Opening on Thursday September 18th 5pm-7pm.
Guided tour on Saturday October 18th at 1pm.
Juurduo (from Finnish juurtua, “to take root”) is a joint exhibition by Ziggy Liukko and Tuuli Kudjoi. Through photography, moving image, and installation, they explore their relationship with Karelian heritage. The exhibition is built upon a personal journey of revisiting their grandparents’ stories, photo albums, and oral traditions. This material carries memories of evacuation, loss, and Karelian way of life. Through their works, the artists aim to create new experiences of belonging, connecting the past with the present and the multicultural, ever-changing Karelian community. Continuing the tradition of analogue filmmaking is part of this temporal continuum – an act of archiving whose meaning is revealed in the grain of the negatives.
Kudjoi has worked with film stock that has in some cases expired years ago. The slow and unpredictable medium blurs the concept of linear time, questioning whether materials and the stories they hold ever truly age, or whether they simply transform. The imperfect, hazy nature of the film gives room for imagination, inviting immersion into the landscapes of rootlessness and inexplicable longing.
The foundation of Ziggy’s works lies in a dialogue between a family photo archive—materializing as fragments on fabric and found objects—and a 16 mm documentary film about today’s Karelian community, cultural continuity and creation, and the importance of collectivity.
Ziggy Liukko is a visual artist based in Helsinki. Their works move along the boundaries of time, memory, and the subconscious, exploring the non-linear nature of time and the hidden dimensions of personal and collective memory. Drawing from family archives, history, and speculative futures, they create works in moving image, photography, and sculpture that act as gateways between the invisible, the material, and the mystical.
Tuuli Kudjoi is a visual artist based in Helsinki. In her art, dreamlike and naïve worlds merge with the darker sides of life. Kudjoi explores themes such as Karelian heritage, childhood, and class, seeking to dismantle the power structures and norms tied to them. With a self-willed and rough-edged expression, she creates space where incompleteness and complexity are allowed to exist. In her practice, Kudjoi lets curiosity and intuition guide her—whether in sculpture, drawing, or photography.
