Opening on Thrusday June 26th 5pm-7pm Guided tour on Sunday July 27th 1pm, Lydia Toivanen as guide. The exhibition explores the internal dynamics of a large family, the forms of togetherness, and the spiritual-material world of experience. My nuclear family consists of fourteen people, parents and twelve children.Our extended family has a total of 91 […]
Kilta Gallery, which opened in autumn 2024 in The Fire Brigade Building of Art House Turku, will have a new operator in one year, in summer 2026. The new operator will be Photographic Centre Peri, which will relocate to Kilta Gallery from just a few dozen metres away, at Kunsthalle Turku. The space will become […]
Opening on Thrusday May 8th 5pm-7pm Guided tour on Saturday June 14th 1pm. The term relief comes from the Latin verb relevare, which means ‘to raise’ or ‘to lift again’. In a similar way the works in this exhibition lift photographic material from public and personal queer archives. Relief is also used to describe a […]
Eeva hannula: In The Fugue Of Gestures, Forms Arrange Themselves As They Wish 21.2. – 23.3.2025 Opening on Thrusday February 20th 5pm-7pm Guided tour on Sunday March 16th 1pm. Of all the compositions of time, I have ended up in this internal cave of mine, watching reflections—shells of reality that I cannot control—as they rain […]
Jonne Sippola: Tarja, Berndt ja minä 10.1. – 9.2.2025 Opening on Thrusday January 9th 5pm-7pm! Guided tour on Sunday January 19th 1pm. The exhibition is a comprehensive photographic work that explores the shared growth story between the artist and their parents during Sippola’s transition process.* The photographs document the pain points, development, and healing experiences […]
Turku Artists’ Association’s 101st annual exhibition: ODYSSEIAIso Galleria at Kunsthalle Turku, 10.1.– 23.2.2025 During Turku Artists’ Association’s century-long history, the annual exhibition has always been a reflection of its current curator. The association’s 101st annual exhibition was curated by Maria Stereo, a visual artist with a diverse artistic career. The curator describes the exhibition’s theme […]
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 […]
