llona Rista: On Acoustics - Light in the City

08-11-2009 - Finnguide

Kruununhaka, Kallvik, Itä-Pasila, Keskuspuisto Park in Helsinki.  I think of my home town and make a collection of reliefs in wood on this theme. Let us study the matter further. How is a wall surface made to reflect sound? The pattern is repeat....

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Herman Olof Gummerus – Design Diplomacy

08-11-2009 - Finnguide

This year marks the centenary of the birth of Professor Herman Olof Gummerus. In honour of the anniversary, Design Museum is staging an exhibition on his life's work. Professor Gummerus was a Finland-Swedish cosmopolitan, whose life's work focused on....

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Expose Yourself to Art!

05-11-2009 - Finnguide

The exhibition Expose Yourself to Art! will feature the highlights of the extensive Hallwyl Old Master collection, featuring works by Dutch artists such as Pieter Aertsen, Frans Floris and Pieter Brueghel the Younger.....

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Antti-Ville Reinikainen

03-11-2009 - Finnguide

In his solo exhibition in Huuto Gallery Antti-Ville Reinikainen examines ways to transgress existential anxiety. There's a blend of fine subletly and harsh crudeness in his works but also a hint of black humor. In series of water color works the h....

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Laura Ruotsalainen

03-11-2009 - Finnguide

Originally, my paintings came into existence years ago. At some point I became tired, angry, and destructive. Time passed.

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Elina Relander & Aurora Reinhard

03-11-2009 - Finnguide

Elina Relander photographs male transsexuals and transvestites, whose life and dressing she has been following since 2007. With her photographs, Relander wants to open a door to a phenomenon that is strange and sensitive to many people, and also to s....

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Images of Ice

18-10-2009 - Finnguide

The photographs that Esko Ikonen from Savonlinna takes of ice are untraditional nature photographs. We expect ice to be shiny and bluish, partly even without colour. However, in Ikonen’s photographs ice creates a tremendous display of colours.....

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Marita Liulia: Choosing my religion

09-10-2009 - Finnguide

The exhibition started from Marita Liulia's interest in different cultures. When staying in Japan, Liulia realised that she could not understand what it is to be Japanese without getting to know the local religions. Religions are closely intertwined ....

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Karri Kuoppala

09-10-2009 - Finnguide

The exhibition Daydreams and Nightmares by artist Karri Kuoppala is an installation that consists of sculptures, paintings, and a video. The basis for the exhibition is fear and its surroundings. The unknown and thus incomprehensible appears to us as....

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Jussi Goman

09-10-2009 - Finnguide

The most recent exhibition of Jussi Goman (born 1980), in Galleria Huuto Uudenmaankatu, is his first solo exhibition in Helsinki since 2006. Goman has attended Kankaanpää Art School as well as the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts from where he graduated ....

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