Marko Vuokola in Tampere

Works by Marko Vuokola are on view at Gallery Himmelblau in Tampere alongside works of Tuomas Korkalo and Jyrki Siukonen. MOTUS, the artist group formed by the three artists first gathered in 2017 in Lisbon. In the pieces shown at Galleria Himmelblau, MOTUS primarily works with colour and light, making use of the Finlayson area’s atmospheric spaces. The exhibition opens 13 April and runs until 12 May 2024.

Image: Marko Vuokola, Peilaus, 2024, copper sheets. Detail: Vesa Viljakainen

Elina Merenmies at HAM Helsinki Art Museum

Elina Merenmies’s Naamio is view in Bambi Forever! exhibition at HAM Helsinki Art Museum, running until 19 January 2025. The exhibition features Finnish painting, graphic art and photography spanning from the 1990s to the present, reflecting on the complexities and contradictions of what it means to be human. The artworks are from a collection donated to HAM by Raimo and Maarit Huttunen, who ran Bakeliittibambi Gallery from 1996 to 2007.

Image: Elina Merenmies, Naamio, 2009–2013, ink on paper, 31 x 24 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen

Cavén, Dahlgren, Guðmundsson, Hautala, Kujasalo and Niva at EMMA

Works by Kari Cavén, Jacob Dahlgren, Kristján Guðmundsson, Jorma Hautala, Matti Kujasalo and Jussi Niva are featured in Experiments in Concretism exhibition at EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition aims to take a fresh look at the long tradition of concretism and its contemporary variations with works by over 50 artists, presenting the many facets of the art movement, and highlighting the expressivity and playfulness of various materials. The featured works are curated from EMMA’s collections, some of which acquired or commissioned especially for the exhibition. The exhbition also celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lars-Gunnar ‘Nubben’ Nordström (1924–2014), a pioneer of Finnish concretism and geometrical abstractionism.

Experiments in Concretism runs until 2 March 2025.
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Image:
Jacob Dahlgren: Heaven is a Place on Earth, 2018, digital scales
Experiments in Concretism © Ari Karttunen / EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art