Niina Lehtonen Braun:

If you don’t tell the truth I can see clouds in your eyes

Opening: Thursday, 22.05.2025      6:30 – 7:00 pm    The artist will be present.

The Berlin-based Finnish artist Niina Lehtonen Braun often deals with the themes of family, being a woman and being a child in her works. The current installation focuses on communication about norms and rules between adults and children. Memories of admonishing words from grandparents and parents, which imply a metaphysical dimension in the form of heaven or hell, are still just as present in many of us, as are remorse and torment resulting from our own rebellion, the struggles with faith or magical thinking.

Lehtonen Braun shows us a world full of poetry and simultaneity, partly in memories of her own childhood, with her grandmother in the country, at the edge of the forest with a barn, garden, roses, spiders, a large baking oven, patchwork quilts, midsummer fires, the dead and the living, God, Jesus, elves, angels and witches.

For further information:

www.atrans.org/  |  www.niina-lehtonen-braun.com

Instagram: @atrans   |   @niinalehtonenbraun

In synchronization with exhibition space Basement Berlin:

Kunst ist Arbeit – Opening 22.05.2025, 6 – 9 pm,

Tauentzienstr. 9-12, 10789 Berlin (Zugang über den Weltkugelbrunnen)

www.basement-berlin.com