Works by Kari Cavén, Jacob Dahlgren, Jorma Hautala, Matti Kujasalo and Vesa-Pekka Rannikko are on view as part of Hämeenlinna Art Museum’s collection exhibition Abstracting the ordinary – Art from the everyday. The newly opened exhibition runs until 13 April 2025.
At the core of the exhibition is the Niemistö Art Collection, on long-term deposit to the museum, which comprises Finnish and Nordic art from the 1950s to the present day. With a focus on abstract, or nonfigurative, art, on display are paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations, drawings, graphics and media art by 36 artists. The exhibition is curated by Tanja Pääskynen.
“Reducing the subject to a series of visual elements, to forms, colours, rhythms and compositional patterns, allows the viewer to leave the figurative behind and to focus on their own experience, to become immersed in the artwork.”
Image: Vesa-Pekka Rannikko, Paauat, 2017, pigmented plaster. Photo: Jussi Tiainen