Kari Cavén at Kunsthalle Meilahti

Kari Caven’s exhibition Minä missä milloin (Me Wherever) is on view at Kunsthalle Meilahti, in Helsinki, as part of Ilo ja Epäsymmetria (Joy and Asymmetry) group show. The playful and plentiful exhibition features Cavén’s works all the way from 1988 until 2026.

In Kari Cavén’s hands the abandoned and rejected object is given a new life through the realization of the possibilities of its form. His playful and inventive attitude invites us to experience a world that is not rigidly fixed in place, but rather, like a kaleidoscope, always offers new perspectives for objects and words. Things can be viewed without set meanings and values.

The Joy and Asemmetry group show is curated by Nanna Susi, and it runs until 30 August 2026.

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Kari Cavén and Anne Koskinen at Vantaa Art Museum

Kari Cavén and Anne Koskinen are featured in Vantaa Art Museum Artsi’s group exhibition Empathy, running until 18 October 2026. The exhibition explores the layered nature of empathy, and examines how an individual recognizes and responds to another’s feelings while expanding the perspective: how empathy intertwines with society, culture, and interspecies relationships. Empathy is often defined as the ability to put oneself in another’s position – to understand another’s thoughts and feel their emotions. Can empathy also serve as a tool of power? How is empathy distributed differently among various human groups and species? Why do some people or animals evoke strong empathy in us, while others remain outside it?

Image: Anne Koskinen, Clementine, 2015-2017, granite, 74 x 37 x 38 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen

Anna Tuori’s solo exhibition in Basel

Anna Tuori’s solo exhibition Crimson and Clover has opened at Contemporary Fine Art gallery in Basel. The exhibition is on view until 6 June 2026.

“Tuori’s work begins from the unstable texture of the present. She follows the news and absorbs what surrounds her, letting that pressure settle before it finds form. “The world is so absurd that it feels like fiction.” This sense of distance, where reality slips toward illusion, is not translated literally. It is the condition from which the image takes shape. Painting offers a way to hold conflict without resolving it too quickly. Wit, violence, intimacy, and fragility coexist without settling into a single meaning.
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Her paintings ask how mortality inhabits ordinary life, and how one lives with that knowledge amid comfort. There is an existential undertow here, but also empathy. The works retain tenderness even when they address harsh subjects.“
–Nicolas Vamvouklis

Image: Anna Tuori, Paradise News, 2025, acrylic and oil on canvas, 140 x 120 cm

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