Helga Steppan

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JULY / AUGUST / SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER / NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2011

A collection of
The Lost Stories from Vasa, Finland, 2011.


I am wondering if YOU are interested in taking part in The Lost and Found Project and would like to tell me a personal or non personal story about something you have lost or found. You can interpretative the theme however you want. I am collecting stories from;

• people in and around Vasa.
people living anywhere and everywhere that has a story relating to Vasa or its surrounding areas.

The format that you tell your story in, is up to you.
It can be a verbal story, written down or an object or photograph > >>
If you would like to be a part please contact me, Helga on: lostandfoundstory@gmail.com




UPCOMING

Helga Steppan Projects presents:
 

Raderna Emellan Oss  [The Lines in Between Us]
   in a library near you.


Motala Bibliotek  
3rd - 20th October 2011.

Repslagaregatan 1   |    Folkets Hus   |   591 30 Motala   |   Sweden  
www.motala.se/bibliotek



Vaasa LittFest Vasa   11th - 12th November 2011.
Exhibition is open 11th November - 4th December 2011.

Stadsbiblioteket
Biblioteksgatan 13   |   651 00 Vasa   |   Finland
http://littfest.vaasa.fi/?p=43&lang=sv#more-43
www.vaasa.fi/bibliotek


Garaget
   1st -24th February 2012.

Lönngatan 30   |   205 80 Malmö   |   Sweden
www.malmo.se/garaget
 

The Lines in Between Us is an interactive installation that exists through people's act of dedication. Steppan invites people to dedicate a book, at the same time she is writing her own and searching
for lost dedications written by strangers. She builds together a collection of literary dedications where fiction meets reality. A space is created between the lines of words and images, the books and the participants where a personal storytelling is allowed to take place; a narration and meeting between the previous owners (the givers), the new owners and the viewers.
 
dedication [ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən]
n
1. the act of dedicating or the state of being dedicated
2. an inscription or announcement prefixed to a book, piece of music, etc., dedicating it to a person or thing
3. complete and wholehearted devotion, esp to a career, ideal, etc.
4. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a ceremony in which something, such as a church, is dedicated
 
To be part of The Lines in Between Us, bring a book and make a dedication to its next owner.




UPCOMING NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2011 / JANUARY 2012

Höstsalong 2011.


Helga Steppan is exhibiting Untitled Yet (1976-2010) in the group exhibition Höstsalong at Skånes Konstförening in Malmö, Sweden.


Private View, Saturday 26th November, 16:00 - 20:00.
The exhibition is open 27th November  - 17th December 2011.

Skånes Konstförening
Bragegatan 15   |   214 30 MALMÖ   |   SWEDEN
www.skaneskonst.se




Pulse Miami, Contemporary Art Fair.


Helga Steppan has been selected as one of the Pulse Projects 2011 and will be exhibiting
Parallelistic Imitations, a series of sculptures, at the  contemporary art fair Pulse Miami, USA.

The art fair is open 1st - 4th December 2011.

Pulse Miami,
The Ice Palace   |   1400 North Miami Avenue   |   Miami
  |   FL 33136
www.pulse-art.com/miami/




To have - to own.

Helga Steppan is exhibiting The Lost and Found Project in the group exhibition To have - to own at The Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art in Vasa Finland.


The exhibition is open 2nd December 2011 - 31st January 2012.

Platform
Korsholmsesplanaden 6-8   |   Kasernen 14   |   65100 VASA   |   FINLAND
www.platform.fi

Kuntsi - The museum of modern art
Inre hamnen PL3   |    65100 VASA   |    FINLAND
www.kuntsi.vaasa.fi/english.html





BOOK - BELONGINGS APART

Helga Steppan's book Belongings Apart is available to buy in various bookshops in Europe.
In London; The Art Book Shop and The Photographers Gallery. In Sweden at Moderna Muset,
Konst-ig in Stockholm and Konsthallen in Malmö.

If you are interested in buying or stocking Belongins Apart, ISBN-13:978-0-9556292-0-4.

Please contact Helga Steppan at hello@helgasteppan.com 
£14.00 + Postage.