Hannele Romppanen: Domestic Dance Band

Hannele Romppanen’s Domestic Dance Band is an imaginary house band that performs in GIF videos. 

Humorous, even grotesque associations and familiar objects merge in characters playing on a kitchen table.

For the exhibition at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, the artist has created a loop symphony for a bicycle pump, spaghetti, toilet paper and other household items. The viewer is treated to unintentional gestures and uncontrollable noises emitted by a xylophonist, a flutist and a dancer spinning around its belly button.

Hannele Romppanen creates camera-based performances. Her works explore the corporeality of the ageing body, the particularities of ageing in a woman, and the associated culture of invisibility in our society. Romppanen has in her previous works performed as a trio stridently tooting its own horn and a cook ladling hot flashes.

MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre,

17.2.-3.3.2024

Tue-Fri 12.00-17.00

Sat-Sun 12.00-16.00

Free entry