19 February 2024
"Feels Like Home" exhibition at Kiasma in Helsinki
At the Kiasma Museum until 12 January 2025, the exhibition of the collection invites us to reflect on what gives rise to the feeling of belonging to a place
Kiasma in Helsinki is a contemporary art museum and represents the flagship of Finnish modern art as well as a meeting place for art enthusiasts. The Kiasma museum opened its doors to the public in 1998 and is located in the center of Helsinki in a building designed by the American architect Steven Holl.
Jouko Lehtola - Little Punk Rocker , Provinssirock, Girl (from the series Young Heroes), 1995-96 Finnish National Gallery. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Pirje Mykkänen
The exhibition features both new works and gems from national and international contemporary art collections and can be visited throughout the year until 12 January 2025.
The exhibition has been drawn from the Finnish National Gallery’s collections and features works by 49 artists, including well-known names like Cildo Meireles and Kalervo Palsa. It also present recent acquisitions by artists such as Samira Elagoz and Z Walsh, Olof Marsja, Jaakko Pietiläinen, Sepideh Rahaa and Anastasia Sosunova.
Hertta Kiiski, Primeval Soup Altar, 2021, Finnish National Gallery. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Pirje Mykkänen
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The works in this exhibition, "Feels Like Home", present home as a physical location, as a social entity and even as a state of mind. Belonging, and its opposite, alienation, shape our identity, our relationships, the society around us, the world at large.
Feels Like Home also comprises two brand new commissions. Essi Kausalainen’s performative work titled They whistled and walked from room to room (2024) will be realised in collaboration with Kiasma’s museum guards, while in Joonas Hyvönen’s web-based and gamified Mehen (2024), the viewer is joined at the gates of death by a group of long forgotten avatars and tasked with navigating their way across a digital afterlife.
Otto Byström, Zucc wants to know your location, 2019, Finnish National Gallery. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen.
The exhibition is curated by Saara Hacklin, Chief Curator of Collections, and Curators Saara Karhunen and Satu Oksanen. The exhibition catalogue also features contributions from Leevi Haapala, Museum Director, philosopher Irina Poleshchuk and author and documentary filmmaker Carmen Baltzar.
Marjatta Hanhijoki - Leena in the Sunroom, 1988, Finnish National Gallery. Foto: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen
The Finnish National Gallery’s contemporary art collection comprises around 8,800 works dating from the 1970s to the present day. Feels Like Home is set to run throughout 2024 and will also shape Kiasma Theatre’s offering and the museum’s public programming.
Kalervo Palsa, Kylmä huone, 1974. Foto: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen
Featured artists
Titta Aaltonen, Petri Ala-Maunus, Ahmed Al-Nawas, Farah Al Qasimi, Elina Brotherus, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Otto Byström, Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh, Veli Granö, Marjatta Hanhijoki, Mona Hatoum, Maarit Hohteri, Henna Hyvärinen, Joonas Hyvönen , Inka-Maaria Jurvanen, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Essi Kausalainen, Hertta Kiiski, Elle Klarskov Jørgensen, Jannis Kounellis, Mikko Kuorinki, Raakel Kuukka, Runo Lagomarsino, Jouni S. Laiti, Jouko Lehtola, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Henrietta Lehtonen , Susanna Majuri, Olof Marsja, Cildo Meireles, Anneli Nygren, Frida Orupabo, Kalervo Palsa, Anu Pennanen, Emma Peura, Jaakko Pietiläinen, Tiina Pyykkinen, Sepideh Rahaa, Bita Razavi, Jani Ruscica, Azar Saiyar, Anastasia Sosunova, Kaarlo Stauffer, Nestori Syrjälä, Lesia Vasylchenko, Danh Võ, Laura Wesamaa.
Information about the exhibition
"Like at home" - Kiasma’s Collection Exhibition
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Mannerheiminaukio 2, Helsinki, Finlad
Time: Tue-Fri 10am-8pm; Sat-Sun 10am-5pm. Monday closed. Ticket sales at the museum end 30 minutes before closing time.
Date: 12.1.2024 - 12.1.2025
Date: 12.1.2024 - 12.1.2025
Edited by editorial staff, Avion Tourism Magazine
Text source, Visual and photos: Copyright © Kiasma Finnish National Gallery Press
Credits photos: Copyright © Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen
Visual: Kalervo Palsa, Kylmä huone, 1974. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen
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