diaries | Galleria Rantakasarmi | One already knows without knowing that one knows II

One already knows without knowing that one knows

It's often thought that people don’t see things until they know something about it. But what is this knowing about?

The topic of the exhibition is tacit knowledge. Tacit knowledge is silent: it implies that one knows all the time much more than one can ever tell. A body of nondiscursive knowledge exists; one’s life has taught it over the years, but it has been learned without any awareness of the process of learning. Tacit knowledge includes for example all the physical, intuitive, mythic and experience-based knowledge we bear and embody. These things we know but they are difficult to tell in words. The art of living is not ultimately a matter for the so-called reasoning part of the soul. Instead, important are one’s dealings with the irrational parts of the soul. These are fears and desires that escape the rational faculty and explicit knowledge, but maybe not tacit knowledge and the practice of artistic work.

The exhibition is organized by the collective “Being in the world” [BITW]. This collaboration between visual artists, writers and theorists from different European countries was founded in Stockholm in 2012. It revolves around the topic of landscape in a wider meaning of the word, that is: to be in, look out on, relate to the world.

Group exhibition

Lotte Nilsson-Välimaa (Stockholm, Sweden: installation, sculpture, interactive)
Kenneth Pils (Stockholm, Sweden: painting, installation, drawing)
Miia Rinne (Helsinki, Finland: video, installation)
Bertram Schilling (Stockholm/Munich, Austria: painting, collage, video)
Charlotta Östlund (Helsinki, Finland: installation, sculpture)

"Diary of Anything" is both part of "Diary 2014" initiated by Julia Huerter and "Being in the world" exhibition series "One already knows without knowing that one knows II" in Berlin and Helsinki initiated by Miia Rinne.