For this Artists at Work, ISCP presents a screening of films by artists-in-residence Jade Kallio, Bernd Oppl, Marie-Andrée Pellerin, and Gaspar Willmann. This screening highlights a range of cinematic approaches and techniques. It will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. 

Gaspar Willmann, Slonfa Shenfa, 2021
Marie-Andrée Pellerin, blowrders, 2024
Jade Kallio, Janne, 2026
Bernd Oppl, Loop Me In, 2023
Bernd Oppl, Warten, 2021

Jade Kallio is a Helsinki-based filmmaker and artist whose practice reflects on gender, corporeality, and the spaces and social structures in which meanings are produced, with a focus on trans identities and marginalized experiences. Kallio explores how social norms shape possibilities for existence and visibility. Current projects blend documentary, speculative fiction, and magical realism while considering production structures, working conditions, and questions of narrative authority. Kallio has exhibited work at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany; The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ireland; and International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands, among others.

Bernd Oppl’s works, whether in the form of models, photographs, sound installations, or moving image works as projections and on displays, deal with the uncertainty of perception in a world where the visible and audible are always material and virtual at the same time. He situates the world in an uncanny intermediate space defined by dichotomies: presence and absence, tangible and ephemeral, external and internalized, all-encompassing and radically confined. Oppl has exhibited work at Georgia Museum of Art, Greece; Greater Taipei Biennial, Taiwan; and Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria, among others.

Marie-Andrée Pellerin’s practice, which spans video, sound, installation, performance and textiles, explores the interplay between the geological and societal realms. Her recent work engages with the poetics of weather, reflecting on how atmospheric phenomena shape soundscapes, mental states, and social narratives. Central to her practice is speculative thinking, through which she creates fictional institutions, new words and fake disciplines. She collaborates with musicians, meteorologists, linguists and writers. Pellerin has exhibited work at BPS22 Art Museum of the Province of Hainaut, Belgium; Kunstforum, Austria; and Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Scotland, among others.

Gaspar Willmann is a Paris-based artist whose practice spans video, installation, and painting. He examines how we consume images, how they circulate, and the affective and collective impact they carry. By subverting established visual codes, Willmann reveals the mechanisms that shape perception, memory, and desire—offering a critical exploration of the social and emotional impact of imagery. He has exhibited work at Fondation Pernod Ricard; Frac des Pays de la Loire; and Fondation Fiminco, all in France, among others.

This program is supported by Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation; Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport Republic of Austria; La Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Joe Sultan; Lèna Saltos; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; New York State Senator Julia Salazar; Dr. Samar Maziad; Sarah Jones; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.
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