Galerie Anhava

Joel Slotte is featured in Vantaa Art Museum Artsi’s group exhibition In the Mirror the Shadows of Time Disappear. The exhibition explores the relationship between fantasy and contemporary art, presenting artworks by seven contemporary artists, as well as works from the museum’s collection. The artists in the exhibition share an interest in the interfaces between everyday life and imagination, inner realities and symbolism. The exhibition, curated in collaboration with artist Timo Vaittinen, delves into the boundaries between reality and fantasy, offering diverse perspectives on the core of human experience.

As part of the exhibition, a live-action role-playing game session, in which participants are invited to embody magical creatures and collaboratively create a story, will take place in December. The exhibition runs until 15 March 2026.

Image: Joel Slotte, Velho parkkipaikalla, 2025, oil on canvas, 55 x 50 cm

A new commissioned public sculpture by Anne Koskinen has been unveiled in Tampere. The piece, titled Läpi harmaan kiven, was created as a tribute to the work and legacy of the Lotta Svärd organization, a women’s voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organisation that operated between 1921 and 1944. The monument consists of two natural stone boulders, the larger of which is illustrated with the lotta and pikkulotta uniforms; the years 1921–1944; and the Finnish national flower lily-of-the-valley. A smaller stone depicts a child figure with a place for a candle in its hands. The monument is located in the northern part of Tampere’s Cathedral Park. The work will be added to the art collection of the city of Tampere managed by the Tampere Art Museum.

Photo: Matias Ahonen / Courtesy of Tampere Art Museum

Karoliina Hellberg takes part in Quiet Hours group exhibition at the Maison Louis Carré, in France, with Tero Kuitunen and Raimo Saarinen. In the spring of 2024 the artists spent five days at Maison Louis Carré, observing the villa’s atmosphere, history, and surroundings. Now, the paintings, scent installations, and sculptures attune themselves to the space and reflect on the lives that may have unfolded within Maison Louis Carré. Quiet Hours is the trio’s third collaboration, having previously created a joint installation in Alvar Aalto villa in Sunila in 2017, and an exhibition at the Amos Rex Museum in Helsinki in 2021.