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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.…

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…

Pilvi Porkola’s Performance lecture at Kunsthalle Turku Friday 3.9.!

Performance lecture by Pilvi Porkola is looking into political imagination and utopias. How are survival and utopical thinking linked into each other? Pilvi Porkola is a performance artist, writer and researcher. Currently she is working…

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…
Olga Spyropoulou & Katriina Kettunen: To Organise Our Disappointments

Olga Spyropoulou & Katriina Kettunen: To Organise Our Disappointments Sunday 6.9.2020 at 12.30

New Performance Turku Festival presents: Olga Spyropoulou & Katriina Kettunen / To Organise Our Disappointments, on Sunday 6/9 at 12.30pm, Kunsthalle Turku To organise our disappointments is a joyride into failing. In this participatory…

Milla Talassalo/ 3, 17.7. – 30.8.2020

Milla Talassalo’s exhibition is a study of triplet sisterhood. In the exhibition, entitled 3, Talassalo examines individuality and her own identity in relation to her sibling counterparts. It is difficult to explain triplet sisterhood.…

DYLAN RAY ARNOLD / NERVOUS SYSTEM(S), SNOOZE(IN9), 21.2. – 13.3.2020

The exhibition consists of large ink drawings on repurposed fabrics and a material arrangement installed in the gallery. In the monochrome drawings, a nervous line morphs into spaces, bodies and surfaces of motifs and patterns. In the installation,…