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Last week, there was a discussion about the fine manners of young people when schoolchildren made noise and sabotaged the performance during a visit to the ballet. This Amos Rex exhibition is guaranteed to have a great time for upper-class students as well. And in fact, there were a lot of school groups at the exhibition at noon on Friday Read this article in Finnish here THE CLOUD (2018–2022): Ultra-clear glass digitally printed with ceramic ink, wooden case, LED lights. Leandro Erlich Studio, Galleria Continua On the surface, the exhibition is like the Funhouse of the Linnanmäki amusement park, a space where mirrors distorted reality and the stairs move under your feet. So there is quite a lot of surface in the exhibition, in some places it goes deeper. In any case, in these warlike and restless times, it was exceptional to visit a place where almost everyone was smiling, laughing and of course also taking a lot of photos. When you enter the exhibition, the first thing you noti...

Jokunen aika sitten käytiin keskustelua nuorten hienoista käytöstavoista, kun tutustumiskäynnillä baletissa koululaiset melusivat ja sabotoivat näytöstä. Tässä Amos Rexin näyttelyssä yläluokkalaisetkin taatusti viihtyvät. Ja näyttelyssä itse asiassa perjantain puoliltapäivin olikin paljon koululaisryhmiä. Ylipäätään väkeä oli paljon ja kaikki mahdolliset museon kohdryhmät lapsista senioreihin ja matkailijoihin ulottuen täyttyvät tämän näyttelyn osalta Read this article in English here THE CLOUD (2018–2022).Digitaalinen tulostus keraamisella musteella erittäin kirkkaalle lasille, puiset vitriinit, LED-lamput. Leandro Erlich Studio, Galleria Continua Näyttely onkin päällisin puolin kuin Linnanmäen huvipuiston Vekkula, tila jossa peilit vääristelivät todellisuutta ja portaat liikkuvat jalkojen alta. Näyttelyssä on siis aika paljon pintaa, paikoin kyllä mennään syvemmällekin. Joka tapauksessa näinä sotaisina ja levottomina aikoina oli poikkeuksellista vierailla paikassa, jossa lähes kaik...

The Sarah Lucas exhibition on display on the top floor of Kiasma has received good reviews. She is an acclaimed artist who depicts gender and gender-related systems. Lucas was born in London in 1962 and lives in Suffolk. The works in the exhibition are a collection spanning from the 1990s to the present day: sculptures, photographs, and installations Read this article in Finnish here The exhibition policy of museums has been criticised in some recent public discussions, claiming that (Finnish) museums do not genuinely take a stand on current events or the environment. Appropriate exhibition topics for museums would be environmental issues and gender. Such topics are those that everyone in the cultural bubble agrees upon. If this is the case, then this Lucas exhibition, which is quite outspoken in itself, would be a so-called acceptable statement. The exhibition focusing on race, currently on display at the Museum of Photography, might be a slightly more radical discussion opener. U...

It is good to start a museum guide with the letter A. So, the first museum chosen to new 2025 blog is the Ateneum.When touring European national galleries, especially in smaller countries, one often has to observe quite modest exhibitions. The presentation is sometimes provincial, even if the artists have potential for more. Finland is far north, a country sometimes characterized as an island. Here too, the danger of introversion is obvious. However, I think the museum has succeeded in its exhibitions Read this article in Finnish here Photo from the exhibition. On the left, Wäinö Aaltonen’s Granite Boy I, 1917–1920. Red granite The venerable museum, which administratively now operates as part of the Finnish National Gallery, is located right in the center of Helsinki. Opposite it is the railway station designed by Eliel Saarinen, which was completed between 1909 and 1919. Helsinki in 1900. The Ateneum building is on the edge of Railway Square (no. 2). The railway station is still the...

 The Ars Fennica visual arts prize exhibition is a good deal for museums. They get a curated, branded, and largely funded exhibition. This kind of arrangement frees up museums, which are currently committed to quite tight exhibition schedules, to prepare for other exhibitions. And it saves money Read this article in Finnish here HANNA VIHRIÄLÄ: Aisti (Sense/Instinct) (2025, detail) I recall that once upon a time some museums were somewhat reserved about hosting the Ars Fennica exhibition in their own space. The view was that such an exhibition would narrow the museum's own exhibition policy. Now the world has changed so that a high-quality international contemporary art exhibition is, I believe, acceptable to all art museums. The Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation awards the €50,000 visual arts prize every second year. Candidates have included artists from Finland, other Nordic countries, and the Baltic region. The candidates for 2025 were nominated by the prize committee a...