The works in the exhibition follow declining health. A health condition that has deteriorated, but which is not yet understood as a disease – in your mind or in your medical records. The health you still wish for; healing and being rediscovered, both in the things you do and in the objects that surround you.
In the Growing Pains exhibition, I want to learn from my understanding of growth. Whether it’s growing up, personal growth, or financial growth, I want to invite a more cyclical understanding of these processes, based on the fact that we are vulnerable beings who are prone to illness.
Lukas Malte Hoffmann is an artist living in Helsinki who mainly works with sculpture and installation. He completed his Bachelor of Arts at the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam , and his Master of Arts at the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem. The work on this exhibition has been supported by Svenska kulturfonden, Art Promotion Center and Konstsamfundet.
