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In Finland

Dafna Maimon, Homebody (still), 2025. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma

25 Apr — 21 Sep 2025 at the Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland

Sarah Lucas, Self-portrait with fried eggs, 1996. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma

10 Oct 2025 — 1 Mar 2026 at the Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland

Current events

In Finland

Monira Al Qadiri, Choreography of alien technology, 2023. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. Photoby Markus Tretter

Monira Al Qadiri

21 Mar — 7 Sep 2025 at the Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland

Jan-Olof Mallander, Paperiveistosmappi, 1972–1974. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma

Rock, paper, scissors

14 Feb 2025 — 18 Jan 2026 at the Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Reflection of a forest, exhibition view. Courtesy of Serlachius Museum

Reflection of a forest

14 Dec 2024 — 27 Apr 2025 at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland

Tove Jansson, The blue bird. Courtesy of HAM

25 Oct 2024 — 6 Apr 2025 at the HAM in Helsinki, Finland

Various artists, Thank-you letters, exhibition view. Courtesy of Serlachius Museum

Thank-you letters

15 Jun 2024 — 16 Apr 2025 at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland

Riiko Sakkinen, Los moimoi de Fuengirola, exhibition view. Courtesy of Serlachius Museum

Los moimoi de Fuengirola

15 Jun 2024 — 16 Apr 2025 at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland

Tschabalala Self, Around the way, exhibition view. Courtesy of Espoo Museum of Modern Art

8 May 2024 — 4 May 2025 at the EMMA in Espoo, Finland

Mauri Kuitula, Today, 1999. Courtesy of HAM

8 Mar 2024 — 26 Oct 2025 at the HAM in Helsinki, Finland

Bryk & Wirkkala. Courtesy of EMMA

Bryk & Wirkkala

1 Sep 2018 — 1 Jan 2030 at the EMMA in Espoo, Finland

Touch. Courtesy of EMMA

1 Jan 2016 — 1 Jan 2030 at the EMMA in Espoo, Finland

Permanent events

In Finland

Various artists, Collection Kakkonen, exhibition view. Courtesy of Espoo Museum of Modern Art

Collection Kakkonen

Permanent event at the EMMA in Espoo, Finland

Various artists, Dialogues, exhibition view. Courtesy of Espoo Museum of Modern Art

Permanent event at the EMMA in Espoo, Finland

The Natural History Museum. Courtesy of Vapriikki

The Natural History Museum

Permanent event at the Vapriikki in Tampere, Finland

Children’s Town. Courtesy of Helsinki City Museum

Children’s Town

Permanent event at the Helsinki City Museum in Helsinki, Finland

The Frosterus collection. Courtesy of Amos Rex

The Frosterus collection

Permanent event at the Amos Rex in Helsinki, Finland

Eeva Rista, Four boys fencing with sticks and shields at the end of Meritullinkatu. Meritullinkatu 32 to the left and Meritullinkatu 33 to the right. Kristianinkatu 7 in the centre, January 1971. Courtesy of Helsinki City Museum

In the quarters of Kruununhaka

Permanent event at the Helsinki City Museum in Helsinki, Finland

Arctic in Change. Courtesy of Arktikum

Arctic in Change

Permanent event at the Arktikum in Rovaniemi, Finland

Bony Tales. Courtesy of Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova

Permanent event at the Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova in Turku, Finland

Aboa Vetus, Old Turku. Courtesy of Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova

Aboa Vetus, Old Turku

Permanent event at the Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova in Turku, Finland

Northern Ways. Courtesy of Arktikum

Permanent event at the Arktikum in Rovaniemi, Finland

The Forest of the Finns. Courtesy of Lusto

The Forest of the Finns

Permanent event at the Lusto in Punkaharju, Finland

Various artists, Viewfinder, exhibition view. Courtesy of The Finnish Museum of Photography

Permanent event at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland

The Century of Forest Improvements. Courtesy of Lusto

The Century of Forest Improvements

Permanent event at the Lusto in Punkaharju, Finland

Lusto for Children. Courtesy of Lusto

Lusto for Children

Permanent event at the Lusto in Punkaharju, Finland

The Time of the Machines. Courtesy of Lusto

The Time of the Machines

Permanent event at the Lusto in Punkaharju, Finland

Helsinki Bites. Courtesy of Helsinki City Museum

Permanent event at the Helsinki City Museum in Helsinki, Finland

The old logging site. Courtesy of Lusto

The old logging site

Permanent event at the Lusto in Punkaharju, Finland

Pirkko Lepistö, Skipping rope in summer, 1972. Courtesy of Ateneum

A question of time

Permanent event at the Ateneum in Helsinki, Finland

Past events

In Finland

Maija Fox and Valo Vairio, A base for a crane, exhibition view. Courtesy of Galleria Sculptor

A base for a crane

28 Feb — 23 Mar 2025 at the Galleria Sculptor in Helsinki, Finland

Liisa Pesonen, Same but different, exhibition view. Courtesy of Galerie Forsblom

Same but different

21 Feb — 23 Mar 2025 at the Galerie Forsblom in Helsinki, Finland

Kerttu Saali, Lightbeams and a blizzard, exhibition view. Courtesy of Galerie Forsblom

Lightbeams and a blizzard

21 Feb — 23 Mar 2025 at the Galerie Forsblom in Helsinki, Finland

Charles Sandison, The garden of death, exhibition view. Courtesy of Galerie Forsblom

The garden of death

21 Feb — 23 Mar 2025 at the Galerie Forsblom in Helsinki, Finland

Various artists, Ror ABC, exhibition view. Courtesy of Serlachius Museum

23 Mar 2024 — 23 Mar 2025 at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland

Nastja Säde Rönkkö, salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears, 2023, 3-channel video installation, still images. Courtesy of Serlachius Museum

Salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears

7 Sep 2024 — 23 Mar 2025 at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland

Rodtsenko-seura, You are now here I (Lesson one), 1985. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma

15 Nov 2024 — 23 Mar 2025 at the Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland

Jani Ruscica, Not-knot, 2023. Courtesy of HAM

Ars Fennica 2025

24 Oct 2024 — 15 Mar 2025 at the HAM in Helsinki, Finland

Various artists, Experiments in concretism, exhibition view. Courtesy of Espoo Museum of Modern Art

Experiments in concretism

6 Mar 2024 — 2 Mar 2025 at the EMMA in Espoo, Finland

Larissa Sansour exhibition at Amos Rex. Works from left to right Larissa Sansour: In vitro, 2019 and Larissa Sansour: Monument for lost time, 2019. Photo by Tuomas Uusheimo / Amos Rex

Larissa Sansour's exhibition

9 Oct 2024 — 2 Mar 2025 at the Amos Rex in Helsinki, Finland

Tyler Mitchell, Motherlan skating, 2021. Courtesy of The Finnish Museum of Photography

Wish this was real

25 Oct 2024 — 23 Feb 2025 at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland

Pauline Curnier Jardin and Rachel García, exhibition view. Courtesy of Kiasma

Pauline Curnier Jardin

11 Oct 2024 — 23 Feb 2025 at the Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland

Patrons. The story behind the Serlachius art collection, exhibition view. Courtesy of Serlachius Museum

Patrons. The story behind the Serlachius art collection

15 Jun 2024 — 16 Feb 2025 at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland

Ulla Wiggen, Passage, exhibition view. Courtesy of Espoo Museum of Modern Art

18 Sep 2024 — 26 Jan 2025 at the EMMA in Espoo, Finland

Edvard Munch, By the deathbed, 1896. Courtesy of Ateneum

Gothic modern, from darkness to light

4 Oct 2024 — 26 Jan 2025 at the Ateneum in Helsinki, Finland

Mikko Paakkola, Red. Courtesy of Aboa Vetus and Ars Nova Museum

4 Oct 2024 — 19 Jan 2025 at the Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova in Turku, Finland

Heikki-Marila, Still life, Willem Claez, according to Heda 7, 2017. Courtesy of Aboa Vetus and Ars Nova

Us and them, from near and far

4 Oct 2024 — 19 Jan 2025 at the Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova in Turku, Finland

Taru Happonen, Reptilian humanoid, 2024. Courtesy of HAM

Taxidermy surfaces

9 Nov 2024 — 12 Jan 2025 at the HAM in Helsinki, Finland

Seppo Renvall, Sarjasta Se on täytetty, 1994. Courtesy of The Finnish Museum of Photography

Untamed 90s. Finnish photographic art in the 1990s

20 Sep 2024 — 12 Jan 2025 at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland

Tuomo Manninen, Apprentice boys of Derry, No surrender club, South Belfast Branch, Belfast 2024. Courtesy of The Finnish Museum of Photography

20 Sep 2024 — 12 Jan 2025 at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland

Maarit Hohteri, Paula and Miro, Kuopio (detail), 1999. Courtesy of Kiasma

Feels like home

12 Jan 2024 — 12 Jan 2025 at the Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland

Various artists, Fix: care and repair, exhibition view. Courtesy of Designmuseo. Photo by Paavo Lehtonen

Fix: care and repair

26 Apr 2024 — 5 Jan 2025 at Designmuseo in Finland

Monika Sosnowska, An order apart, exhibition view. Courtesy of Espoo Museum of Modern Art

6 Mar — 15 Dec 2024 at the EMMA in Espoo, Finland

Lars-Gunnar Nordström, Blue moment, 1948-1949. Courtesy of Ateneum

Fokus gallery, Lars-Gunnar Nordström

27 Aug — 24 Nov 2024 at the Ateneum in Helsinki, Finland

Kim Simonsson, Moss Giants, exhibition view. Courtesy of Amos Rex

29 Apr — 20 Oct 2024 at the Amos Rex in Helsinki, Finland

Tove Jansson. Courtesy of HAM

27 Jan 2017 — 31 Dec 2022 at the HAM in Helsinki, Finland

Decades of Finnish Architecture 1900-1970. Courtesy of Museum of Finnish Architecture

Decades of Finnish Architecture 1900-1970

27 Mar 2010 — 31 Dec 2020 at the Museum of Finnish Architecture in Helsinki, Finland

Verner Thomé: Bathing Boys, 1910. Ateneum Art Museum, coll. Hoving. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Aaltonen

Stories of Finnish Art

18 Mar 2016 — 31 Dec 2020 at the Ateneum in Helsinki, Finland

Glamour. Courtesy of Serlachius Museum

30 May — 20 Sep 2020 at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland

Atlas of Emotions. Courtesy of The Finnish Museum of Photography

Atlas of Emotions

11 Sep 2020 at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland

Sanna Kannisto: Close Observer, 2010.

10 Jun — 30 Aug 2020 at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland

Vivian Maier, Chicago area, no date. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY.

The Self-portrait and its Double

17 Jan — 24 May 2020 at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland

Natalia Goncharova: Cyclist (1913). State Russian Museum. © State Russian Museum 2019.

Natalia Goncharova

27 Feb — 17 May 2020 at the Ateneum in Helsinki, Finland

Gunvor Grönvik: Mäntymäki, Töölö Bay (1940s). Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Jenni Nurminen.

Modern Identity

28 Jan — 12 Apr 2020 at the Ateneum in Helsinki, Finland

The Quest For Happiness. Courtesy of Serlachius Museum

The Quest For Happiness

26 Oct 2019 — 29 Mar 2020 at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland

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