Exhibitions

Hanna Galtat is a visual artist based in Finland and France. She has a multidisciplinary background in fine art, design and art history. The exhibition Significant Symbols consists of an installation of small bronze sculptures of symbols that sketch out common agreements in our civilisation. They comment on and question the symbols’ meaning and the memory of their material sometimes humorously, sometimes a little more seriously.

Juha Laitalainen’s exhibition Maiseman ääressä – By the View consists of two collections of nature photography and urban scenery for which Laitalainen is best known. In Laterna Magica’s Book Gallery space Laitalainen shows his Helsinki photographs , Helsinki in light and shadow.The Cellar Gallery space will be filled with his work with natural themes.

Simo Rista (1933-2021) was a photographer based here in Kruununhaka, Helsinki. His path in photography started at the age of 14 in 1947 and he began his career as a professional photographer in the 1960s. His multifaceted career included art photography, portraiture and architetcture photography. Simo Rista held over 50 exhibitions, many of them here in Laterna Magica's galleries. Thus we at Laterna Magica want to pay tribute to the legacy and work of Simo Rista with an exhibition curated by his partner of over 20 years, Hannele Salminen.

The Helsinki Art School is an art school that provides basic art education for children and youths between the ages of 4 and 20. The graduating class, Kurkottaja students, present an exhibition called ulkona sisällä, or outside inside which consists of work done in the past year. Kurkottaja students have worked independently with their projects throughout the year of the pandemic. The name outside inside does not refer to the graduating work itself as much as if refers to the challenging circumstances. They are the age group that has had to study remotely for over a year already. They have been forced to a life outside but indoors. Still this exhibition is a testament to their tenacity as they managed to get these projects done.

Jarkko Martikainen is Finnish musician and writer whose career spans three decades. His 2020 book Lihavia luurankoja (Like,2020), Fat Skeletons brought together Martikainen's stories behind his most famous lyrics and songs as well as illustrations by both Jarkko and artist Ilkka Vuojala. The exhibition in Laterna Magica's cellar gallery will present Jarkko Martikainen's music together with his illustrations as well as paintings and drawings by Ilkka Vuojala.

Colourful works by Lotta Wigelius-Wulff fill the Book Gallery space in April. The exhibition consists of her recent portraits and landscapes. Her works are made on paper with gouache, watercolour and oil pastels.

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!