Exhibitions

Using found photographs collected over several months from a local flea market and vintage retailer in Helsinki together with mixed media including glass glitter, the blackest acrylic paint, dried flowers and hand embroidered glass beads, We Were Made for More illustrates how historical photographs are popularly interpreted on the Internet and through social media.

Fealinea Lux is a visual artist, mystic and esoteric esthete channeling flow of change via art, touch and connection. Erotic imagery evokes emotion and raw, juicy urges of our primal instincts. In our own sensuality and the place of pure arousal, where our bodies are simultaneously playing both the heightened and lowered notes of our being, we are no one and everyone, nowhere and everywhere at once.

Hannu Peltomaa (b.1941) in known to have done almost everything within the Finnish movie industry. He has worked as a director, cinematographer. editor and producer during a career that has spanned over six decades.

That Which We See is photography exhibition by Heli Kurimo. It explores the relationship between humans and natural world. Kurimo has photographed artists in locations that have special importance to them.

Things (or less), an exhibition of black and white photography by Dietmar Tallroth delves into the theme of consumerism.Through buy-and-discard behaviour waste mountains grow, resources are depleted and the whole biosphere, nature on which we ourselves depend, suffers. But can we even change? This project tries to fall in love with things we already own. It attempts to see things not as something that merely serves our needs or desires, but as shapes, materials, objects in their own right and in various and new contexts.

Elemental Transmissions is a site-specific response to the Laterna Magica gallery space, playing with ideas of physical change and perception in both an abstract and direct sense. Alex Markwith (b. 1988, Kingston, PA) is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland, where he moved in September 2020 after living and working for nine years in New York City. Elemental Transmissions is the artist's sixth solo exhibition, and his first in Finland.

There have been many twists and turns in Kari Holopainen's artistic path. Its sidepaths reach music, book art, painting, print and photography. Holopainen is best known for developing and teaching Polymer photogravure as well as for his uniquely exquisite books and photo portfolios, which combine methods from both photography and print-making. Kari Holopainen's exhibition Polku – Path, and the book by the same name will collect together the many paths of Holopainen's career. Exhibition opening and book launch on Tuesday November 17th From 3-7 PM. Meet the artist at the gallery on November 21st from 1-3 PM.

Symbolism from the cloud of unknowng. A mysticism of Decadence and the Fall.Images which attempt to be as windows to outsides, to other sides. Becoming otherness. Apokalypsis; identity in decay, flowers grow in ruins. Kalsa is an aesthete and occultural artist existing in Helsinki. Exhibition opening on Tuesday October 27th, 4-7 PM. Warm Welcome!

Anna Mattila's exhibition ”Tilaton….tilassa, Spaceless....In a Space” consists of digital photographs, which are like notes from a journey. The exhibition opening on Tuesday October 27th 2020, 4-7 PM. Warm Welcome!

Laura Kautovaara's debut exhibition Perfect Strangers will be seen in Laterna Magica's Book Gallery space in October. It consists of artist portraits and of songs as paintings, from Little Richard to Deep Purple.

The exhibition in Laterna Magica tile and cellar galleries in October is called Boys of Summer and it presents themese of youth, getting old, those past summers and feeling of nostalgia. Antti Närhi has documented his friends at summer meetings for nearly fifteen years and on film he has caught both warmth and humor as well as the omnipotence of youth.

In our tile and cellar galleries in late September we will have wood-fired ceramic sculptures by Leena Juvonen. The exhibition is called Muinaiset kivet, Ancient Stones. Juvonen's sculptures are like pieces of bedrock, round stones with indentations made by ash.

How Little is Enough is an exhibition of ceramic art by Leena Mäki-Patola.  

In our Tile and Cellar Galleries we will have an exhibition by Jenni Haili called Other I presenting several series of works, which reflect the themes of identity, otherness and fear while they also include themes from fairytales and play. The exhibition consists mostly of Jenni Haili's photography but there are some curated works from Anna Englund, Jonas Haili, Marika Hyvärinen, Jaakko Kilpiäinen, Jyrki Kirjalainen and Ulla Sangervo.