 65100 Vaasa, Finland

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Performance event 2

28.5.2022 at 16:00-21:00
Michele Uccheddu, Florian Tuercke

22.5.-12.6.2022
tue-sun: 13:00-19:00

Offside #1 opened on May 21, 2022. The opening day of the exhibition was a combined performance festival and an art opening. The space used for the exhibition was an old furniture shop covering two floors with a total space of 1200 m². The exhibition included the works of a mixed group of active contemporary international artists. The works presented constituted a wide variety of materials and techniques, such as paintings, sculptures, installations, and video art.

The following artists or artist groups presented their works in the Offside #1 exhibition:
Susanne Schär & Peter Spillmann (CH), Oskar Lindström (FIN/GER), Albert Braun (GER/FIN), Florian Tuercke (GER), John Court (GB/FIN), finnfemfel (FIN/GER), Bekim Hasaj (ALB/FIN), Valentina Gelain (ITA/FIN), Mattias Löfqvist (FIN), Janika Norrgård Löfqvist (FIN), Tomasz Szrama (POL/FIN), Marek Waldemar Pluciennik (POL/CAN), Carina Ahlskog (FIN), Anneli Holmström (FIN/GB-SCT), Matilda Enegren (FIN), Moa Cederberg (FIN), Michele Uccheddu (ITA/FIN), Marcus Lerviks (FIN), Dan Holm (FIN)

For more information please send us an e-mail to offside(a)offside.fi.