Galerie Anhava

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.