Meet the Artist: SANTERI TUORI
Sunday 23 February, 13.00–15.00
Artist’s tour to the exhibition 13.30
On Sunday 23 February, at 13–15, Santeri Tuori will be present at the gallery to discuss and answer questions about his artistic practice. At 13.30 the artist will give a tour to his exhibition Immediate Nature, on view until 2 March.
Tervetuloa | Välkommen | Welcome!
Photo: Timo Setälä
Essi Kuokkanen‘s solo show will take place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, from 10 October 2025 until 1 March 2026.
In Kuokkanen’s paintings, the thoughts and feelings that swirl around in our subconscious take physical form. Everything is connected in a dreamlike way, the boundaries between species are blurred, the inanimate comes to life, and living beings split into pieces. At times, a sadness emerges beneath the apparently carefree surface. The artist describes her method of working as circular motion, in which images, painting, and naming the piece blend together to form something new. The exhibition is curated by Kiasma’s curator Max Hannus.
Works by Kuokkanen were previously seen at Kiasma as part of the international ARS22 show of contemporary art, as one of the few Finnish artists.
Image:Essi Kuokkanen, I Like the Way It Stings, 2018
Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen
Artist duo Grönlund–Nisunen’s solo exhibition Häiriötiloja / Interferences opened at Ars Nova in Turku. The exhibition brings together a contrapuntal mix of works, where curious experimentation meets analytical reflection. Häiriötiloja / Interferences runs until 25 May 2025.
Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen are known for their kinetic installations and sculptures that combine space, light and sound. The duo’s professional backgrounds are in architecture and music. The works are often site- or situation-specific in nature and based on everyday observations. They are connected to physical phenomena, including electric currents, radiation, gravity, magnetism and the properties of matter and sound. They are experiments, a form given by the artists, focusing on the essentials. Although the works are industrial, minimalist and even cold, they require a sentient observer.
Image: Grönlund – Nisunen, Frozen globe, 2023, 20 x 20 x 20 cm, round stainless-steel container, frozen gel, white painted pedestal and freezer.
Photo: Santino Lamorte
On Wednesday, 12 February at 5–6 p.m., Hehkutus-klubi arrives at Galerie Anhava to interview and hype artist Santeri Tuori at his recently opened solo exhibition Immediate Nature!
Hehkutus-klubi is an event for all lovers of illustrated books. The event is hosted by Kati Rapia, a visual artist, cartoonist, scriptwriter, photographer and illustrator. First Rapia will hype her guest, after which Tuori will present some of his favourite illustrated books to the audience.
The event is free and open to everyone.
The discussion is in Finnish.
Welcome!
Galerie Anhava is happy to announce the representation of Finnish artist Eeva-Leena Eklund!
Eeva-Leena Eklund’s art draws its subject matter from everyday events and observations, as well as from personal collections built up over many years. Eklund seeks, selects and organises small, mundane items and objects discarded as kitsch. These are themes that she returns to again and again in her paintings. Her enthusiasm, affection and caring remain untainted by cynicism or calculation and feel fresh, even defiant in this day and age. Eklund’s signature salon-style hanging, consisting of paintings, photographs and objects, is like an unruly yet purposeful string of associations, or like a layered candy cane: you don’t tear into it hungrily with your teeth but instead, take your time to savour it.
Eeva-Leena Eklund (b. 1972, Pori) lives and works in Helsinki. Eklund has exhibited her work in many solo and group exhibitions, including Monitoimitila_O, SIC Gallery, Galleria Sculptor, and the Helsinki, Oulu and Turku Art Museums. Her first solo exhbition at Galerie Anhava took place in 2023. She has work in several major collections, including those of the HAM Helsinki Art Museum, the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum and the Finnish State Art Collection. In 2020, Eklund was the first Finnish artist to be invited to create an extensive solo show in the InCollection series by EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art and Saastamoinen Foundation.
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Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Works by Kari Vehosalo are on view in Being-There group exhibition at Le Clézio Gallery in Paris. The exhibition runs until 25 January 2025.
“Humans, always oriented toward the future, inevitably confront the reality of their finitude. This tension between infinite aspiration and the limits of life often creates a sense of impatience. For the philosopher Martin Heidegger, the key lies in fully accepting our ephemeral nature, in “being-there” (Dasein) — either by living authentically, embracing our impermanence, or inauthentically, by fleeing from this reality.
For Vehosalo, ‘Being There’ means perceiving reality and truth differently, shaped by our desires, culture, and unconscious mind. In front of vast landscapes and interior scenes marked by gaping black holes, his almost photographic paintings immerse our gaze in mystery, uncertainty, and fragility.”
Image: Kari Vehosalo, The Past is a Gaping Hole III, 2023, oil on copper, 18 x 15 cm. Photo: Erno Enkenberg
Works by Heini Aho, Eeva-Leena Eklund, Jussi Niva and Joel Slotte are included in Turku Art Museum’s What (a) Colour exhibition. Showcasing over 60 works by 40 artists, the exhibition features works from the collection of Turku Art Museum and explores how to interpret the meaning of colour in visual art.
The selected works highlight the colour palettes typical of different eras, colour theories, material research, as well as the cultural, symbolic and emotional dimensions of colours. The exhibition brings together paintings, graphic art, photography, moving image and sculpture, all of which illuminate the essence of colour in their own ways.
Alongside the museum’s own acquisitions, works from the collections of Nils Dahlström, the Friends of Turku Art Museum and Lars Göran Johnsson are included, as well as an acquisition from the latest subcollection, Collection Lieto Savings Bank Foundation.
Image: Jussi Niva, I Spy With My Eyes Something Being As Indigo, 1994. Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Heini Aho’s solo exhibition Parting (Jakaus) is on view at Kilta Gallery, a new exhibition space in Turku which continues WAM Turku City Art Museum’s exhibition program while the museum building is under renovation. In the exhibition consisting of sculptures, installations and media works, Heini Aho observes the distribution, partitioning and segregation suggested by the name of the exhibition, expanding to reflect, for example, on the many meanings of the concept. Aho examines everyday matters and objects that we take for granted and their use from a new perspective. The works convey wonder and the need to explore, but there is also a bit of humor in them.
The exhibition runs until 2.2.2025.
Image: Courtesy of WAM Turku City Art Museum
Galerie Anhava is excited to announce the representation of Finnish artist Joel Slotte!
In the restless fantasies of Joel Slotte’s paintings, we see complex underdogs, bruised thinkers and weary revellers. The features in the (self)portraits are rugged, the gazes inaccessible, yet relatable. Moving effortlessly from lush gardens and shabby bike sheds, to the murkiness of art history, or the gates of a cemetery, Slotte’s rich symbolic scenes are dense with meaning – the medieval armors, plant mythology, squirming tattoos and jagged death metal logos serve as markers to the characters’ mindscapes. Moving from large canvases to smaller, coloured pencil drawings, Slotte’s palette becomes even more acidic, details more staggering, and the figures more fantastical.
Joel Slotte (b. 1987, Kokkola) lives and works in Helsinki. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. In 2021, Slotte was elected the Young Artist of the Year. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, most recently at HAM Helsinki Art Museum (2024); Turku Art Museum (2024), Finlandsinstitutets galleri, Stockholm (2023); and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2022). In addition to private collections in Finland, Sweden and Denmark, Slotte’s works have been acquired by major public collections, including the art museums of Helsinki, Tampere, Turku and Kuopio, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation and the Pro Artibus Foundation.
Slotte’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Anhava took place in August 2024.
Learn more about the artist and find Slotte’s available works via our Artist page.
In Denmark, Antti Laitinen takes part in Silkeborg Bad’s group exhibition Feel the Space of the Forest. The 11 represented artists of different nationalities have different approaches to the phenomenon of forest: as memory, botanical site, climate maintainer, CO2 absorber, as a place for activism, as sacred and a place for contemplation. The exhibition gives the viewer the opportunity to think about and appreciate the part of our surroundings that is the forest.
For his work Forest Square III (2013) Laitinen removed a 10 x 10 meter piece of forest and sorted it into it’s different materials: soil, moss, wood, pines, etc. He then rebuilt this piece of forest and arranged the different materials by colour.
The exhibition runs until 12 January 2025.
Image: Antti Laitinen, Forest Square III, 2013, C-print