Galerie Anhava

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

Joel Slotte is featured in Tampere Art Museum’s exhibition Encore! Classics and contemporary art from the collections. The extensive exhibition, filling all three floors of the museum, features works from the collections of the Tampere Art Museum and the City of Tampere, representing nearly 90 artists from the 1810s to the 2020s. Popular subjects of the 19th and 20th centuries are presented in dialogue with contemporary works exploring human relationships, encounters, and solitude. Slotte’s paintings are seen next to classics such as Wäinö Aaltonen, Fanny Churberg, Magnus Enckell, Tove Jansson, Hugo Simberg and Helene Schjerfbeck. The exhibition is on view until 14 June 2026.

Image: Joel Slotte, Näkki, 2021, oil on canvas, 60 x 54 cm. Photo: Joel Slotte

Works by Elina Merenmies are featured in ARKEN museum’s collection exhibition of Nordic contemporary art in Ishøj, Denmark. The exhibition, titled 55.6° North, poses questions about the world and reality we are living in right now, exploring a wide field of artistic expressions and practices – from the ritualistic and mythical to the raw, bodily, and political.