Marjo Hallila – Pieces

Aika 18.01.2025
23.03.2025

In creating works for this exhibition, visual artist Marjo Hallila has continued her experimental process. The exhibition builds on her previous work in experimental contemporary printmaking and abstract painting, with a focus on new production. The collection represents an “in-between” space where Hallila revisits the past while reaching toward the future.

The Pieces exhibition by Marjo Hallila is a journey along the boundary of past and future. It is a transitional space where the artist revisits the past and reaches towards the future, exploring the impact of time and place. Throughout the journey, Hallila develops artwork ideas, production processes, and various perspectives, merging different media and materials.

The Pieces exhibition, opening in February 2025, offers a window into Marjo Hallila’s multidisciplinary and experimental creative process. It brings together works from various years, presenting an overview of the central themes and materials that have defined her career. The exhibition includes both old and new works, creating a spatial and temporal unity where past and future intersect.

In her expression, Hallila combines experimental contemporary graphics, abstract painting, installations, textiles, and photography. Her work is based on a continuous interaction between materials and environment. Rather than limiting herself to one art form or technique, Hallila emphasizes a multi-material and intuitive approach, allowing the processes to shape her work: “Multidisciplinary work is my art’s strength and lifeline. Intersecting processes draw influence from each other, support, challenge, and question each other. I work in constant interaction with materials and the environment. My work is grounded in the question of understanding concepts of being and essence.”

The Pieces exhibition offers an opportunity to see Marjo Hallila’s art as she experiences it: in a state of continuous change, drawing from the past and reaching toward new forms of expression.

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Marjo Hallila is a contemporary artist from Central Finland whose work emphasizes multidisciplinary, experimental, and conceptual approaches. She holds a Master of Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2017) and from the University of Art and Design Helsinki (2005). Her work is featured in both domestic and international collections, and she has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions. Since autumn 2024, Hallila has been based in Jyväskylä and her artist home Joussaari in Kaitaa village, Miehikkälä.

The exhibition and the artist’s work have been supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland and the Central Finland regional Fund of the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Exhibition inquiries:
Senior Curator Ilja Koivistoilja.koivisto@jyvaskyla.fi+358 50 311 8879