EXHIBITIONS

Raili Tang

Flower of Life November 29, 2024 - January 12, 2025 Raili Tang has been painting the seasons and incorporating organic references in her compositions for many years. Although figurative expression holds secondary relevance for the artist, her paintings convincingly capture a vivid sense of nature’s flux. Her latest paintings depict a variety of flowers – often of a fanciful, fictitious variety, but some are also inspired by real flower species. Floral motifs have a long legacy in art history. Artists have been conveying rich symbolism through flowers for centuries, but for Tang, the thing of paramount importance is the act of painting itself, whether done with a paintbrush, palette knife or even a glove. Tang is a physical painter whose process combines exuberant abandon and sensitive dialogue with the canvas. Sometimes her paintings are completed in one quick session, other times it takes longer for them to find their final form. Her overlapping layers of color interact in complex ways, supporting, challenging, surprising and drawing strength from each other, expressing the full spectrum of human emotions in their chorus of hues.



Tang is a colorist who believes that colors say more than words ever could. A single painting might contain countless nuances expressed purely with color. The best way to enjoy Tang’s art is to give oneself time to immerse oneself deeply in its bewildering richness and to soak up the energy that flows from it. While many of Tang’s paintings express joy, they also convey other emotions; a touch of melancholy often lingers in the background, suggesting that life is best when exploring and appreciating the full richness of its colors and nuances. A new feature that has emerged alongside Tang’s signature expressive style is the appearance of delicate color accents alluding to Impressionism. Playing with combinations of warm and cool hues is an enjoyable process for Tang, and the viewer can palpably sense the ease with which coloristic nuances flow from her brush.



Raili Tang (b. 1950) has exhibited her work widely in Finland and internationally. Her paintings are held in Finland’s major museum collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Sara Hildén Art Museum, the Wihuri Foundation, the Saastamoinen Foundation, and the HAM Helsinki Art Museum. Tang was awarded the Pro Finlandia Medal in 2015. Read more

Kirsti Tuokko

Night in Town October 25 - November 24, 2024 The figures in Kirsti Tuokko’s paintings are inspired by fashion magazines, passers-by on the street, and people in cafés and at exhibition openings. Tuokko paints observations on the way people dress and pose, meditating on their strategies of presenting themselves. As the title suggests, the exhibition depicts nights on the... Read more

Reima Nevalainen

Body of Water September 25 - October 20, 2024 For Nevalainen, painting is both a process of learning free expression liberated from all mannerisms and searching for perfect, non-conceptual abstraction through representational form.

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Gioele Amaro

Painted words: A Fusion of Art and AI June 7 - August 18, 2024 The exhibition immerses visitors in a universe where something extraordinary is born from the marriage of technology and creativity. Read more

Jacob Hashimoto

Dreams no dreams June 7 - August 18, 2024 Jacob Hashimoto's latest works are a unique blend of seemingly endless streams of images woven together in infinite tangles. His art is a rich tapestry of visual references, ranging from East Asian crafts to Atari circuit boards and from the complex shapes of leaves to the architecture of churches and mosques from the plague era. Read more

Kim Simonsson

Grower April 26 - June 2, 2024 Kim Simonsson’s (b. 1974) latest exhibition returns to the golden age of ceramic art at the turn of the 19th century, when a radical transformation in the French ceramic industry saw pottery recognized as an autonomous art form. Read more

Jason Martin

REDUX March 22 - April 21, 2024 Jason Martin is a painter whose practice is steeped in materiality and self-reflexive questioning of painting as an art form. His work gives a visible form to the processes by which both painting and sculpture come into being. This visualization of the process is epitomized by his monochromatic, three-dimensional pigment pieces, which hover somewhere between painting and sculpture. Read more

Peter Frie

The View Belongs to Everyone February 23 - March 17, 2024 Peter Frie presents his latest small-scale oil paintings and bronze sculptures in his new exhibition. Frie’s timeless landscapes have an experiential resonance to which everyone can relate. His canvases present nameless scenes that remind us of places we know or foreign lands we have visited, or they might equally represent... Read more

Tapani Kokko

Fortuna February 23 - March 17, 2024 Tapani Kokko’s latest creations draw inspiration from Rococo art, which is characterized by features such as decorativeness, playfulness and spontaneity. Exaggerated ornateness is one of the guiding stylistic tenets of his new exhibition. His sculptures revel in decorative exuberance and a breathtaking abundance of detail, combining traditional wood carving with... Read more

Susanne Gottberg

By Hiding Revealed January 26 - February 18, 2024 Susanne Gottberg’s paintings invite us to step into a reality of simultaneous spaces and parallel truths. The spaces she invokes can be found within the viewer and every atom around us. In an exalted register, Read more

Kaarina Kaikkonen

The Tears Shed Because of You January 26 - November 25, 2024 Sculptor Kaarina Kaikkonen makes installations out of recycled items of clothing that radiate a powerful presence. She began using discarded clothing as her raw material back in the 1980s, giving worthless, worn-out and tattered garments a second life as works of art. Kaikkonen handles her raw material with warmth and... Read more