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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 …

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 …