Using torches to light their path, paleolithic people traversed caves painted with a vast array of animal and humanoid figures. The interaction between the dancing flame and the structural formations of the walls made the images appear to move as if alive. The art of the era could be viewed as a kind of proto-cinema, […]
Exhibited in the Small Gallery of Kunsthalle Turku, the ‘Rest of Us’ video trilogy by Leena Kela and videographer Jussi Virkkumaa captures performances exploring the time after humans. The series consists of the parts ‘There Is No Planet B’ (2020), ‘Rest of Time’ (2021) and, premiering in the exhibition, ‘If You Fall, We Will Fall […]
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 […]
