For their show at Turku Kunsthalle, Andrey Bogush combines printed screenshots, found photographs, digital drawings and butterfly-shaped cut-outs. Employing the butterfly’s transformative character and its shape as a flat display for their disobedient imagery, Bogush presents a visceral introduction to their research on flesh and desire. Andrey Bogush’s practice is informed by the digital condition […]
In May, the Lobby Gallery will showcase the third installment in the Artoteque Pique Nique series of exhibitions with pieces selected from the sales collection of Turku Artotheque. The exhibition will be put together by curator Nina Rantala, as a representative of the Jöötti ry: “My starting point was the sameness and interaction of the […]
The portraits in the exhibition represent the loved ones artist Jesse Avdeikov misses in different ways and for different reasons. “In my mind, I’m building a place that I first imagined as a cottage. Then, it became an island that I can visit when I want. A place for memories and past events. I exclude […]
This week is Kunsthalle Turku’s maintenance week. Turku Artotheque is normally open this week Wed-Sat 12-18 & Sun 12-16. The new exhibitions will open in two weeks time on Friday 7th of May.
Artists graduating from the Arts Academy of Turku University of Applied Sciences introduce a diverse selection of contemporary art at Kunsthalle Turku and its surroundings. The NYTT 2021 exhibition consists of the graduation projects of 21 Fine Arts students. The exhibition is wide-ranging in terms of techniques and themes, presenting artwork from animation to oil […]
Kunsthalle Turku’s Open Call 2022 has ended. This year the amount of proposals grew by twenty percent compared to last year. The Art Committee will begin reading through the proposals and hope to publish the exhibition program for 2022 as well as the selected artists in May. Through the open call, the Kunsthalle Turku exhibitions […]
During its nearly two years of operation, the Ord och Inga Visor project has brought together hundreds of children, young people and adults in workshops. The project’s third exhibition, consisting of pieces produced in the workshops at Hannunniittu school in the autumn of 2020, is now displayed at Kunsthalle Turku. Workshop instructor Margarita Rosselló Ramón […]
Honey, Please is a photographic installation covering the floors and walls with digitally printed textiles and creating a space which the viewer enters as they arrive in the gallery. Started in 2020, Honey, Please is a curious and hopeful attempt to recover from chronic anxiety caused by an impending sense of doom. The exhibition intertwines the […]
Exhibited at Kunsthalle Turku for the first time, the two-channel video piece Obsidian Blue Pearl is an installation version of Jussi Eerola’s minimalistic short Blue Honda Civic that premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2020. The installation consists of landscapes seen through the windscreen of a car parked on the side of […]
Turku Artists’ Association and Photographic Centre Peri are looking for proposals for the exhibition programme of Kunsthalle Turku. The organisers are particularly interested in new productions of contemporary and photographic art that have not been previously exhibited in Turku. The open call applies to any professional artists working with visual arts, photography or media. The […]
