Opening on Thrusday November 14th 5pm-7pm! Guided tour on Sunday December 1st 1pm. The exhibition presents the figure of a man as both strong and sensitive, a being who reflects another person. He looks at another man, but at the same time at himself, trying to find the right way to exist in the […]
In November, Inari Raaterova’s autobiographical solo exhibition Disorder will open in Turku Kunstahalles Iso Gallery. The exhibition, which uses printmaking and drawing, travels loosely the chronicles of the artist’s life focusing on their years as a psychiatric patient. The series of some thirty works explores the impact of misdiagnosed psychiatric illness on the artist’s self-image […]
Suzanne Mooney: Shatter, Scatter 4.10.-3.11.2024 Opening on Thrusday 3rd October 5pm-7pm! Guided tour on Sunday, 13th October 1pm. “An intact window is interesting mainly for its transparency. But when the window breaks, what intrigues us is the brittleness that was there all along” [1] The exhibition explores the material of glass in relation […]
Turun Taiteilijaseuran näyttelyvuoden 2025 avaa taiteilijaseuran 101. vuosinäyttely Turun Taidehallin Iso Galleriassa 10.1.–23.2.2025. Kaikki Varsinais-Suomessa asuvat taiteilijat ja taideopiskelijat voivat ehdottaa teoksiaan vuosinäyttelyyn. Vuosinäyttelyn kuratoi kuvanveistäjä Maria Stereo. Hänet tunnetaan runsaan koristeellista visuaalisuutta ja kierrätysmateriaaleja oivaltavasti hyödyntävänä kuvataiteilijana. Stereo on toiminut kuvataiteen kentällä aktiivisena 2010-luvun alusta alkaen. Näyttelyiden kuratointi toteutetaan anonyymisti. Vuosinäyttelyn kuraattori valitsee vuosinäyttelyn taiteilijoista […]
Aura Saarikoski: Grey Mélange 23.8.–22.9.2024 Opening on Thrusday 22nd August 5pm-7pm. Guided tour Sunday 15th September 1pm. Aura Saarikoski’s exhibition Grey Mélange is an intimate exploration of the conditions and ethics of constructing an autofictional work; how one’s own life is framed as a work of art, from whose perspective the story is told, […]
Vītālis ∼ luminous oval, is a spatial visual delight bursting with vitality, fire and whispering, where repetition and interludes rhythmically intertwine. A stream of serigraphy twists the core and invites other forms of artistic representation to allegorical composition. Just a slight breeze and the meaning of the words gets blurry. I return to a […]
Welcome to the opening on 11.7.2024 from 5pm-7pm! Guided tour on Thursday 15th June 6pm and 8pm. In early 2020, amidst the urban landscape of Changchun, once the capital of “Manchukuo,” (Manchukuo, Japanese puppet state in Northeast China from 1932 to 1945) the artist Yuxuan Cui’s accidental discovery near home reignited a deep exploration of hidden relics […]
In Kaija Hinkula’s exhibition Gardener, colourful (nurtured?) painting objects and the gardener undefined actions are at the center of the whole. The works consist of sculptural paintings combined with objects used in the care of green plants, such as watering balls and spikes or parts of a mini greenhouse. The works cut out of board […]
Welcome to the opening on 23.5.2024 from 5pm-7pm! Guided tour on Saturday 15th June 1pm. It’s a little bit magic Like a river of morning geese In the new warm mountain Where the stone face forms and speaks I believe in you Even when you need to Recoil Big Thief – “Dragon New Warm […]
