Galerie Anhava

Works by Jani Hänninen, Antti Laitinen, Elina Merenmies and Mari Sunna are featured in Hämeenlinna Art Museum’s group exhibition Spirit and Passion – Art as Ecstasy. The artworks in this exhibition offer a re-interpretation of many of the motifs commonly seen in religious art, in icons and in myths, and the traditions that shape them. The sensual and the ecstatic are directly present in the subject matter but also revealed in the riotous colour palettes and the sheer freedom that characterises the artists’ brushwork and compositional arrangements. The exhibition runs until 21 September 2025.

In Tampere, works by Kari Cavén, Matti Kujasalo, Elina Merenmies and Vesa-Pekka Rannikko are featured in Sara Hildén Art Museum’s exhibition From the Beginning. The exhibition runs until 31 August 2025.

From the Beginning offers perspectives on the changes in Finnish visual art and the diversification of the means of representation, taking a thematic approach to the art of the 21st century. There is a group of works on nature and the environment, a series of themes that introduce the finiteness of life and its darker shades, and a group of paintings and sculptures on the theme of translucency. The exhibition includes some of the most iconic works of Finnish art, as well as works recently acquired for the museum’s collection.

Image: Kari Cavén, UHO, 2008, steel

Jacob Dahlgren’s new large scale work, Colour Reading and Contexture, is presented in Setouchi Triennale 2025 in Japan.

For the piece, Dahlgren collected square-shaped items that are no longer used, such as books, tiles and wooden boxes, and combined various colors, sizes and shapes in layers to create a small town of colors and shapes. The collaborative process of collecting materials from the local people, which took several months, is also part of the artwork.

The Setouchi Triennial runs until 9 November 2025.