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Group exhibition: Selected Works

An exhibition will be seen at Helsinki Contemporary in July, as the second Selected Works group show will bring to the gallery a selection of works from current contemporary artists: Ville Andersson, Lukas Göthman, Heidi Lampenius, Rauha Mäkilä and Perttu Saksa. A new video work by Tuomas A. Laitinen will be seen as part of …
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Brutal tenderness

Roland Persson’s solo exhibition brutal tenderness fills Helsinki Contemporary in June with an uncanny version of reality. In his new works, Persson delves deep into the structures of the human-built world, and our ways of experiencing it, existing in it.
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Sanni Saari ”23 Possible Ends of a Firefly”

Open curtains, broken rails. A small, fragile, hovering dot. The dots become visible like fireflies. In the middle of everything, the beauty of consciousness, a silver wattle with its leaves persistently reaching into the air. I ask all observers to pay attention to them, their far-reaching mysterious glow. The plants…
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Vesa Hjort ”Of Light and Lightness”

The landscape paintings in the “Of light and lightness” exhibition deal with the area between the external and internal, visible and invisible world. Serving as the structural spine of the works, the landscape reflects what is going on in the internal world.
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Vesa-Pekka Rannikko: Lions Eat Grass

Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s (b. 1968) new works see him return to figurative expression and characters that were last seen from him a decade ago. Lions Eat Grass is an exhibition about escapism, concrete fantasies, identities, and artificial paradises, which are presented to us through plaster sculptures and animated drawings. The exhibition…
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FOKUS GALLERY: HANNU VÄISÄNEN AND SCHILLMARK VARIATIONS

The exhibition features variations by the visual artist and author Hannu Väisänen (born 1951) of Nils Schillmark’s painting Strawberry Girl (1782). The work at the Ateneum made an indelible impression on the artist as a child. The model for the painting was a girl from a noble family, Ulrika Charlotta…
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Sissel Tolaas

In autumn 2021, Astrup Fearnley Museet presents a solo exhibition by the Norwegian artist and smell researcher Sissel Tolaas.
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THE HOUR OF RECKONING

The exhibition will present the original art collection given to the museum by Sonja Henie and Niels Onstad and some of the latest acquisitions to the Collection.
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EXPOSED

For the first time, the public will have the opportunity to experience one of Norway's largest private collections of photography.
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MERZ! FLUX! POP!

This exhibition showcases the German avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) and his artist colleagues.
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Hanni Kamaly: THE MIGHT THEY HAVE

Much like Hanni Kamaly’s practice, the artist’s chosen title for the exhibition at Index – THE MIGHT THEY HAVE – is layered, considered, precise. A fragment of a statement, it is an acknowledgement suggestive of status and respect. It also seems to pose a question within its grammatical structure. A…
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LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE

Welcome to the first major retrospective exhibition of British artist and writer Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The exhibition ”Fly In League With The Night” features around 80 paintings and the presentation spans over the artist’s entire career – from her graduation show at the Royal Academy Schools in London in 2003 to…
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IN LADY BARCLAY’S SALON

The years from 1890 to the first World War were a golden era for the arts in Sweden. This exhibition presents beautiful pictorialist photographs and selected paintings from this period. The more than 300 works from the rich collections of Moderna Museet and Nationalmuseum give us an insight into art…
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