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Shia Conlon: Sites of Dreaming 26.5. – 2.7.2023

“Sites of Dreaming” is a photography exhibition that documents the lives of transgender individuals living in Finland, with a particular focus on the often-overlooked and more mundane aspects of their lives. This exhibition marks the end of a long-term project that began in 2019 and will conclude in 2023.

The purpose of this work was twofold: […]

13.5.2023 by

05/05-23/06/2023 Aaro Murphy: Volatile Score / Iso Galleria

Visual artist Aaro Murphy works across media such as sound, video and smell. He creates time-based sculptures and installations that question the boundaries between the animate and the inanimate, the organic and the synthetic. The multimedia installation Volatile Score is a self-operating air and sound instrument. Murphy visited smell laboratories and recorded sound for the work during […]

6.4.2023 by

Utu-Tuuli Jussila: Härmä / Hoar 14.4. – 14.5.2023

My grandmother lived to be 94 years old (1925–2019). She wished to live also the last years of her life alone in her home in Ylihärmä in South Ostrobothnia, kilometres away from the nearest town. She had early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, which is why she occasionally imagined that strangers visited the yard or the basement. A […]

4.4.2023 by

10/03-23/04/2023 NYTT 2023

NYTT 2023 exhibits brand new contemporary art produced by graduating students from the Turku University of Applied Sciences, Arts Academy. The exhibition runs until April 2nd in Taiteen Talo and until April 23rd in Turun Taidehalli. The graduate exhibition consists of works by 23 artists in total, each of whom has their individual perspective and […]

21.2.2023 by

Emma Sarpaniemi: Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower 24.2.–26.3.2023

At Photographic Centre Peri’s galleries at Kunsthalle Turku: Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower is a performative photography series exploring women’s self-portraiture through play. To free the subject and the gaze from certain patriarchal ideals of femininity, the character is a playful and tender representation of a woman who behaves, looks, and performs on her […]

15.2.2023 by

Yujie Zhou: Four Women 13.1. – 12.2.2023

The first exhibition of Photographic Centre Peri’s exhibition programme of 2023! Four Women started in 2019, two years after my great-grandmother died. At that time, I started to go back to her house; where she used to live, and where we used to live together, to rediscover her stories. Giving life back to my grandmother’s […]

10.1.2023 by

TURKU ARTISTS’ ASSOCIATION’S 99TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION AT ISO GALLERIA, KUNSTHALLE TURKU 13/01-26/02/2023

Turku Artists’ Association’s 99th Annual Exhibition at Iso Galleria in Kunsthalle Turku, January 13th to February 26th, 2023 The 99th Annual Exhibition has been curated by set designer and puppet theatre artist Johanna Latvala. The Turku Artists’ Association’s 99th Annual Exhibition received 151 work proposals: sculptures, installations, collages, paintings and drawings as well as graphics, photography, textile […]

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