Concrete Currents – Photographs by Arto Saari
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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
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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
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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 […]