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Concrete Currents – Photographs by Arto Saari

But a ticket Arto Saari is one of the most famous skateboarding professionals of the early 2000s. After leaving professional skateboarding, Arto Saari has immersed himself in photography. Concrete Currents offers a personal insight into the subculture called skateboarding. Arto Saari started skateboarding in the early 1990s in the shade of buildings designed by Alvar […]

Lizzie Armanto: Colors

Buy a ticket The Colors exhibition presents skateboarding culture through the eyes of Lizzie Armanto, a well-known American-Finnish professional skateboarder. As its name indicates, Colors explores the diversity, tolerance and colourfulness of skateboarding. It looks at places, tricks, boards and communities. A skateboarder looks at his environment through the possibilities of skateboarding. This is how […]

From the Surf to the Sidewalk – When Skateboarding Culture and Architecture Meet

Buy a ticket The exhibition shows how the free-form design of the Villa Mairea swimming pool, by Alvar Aalto, found its way to the United States and how a new phenomenon of urban culture emerged in California. The kidney-shaped pool has, over decades and through meandering paths, become a symbol of pool skateboarding. The exhibition […]

The Capital – Samples of Jyväskylä Rap

Buy a ticket Jyväskylä has been called the capital of Finnish hip hop culture. How has rap from Jyväskylä contributed to this image? The exhibition tells the story of how rap from Central Finland has had a significant impact on Finnish hip-hop culture from the 1990s to 2015.  Rap music is the most popular music […]