Kalle Hamm (b. 1969) from Rauma, Finland, graduated from the Lahti Institute of Fine Arts in 1994 and completed his Master’s degree at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki in 2002. His artistic work explores cultural encounters and their impacts in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Dzamil Kamanger (b. 1948) is an Iranian Kurd and has lived in Helsinki since 1994. He studied ceramics at the University of Kermanshah and earned his Master’s degree in 1973. His art is grounded in his own experiences as a refugee, using traditional Iranian handicraft techniques.
The artists have collaborated since 1999, and for Kalle Hamm and Dzamil Kamanger, art is not an end in itself. Their practice occupies an in-between zone where art, design, and craft meet through everyday objects. In their works, the duo explores cultural encounters and the global movements of plants and people.
Kalle & Dzamil first came to Fittja during Fittja Open 2011 when the artists performed Pizzeria Babylon at the local pizzeria and grill, as part of the opening event. They later came back in 2012 doing a another collaboration with the pizzeria Take Away-Art and later in the year, they participated in Fittja Open 2012 with the an adaptation of the work Immigrant Garden installed by the garden allotment.
The residency received funding from the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.
Mångkulturellt centrum, Restaurant Amorina and Botkyrkabyggen.