Category: Exhibitions

Marjo Hallila – Pieces

Buy a ticket 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 […]

Glass designer Erkki Vesanto

Buy a ticket Artist Erkki Vesanto (1915–1990) dedicated his career to Finnish glass design at the Iittala glassworks. His work primarily focused on functional glassware design, though he also created art glass and cut crystal pieces. Artist Erkki Vesanto (1915-1990) was the first designer hired full-time by a Finnish glass factory. He worked at Iittala […]

Outimaija Hakala – From the Woods

Buy a ticket In visual artist Outimaija Hakala’s exhibition, a forest grows in a human-made space. This forest is a diverse whole, an artistic kin to an ecological biome, composed of plaster, wood, and paper instead of organic, living matter, with visual and auditory echoes from the outside. What is a forest? How does it […]

Kangas Revisited

Buy a ticket Kangas Revisited is the second part of a project documenting the transformation of the Kangas area. This part of the project is focusing on the intersection of old and new, the area’s transformation, and the essence of its evolving life. Out of the ruins of a paper mill, the new Kangas district […]

Sacred spaces: Community and Continuity in Aaltos’ Architecture

Osta lippu The Sacred spaces exhibition showcases the Aaltos’ design of sacred spaces through 3D model images. The exhibition also offers a glimpse into the Aaltos’ unbuilt ecclesiastical spaces. Curated and scripted by Dr. Tammy Gaber, this exhibition has been developed in collaboration with students from the McEwen School of Architecture at Laurentian University. The exhibition […]

On a Journey with Elsi and Tove – churches from Teuva to Taulumäki

Osta lippu The exhibition Elsi and Tove’s Journey brings together the church architecture of Elsi Borg (1893-1958) and the art of Tove Jansson (1914-2001).   The inspiration for the exhibition can be found in the 1950s in Ostrobothnia, when Borg’s late-period masterpiece, Teuva Church, was completed. The church was crowned with a powerful horizontal altarpiece by […]

Green Hydrogen Power

The importance of renewable energy sources is constantly growing. Green hydrogen has emerged as one solution, but its potential applications in everyday life remain a question for many: what is green hydrogen, and what role might it play in our daily lives in Central Finland? These questions are explored in the interactive exhibition “Vihreä vetyvoima” […]

ME – YOU – WE: The Jyväskylä Artists’ Association’s 74th annual exhibition

Buy a ticket Jyväskylä Artists’ Association was founded after the wars in 1945. Despite of its name, its operating area covers the whole of Central Finland. The rules of the Association emphasize the importance of exhibitions. Since the beginning the most important of the exhibitions, the annual exhibition, was held almost every year. Next year, […]

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 […]