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Suvi Sysi / Vessels 11.2. – 13.3.

I become interested in a simple clay shape and decide to repeat it and see where it takes me. The clay records the touch and the impressions of fingerprints. As I repeat the shape, its nature and behaviour reveal themselves. The slow repetition…

Henna Aho & Mia Saharla / Polyphonic compositions (at the grave of painting) 11.2. – 13.3.

The art of painting has laid itself to rest. We linger on the graves of painting; Julia Rommel’s SuperJumbo, Steven Parrino’s Untitled, Dianna Molzan’s Repetto and Angela de la Cruz’s Layers - Small (Ultramarine Blue / Light Blue) rest…

TURKU ARTOTEQUE / WINTER GARDEN 8.1.–13.3.2022

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…

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…

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…
2022 Turun Taidehalli

Exhibition Programme 2022

8.1. – 6.2. Big gallery: Anna Hillbom, Ann-Catrin Olsson & Isfrid Angard Siljehaug / I want to belong to the living Little gallery: Mortti Saarnia / The Allergic Cowboy Aula gallery: Winter Garden — Works from the Artoteque 11.2.…

Riikka Gröndahl/ Absent Referent, 9.10. – 8.11.2020

The video installation Absent Referent (2018) by Riikka Gröndahl consists of two sets of video footage: a microsurgery class with rats, and people watching the class. The piece explores people’s relationship with other animals in a specific…