Elina Merenmies at Sinerbrychoff Art Museum

Elina Merenmies’s painting Karkkiomakuva (Candy Self Portrait) is on view as part of Sinerbrychoff Art Museum’s exhibition Night. The exhibition explores the world of dreams, taking the viewer from dusk to dawn, and showing the many faces of the night: kind, sad, scary, and serene. Besides old European art, the exhibition features paintings, prints and sculptures from the 19th century up to the present day, all from the Finnish National Gallery’s own collection. The artworks carry on a dialogue with poetry, written by the poet Henriikka Tavi. The exhibition has been curated by Kersti Tainio.

“Dreams are collective and universal, as well as being a very private and inexplicable borderland of visions. Bedtime stories and counting sheep serve as rituals that coax us into the wellsprings of slumber. You never know where dreams will take you. It might be a journey into space, your own kitchen, or down a rabbit hole.”

Night runs until 23 August 2026.

Image: Elina Merenmies, Karkkiomakuva, 2013 , oil on canvas, 42 x 33 cm

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Jacob Dahlgren in Paris

Jacob Dahlgren takes part in Formes ouvertes exhibition at Institut Suédois, in Paris, running until 19 July. The exhibition presents the work of painter and sculptor Olle Bærtling (1911–1981), an iconic figure of abstraction, in dialogue with the works of seven international artists. Ahead of the exhibition, the institute invited visitors to participate in creating Dahlgren’s immersive installation ‘The Wonderful World of Abstraction’, to the institute’s garden. In cojuction with the exhibition Dahlgren did a performance on the streets of Paris: Demonstration is a silent, non-political group march in which participants carry signs featuring Bærtling’s paintings.

Image: Jacob Dahlgren, The Wonderful World of Abstraction, 2026, steel, silk ribbons. Photo: Vinciane Lebrun / Courtesy of Institut Suédois

Vesa-Pekka Rannikko in Hämeenlinna

In Hämeenlinna, Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s solo exhibition Starling Gets Spots is on view at Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation’s Ikimetsägalleria, a gallery supporting the conservation work of the foundation. The exhibition features Rannikko’s delicate relief intarsias in dyed plaster and an animated drawing. The reliefs, shifting fluidly between painting and sculpture, show nature with its full intrinsic value. The little fables or thoughts suggested in the subtly coloured intarsias conjure up a translucent vapour cloud, a water droplet or the wings of a starling. The exhibition runs until 14 March 2026.

Image: Vesa-Pekka Rannikko, Willow Tit and Big Drop, 2025, dyed plaster, 37 x 27 x 3 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen