Galerie Anhava

Inka Bell’s site specific, commissioned sculpture Sini was unveiled at Hanaholmen Art Park, in Espoo. The work gets its name from the Finnish word for blue (sininen), reflecting the artwork’s deep blue colour, as well as the surrounding nature and its shifting light.

A new commissioned work by Jacob Dahlgren, with Lasovsky Johansson Architects, has been unveiled in Mlada Boleslav, Czech Republic. Contrail, a memorial to Pilots and Members of the RAF (the Royal Air Force of the Mladá Boleslav region), was inspired by a condensation trail – the fleeting line an aircraft leaves across the sky. A trace that appears in an instant and then fades, yet bears witness to movement, direction, and human presence within the boundless expanse of air.

Galerie Anhava is excited to announce the representation of Finnish artist INKA BELL!

Ensemble, a new commissioned artwork by artist duo Grönlund-Nisunen has been installed on the rooftop terrace of the new Turku Music Centre Fuuga.

Works by Matti Kujasalo are on view at Söderlångvik Museum as part of Lassie Suddenly Burst Out Laughing – Collections of the OP Pohjola Art Foundation exhibition. The exhibition encompasses paintings, sculptures and prints by prominent Finnish artists, altogether about 60 works within that span of time, most of them dating from the 1980s and 1990s. The exhibition shows pieces from the OP Pohjola Collection, and alongside, a selection of Finnish art from the first half of the twentieth century, drawn from the collections of the Amos Anderson Fund. Söderlångvik Museum is an art and biographical museum on Kimito Island, located in the Söderlångvik Manor, a summer recidence of arts patron and businessman Amos Anderson (1878–1961). The exhibition is on view until 30 September and again 14 November–16 December 2026

Photo: Niclas Warius

Joel Slotte has been nominated as one of the four candidates for Ars Fennica 2027, the most significant fine art prize in the Nordic countries. Presented every two years by the Niemistö Art Foundation Ars Fennica, the award recognises artistic excellence and a distinctive creative vision. This year, the winner will be selected by an international art expert, curator, writer and cultural strategist Fatoş Üstek. A joint exhibition of the nominees’ works will take place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, in Helsinki, between 15 October 2027 – 26 March 2028. The winner will be announced in February 2028. Following its presentation at Kiasma, the exhibition will travel to Kunstsilo in Kristiansand, Norway.

Photo: Pirje Mykkänen

On Saturday 22 August, at 13.00–15.00, Inka Bell will be at the gallery to answer questions and discuss her solo exhibition Edestakas | To and Fro, on view until 30 August!

Joel Slotte will take part in Autopsy group exhibition at Seventeen Gallery in London, between 10 July – 14 August 2026. The show features Finnish artists and artist groups, as well as international names from the field of visual art, painting, sculpture, video and performance. The exhibition is curated by Joey Holder.

Eeva-Leena Eklund, Heli Hiltunen, Jorma Puranen, Vesa-Pekka Rannikko, Päivi Takala and Anna Tuori take part in Väreissä / Färgglad group exhibition at Almintalo in Loviisa. The exhibition runs from 12 June until 9 August 2026.

Antti Laitinen is one of the featured artists of Climate Clock, a public art experience and one of the highlights of Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture year. The commissioned artists created six permanent artworks across forests, rivers, coastlines, urban environments and cultural heritage sites near Oulu area. The series connects art, science and local knowledge to reflect on the changing rhythms of the natural world. Climate Clock opened for public 13 June 2026.

Jorma Puranen’s new photo series L’étang qui se souvenait de tout (The Pond That Remembered All) is on view at Laukko Manor from 10 June until 16 August 2026. The series was born in 2023, during a residency at the Fondation Claude Monet in Giverny, France. During that time Puranen explored and photographed the changing moods and fleeting light of the Giverny garden, which also inspired Claude Monet’s (1840–1926) late work. The line between photography and painting blurs in the dreamlike works shot with long exposure times. Puranen’s mysterious views are not direct landscape images, but reflections photographed from the glossy surface of a black lacquered panel – reminiscent of a ‘Claude glass’, popular with travellers of the past. The distorted, shimmering surfaces of Puranen’s works remind the viewer of Monet’s struggle with cataracts and impaired vision. The Pond That Remembered All is a meditative dialogue that travels through time, where the past flickers through reflections and memory becomes a lens of its own.

Image: Jorma Puranen, The Pond That Remembered All 12, 2024, pigment print, 80 x 61,5 cm, ed. 6

Karoliina Hellberg and Essi Kuokkanen are featured in the Freshly Painted exhibition at Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere. The exhibition showcases the work of 22 young female artists, living and working in Finland and primarily using painting as their artistic medium.

The name and exhibition concept were suggested by Marika Mäkelä, as a nod to Rakastettu kuva exhibition held in Tampere in 1986, one of the first exhibitions in Finland to showcase exclusively female-created art in a male-dominated art world. To coincide with the exhibition, Sara Hildén Art Museum has published an illustrated catalogue featuring an article by Anna Tuori. Freshly Painted runs until 30 August 2026.

On Saturday 23 May, at 13.00–15.00, Emma Jääskeläinen will be at the gallery to discuss and answer questions about her current solo exhibition Pus pus | Kiss kiss.

Galerie Anhava is proud to announce that a work by Anna Tuori has been acquired for the collection of the Finnish Cultural Foundation and installed at the newly renovated Mäntyniemi, the official residence of the President of the Republic of Finland.

Kari Caven’s exhibition Minä missä milloin (Me Wherever) is on view at Kunsthalle Meilahti, in Helsinki, as part of Ilo ja Epäsymmetria (Joy and Asymmetry) group show. The playful and plentiful exhibition features Cavén’s works all the way from 1988 until 2026.

Kari Cavén and Anne Koskinen are featured in Vantaa Art Museum Artsi’s group exhibition Empathy, running until 18 October 2026. The exhibition explores the layered nature of empathy, and examines how an individual recognizes and responds to another’s feelings while expanding the perspective: how empathy intertwines with society, culture, and interspecies relationships. Empathy is often defined as the ability to put oneself in another’s position – to understand another’s thoughts and feel their emotions. Can empathy also serve as a tool of power? How is empathy distributed differently among various human groups and species? Why do some people or animals evoke strong empathy in us, while others remain outside it?

Image: Anne Koskinen, Clementine, 2015-2017, granite, 74 x 37 x 38 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen

Anna Tuori’s solo exhibition Crimson and Clover has opened at Contemporary Fine Art gallery in Basel. The exhibition is on view until 6 June 2026.

Salla Tykkä takes part in Pori Art Museum’s group exhibition De Se Attitude. The works in the exhibition explore dimensions related to places, personal documents, and forms of work, society, and appreciation. The production of knowledge as a feminist artistic process is the central question of the exhibition. De Se Attitude is curated by Miina Hujala, and it runs until 30 August 2026. In addition to the exhibited works, the programme includes a commissioned play, a performance, and film screenings.

Image: Salla Tykkä, The Will (Testamentti), 2024, 27 min 43 sec, video, stereo

Elina Merenmies, Jani Ruscica and Mari Sunna are featured in Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma’s new collection exhibition A Dream in Four Colours. The exhibition presents curated selections from the Finnish National Gallery’s collection of approximately 43,000 works, and is on view until 10 January 2027. The exhibition can be experienced as one might observe a dream – through fragmentary, wondrous encounters. It invites visitors to approach art intuitively, without seeking to explain or define it. Meanings shift and shimmer, evoking ineffable experiences that resist explanation and linger beyond words.

Image: Mari Sunna, Sweet Dreams, 2021, oil on canvas, 75,5 x 60 cm. Photo: Pirje Mykkänen / Courtesy of Kiasma

Kari Cavén and Joel Slotte are featured in Kunsthalle Helsinki’s Our Land, for All exhibition, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Association of Finnish Fine Arts Foundations. The exhibition brings together art and fashion, exploring how personal and national identities have been shaped across different eras. It highlights how values, body ideals, clothing, and our relationship with nature influence and challenge cultural imagery and national narratives. The exhibition, curated by Annamari Vänskä, features Finnish classics, contemporary artworks, new acquisitions by the foundations, and contemporary fashion. Our Land, for All runs until 17 May 2026.

Image: Joel Slotte, Toipilas / The Convalescent, 2019, oil on canvas, 55 cm x 46 cm

Jorma Puranen and Santeri Tuori are featured in Kadriorgi Art Museum’s exhibition Symphony of Art and Nature: The Serlachius Collection, in Tallinn. This is the first time, the Gösta Serlachius Art Foundation collection will be presented in Estonia. The exhibition brings together Finnish art classics, works by the Old Masters of Western Europe, and contemporary Finnish art, thus highlighting the common thread running through the art collection: artistic mastery. The art forms represented include painting, graphic art, photography and small sculptures.

Elina Merenmies’s painting Karkkiomakuva (Candy Self Portrait) is on view as part of Sinerbrychoff Art Museum’s exhibition Night. The exhibition explores the world of dreams, taking the viewer from dusk to dawn, and showing the many faces of the night: kind, sad, scary, and serene. Besides old European art, the exhibition features paintings, prints and sculptures from the 19th century up to the present day, all from the Finnish National Gallery’s own collection. The artworks carry on a dialogue with poetry, written by the poet Henriikka Tavi. The exhibition has been curated by Kersti Tainio.

Jacob Dahlgren takes part in Formes ouvertes exhibition at Institut Suédois, in Paris, running until 19 July. The exhibition presents the work of painter and sculptor Olle Bærtling (1911–1981), an iconic figure of abstraction, in dialogue with the works of seven international artists. Ahead of the exhibition, the institute invited visitors to participate in creating Dahlgren’s immersive installation ‘The Wonderful World of Abstraction’, to the institute’s garden. In cojuction with the exhibition Dahlgren did a performance on the streets of Paris: Demonstration is a silent, non-political group march in which participants carry signs featuring Bærtling’s paintings.

Image: Jacob Dahlgren, The Wonderful World of Abstraction, 2026, steel, silk ribbons. Photo: Vinciane Lebrun / Courtesy of Institut Suédois

In Hämeenlinna, Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s solo exhibition Starling Gets Spots is on view at Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation’s Ikimetsägalleria, a gallery supporting the conservation work of the foundation. The exhibition features Rannikko’s delicate relief intarsias in dyed plaster and an animated drawing. The reliefs, shifting fluidly between painting and sculpture, show nature with its full intrinsic value. The little fables or thoughts suggested in the subtly coloured intarsias conjure up a translucent vapour cloud, a water droplet or the wings of a starling. The exhibition runs until 14 March 2026.

Image: Vesa-Pekka Rannikko, Willow Tit and Big Drop, 2025, dyed plaster, 37 x 27 x 3 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen

Joel Slotte is featured in Tampere Art Museum’s exhibition Encore! Classics and contemporary art from the collections. The extensive exhibition, filling all three floors of the museum, features works from the collections of the Tampere Art Museum and the City of Tampere, representing nearly 90 artists from the 1810s to the 2020s. Popular subjects of the 19th and 20th centuries are presented in dialogue with contemporary works exploring human relationships, encounters, and solitude. Slotte’s paintings are seen next to classics such as Wäinö Aaltonen, Fanny Churberg, Magnus Enckell, Tove Jansson, Hugo Simberg and Helene Schjerfbeck. The exhibition is on view until 14 June 2026.

Image: Joel Slotte, Näkki, 2021, oil on canvas, 60 x 54 cm. Photo: Joel Slotte

Works by Elina Merenmies are featured in ARKEN museum’s collection exhibition of Nordic contemporary art in Ishøj, Denmark. The exhibition, titled 55.6° North, poses questions about the world and reality we are living in right now, exploring a wide field of artistic expressions and practices – from the ritualistic and mythical to the raw, bodily, and political.


Works by Noora Schroderus and Päivi Takala are currently on view in Cartographic Affinities group exhibition at Ulterior Gallery in New York. Together with Elina Vainio, the three artists explore the shifting space between humans, animals, and the natural world. The exhibition maps out that realm, revealing the inconsistencies, uncertainties, and vulnerabilities of humankind’s coexistence in nature’s ecosystems.

Salla Tykkä’s first solo exhibition in Italy is on view until 31 January, at Galleria Studio G7, in Bologna. The Will, curated by Marinella Paderni, features Tykkä’s most recent video and photographic work.

Anna Tuori’s solo exhibition Paradise News has opened at Contemporary Fine Arts gallery in Berlin. Tuori’s new works engage in a loose dialogue with the tradition of still life and memento mori. The morbid and disturbing comes to the fore, and the body becomes a bearer of existential meaning. Feelings of shelter and fear coexist.