art-exhibitions
{mosimage}This autumn’s main exhibition at Ateneum museum travels to Denmark and brings an overview of Danish 19th-century art. Starting from the Golden Age, it presents 90 works from major Danish artists including C.W. Eckersberg, Christen Købke, J.Th. Lundbye, P.C. Skovgaard, Vilhelm Hammershøi and L.A. Ring. This is the most extensive collection of Danish Golden Age […]
{mosimage}Dan Beard is a young British artist who works and lives in Tampere. A couple of months ago he had his first solo show in Galleria Oma Huone, and now continues moving around the art scene of Helsinki with this new current exhibition that brings his paintings to Kanneltalo, the cultural centre in Kannelmäki, Helsinki. […]
{mosimage} Once every three years something exciting happens in Jyväskylä – LUMO the International Photography Triennial comes to town. This year celebrates the 7th LUMO event with the theme of ‘us’ and like the previous six, promises everything one should expect of an internationally renowned triennial. The theme of ‘us’ has attracted photographers whose work […]
2007 is the year of a big celebration! Finland has its 90th anniversary of national independence this December. Over the past decades, Finland has experienced an unprecedented rate of economic, technological and social change. Our whole way of life is now totally different from what it used to be a few decades ago. {mosimage} Oi […]
{mosimage}The Triangle of Life Theoretically, at least, Sami artist Tuula-Maija Magga-Hetta’s exhibition is thought-provoking. Almost all of the exhibits in the Sami Museum’s gallery are based around the triangle: the shape of the traditional Sami tent, a shape associated with unrequited love, but also the strongest of shapes. But this is, perhaps, as far […]
The works are by almost two hundred artists, mostly Finnish ones. The pieces, from the 16th century up to the present, have mainly been provided by the Finnish National Gallery. The various themes in the exhibition illustrate how the roles of animals have changed over the centuries. Pay special attention to Gallen Kallela’s and Ferdinand […]
There couldn’t be better words to describe the pictures in the Sleeping Beauty section of Jaana Partanen’s exhibition Arjen alkemiaa (Everyday Alchemy) currently at the Finnish Museum of Photography. A bunch of old ladies framed in silver, against a silver background, are holding glasses of wine or laundry baskets and leaning against a rollaattori– this […]
{mosimage}Amir Khatib explains that the network was born with the goal of helping the artists that are in the crossroads of the third culture. “It was born of a personal need”, he says. Indeed, he arrived in 1990 as refugee from Pakistan where he was a street painter. Since his arrival, Khatib has used the […]
The works are not arranged chronologically but thematically, according to the most recurring subjects in the collection. Thereby, the visitor becomes acquainted with pastoral landscapes, descriptions of Finnish nature in different seasons, as well as intimate portraits. According to Turku Art Museum’s curator Christian Hoffmann, the depiction of Finnish nature in landscape paintings was a […]
{mosimage}The basement gallery of the respectable National Library is turned into a den of sin and debauchery. The exhibition consists of 'zines, comics, poetry, records, drawings, photographs and films that shook the conservative Finnish society of the late '60s. The efforts of the underground movement, based on psychedelia, experimental music, beat poetry, dada and student […]
The current exhibition, Stomach Pains, Head Aches and Dizziness, concentrates on the collision of reality and the digital world of media. The gallery is filled with art that combines the electric and inanimate with the material human body. For those with the desire to experiment, probably the most intriguing piece would be Laughing My Guts […]
{mosimage} Things Do Not Change, a photographic exhibition by Carla Schubert, a Finnish-Austrian artist, comprises a series of black and white photographs portraying shapes and details of woods, trees, roots… The beauty of the undated and untitled photographs is underlined by their being associated with quotes from the book Walden written in 1854 by Henry […]