Exhibitions

Unique gallery spaces with changing exhibitions.
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February
 
19
 – 
March 8, 2025

Miia Kallio

Love Bears All Things, ceramic sculptures and installation

The exhibition Love Bears All Things consists of ceramic sculptures and an installation, explores life as a family member of someone with mental health challenges. Exhibition opening on Tuesday Feb 18th from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Warm welcome!
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February
 
19
 – 
March 8, 2025

Leena Saraste

Palestine, photographs

Photographic artist and researcher Leena Saraste (b.1942) has photographed in various parts of the world during her long career. In the early 1980s, Saraste was one of the first female photographers in the Palestinian territories, Syria and Lebanon, among other places. In 1983, Saraste compiled her photographs into a journalistic photo book, Rakkaani, Palestiina (Tutkijaliitto, 1983).The small-scale exhibition will revisit the everyday life of Palestinians in the 1980s, which was overshadowed by uncertainty and violence. However, the images also reflect hope and warmth.
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Past exhibitions

January
 
29
 – 
February 15, 2025

Makla Krés Laine, Taru Loukoila, Iiro Ollila and Tuuli Vatula

Animal Garden

The Animal Garden is an exhibition of works by three artists and one composer that transports its viewers to the edge of wonder. Exhibition opening on Tuesday January 28, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Warm welcome!
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January
 
29
 – 
February 15, 2025

Onni Aaltonen

In Transit - Travelling in North Korea

Onni Aaltonen's photography exhibition tells the story of a trip to North Korea at the turn of 2016–2017. It was only possible to travel to the closed dictatorship by taking part in a organized tour, the program of which was planned by North Korean tour operators. he exhibition focuses on the question of how to perceive a pre-framed reality.
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January
 
8
 – 
January 25, 2025

Iiris Hälli

Aquarelles and aphorisms

Iiris Hälli is a Helsinki-based painter whose studio is on Harakka Island off the coast of Helsinki. As a watercolorist, Hälli has developed a personal style of painting in this difficult technique.The opening of the exhibition will be celebrated on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, from 5-7 p.m. A warm welcome!
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January
 
8
 – 
January 25, 2025

Rebecca Sandelin

The 11th Hour, multisensory exhibition

The 11th Hour is a multisensorial exhibition consisting of photography, moving image, sound and installation. The exhibition explores tensions between nature, the built environment and human beings while questioning their separation. The opening of the exhibition will be celebrated on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, from 5-7 p.m. A warm welcome!
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December
 
4
 – 
January 4, 2025

Mikko Palonkorpi

In the Light and Shadow of the Mountains, photographs of the last mountain villages in the Caucasus

Mikko Palonkorpi's photography exhibition in the Tile and Cellar Galleries focuses on the mountain people and their habitats of South Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan). The different eras in the photographs appear layered: thousands of years of history and modern times mix with each other.
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December
 
4
 – 
January 4, 2025

Minna Pinola

In the Presence of Hope, photographs

Minna Pinola’s photography exhibition "In the Presence of Hope" celebrates the privilege, uniqueness, and unpredictability of life through intimate portraits. Life is light and shadow, and it happens today. In this project, Minna Pinola has interviewed and photographed 12 individuals who live their lives with illnesses without a cure and bravely share their experiences of when an incurable diagnosis enters life as an unwelcome guest.
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November
 
13
 – 
November 30, 2024

Niko Mankinen

Transit/Umbra -Receding Shadow, ceramics

Transit / Umbra is an exhibition consisting of house-like sculptures by ceramic artist Niko Mankinen and on view in Laterna Magica's Tile and Cellar Galleries 13-30 November. Exhibition opening on Tuesday, November 12th from 5 p.m to 7 p.m. Warm Welcome!
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November
 
13
 – 
November 30, 2024

Jari Salo

Monolith, photographs

MONOLITH is a journey of introspection, exploring the genesis of my own identity as a son, a man, a father. It revolves around the themes of abandonment, absence, blame and acceptance. MONOLITH is released as a book in November 2024 by the renown korean publisher Datz Press. Book launch event and discussion with the artist 15.11.2024 at 17-19.
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October
 
23
 – 
November 9, 2024

Juha Kaila

Mokuhanga, Japanese style woodcuts

Exhibition opening on Tuesday October 22nd from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Warm welcome! Juha Kaila's exhibition of mokuhanga - Japanese style woodcuts presents works which have been inspired by Finnish and Japanese nature.
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October
 
23
 – 
November 9, 2024

Sanna Hukkanen, Pauliina Mäkelä, Hannele Richert and Amanda Vähämäki

Marras

The works in the Marras exhibition blur the border between life and death, which at this time of year is blurred anyway. A down-to-earth welcome to the opening of the exhibition on Tuesday 22 October 2024 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m! We encourage the public to dress with a seriousness appropriate to the November theme and season. Dress code: funeral, macabre, haunting, compost and the like.
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October
 
2
 – 
October 19, 2024

Anastasia Lapsuyi and Markku Lehmuskallio

Photos Along the Way

Photos taken by renowned documentary film-makers Anastasia Lapsuyi and Markku Lehmuskallio are on display in the exhibition in Laterna Magica's Book Gallery. What they both have in common is that they are not photographers. The photos were taken while working on movies. A photograph captures a blink of the eye in the flow of time. Meet the artists on the last day of the exhibition on Oct 19th, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
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October
 
2
 – 
October 19, 2024

Jarmo Vellonen

Elonkierto - Circle of Life, clay figures on tree trunks

"I make sculptures on the trunks of living trees with the natural clay I dig from the forest. I look for a suitable place and tree for the work. The themes of my sculptures are related to nature. The subjects are Finnish mythological characters and the second skin. I call my works process art.Documenting the work through photography and videography is an integral part of the overall process." Meet the artist on the last day of the exhibition on Oct 19th, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
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September
 
11
 – 
September 28, 2024

Raimo Puustinen

Värejä kohti! - Towards colour!

Raimo Puustinen (b. 27.5.1935 Käkisalmi, d. 8.12.2008 Espoo) who owned a studio on Meritullinkatu in Kruununhaka, was a painter, printmaker and draftsman. He considered himself above all a draftsman. A pencil was his favorite tool. In September Puustinen's works will be exhibited as a posthumous sales exhibition in Laterna Magica's Book Gallery space.
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September
 
11
 – 
September 28, 2024

Janne Hernes

The Landscape of Green and Grey – Photographs from the West of Ireland

The Landscape of Green and Grey explores the West of Ireland, the coastal landscape and its people. The exhibition pictures series were taken in the counties of Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Donegal and Clare between 2022 and 2024. The series consists of black-and-white fine art photography prints, printed by the artist.
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August
 
16
 – 
September 7, 2024

Jana Výborná-Turunen

Echoes from Afar, textile sculptures, clothing fragments and cyanotypes on canvas

The exhibition Echoes from Afar includes textile sculptures, clothing fragments and studies, and cyanotypes on canvas. The works are visual explorations into the questions of existence. Jana Výborná-Turunen reflects on her own cultural identity in the course of generations, in relation to time and place, social phenomena, herself and others. Exhibition opening on the Night of the Arts, August 15th, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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