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Past exhibitions – 2023 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Janne Laine EN ROUTE 29.7.-22.8.2023 Janne Laine is a visual artist known for photo-based gravure graphics. In the works with a strong mood, you move in the middle ground between being and dreaming. Landscapes surrounded by fog are real experiences of a place and a moment depicted …

Past exhibitions – 2023 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Paula Ollikainen THE SHADOW OF A BIRD IN THE SKY 1.7.-25.7.2023 I see a bird, I see the sky, I see the shadow of a bird reflected against the sky. So I see the impossible, I wonder what is true and what is not. In a painting, …

Past exhibitions – 2023 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Jussi Pyky We close our eyes to ourselves 27.5.-20.6.2023 “I am writing this on a sunny May afternoon in Helsinki’s Vuosaari. I observe the activity of ants, the nesting of birds, and the newly opened leaves of trees. They don’t seem to care about this chaos.. They …

Past exhibitions – 2023 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Matti Närekangas QUANTUM FAIRY 29.4.-23.5.2023 In 1953, the first quantum fairy solved the mystery that made it possible to travel through the keyholes of the gates between realities. On the way from one reality to another, faster than light, the quantum fairy met a neurognome. Together they …

Past exhibitions – 2023 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Marjukka Korhonen Hän-Hen 1.4.-25.4.2023 I will present my new works in cast aluminum, fiberglass and plaster at the Taidehalli Häme exhibition, portraits of the series Hän-Hen. In the series of works, I describe the encounter of anonymous persons without emphasizing their gender (e.g. she-he). I especially deal …

Past exhibitions – 2023 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Salla Laurinolli Colored darkness – repeat 4.3.-28.3.2023 “It’s between day and nightA true once-in-a-lifetime event.Three times write it in its form;However, also unspeakable as it is now,It must remain innocent.” Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)Finnish Johan L. Pii “My painting work is based on slow movement, mainly walking on …

Past exhibitions – 2023 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Katri Stenberg ROOTS AND NEW BEGINNINGS 4.2.-28.2.2023 Welcome to the opening on Friday 3.2. at 5-7 pmArtist meeting on Sunday 26.2. from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m “Different myceliums, branches and networks have interested me for a long time. The root paintings started in 2020 when I …

Past exhibitions – 2023 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Juha Okko PORTRAITS OF MEN 7.1.-31.1.2023 ON THE SUBJECTWhy make pictures of late middle-aged, white men? The creator of art often starts with either something he knows or something he wants to get to know better through work. I myself am a late middle-aged man. Socially, I …

Past exhibitions – 2022 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Jussi Juurinen Same but Different 26.11.-22.12.2022 Jussi Juurinen (b. 1976) is a visual artist from Vantaa. The pictorial world of his works stems from the tradition of abstract art, but is also connected to the author’s personal history and things that are important to him. The starting …

Past exhibitions – 2022 Taidehalli Häme | Hämeenlinna Petteri Cederberg Nearly human 29.10.-22.11.2022 The exhibition features paintings made on a primed wooden board. In the paintings, I consider the person as a psychophysical entity. In my works, I depict posthuman beings that move on the border of a human form and something else. However, human …