Mortti Saarnia / Allergic Cowboy, 8.1. – 6.2.2022

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…

Anna Hillbom, Isfrid Angard Siljehaug ja Ann-Catrin Olsson / I want to belong to the living, 8.1. – 6.2.2022

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…

The 98th Annual Exhibition of Turku Artists’ Association, 15.7. – 28.8.2022

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…

Jonna Karanka, Merja Kokkonen & Laura Naukkarinen, 10.6. – 10.7.2022

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…
Saku Soukka, 2020

Saku Soukka / Scope, 10.6. – 10.7.2022

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…

TURKU ARTOTHEQUE / ARTOTEQUE PIQUE NIQUE 5, 6.5.-10.7.2022

“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…

The 97th Annual Exhibition of Turku Artists’ Association, 12.11.-19.12.2021

The 97th Annual Exhibition of Turku Artists’ Association will be presented at Kunsthalle Turku from 12 November to 19 December 2021. The Annual Exhibition of Turku Artists’ Association is a tradition going back nearly 100 years. The Annual…

TURKU ARTOTHEQUE / Artoteque pique nique 4, 8.10. – 7.11.2021

In May, the Lobby Gallery will showcase the fourth installment in the Artoteque Pique Nique series of exhibitions with pieces selected from the sales collection of Turku Artoteque. Turku Artists’ Association, operator of the Turku Artoteque,…

ANNA HYRKKÄNEN / LAAJENTUNUT TODELLISUUS, 8.10. – 7.11.2021

The composition in the gallery space depicts the entanglement of the human body, mind, brain and consciousness. The white space is a surface, similar to the skin on our bodies. The white space and the objects represent the structures of the…

RAINER PAANANEN / SOUND OF ALCHEMY, 8.10. – 7.11.2021

Rainer Paananen’s solo exhibition Sound of Alchemy presents the artist’s photographic pieces and installations from 2018–2021. Mirroring minimalism and conceptual art, the exhibition explores the idea of producing sound and photographs…