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Past exhibitions – 2024 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Andreas Behn-Eschenburg POSTCARDS FROM ELSEWHERE 25.5.-16.6.2024 Postcards from Elsewhere is an exhibition of works that are connected through a desire to visit distant places and times. The paintings are an exploration of painting and of how I can revisit memories or explore something imagined through painting. They …

Past exhibitions – 2024 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Samu Raatikainen DECAY 27.4.-21.5.2024 The works in my exhibition deal with decay and disintegration. The starting point of my collage-like paintings have been my observations of nature, such as broken trees, piles of logging waste, and organic growths of rotting fungi and the changes brought about by …

Past exhibitions – 2024 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Minna Rissanen Hidden (x) 30.3.-23.4.2024 Minna Rissanen travels in nature and in the areas between nature and the built environment, which are often ignored as self-evident and unimportant. She maps, collects and structures the matter of a place and considers what kind of hidden and imperceptible things, …

Past exhibitions – 2024 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Tiina Nevalainen ABUNDANCE 2.3.-26.3.2024 “My work plan changed due to the gloom of the world situation, and the legs, hands and human images that appeared in the works were finally shaped into landscapes. My works have been created without looking for anything — using accidents, damage and …

Past exhibitions – 2024 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Niina Räty FISH 4.2.-27.2.2024 “Under the film of water lives a tree, from which the light miraculously refracts. From there it is lifted, examined and eaten. Sometimes it is painted. The history of painting is full of fish still lifes, silver-sided fish on silver platters, fish juxtaposed …

Past exhibitions – 2024 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Olli Larjo THE MACHINE OF GOOD AND EVIL 7.1.-30.1.2024 “The machine of good and evil is a sculptural allegory of the world, the progress of time and life. Through this machine, every person must pass. In the machine, the wheels of good and evil spin forward with …

Past exhibitions – 2023 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Laura Pohjonen MACONDO 18.11.-12.12.2023 Macondo is a fictional village in the middle of the jungle. It is built and lived there by one family for many generations. In the everyday life of the village, all present and past members of the family, living and dead, are present, …

Past exhibitions – 2023 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Johanna Ilvessalo LANGAN VARASSA 21.10.-14.11.2023 The central ideas of Johanna Ilvessalo exhibition are the randomness and unpredictability of life. The flowing movement of water and its sound are the elements that dominate the space. When the light hits the water, clear crystal-like strings of pearls form. Water …

Past exhibitions – 2023 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Antero Kahila & Kirsi Poutanen FACES AND RESURRECTIONS 23.9.-15.10.2023 Faces and Resurrections is a multi-art collaboration project between visual artist Antero Kahila and musician-poet Kirsi Poutanen. The exhibition consists of Antero Kahila’s paintings and Kirsi Poutanen’s two-channel sound work on the same theme, realized in the gallery …

Past exhibitions – 2023 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Jukka Korkeila GO AND CONFESS YOUR SINS TO THE PAINTING 26.8.-19.9.2023 Composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) joined the Franciscan mendicant brotherhood in 1857, and eight years later received lower Catholic priestly ordination. After retreating to Rome, Liszt also met Pope Pius IX, who is said to have encouraged …