Jorma Puranen and Santeri Tuori at Kadriorgi Art Museum

Jorma Puranen and Santeri Tuori are featured in Kadriorgi Art Museum’s exhibition Symphony of Art and Nature: The Serlachius Collection, in Tallinn. This is the first time, the Gösta Serlachius Art Foundation collection will be presented in Estonia. The exhibition brings together Finnish art classics, works by the Old Masters of Western Europe, and contemporary Finnish art, thus highlighting the common thread running through the art collection: artistic mastery. The art forms represented include painting, graphic art, photography and small sculptures.

The exhibition runs until 23 August 2026.

Image: Jorma Puranen, Toriseva, 2013, digital c-print,diasec, 155 x 120 cm

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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