Essi Kuokkanen in Cologne

Essi Kuokkanen takes part in a duo exhibition Regular Volley with artist Björn Knapp, at La Felce gallery in Cologne, Germany. The exhibition runs until 29 September 2024. Regular Volley deals with emerging feelings and with what might happen when we allow them to come and take over. In Essi Kuokkanen’s paintings bodies intertwine, a dog supports someone through what seems like a turbulent phase, and something new grows out of a puddle of tears.

Image: Essi Kuokkanen, Emotional Support, 2024, oil on canvas, 78 x 60 cm. Photo: Eetu Huhtanen

Jorma Hautala and Matti Kujasalo in Norway

In Kristiansand, Norway, Jorma Hautala and Matti Kujasalo are featured in Kunstsilo’s collection exhibition Passions of the North. Kunstsilo museum is a newly opened, former grain silo that houses the Tangen Collection, comprising over 5,000 works amassed over 25 years by Nicolai Tangen. The collection is said to be the largest and most important collection of Nordic modernist art from the period 1910-1990. Now, over 600 works from the collection are showcased, taking the viewer on a journey through Nordic art of the 20th century. The exhibition is curated by Åsmund Thorkildsen.

“It’s hard to pinpoint why, but I like the universal abstract language in Concrete Art. It doesn’t tell you what you are looking at, or are meant to understand, but instead challenges you to think and feel.” – Nicolai Tangen

Image: Matti Kujasalo, Untitled (1989). Tangen Collection.

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Jorma Puranen in Tampere

Works by Jorma Puranen are on view as part of The Beauty of Moments exhibition, alongside photographs by Ulla Jokisalo and Pentti Sammallahti. The exhibition features works dating from the 1970’s up until the recent years, and runs until 15 September 2024 at Eemil Aaltonen’s Museum in Tampere.

“The beauty of a photograph might be about enabling us to take a closer look at those moments, which are mercilessly bypassed by the normal passage of time. Beauty is also about exposure to the world and submission to it, the expanded relationship between the self and the world.”

The works of the three photographers in the exhibition are recordings of these encounters with the world. They express intimacy and provide understanding of the porousness of the human boundaries.
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Jorma Puranen, Forest in Rain, 2013, archival pigment print, diasec

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