We are living in a time where the environment is changing rapidly and disappearing into the past. Dawn Chorus explores the perception of nature, disappearance, sense of loss and melancholy. It delves into an intimate emotion that is easily ignored in a society marked by the virtues of efficiency and material values. Fewer and fewer […]
Sculpture as a Carbon Storage is a collective work, an archive-like concept composed of sculptural elements made by 37 artists. The artists have used pieces of waste wood and reject timber intended to be used as fuel for the district heating network. The carbon stored in the material is removed from the material cycle and […]
When visiting Turku Kunsthalle, please note (modified 2.2.2022): Don’t come to Turku Kunsthalle if you have even the slightest flu symptoms. Face mask is strongly recommended in all the spaces. Also please take care of hand hygiene and cover your mouth when coughing. We will limit the amount of visitors if needed to keep safety […]
The Winter Garden in the Lobby Gallery of the Kunsthalle consists of works from the selection of Turku Artoteque. The shades and themes of the exhibited works breathe in the winter season. A large number of sculptures have been selected for the exhibition. All the works in the winter garden can be bought or rented, […]
The Allergic Cowboy is a story of a man who betrays his manhood and becomes an icon in the Finnish countryside of the 1950s. The cowboy is an agricultural worker who is allergic to horses. He is a homosexual idolising the Marlboro ads and doing his best to protect his fragile masculinity in a time […]
I want to belong to the living is a collaborative exhibition with Anna Hillbom, Isfrid Angard Siljehaug and Ann-Catrin Olsson. We share an urgency to make possible a tactile re-reading of the past, where the agency of each artist’s work at times is blurred, at times visible. For the exhibition at Åbo Konsthall we wish to present new […]
The 98th Annual Exhibition of Turku Artists’ Association 15 July – 28 August 2022 The 98th Annual Exhibition of Turku Artists’ Association will be presented at Kunsthalle Turku from 15 July – 28 August 2022. The Annual Exhibition of Turku Artists’ Association is a tradition going back nearly 100 years. The Annual Exhibition 2022 is […]
ELECTRIC SPANIEL – WILD NIGHTS The sound and visual artists Jonna Karanka, Merja Kokkonen, and Laura Naukkarinen — also known by their artist names Kuupuu, Islaja, and Lau Nau — performed and released improvisation-based music together as Hertta Lussu Ässä in 2005-2011. After a ten-year break, the trio became aware of their yearning to make […]
The exhibition Scope features photography-based works, a readymade-style installation, and a video essay. The works to be hung on the walls are my photos from 2015-2021. Apart from two of them, they have been distorted through artificial intelligence. I have selected some parts from the photos, and then used a tool to fill these areas […]
“There’s a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness.” “These words by Fernando Pessoa inspired us to search for pieces portraying sensitivity, freedom, hope, light and peace; something to make you stop and forget about the world around you for a moment,” say Villanueva and Sillgren. The fifth Artoteque Pique Nique exhibition ‘There’s non-existent peace in […]
