Saastamoinen Foundation Collection Exhibition Dialogues
The collection exhibition presents Finnish and international contemporary art from the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection.
The premise of the Dialogues exhibition has been the pairs or groups of works that enter into a free dialogue with one another. The display, focusing on the foundation’s recent acquisitions, encourages to consider the works in relation to one another and to freely draw parallels between them. The exhibition is an invitation to engage in dialogue or conversation, that will hopefully foster myriad interpretations. The collection exhibition also includes a media space displaying Saastamoinen Foundation’s new media art acquisitions.
Saastamoinen Foundation is a globally active partner of art and science. The foundation’s art collection is one of Finland’s most significant collections of Finnish and international art. It originated in the 1910s as the private collection of a Kuopio-based industrialist family in eastern Finland. The foundation was established in 1968 to promote social progress through art and science and support the expansion, preservation and presentation of the collection. The collection is owned by the Saastamoinen family foundation and deposited at EMMA. It currently comprises over 3,000 works.
