Play This At My Funeral

Niina Lehtonen Braun is a Berlin based visual artist and a performer, originally from Helsinki, Finland. Her strong visual world is based on her unique way of combining and rearranging texts and photos with her ink paintings and drawings. Lehtonen Braun has exhibited in several international venues, including Paper Gallery (Manchester, UK, 2019) Haus am Lützowplatz, (Berlin, Germany, 2019), Sinne Gallery (Helsinki, Finland, 2014) and Torrance Art Museum, (CA, USA, 2018). She is also a part of a performance group JOKAklubi, which is a camp-spirited group known for their visually rich, wild shows, which combine guest stars, music and talk show. Lehtonen Braun has published two art books: Mother Said (Kerber Verlag, 2013) and These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You (Kerber Verlag, 2016).

Tellervo Kalleinen is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. She graduated as MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2003. She works with video, performance, intervention and events. Most of her works are participatory and based on creative collaboration. Since 2003, she has worked with Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. The works of the artist duo are participatory by nature. Most recent works tackle the human relationship with society through means of film. Kalleinen and Kochta-Kalleinen have participated in exhibitions around the world, including Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria (2010), MoMA P.S.1 in New York (2008), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2010) and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki (2014). Kalleinen and Kochta-Kalleinen won the prestigious Ars Fennica Award in 2014.