Matters of Finnish Time

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Finnish modern art exhibition has been opened in Frankfurt.

All because of the book fair.

Because of the Finnish literature.

Because now it is the opportunity to show off.

Kunstverein is not a big exhibition hall

but a well known institution

basically presenting local artists.

Nowadays a bit squeezed in between a building site,

the old town is being rebuilt next to the Dome and the Schirn.

Grönlund and Nisunen: "Unstable Matter"

This artwork can be heard through the whole building.

Finnisch für Anfänger:

KUULA = Kugel / metal ball

Matter of Time.

Swiss watch.

Matters of Time.

How much time does the peanut need

before it turns greenish black?

Reflexion.

Mikko Kuorinki's installation room.

Matters of Time.

Video showing garbage handling in Frankfurt.

Yes, local newspapers can be recognized.

Matters of … hearing?

Perfect sound situation for the video installations.

"A view from the Other Side"
Viedo installation by IC-98,
artist due Visa Suonpää and Patrik Söderlund.

Stoa in Turku.
Built in the early nineteenth-century and modeled after Stoa, 
the ancient Greek column hall,
it served many social functions over time 
and was also left to deteriorate for a number of years.

In 70 minutes you can see the whole story.
70 minutes?!
Please take your time and watch this amazing film.
I quite fancied the mystic organ music.

In the same room huge waves …

Go and see yourself,

do not look for traditional paintings or drawings,

modern art is all videos, installations, photographs.

You'll probably, hopefully find your own favorites.

http://www.fkv.de

Rainy day activities

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Chasing rain drops with my camera through our kitchen window.

Lucky to have a neighbor "mit grünem Daumen".

Finnisch für Anfänger:

VIHERPEUKALO

VIHREÄ = grün / green

PEUKALO = Daumen / thumb

On a rainy day it's easier to focus on business.

Station Finnland 

ist der Name für eine branchenübergreifende Exportveranstaltung, 

die zum ersten Mal im Jahre 2011 in St. Petersburg stattfand. 

Es handelt sich dabe um keine gewöhnliche Ausstellung: 

Station Finnland kennt keine Branchengrenzen, sondern zeigt auf einen Blick 

alles was in der finnischen Kreativwirtschaft cool ist.

An den letzten vier Tagen im August wird sich die finnische Kreativwirtschaft 

in Frankfurt präsentieren.

Design und Kunst, 

Seminare und Diskussionen, 

Treffen und Networking, 

Geschäftsabschlüsse und Verhandlungen, 

Musik und Aufführungen, 

Workshops, alte und neue Freunde, Reisen, Essen und Trinken. 

Es gibt etwas zu sehen, zu essen und zu kaufen. 

Alles aus Finnland, alles an einem Ort.

http://www.suomi-asema.fi/english

Check this catalogue for further details:

http://www.suomi-asema.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SA_katalogi_Frank_12062014_small_web.pdf

Here more boring garden pics, enjoy!

Trachelospermum jasminoides.

Sternjasmin.

Hey, jasmine blossoming!

Kletterrosen. Climber rose.

Shower also for my olive tree.

Roses do not really enjoy the rain.

Money tree drops.

Drops on sweet pea.

Am eagerly waiting for the flowers with their charming scent.

Yes, soon I can harvest my apples!

No rain drops. This phlox should be planted. But its raining.

Selfieworld

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Give a teenager your mobile phone

and a get a collection of selfies.

All shot in less than five minutes!

Main decoration.

Hot deals at FLOWmarkt,

the afternoon fleemarket at Sommerwerft,

theatre festival at the river.

http://www.sommerwerft.de/?FLOWmarkt

ECB building site is getting ready.

In the neighborhood many new building sites are starting.

Our home in Ostend.

Das vormals industriell genutzte nördliche Mainufer 

rund um die alte Großmarkthalle 

wird zum Anziehungspunkt mit viel Grün, Gastronomie, 

Erholungs- und Freizeitangeboten. 

http://www.main-frankfurter-osten.de

Bowie plus Helsingfors in Berlin

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Berlin!

Use public transportation in this huge city.

Only one more moth to go:

DAVID BOWIE

Such colors, such music, such technic.

Worth experiencing!

Mit der Ausstellung kehrt der Mythos des Ausnahmekünstlers Bowie 

zurück in die Stadt, in der er in den 70er Jahren Musikgeschichte schrieb.

http://www.davidbowie-berlin.de

On my to Martin Gropius Bau: Berliner Mauer.

Naked wall.

Dokumentationszentrum Topographie des Terrors

Between 1933 and 1945, the central institutions of Nazi persecution and terror

– the Secret State Police Office with its own “house prison,” 

the leadership of the SS and, during the Second World War, the Reich Security Main Office – 

were located on the present-day grounds of the “Topography of Terror” 

that are next to the Martin Gropius Building and close to Potsdamer Platz.

The Berlin Wall became an international symbol of the division of Germany 

after the Second World War and also of the Cold War between East and West.

Construction of the Berlin Wall began on August 13, 1961. 

The government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) 

built this more than 150-kilometer-long barrier to hermetically 

seal off East Berlin and the rest of the territory of the GDR. 

More than 2.7 million people fled the GDR between October 1949 and August 1961, 

the majority of them across the border separating Berlin’s Eastern and Western sectors. 

The Wall was designed to halt this stream of refugees 

and make it impossible to cross the borders unchecked.

BERLIN!

At the request of the “Topography of Terror,” 

the remaining 200 meters of the Wall at Niederkirchnerstraße 

– which marked the border between the districts of 

Mitte (East Berlin) and Kreuzberg (West Berlin) – 

have been preserved with all the traces of the destruction 

that occurred during the transitional period. 

This fragment of the Wall, designated a historic monument in 1990, 

now forms part of the Topography of Terror Documentation Center. 

As one of the few surviving sectors of the Wall in the city, 

it is also one of the central sites in the “Overall Concept for the Berlin Wall” 

developed by the Berlin Senate.

http://www.topographie.de/en/the-historic-site/berlin-wall-monument/

Next time in Berlin have to check this monument.

CURRYWURST.

Helsingfors?

Swedisch for beginners:

HELSINKI = Helsingfors.

Berlin-Friedrichshein.

Der Helsingforser Platz liegt im Westen der Warschauer Straße 

nahe der Warschauer Brücke. 

Er ist in schwedischer Sprache nach der finnischen Hauptstadt Helsinki benannt. 

Im Südwesten grenzt der Platz an das Gelände der Gleisanlagen 

des ehemaligen Wriezener Bahnhofs, das im Rahmen 

des Projektes "Wriezener Freiraumlabor" 

zu einer öffentlichen Grünanlage umgestaltet wurde.

So that you know where the EU-monies are used for.

Der Entwurf überträgt das Bild der südfinnischen Landschaft 

um Helsinki mit den vorgelagerten Inseln, den verwitterten Steinen 

und der kargen Vegetation auf den Helsingforser Platz. 

Im Mittelpunkt stehen Vegetationsinseln aus Schotter, Findlingen, 

Gräsern und Birken. Sie sind umgeben von linear ausgerichteten, 

unregelmäßig breiten Plattenbahnen und von mit Kleinsteinpflaster versehenen, 

leicht muldenförmigen Rinnen, die der Entwässerung dienen.

http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/staedtebau/foerderprogramme/stadtumbau/Helsingforser-Platz.6562.0.html

These things are park benches,

the ducks were just decoration for the opening day.

Before.

After.