Events

9.11.2024-12.1.2025

Taru Happonen – Taxidermy Surfaces

HAM Gallery is presenting an exhibition featuring artwork by Taru Happonen.

In this exhibition, Happonen explores a complex, constantly changing world and blends sci-fi with real-world elements. The exhibition features artwork in which Happonen uses a variety of materials, including pearlescent pigments, aluminum powder, oil paint, marble dust, and mineral resin, blending elements of both painting and sculpture.

The exhibition features soundscapes alongside visual artwork. The soundscape was created in collaboration with composer Tapio Viitasaari.

HAM, the Helsinki Art Museum, is owned by the City of Helsinki and organizes several exhibitions each year.

HAM Gallery, Eteläinen Rautatiekatu 8, 00100 Helsinki

Taru HapponenHAM

14.11.2024–25.1.2025

Elsa Salonen, Kari Vehosalo – Being There

Le Clézio Gallery in Paris is presenting the works of Elsa Salonen and Kari Vehosalo in a group exhibition 14.11 – 25.1.2025.

Le Clézio Gallery was founded in 2023 by Antoine and Yan Le Clézio. The gallery promotes various artistic voices and has strong commitment to intercultural dialogue. Le Clézio’s mission is to promote talents both in France and internationally, and to celebrate the diversity of cultural perspectives.

Elsa SalonenKari VehosaloLe Clézio

22.11. – 21.12.2024

Heidi Lampenius – Ground Color

Helsinki Contemporary is showcasing an exhibition by Heidi Lampenius.

Heidi Lampenius’ latest clay paintings explore her distinct symbolic visual language, deeply rooted in both natural sciences and her personal relationship with nature. The exhibition’s title, “Ground Color” carries an intriguing dual meaning: “ground” can refer to the earth itself, but also to the surface of the canvas used in painting. In this collection, the concept of earth functions as both a literal and metaphorical foundation.

Lampenius’ previous works have visualized abstract natural phenomena such as sound and light wavelengths. Her current focus on clay represents a shift toward grounding her practice in the fundamental elements, seeking a return to simpler, more tangible materials. These new pieces feature geometric forms, enclosed by folds and diagrams, serving as representations of her exploration into unseed world of clay. While the shapes are angular, there is a softness in the artist’s approach, with a gentle tonal range that imbues the works with a sense of sensitivity.

Helsinki Contemporary aims to build lasting relationships with both emerging and established artists who engage in a hands-on, deep exploration of their practice. Their artistic direction is not confined to specific mediums but emphasizes contemporary visual art that fosters meaningful conversations with the surrounding society and the environment in which it is exhibited.

Helsinki Contemporary, Bulevardi 10, 00120 Helsinki

Heidi LampeniusHelsinki Contemporary

23.11. – 21.12.2024

Jussi Goman – Winter Salon

Alice Folker Gallery is currently hosting a group exhibition in Copenhagen, showcasing the works of numerous artists. Among the participants is Finnish painter Jussi Goman, whose unique artistic vision contributes to the diverse collection on display.

Alice Folker Gallery, Esplanaden 14, 1263 Copenhagen

Jussi GomanAlice Folker Gallery

7.12.2024 – 5.1.2025

Elsa Salonen – To My Alchemical Garden, Welcome

Ama Gallery is presenting an exhibition featuring works by Finnish painter Elsa Salonen.

Elsa Salonen’s solo exhibition To My Alchemical Garden, Welcome, at Ama Gallery, Helsinki, explores flowers and plants from a broad cultural, scientific and esoteric perspective; it brings together alchemy, Finnish nature worship, still-life paintings, botanical collections, medicinal plants, herbal spells, plant intelligence and spagyrics. The works reflect on the power of all plants to connect this reality to other metaphysical levels.

Many of the works are guided by a technique Salonen developed a decade ago, in which she distils colours from flowers, leaving them pale and colourless. The extracted colour pigments the artist conserves in laboratory glass vessels and displays alongside the white plants. Withering flowers lose their colours in death; as if the life itself were hidden in the colours. In traditional still-life paintings, the painted colours of blossoms stopped the time and ‘won’ the death. Salonen varies this tradition by poetically separating the vivid life energy (the preserved colours) from their empty, pale bodies (the decoloured flowers).

Opening Hours: Tue-Fri 11–17, Sat-Sun 12–16

Ama Gallery, Rikhardinkatu 1, 00130 Helsinki

Elsa SalonenAma Gallery

8.2. – 18.5.2025

Heikki Marila – HEIKKI MARILA

Sara Hildén Art Museum presents an exhibition by renowned Finnish artist Heikki Marila. He is a featured artist in the Sara Hildén Foundation’s collection, and this exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to explore Marila’s distinctive style, which blends emotional contrasts with unpredictable visual expressions.

Marila is renowned for his monumental oil paintings and powerful themes, including his famous floral compositions. The retrospective at the Sara Hildén Art Museum will showcase Marila’s iconic series, alongside pieces that have never been publicly displayed before.

Sara Hildén Art Museum is owned by the city of Tampere. The museum holds the Sara Hildén Foundation’s art collection, which was established in 1962 when Sara Hildén donated her personal artworks to the foundation, named after her.

Sara Hildén Art Museum, Laiturikatu 13, 33230 Tampere

Heikki MarilaSara Hildén Art Museum

22.2.2025 – 18.1.2026

Hannaleena Heiska – Apocalypse: From Last Judgement to Climate Threat

The Gothenburg Art Museum is hosting an exhibition Apocalypse: From Last Judgement to Climate Threat, where tradition meets contemporary art, showcasing artists from various centuries. The exhibition also includes works by Finnish artist Hannaleena Heiska.

The Gothenburg Art Museum, Götaplatsen 6, 412 56 Göteborg

Hannaleena HeiskaGothenburg Art Museum

15.11.–14.12.2024

Sami Lukkarinen – Portraits

Galerie von Braunbehrens is showcasing a captivating collection of works by Sami Lukkarinen.

The digital era is reshaping our perception of humanity. Crystal-clear on smartphones, but blurred in pixelated profile pictures. Since 2003, Finnish artist Sami Lukkarinen has employed the pixel as a medium to reinterpret social media portraits of both ordinary people and celebrities, turning them into bold, painterly grids of color. His unique spatula technique transforms digital images sourced from the internet into dynamic, finely crafted color fields. One can almost imagine counting the subtle hues blended together in his works.

Founded in 1978, Galerie von Braunbehrens operated in Munich until 2014. Following its closure, Frank Molliné took over the gallery, relocating it to Stuttgart in 2015. With a fresh team in place, the gallery has since revitalized its program, continuing to showcase contemporary art in a new setting.

Featured artists: Sami Lukkarinen, Wolfgang Kessler.

Galerie, von Braunbehrens, Rotebühlstrasse 87, D-70178 Stuttgart, Germany

Sami LukkarinenGalerie von Braunbehrens

13.11. – 29.11.2024

Hanna Kanto – Magical Thinking

Hanna Kanto is presenting an exhibition “Magical Thinking” at Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz, Austria.

The Atelierhaus Salzamt serves as a hub for emerging visual artists from both Austria and abroad. The facility offers nine studios in total, with four of these reserved for international artists-in-residence.

Featured artists: Hanna Kanto, Melanie Ludwig

Picture (on the left in the image): Hanna Kanto, Portal, 250x150cm, acrylic on canvas, 2024

Atelierhaus Salzamt, Obere Donaulände 15, 4020 Linz, Austria

Hanna KantoAtelierhaus Salzamt

27.9.–20.10.2024

Reima Nevalainen – Body of Water

Reima Nevalainen’s recent paintings evince his deepening interest in landscape painting alongside his existing fascination with figure studies. His nature imagery functions both as the backdrop for his figures as well as a metaphor for the human body, which consists of water and is hence dependent upon it. In his paintings, the human body is inseparable from nature and its water cycles, proving to flourish better in damp caves than under the scorching sun. In Nevalainen’s art, humans are comparable to water, also in their inherent formlessness. Freedom from solid form is the theme that has also appeared in his earlier work. For Nevalainen, painting is both a process of learning free expression liberated from all mannerisms and searching for perfect, non-conceptual abstraction through representational form.

Read more via links below.

Reima NevalainenGalerie Forsblom

7.6.-3.8.2024

Karoliina Hellberg – Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery

Elizabeth Xi Bauer is delighted to present Karoliina Hellberg’s first UK solo exhibition. The Gallery will exhibit new works by the artist and a wallpaper print designed and executed by Hellberg for this upcoming solo show. More information can be found at the bottom of this email.

Karoliina Hellberg lives and works in Helsinki and is known for her large, vibrant oil, acrylic, and ink canvases. Her work immerses the viewer in a world of repeated imagery, signs, and symbols, a labyrinth of spaces and places, combining layers, forms, and elements. The artist blends dream-like visions and narratives that merge the every day with the ethereal. This is explored with pictorial tropes such as indoor scenes, plants, flowers, clouds, animals, and textiles, which are remembered, imagined, or inspired by researched source material.

This upcoming exhibition of new works by Karoliina Hellberg at Elizabeth Xi Bauer will include large canvases, smaller paintings, framed watercolours, and prints in a wallpaper format, the latter of which the artist has received a grant to create from Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike). These wallpaper prints will serve as an accent feature, exploring the motifs embedded within Hellberg’s works. The familiarity of wallpaper further layers and extends Hellberg’s depiction of domestic settings. This new wallpaper is similar to a project by Hellberg, commissioned by the Didrichsen Museum, upon her receiving the Pro Arte prize in 2018. This 2019 solo exhibition at the Didrichsen Museum was the first time Hellberg created and executed her wallpaper prints.

This solo exhibition of new works by Karoliina Hellberg, which will run from 7^th June – 3^rd August 2024 at Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery, open Wednesday through to Saturday, 12 – 6 pm or by appointment. A Private View will be held on 6^th June 2024, 6 – 8 pm, in the artist’s presence. The artist will be available for interviews. It would be my pleasure to welcome you, your colleagues, and any desired guests.

Elizabeth Xi Bauer GalleryKaroliina Hellberg

17.-19.5.2024

Essi Kuokkanen – Market Art Fair

Market Art FairEssi Kuokkanen

11.5.-4.6.2024

Hanna Kanto – Galleri Linberg

Hanna Kanto is a contemporary artist from Finland whose art conveys new perspectives on the interaction between people and nature in the Nordic region. Her art interweaves the ecological, economic, and worldly with the mystical and spiritual. Through her work, she aims to maintain a dialogue between ancient belonging and today’s processes of urbanization and capitalist-economic thought patterns. Kanto’s imagery combines symbols of the forest with human activities within it. These symbols, including blueberry-stained hands, dew-dappled moss, debris, rubber boots, insects, twigs, berry-picking rakes, and woodpiles, open up the worldly relationship; the primitive enchantment and joy, and the inherent value of non-human beings.

The current ecological and ideological debate about the management and future of our forests and wetlands is polarized and is gaining an increasingly higher pitch. Kanto uses this general discussion and associated literature as a starting point to explore the areas of conflict and issues in the subject in art. However, her main material comes from close observations and experiences of growing up in a family of forest owners and diligent berry pickers.

Kanto primarily works with painting but also has a penchant for ceramics. Sometimes she incorporates sculptural elements into her paintings, sometimes they stand as independent works: as wall-mounted reliefs or three-dimensional forms in the gallery space.

Hanna Kanto originally comes from Tornio and lived in Haparanda for almost ten years before moving to Helsinki in 2019. She received her education from the University of Lapland, as well as from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. Kanto has participated in numerous group exhibitions and projects, and has had solo exhibitions in Finland and abroad continuously since 2009. This is the second time Hanna Kanto exhibits at Galleri Lindberg. The exhibition has been produced with the support of the Alfred Kordelin Foundation and the Center for Art Promotion Finland.

Galleri LindbergHanna Kanto

12.4.-30.6.2024

Raija Malka – Eu Estou Aqui

This exhibition results from successive encounters.
The scenographic dimension of the space, with its spiral staircase and arched nooks, emerged as an appropriate stage for the entry of works by Leylâ Gediz (Turkey, 1974), Luisa Cunha (Portugal, 1949) and Raija Malka (Finland, 1959). Their biographies and experiences led to the reflection on displacement and transit between countries, the question of place and belonging – are we from where we were born or from where we live? – underlies the exhibition at a time when the city is increasingly a chosen place for foreign creators to live.

All these circumstances and approaches led to the title concept of the exhibition:
I Am Here.

On View from April 12 – June 30, 2024
Monday – Friday 10am – 12pm & 2pm – 4pm
By appointment: production@119marvilastudios.com

Raija Malka119 Marvila Studios

5.4.–16.6.2024

Hanna Kanto – “Lay Of(f) the Land”: Nordic Narratives by the Art Alliance of the Arctic South

Finnish Painter Hanna Kanto participates in a group show “Lay Of(f) the Land”: Nordic Narratives by the Art Alliance of the Arctic South at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago.

Profoundly influenced by Nordic culture and nature, the Art Alliance of the Arctic South (A-A-A-S) offers a diverse range of works reflecting a deep connection to the environment. From intricate collages to life-size sculptural installations, eight Scandinavian artists intertwine personal and collective identity against vast landscapes, urging us to consider our collective path and the pressing need for change. The exhibition is curated by Vasia Rigou.

The Art Alliance of the Arctic South brings together the work of Dragos Alexandrescu (FI), Linnéa Therese Dimitriou (SE), Heidi-Anett Haugen (NO), Hanna Kanto (FI), Lotta Lampa (SE), Patricia Rodas (FI), Anastasia Savinova (SE), and Madeleine Sillfors (SE).

The exhibition is made possible thanks to support from the Nordic Culture Fund, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, regional art funding from Norrbotten and Västerbotten, The Swedish Arts Council, Alfred Kordelin Foundation and Svenska Kulturfonden.

Hanna KantoArt Alliance of the Arctic South (A-A-A-S)Swedish American Museum

28.3.2024

We have published 21 new painters on our website!

We have published 21 new carefully curated painters on our website! Altogether, we now represent 106 artists.

Check out the artists and their take on the thematic themes from everyday life, intuitionism, and narrative painting to new materialism, post-expressionism, and spatiality, not to forget playful twists and much more.

New painters at the finnishpainters website are Petteri Cederberg, Henri Hagman, Jenni Hiltunen, Petri Hytönen, Helka Immonen, Markus Jäntti, Eemil Karila, Liisa Karintaus, Markus Konttinen, Tuomo Laakso, Heidi Lampenius, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Iisa Maaranen, Mikko Paakkonen, Kimi Pakarinen, Heli Penttinen, Mirka Raito, Leonor Ruiz Dubrovin, Mika Vesalahti, Camilla Vuorenmaa, and Ville Välikangas.

The Finnish Painters project and the finnishpainters website are realised with the assistance of the Saastamoinen Foundation, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and the Ministry of Education and Culture.

1.3. – 19.4.2024

Raisa Raekallio & Misha Del Val – KAAMOS

Gallery Espacio Marzana in Bilbao is showcasing the works of Raisa Raekallio and Misha del Val in a solo exhibition 1.3. – 19.4.2024.

Raisa Raekallio and Misha del Val’s works created during the last two winters’ kaamos include Painting #2, the most oversized format painting the artists have made yet, measuring more than two meters high and six meters long. This enveloping composition explores the emotional and spiritual dimensions of the relationship between trees and human beings against the backdrop of arctic forests.

The Finnish word kaamos designates the polar night, the period of the Arctic winter in which the sun does not rise above the horizon. This phenomenon lasts precisely twenty-four hours in the Arctic Circle and lasts for around six weeks at the latitude of Sirkka, where the artist couple lives and works. Kaamos is a period of settlement and introspection, characterized by a magical and singular environmental phenomenology: subtle changes in light, which the abundant snow reflects everywhere; a sky that acquires capricious colors depending on the weather conditions during the few hours of semi-clarity; northern lights and sininen hetki (the blue moment) that can appear during the cold and endless arctic nights.

Espacio Marzana is a private gallery mainly focusing on promoting emerging artistic proposals while also showcasing established artists, primarily in painting.

“When Raisa and Misha paint together, a burst of unusual characters emerges from the dialogue between the two artists. The curtain opens to scenes where a crowd appears entangled in some unusual activity in a cabin retreat, in the woods, or a sauna.” Saara Hacklin, Chief Curator of Collections, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Raisa Raekallio & Misha Del ValEspacio Marzana

25.2.2024, 5 pm

Raija Malka – CCB Temporary exhibition: a painting by Chagall and The Magic Flute by Mozart

Raija MalkaCCB, Centro Cultural de Belém Foundation

8.2.–14.11.2024

Elsa Salonen, Jussi Goman – Visiting Art/ists: Ich finde dich in allen diesen Dingen

Finland Institute presents the Finnish Painters Elsa Salonen and Jussi Goman in a group exhibition Visiting Art/ists, Ich finde dich in allen diesen dingen – I find you in all these things 8.2.–14.11.2024.

The Finland Institute’s brings together six Finnish artists for its annual exhibition, most of whom live in Berlin. In their works, they deal with an interpretation of the poem by Rilke that gives the exhibition its title – and (re)discover the traces of dear people. These diverse paintings, sculptures, and multimedia works now occupy the institute and bring joy and comfort to all who come to view them.

The Finnland-Institut is a forum for Finnish culture, academia, and business in German-speaking Europe.

Featured artists: Jussi Goman, Jussi Jääskeläinen, Laura Kärki, Antti Pussinen, Jarkko Räsänen, and Elsa Salonen Curated by Mika Minetti

Picture1: Elsa Salonen: Still Life with Flowers (Separation Funnels), details bleached bouquet and its distilled colors, isomalt, glass, metal, cement, 150x140x30 cm, 2023
Photo: Joe Clark

Picture2: Jussi Goman, Short and Long, acrylic on canvas,  80x70cm, 2023
Photo: Jussi Goman

Finnland InstitutElsa SalonenJussi Goman

8.2.–11.2.2024

Henna Aho – Salón Acme

Experience the works of Finnish Painter Henna Aho at Salón ACME during the Mexico City Art Week 2024!

Salón Acme is an event and a platform created by artists for artists to give visibility, impulse, and dissemination to emerging creators. The 2024 show will feature talks, rooftop vinyl sessions, and exhibits by local and international artists. The Salón fosters new audiences and consolidates a community of artists, curators, and collectors.

Henna Aho navigates the aspects of expanded painting – from the traditional weaving techniques of Finnish peasants to the philosophy of new materialism and Vibrant Matter by Jane Bennett. Aho sees painting as an endless mycelium, which connects her own Barbie girl narrative to the art history and playful artistic processes of new realism

Picture: Henna Aho, The Outlet Canvas Artist, mixed media, 71 x 60 x 7 cm, 2022/2023

Calle Gral Prim 30
06600 Cuauhtémoc
CDMX, Meksiko

Henna AhoSalón AcmeMexico City Art Week 2024

31.1.–17.2.2024

Jesse Avdeikov – The Leftovers

Melbourne-based Rubicon ARI presents the newest works by Finnish Painter Jesse Avdeikov.

The Leftovers -exhibition consists of a series of textile “paintings” made with hand embroidery and sewing pieces of fabric together (appliqué). It is Avdeikov’s first project focused mostly on abstraction, color and texture. Works are made from recycled and leftover materials sourced from his other projects, including old clothes, textiles and occasionally, other found objects like fragments of old broken radio.

Rubicon ARI is a not-for-profit gallery committed to enabling the professional artistic development and exposure of artists locally and abroad.

Opening Hours:
Wed – Sat, 12-5pm

Rubicon ARI
Level 1/309 Queensberry Street
North Melbourne Victoria 3051
Australia

Rubicon ARIJesse Avdeikov

21.1.2024

Hannaleena Heiska – Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis, an experimental film by the Finnish Painter Hannaleena Heiska, takes part in the London Experimental Festival.

What happens when the audience and staff have left the exhibition hall, and the art begins to live its own life? The work suggests indulging in a viewing experience and being guided by a non-verbal narration.

Metamorphosis is an experimental short film shot on 16 mm black and white film that combines painting and contemporary ballet. The film results from an interdisciplinary collaboration between visual artist Hannaleena Heiska and dancer-choreographer Minna Tervamäki. It was shot in the empty exhibition hall of the Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA

London Experimental is an anti-festival recognizing and honoring experimental film.

Peckham Arches
4-5 Dovedales Trading Estate
London, United Kindom

Hannaleena HeiskaLondon Experimental

6.12.–10.12.2023

Marianna Uutinen, Heikki Marila – Untitled Art Fair

Galerie Forsblom presents Finnish Painters Heikki Marila and Marianna Uutinen at Untitled Art Miami Beach 6–10.12.2023.

Untitled Art is an independent art fair guided by a mission to support the wider art ecosystem, offering an inclusive platform for discovering contemporary art.

Untitled Art Miami
Ocean Drive and 12th Street
Miami Beach, Florida
Booth A40

Marianna UutinenHeikki MarilaGalerie ForsblomUntitled Art Fair

25.11.2023–13.1.2024

Roy Aurinko – UTTER RUBBISH HYPOTHESES

“Oh man, how I love the science. It’s just utter beautiful how theories are put together, tested and certified. I’d like to think similar kind of method applies to my artistic work. Observation, experimentation, analysis. Every painting forms a new hypothesis and in a good day ‘If P, then Q’ happens. While I am excited about the scientific mindset, many others are not so much these days.  The name of the exhibition also refers to the unintelligent atmosphere spawn by alternative facts and post-truth politics type of utter rubbish.”

Utter rubbish hypotheses is Roy Aurinko’s first exhibition in the Netherlands. His abstract paintings incorporate elements of drawing, and are created using a mixed-media technique combining oil, acrylic, pastel and cement. The work process and the feel of the material are present in Aurinko’s works, which invite the viewer to explore their relationship with the surrounding world.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, 25 November, 13-17, after that open by appointment.

Frans Kasl Projects
Jan van Lieshoutstraat 12b
5611EE Eindhoven Netherlands

Roy AurinkoFrans Kasl Projects

16.11.–19.11.2023

Elsa Salonen – Art Cologne Fair

The Galerie Jochen Hempel presents Finnish Painter Elsa Salonen at the Art Cologne fair in Germany 16.–19.11.2023, with the artists Imi Knoebel, Lucas Simões, and Erik Swars.

Salonen’s artistic practice draws on painting, installation, and conceptual art traditions. The influences of science, animism, and alchemy mark the works. Medieval alchemists studied natural materials, which they also used to make colours. Through the materials, they sought to understand the surrounding universe, the interconnectedness of everything in the cosmos, and the individual’s role among all others: oneself.

Art Cologne 2023
Koelnmesse
Messepl. 1, 50679 Köln, Germany
Hall 11.2, Booth B-306

Elsa SalonenArt CologneJochen Hempel Gallery

4.11.2023–13.1.2024

Marianna Uutinen – Miettinen Collection

Berlin-based Miettinen Collection presents the latest paintings of the Finnish Painter Marianna Uutinen.

Marianna Uutinen’s painting process is close to action painting, creating performative spaces with allusions for the viewer to act on. She is known for creating works of acrylic skins, either flat or folded on the canvas. The three-dimensional paintings break into the surrounding space like sculptures.

The Miettinen Collection comprises artworks by contemporary artists of various generations and nationalities, mainly paintings, drawings, and sculptures, among them a series of marble sculptures from the Roman Times.

Visits and guided tours every Saturday between 12:00 and 18:00.

Miettinen Collection
Marburger Str. 3, Berlin.

Marianna UutinenMiettinen Collection

20.10.–12.11.2023

Henna Aho, Kaija Hinkula – Tokiomis Salygomis – Under Conditions

Under Conditions is a duo exhibition by contemporary artists Henna Aho & Kaija Hinkula. Aho and Hinkula examine painting, its new forms and possibilities in the 2020s – the boundaries, spatiality, materiality, the relationship to one’s own history and to the surrounding reality. The works that freely stretch the traditional form of a painting comment on the surrounding world, creating a space, where craftsmanship, every day life and utopia combine into a process-like whole in the context of expanded painting.

“How can one say anything about painting, if so much has already been made and stated? It is safe to say that painting has reached a kind of oxymoron: it’s role in museums and text-book examples is solid, but in the infrastructures of contemporary art it is not always taken as given – it is not too visible. The paradox lies in this notion of visibility since a change in the reception of painting has become apparent, having time to spread its roots. It is not, anymore, interesting to recognize something as a painting; the focus has rather shifted to the medium as an area of artistic operation.” – Eero Karjalainen

About the artists:

Henna Aho is a multidisciplinary Finnish artist, known for abstract, large-scale, material- based constructions combining painting and hand-woven textiles. She has received grants, residencies, and commissions from the Kone Foundation, Finnish Cultural Found, the Arts Promotion Centre Finland, and Justheat pan-European research project. Aho obtained her MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, and the University of Arts and Design, Helsinki. Her work has been exhibited across Finland in shows such as in Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku Art Hall, and Mänttä Art Festival. Aho´s work is represented in several collections in Finland; HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Oulu Art Museum, Turku City, Turku University of Applied Sciences, and Finnish National Gallery.

Kaija Hinkulas (b.1984) artistic work operates within the field of expanded painting, where conventional two-dimensional paintings expand into sculptural and spatial experiences. In this expanded field, colours, paint, and compositions familiar from the tradition of painting combine with the methods of sculpture, and time and space arts. Finland-based visual artist Kaija Hinkula has graduated as a Master of Fine Arts from the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts. Hinkula has held solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Finland and abroad and her works are featured in the Finnish State Art Deposit Collection and in the collections of HAM Helsinki Museum of Art.

Klaipėda Cultural Communication CenterKaija HinkulaHenna Aho

24.8.–27.8.2023

Karoliina Hellberg – Enter Art Fair

Galleri Kant represents our painter Karoliina Hellberg at the Enter Art Fair in the end of August.

Karoliina HellbergEnter Art Fair

24.8.–27.8.2023

Anna Retulainen, Kari Vehosalo – Chart Art Fair

Our Finnish Painters Anna Retulainen and Kari Vehosalo are presented at Chart Art Fair by Helsinki Contemporary (Anna Retulainen) and galeri Anhava (Kari Vehosalo). Chart is the leading Nordic art event and a new editorial platform. Each year, they present an art fair with the leading galleries in the region, alongside younger galleries with more emerging programmes, an art book fair, a vast live programme of talks, performances, films and music, a site-specific sculptural exhibition in the iconic amusement park Tivoli Gardens, as well as ongoing editorial releases.

Anna Retulainen (b. 1969, Orimattila) is one of the leading figures in Finnish contemporary painting. She has been showing works in solo and group exhibitions since 1995. She has twice been nominated for the Carnegie Art Award, most recently in 2014. In 2018, The Finnish Cultural Foundation’s Uusimaa Regional Fund awarded Retulainen with its annual award for outstanding performance, and in the same year, Retulainen’s paintings became the first contemporary artworks to be permanently presented at the Finnish Presidential Palace. Retulainen’s work is represented in most of the major Finnish public collections, as well as in countless private collections. 

Kari Vehosalo (born 1982 Finland) has graduated from Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Fine Arts and Aalto University, University of Art and Design. Vehosalo is represented in many major collections, e.g. : KIASMA – museum of contemporary art, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Helsinki Art Museum, Lahti Art Museum. In 2017 he won the Ars Fennica prize. He lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.

Chart is located at Charlottenborg, home of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, in the heart of Copenhagen.

Charlottenborg
Kongens Nytorv 1
1050 Copenhagen, Denmark

Anna RetulainenKari VehosaloChart Art Fair

18.8.–12.11.2023

Mikko Kallio – Melancholy Diorama and the Wonders of Collage

Finnish Painter Mikko Kallio and artists Niina Lehtonen Braun and Ilona Valkonen explore collage in different ways in the exhibition at the Aine Art Museum. In the artists’ joint exhibition Melancholy Diorama and the Wonders of Collage, collage is understood as a method of art and a way of being and thinking in this world. The exhibition includes installations, animations, works on paper, paintings, and object compositions.

The exhibition at the Aine Art Museum will expand on the group’s previous show Melancholy Diorama and the Wonders of Collage – Studio phase, displayed in Berlin’s HilbertRaum art space in spring 2023.

Torikatu 2, Tornio, Finland (FI)
Tuesday-Thursday 11-18
Friday-Sunday 11-15

Mikko KallioThe Aine Art Museum

17.6.–17.9.2023

Hannaleena Heiska – BAJT // HEISKA

This summer, Teckningsmuseet (The Museum of Drawings) in Laholm will exhibit works by the contemporary artists Hannaleena Heiska from Finland and Maria Bajt from Sweden, based in Berlin. 

Hannaleena Heiska is one of the most prominent Finnish artists of her generation. Known for her ”alla prima” paintings, velvety charcoal drawings, installations, performances and video works, Heiska’s work is characterized by a profound interest in the limits and liminality of humanity, especially in relation to other animals.

In the exhibition we see, among other things, drawings from the series “Camouflage”, in which the artist was inspired by makeup and hairstyles created by activists to disturb facial recognition – ways for the modern individual to exist in a digital world of constant surveillance. We also encounter a series of charcoal drawings of observatories – mute, closed buildings emerging from the velvety darkness of the coal.

Hannaleena Heiska was born in 1973 in Oulu, Finland, and educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. She has exhibited at, among other places, the Gothenburg Museum of Art (2015), Espace Louis Vuitton in Tokyo (2012), and the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania (2010). Her works are represented in many public collections, including the Gothenburg Museum of Art and the Finnish national gallery Kiasma in Helsinki

Maria Bajt

Maria Bajt works with painting, drawing, sculpture, graphics, installations, public art, and artist books, in various materials such as paper, textiles, glass, and steel. Like the surrealists, Bajt is interested in artistic play as a method of creation, where dreams and the subconscious can come to the forefront.

Bajt works with drawing in both strong colours and graphic black-and-white imagery. In her art, she highlights women’s lives and experiences in mythology, history, and the present day. She works with historical and archaeological references, personal experiences, and the state of the world.

Maria Bajt was born in Stockholm in 1976 and educated at the Royal Institute of Art. She has been based in Berlin for many years. Her art has been exhibited in cities such as Berlin, Stockholm, Turku, Brussels, and Minneapolis. In recent years she has worked on several artistic installations in the Swedish cities Helsingborg, Lammhult, Kristianstad, and Örebro. 

Teckningsmuseet i Laholm
Hästtorget
312 30 Laholm

Hannaleena HeiskaTeckningsmuseet

26.5.–29.6.2023

Kaija Hinkula – Boulder Star

Finnish artist Kaija Hinkula lets the viewer enter a new world – a utopian vision inspired by a disappearing underwater universe.

Kaija Hinkula created the preview of the site-specific installation Boulder Star, a fantasy world, in her head and studio. By transporting it into the Pragovka Gallery space, the installation takes its final form and becomes a space for play and imagination. In Hinkula’s own words, the installation provides the audience with a manual for modeling and understanding a new universe in a way their own world may or may not come into being.

Hinkula’s visual inspiration for the utopian visions and the installation is a Boulder Star – an endangered species of coral. It also brings an environmental aspect to her work, where she creates a fantasy world out of something that may soon no longer be part of the world as we know it today.

Kaija Hinkula’s artistic work takes place in the field of expanded painting, where the distinctive qualities of painting, such as color and composition, create spatial interventions.

Curator: Kristýna Řeháčková

Kaija HinkulaPragovka Gallery

13.5.–8.6.2023

Tiina Elina Nurminen – On View 20

The Danish Stalke Galleri’s spring exhibition “On View 20” presents the latest paintings of the Finnish Painter Tiina Elina Nurminen and works of the American concept artist William Anastasi.

Tiina Elina Nurminen participated in the exhibition Stop for a Moment at Arken in 2003 and has since been shown on several occasions at Stalke Galleri. Tiina Elina Nurminen’s paintings explore movement, space, and emotions in an abstract universe.

In addition, selected works of artists Torben Ebbesen, Dove Bradshaw, Nikolaj Recke, Morten Tillitz, Cordy Ryman, Aske Sigurd Kraul, Olafur Eliasson, Gunnar Örn, Marianne Hesselbjerg, Albert Mertz, William Anthony, Henrik Pryds Beck, and Thorbjørn Lausten are in view.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, 13 May, 12-4 pm, and after that, by appointment.

Stalke Galleri
Englerupvej 62, Kirke Sonnerup
4060 Kirke Saaby
Denmark

Tiina Elina NurminenGalleri Stalke

11.–14.5.2023

Siiri Pohjolainen – Supermarket Art Fair 2023

Feel the spirit of the Supermarket Art Fair 2023. Siiri Pohjolainen is representing Galleria Huuto in Stockholm this year. She has been taking part in the installation work called Soft Spot.

Soft Spot

Galleria Huuto wants to offer you a space to unwind and recharge. Soft Spot is an installation where you can rest inside the art fair’s thrilling atmosphere.
As a gallery, Huuto is committed to a more inclusive, safer space for all. Respect others and their art experiences. Take time for yourself. Sometimes art might even spark a possibility for healing.

Siiri Pohjolainen has made this installation work with artists: Juliana Hyrri, Kaarina Ormio, Laura Pakarinen, Hans-Peter Schutt, and Eero Yrjölä.

Siiri PohjolainenSupermarket Art Fair 2023

5.5.–7.5.2023

Roy Aurinko – Art Busan 2023

Finnish Painter Roy Aurinko is presented by the Jarilager Gallery at the Art Busan in Korea. The gallery proudly shows Aurinko’s paintings in the company of works by international artists such as Galina Munroe, Rose Wylie, Benjamin Murphy, Spiller + Cameron, Annie Morris, and Florence Hutchins.

Roy Aurinko’s large-scale, abstract paintings incorporate elements of drawing. Aurinko creates them using a mixed-media technique combining oil, acrylic, pastel, and cement. The images often channel childhood memories, aestheticising this subject and evoking emotions ranging from nostalgia to environmental responsibility. The work process and the feel of the material are present in Aurinko’s works, inviting the viewer to explore their relationship with the surrounding world.

BEXCO Exhibition Center 1
55, APEC-ro, Haeundae-gu, Busan

Roy AurinkoJarilager Gallery at Art Busan

5.4.–3.9.2023

Hannaleena Heiska – Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is an interdisciplinary exhibition created uniquely for Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA’s space by artist Hannaleena Heiska and dancer-choreographer Minna Tervamäki. The exhibition fuses film, painting and dance into a seamless creation.

An important part of the exhibition are the performances that will take places at EMMA in the spring 2023. As seen in previous works by the duo, the space will be transformed as Heiska paints and Tervamäki dances. The viewer can never know beforehand what kind of exhibition they are likely to encounter when they enter the space.

The artists describe Metamorphosis as follows. “It proposes one possible way of being an artist, and one possible meaning of art. The abstract narrative is like an antidote to the hectic pace of contemporary life, just as painting and film are antidotes to today’s reality-distorting filters and wow culture. It evades categorization yet consists of recognizable elements. It invites you to plunge into a new kind of viewing experience and to open your mind to non-verbal narrative.”

Heiska and Tervamäki began their collaboration with Trace, which debuted at EMMA in 2016. Their return to EMMA in autumn 2023 is a logical continuation of their co-practice.

Heiska is a visual artist who works across the media of painting, drawing, video art, installation, and performance. Tervamäki is a dancer and choreographer who has had a long and celebrated career as principal dancer at the Finnish National Ballet. Today she focuses primarily on choreography and multidisciplinary projects.

The exhibition will be on view in EMMA Arena, the museum’s space for experimental projects.

Hannaleena HeiskaEspoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA

22.2. – 26.2.2023

Elsa Salonen, Sami Lukkarinen and Heikki Marila – ARCOmadrid

Finnish Painters present at International Contemporary Art Fair ARCOmadrid

Elsa Salonen with Galerie Jochen Hempel – Booth: Hall 9 D21 

Jochen Hempel Gallery, based in Leipzig, Germany, has a history representing international artists of the younger generation as well as established artists of international reputation, building longstanding collaborations with artists and collectors. 

Sami Lukkarinen and Heikki Marila with Galerie Forsblom – Booth 7B21 

Galerie Forsblom, based in Helsinki, Finland, holds a unique position on the Nordic art scene as one of the largest and most international contemporary art galleries. While the exhibition programs consist of a wide range of medias within the visual arts, Galerie Forsblom is highly profiled as presenting excellence in contemporary painting as well as sculpture.

ARCOmadrid
Avda. del Partenón, 5
28042 Madrid, España / Spain

Elsa SalonenSami LukkarinenHeikki MarilaARCOmadrid Galerie Jochen HempelGalerie Forsblom

19.2–2.4.2023

Roy Aurinko – Analog Distortion

Roy AurinkoJARILAGER Gallery

4.2.–28.5.2023

Elsa Salonen – Abundance

Finnish Painter Elsa Salonen participates in the exhibition Abundance, the 45th Tendencies Biennial for Nordic contemporary crafts

The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Gallery F 15 and Ki Nurmenniemi, a Helsinki-based art curator, art writer, and doctoral researcher in interdisciplinary sustainability science. The 45th Tendencies Biennial embraces abundance, a way of perceiving the world that cherishes the plurality of lifeforms, relationships, and stories. Abundance is both a conceptual framework for sparking cultural change and an aesthetic approach that celebrates layeredness and boasts all the colours of the rainbow. The broader cultural context for the exhibition is the need to reshape values in the era of climate breakdown and ecological collapses. True sustainability cannot be achieved through preservation only; it also calls for transformations and the mindful reinvention of traditions.

Abundance features newly created artworks by 14 artists living and working across the Nordic countries and the Sápmi region. Through varied conceptual starting points and a broad range of materials and techniques, their artworks make tangible the invisible natural phenomena and delicate co-dependencies that weave the webs of life on our planet. Many of the featured artistic approaches reach beyond westernized aesthetic conventions and ways of understanding. The overarching question that the exhibition addresses is How do contemporary art and crafts practices converge to create more meaningful, livable and lovable worlds? 

The Artists taking part on this edition of Tendenser are:

Lene Baadsvig Ørmen (Norway) Ask Bjørlo (Norway) Hanne Friis (Norway) Ellen Grieg (Norway) Sasha Huber (Finland/Switzerland) Kristin Larsson (Sweden) Kim Laybourn (Norway/Denmark) Germain Ngoma (Norway) Outi Pieski, Biret & Gáddjá Haarla Pieski (Sápmi) Pearla Pigao (Norway) Elsa Salonen (Germany/Finland) Anna Ting Möller (China/Sweden) Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir (Iceland) Man Yau (Finland)

Tendenser

For nearly 50 years, Tendencies has been one of the leading platforms for contemporary crafts in the Nordic region. The biennial was first presented as an annual exhibition in 1971 at Galleri F 15 in Moss, Norway. Since then, the exhibition has expanded from its initial focus on Norwegian contemporary crafts to incorporating trends from across the Nordic countries. The 45th Tendencies exhibition and the adjacent symposium, both entitled Abundance, are organised in partnership with Norwegian Crafts and The Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute (FINNO). The Abundance symposium is generously supported by The Nordic Culture Fund and Kunsthåndverkernes fond (The craft fund, by the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts).

Elsa SalonenGallery F 15

3.2.–2.3.2023

Katja Tukiainen – The Name of the Colour is the GIRL

Katja Tukiainen’s solo exhibition at Galleria Snow consists of oil paintings, watercolor paintings, and small glazed ceramics. Katja gained recognition for her pink girl paintings and comics already at the end of the 1990’s. The girls in her paintings are both innocent and sassy, and she wants to create places of open-minded humanity with her works. Her paintings and installations have been regularly exhibited outside of Finland, but this is her first solo exhibition in Berlin.

“The title of my exhibition is The Name of the Colour is the GIRL. I have dealt with the meaning of the word “girl” and the symbolism of pink tones in my exhibitions since the 90s.
My doctoral thesis for Fine Arts at the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts is titled The Girl Army – Narrative Painting in Space. My research, conducted by painting and writing, was completed in 2022. Girl is not a swear word, not all girls are pink, and rose is a different color than pink.
My first solo exhibition in Berlin is not only about color and girls. It is also about landscape and idleness. Painting the exhibition is a process of reflection, change, and thoughts running wild on the canvas.” – Katja Tukiainen

Galleria Snow
Brunnenstrasse 170
10119 Berlin

Katja TukiainenGalleria Snow

11.11.–21.12.2022

Sirkku Rosi – Veck

The Exhibition at Finlandsinstitutets gallery in Stockholm consists of watercolors and hair sculptures where the lightness of the materials is combined with the skin, flesh, internal organs, and folding bodies. The skin is a leaky boundary between the person and the environment. Fluids circulate, the human body merges with the earth, carbon dioxide moves, and something grows from friction. The beginning of a small thicket emerges from the folds.

Sirkku Rosi works with watercolors based on bodily experience. She is interested in the shared nature of being between everything cellular and the knowledge of the flesh. In Rosi’s works, the twisting curves of the intestines are maps to the garden, and the organs penetrating through the skin are compared to stones polished by time.

Sirkku RosiFinlandinstitute Galleri

7.–13.11.2022

Raisa Raekallio and Misha del Val – Uncertain Tomorrow

Raisa Raekallio and Misha del Val are part of a collaborative network, “Uncertain Tomorrow”, formed by creative practitioners and institutions, exploring alternative ways of networking, exhibiting, and sharing ideas and resources.

As a result of the network’s ongoing dialogue, they have organised two exhibitions this year:
Uncertain Tomorrow, Espacio Marzana, BilbaoArte, Auditorium Guggenheim Museum, MEM Exhibition Hall, Bilbao, Spain. 7th-13th November.
And earlier this year, an exhibition in London, UK: Filet Art Space. 16th-19th June.

Uncertain Tomorrow aims to develop decentralised, international, creative networks, initiate dialogue between institutions and individuals, and generate new alliances & friendships that expand over time. The starting points for the discussion are social and economic precarity and the need to find ways of thriving through major societal changes.

Raisa Raekallio and Misha del ValUncertain Tomorrow Project

4.11.2022 18:00–20:30

Lotta Ingman – Force and Matter

Force and Matter – Paintings by Lotta Ingman

A book presentation at Mz.* Baltazar’s Laboratory, with a talk by Stephen Zepke.

Event between 18:00-21:00.
Stephen Zepke’s talk begins at 19:00.

Stephen Zepke’s reading of Lotta Ingman’s paintings is a sensitive and thoughtful analysis of what contemporary painting is today. With careful observations and elaborate lines of thought, philosopher Stephen Zepke introduces the reader to Ingman’s both playful and serious research into abstract painting. A research that in Zepke’s words “strives to offer the spectator an aesthetic experience that transcends both the corporeal and conceptual dimension, enabling the painting to retain its enigmatic openness of meaning.”

Artist is present at the event and she will also show works. Book is for sale during the event. 25€ (cash)

Lotta Ingman is an artist living in Finland. She studied at Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts, followed by further studies in France and Denmark. Ingman’s work has featured in solo and group exhibitions both in Finland and internationally.Ingman’s work is found in numerous collections including the Wihuri Art Collection, Pro Artibus and the Finnish State Art Deposit Collection.

Stephen Zepke is an independent researcher living in Vienna. His recent books are: Hacia un “nuevo” nuevo brutalismo. Encuentros con los Jardines de Robin Hood. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2022; Head in the Stars, Essays on Science Fiction. Multimedijaini institut, 2020; La Sensación Más Allá de Los Límites, Ensayos sobre arte y política. Javeriana University Press, 2019; Sublime Art, Towards an Aesthetics of the Future. Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Mz*Baltazar’s Lab aims at generating a culture of fearless making! An environment that fosters creativity, activism and provocative thinking! “We try to build an accessible, inclusive, open, safer and radical space, from which to evolve as people and as community. Open Source Technology is at the root of our philosophy, it enables us to share and collaborate without restrictions.We need this space to experiment with things as gender, hardware or our selves.”

Mz*Baltazar’s Laboratory,
Jägerstraße 52-54
1200 Vienna

Lotta IngmanMz*Baltazar’s Laboratory

4.11. – 17.12.2022

Hemmo Siponen and Anna Retulainen – Hidden Treasures

Finnish Painters Hemmo Siponen and Anna Retulainen take part in the group show Hidden Treasures at SCHWARZ CONTEMPORARY in Berlin.

This German-Finnish exhibition shows works by six artists based in Helsinki: Heidi Lampenius, Iisa Maaranen, Anna Retulainen, Kerttu Saali, Hemmo Siponen, and Aki Turunen, together with works of their Berlin-based colleagues Lutz Braun and Janne Räisänen.

Works by the internationally established artists Lutz Braun, Heidi Lampenius, Janne Räisänen, Anna Retulainen, and Aki Turunen are presented alongside works by the young painters Iisa Maaranen, Kerttu Saali, and Hemmo Siponen. It is thanks to the Finnish
curator Mikaela Lostedt that these three young artists, who have never before exhibited in Germany, are part of this exhibition. The ‘hidden treasures’ were brought to Berlin with the generous support of the Finnland-Institut in Germany and Frame Finland.

Hemmo SiponenAnna RetulainenSCHWARZ CONTEMPORARY

2.11.–25.11.2022

Satu Rautiainen – Nordic Painting 2022

Finnish Painter Satu Rautiainen is presented at the Nordic Painting 2022 exhibition at Nordic Culturpoint in Suomenlinna, Helsinki.

Nordic Painting is a three-year collaborative project (2022–2024) between Nordic Culture Point in Helsinki and the Finnish Painters’ Union (TML). Within the framework of Nordic Painting, an exhibition collaboration is carried out each year, together with a third party from another Nordic country. In 2022, it is Norway and the Association of Norwegian Painters (LNM) who act as partners. This year’s exhibition is divided into two parts and takes place partly in the Finnish Painters’ Union’s gallery in central Helsinki and partly in Nordic Culture Point’s historic premises in Suomenlinna.

The artists participating in Nordic Painting 2022 are Satu Rautiainen (FI) and Espen Brændsrød (NO) at Nordic Culture Point, and Meri Toivanen (FI) and Ingrid Toogood (NO) at tm•gallery.

Nordic Culture Point is one of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ cultural institutions and its purpose is to initiate and support pan-Nordic art and cultural projects, as well as contribute to increased knowledge of Nordic contemporary art and culture both in Finland and in the rest of the Nordic Region. In the project Nordic Painting, Nordic Culture Point acts as a sponsor for the costs of the Nordic guest artists’ participation in the exhibitions.

Nordic Culture Point, Suomenlinna B28, Helsinki, Finland
tm•gallery, Erottajankatu 9B, Helsinki, Finland

Satu RautiainenNordic Culture Point

31.10.2022

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20.–22.10.2022, 2.12.2022, 15.1.2023, 8.–12.3.2023, 14.–26.3.2023

Hannaleena Heiska – Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis, an experimental film by the Finnish Painter Hannaleena Heiska, takes part in several international film festivals in Canada, Finland, Norway, Serbia, and Mexico.

What happens when the audience and staff have left the exhibition hall, and the art begins to live its own life? The work suggests indulging in a viewing experience and being guided by a non-verbal narration.

Metamorphosis is an experimental short film shot on 16 mm black and white film that combines painting and contemporary ballet. The film is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between visual artist Hannaleena Heiska and dancer-choreographer Minna Tervamäki. It was shot in the empty exhibition hall of the Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA.

Experimental Film Guanajuato (MX) 20.–22.10.2022
Kinoskop – International festival of analog experi mental cinema, Belgrade (RS) 2.12.2022
Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim (NO) 15.1.2023
The International Festival of Films on Art FIFA, Montréal (CA) 8–12.3.2023
Tampere Film Festival (FI) 14.–26.3.2023

Hannaleena HeiskaThe International Festival of Films on Art FIFA Tampere Film Festival Minimalen Short Film Festival Kinoskop - International festival of analog experimental cinemaExperimental Film GuanajuatoExcerpt of the film Metamorphosis at the website of the Centre for Finnish Media Art

7.10.2022–2.4.2023

Raisa Raekallio & Misha del Val, Stiina Saaristo and Hanna Kanto – Navigating North

Navigating North – Works from the Wihuri Foundation Collection

The Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Collection is one of Finland’s most prestigious collections of contemporary art. It was donated to the City of Rovaniemi in 1983, and it is deposited at Rovaniemi Art Museum. This exhibition presents a selection of artworks from the Wihuri Foundation Collection chosen by Kiasma’s curators.

The exhibition looks north, featuring numerous artists who either come from northern Finland or reside there, highlighting themes related to the natural environment and local communities. One of its primary thematic concerns is the relationship between humans and nature. It portrays how nature is a source of life and strength, but also an object of control and exploitation upon which humans have left their imprint.

The exhibition features works by 48 artists, including Finnish Painters Raisa Raekallio and Misha del Val, Stiina Saaristo and Hanna Kanto.

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Mannerheiminaukio 2,
FIN-00100
Helsinki, Finland

Raisa Raekallio and Misha del ValStiina SaaristoHanna KantoKiasma

1.10.2022

Jukka Siikala – Unnatural Encounters

Finnish Painter Jukka Siikala participates in the event Unnatural Encounters by Infinity Land Press. Go and meet the artist! 

The event will take place on the 1st of October 2022 and will begin with a book sale & art exhibition followed by an evening of readings, screenings, book launches, and performances. 

Unnatural Encounters is a gathering of bodies, a confluence of minds, an assemblage of artists – a site within which language, visuals, and music break free of their bonds and then burst forth in an orgy of performance and spectacle. A place and a time in which boundaries dissolve and genres explode. Go and meet the Finnish Painter Jukka Siikala. He is known for his bizarre and wonderful paintings and his photo and video work dealing with the themes of surreal sexuality and sociological perspective on nature and life.

Unnatural Encounters
Michael Salerno, Hector Meinhof, Steve Finbow, RJ Dent & Karolina Urbaniak, Audrey Szasz, Martin Bladh, Shane Levene, Thomas Moore, Philip Best, Jukka Siikala, Jack Sargeant, Devin Horan

56 Brook Street
Mayfair
London W1K 5NE
UK

Jukka SiikalaInfinity Land Press

1.10.–22.10.2022

Elina Försti – Paintings and Drawings

Elina FörstiGalerie Toolbox

24.9.–16.10.2022

Tiina Mielonen – Aineenvaihdunta – Stoffwechsel

Tiina Mielonen takes part in a group exhibition “Aineenvaihdunta – Stoffwechsel” at plan.d. Produzentengalerie in Düsseldorf, Germany.

The exhibition is an exchange project between two galleries – plan.d. in Dusseldorf and Galleria Huuto in Helsinki. “Aineenvaihdunta – Stoffwechsel” has a number of meanings and connotations: it can mean metabolism, but also the exchange of fabrics or material change. It can also be about the artistic approach – processing different thoughts, impressions, and ideas into the production of art. The topic has also encouraged a dialogue between the two galleries since “Stoffwechsel” implies a kind of exchange.

“Aineenvaihdunta – Stoffwechsel
Päivi Allonen, Beata Joutsen, Saija Koponen, Nuutti Koskinen, Tiina Mielonen, Pilvi Ojala, Paula Puoskari, Hanna Saarikoski, Maiju Salmenkivi, Katariina Salmijärvi, Laura Ukkonen and Marja Viitahuhta.

plan.d. produzentengalerie e.V.
dorotheenstr. 59
40235 düsseldorf

Tiina Mielonenproduzentengalerie plan. d.

9.–11.9.2022

Heikki Marila, Eeva Peura and Marianna Uutinen – The Armory Show 2022

Finnish Painters Heikki Marila, Eeva Peura and Marianna Uutinen are presented by Galerie Forsblom at the Armory Show 2022 in New York. 

The gallery is proud to show works by established Nordic and international artists such as Stephan Balkenhol, Anna Fasshauer,  Peter Halley, Jacob Hashimoto, Emma Helle, Heikki Marila, Marika Mäkelä, Secundino Hernández, Emanuel Seitz, Kim Simonsson, Eeva Peura and Marianna Uutinen.

The Armory Show
Javits Center – Crystal Palace
429 11th Avenue
New York, NY 1000

Heikki MarilaEeva PeuraMarianna UutinenGalerie Forsblom

2.9.–8.10.2022

Sami Havia – Estranged

Massey Klein Gallery presents Estranged, a solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Sami Havia. The exhibition will be on view from September 2nd through October 8th. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 10th from 4-7pm. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Sami Havia’s works explore the relationship between the abstract and figurative with a focus on light and observation.  Surrealist in nature, Havia’s paintings are accidental yet deliberate.  The seven new paintings and nine drawings presented in Estranged are pictorial representations of Havia’s phantasmagorical observations rooted in reality. Each painting is a mutation of the artist’s pictorial mind map, imagination, and subconscious. Some paintings contain figurative elements shrouded in absurd and abstract environmental elements, while others present identifiable human figures, absorbed into landscapes and escaping reality with an accentuated playfulness.

Massey Klein Gallery, 124 Forsyth Street, New York, NY 10002

Sami HaviaMassey Klein Gallery

25.–28.8.2022

Eeva Peura – CHART ART FAIR 2022

Eeva Peura is presented by Galerie Forsblom at the CHART 2022 in Copengagen. Galerie Forsblom spotlights four Finnish artists: Emma Helle, Kaarina Kaikkonen, Eeva Peura, and Kim Simonsson. All four represent different media – Helle ceramics, Kaikkonen textile art, Peura painting, and Simonsson ceramics with a nylon fiber coating. Their featured works cover a diverse spectrum, yet there are visible synergies and kinships between them, such as boundless curiosity in exploring what it means to be human, whether through the lens of history, social practice, or fantasy. 

Eeva PeuraGalerie Forsblom

25.–28.8.2022

Anna Tuori – CHART ART FAIR 2022

In CHART 2022, Galerie Anhava presents new paintings by Anna Tuori alongside video work and a wall mural by Jani Ruscica. The artists have worked collaboratively in the production of this site-specific presentation which will be exhibited for the first time at this year’s CHART.

CHART 2022
Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark

Anna TuoriGalerie Anhava

6.8.–5.11.2022

Elsa Salonen – BODIES OF WATER

In BODIES OF WATER three artists (Hannelore Nenning, Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Elsa Salonen, curated by Petra Poelz) are investigating the current condition of water landscapes from an activist, animistic and geopolitical perspective. A plea to relinquish the idea of any clear separability between humankind and nature.

BODIES OF WATER, Trio Exhibition
Kunstpavillon
Rennweg 8a
6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Elsa SalonenKunstpavillon

8.4.–16.10.2022

Joel Slotte – ARS22

Finnish Painter Joel Slotte participates in the ARS22 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland.

ARS22 presents some of the most compelling artists and art of the day, and we are happy to tell that Joel Slotte, one of the 50 artists on our finnishpainters website, is part of this major exhibition. ARS22 is the tenth instalment in the series of major international contemporary art exhibitions originally launched in 1961. Over the decades, the ARS exhibitions have presented the public with the latest trends in contemporary art. Art has the power to investigate society and present alternative interpretations of our shared world. Works featured in ARS22 explore the everyday lives and dreams of individuals and communities.

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Mannerheiminaukio 2,
FIN-00100
Helsinki, Finland

Joel SlotteARS22