Anssi Kasitonni (b. Finland1978) who wryly describes himself as the ‘country cousin of Jeff Koons’ makes epic homespun films and sculptures which reference popular culture and are filled with humour. The recipient of the 2025 Below Zero Finnish Art Award and a former winner of Finland’s Ars Fennica Prize Kasitonni is a well-known figure on the Finnish art scene. Now he is bringing his DIY aesthetic of crafting ‘fast’ sculptures from lo-fi materials glamourised in chrome from rural Finland to the UK for the first time.
The Below Zero Prize awards a Finnish artist a commission to make new work with Beaconsfield which is housed in what remains of the 19th-century Lambeth Ragged School. Responding to the building’s mythologies Kasitonni is creating a new sculpture which reimagines the grand pediment which once crowed the original neoclassical portico.
Event Venue
Beaconsfield Contemporary Art, Beaconsfield, 22 Newport St, London SE11 6AY, United Kingdom, London
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