7.5–29.8.2021 Ostrobothnian Museum’s summer exhibition At the Summer House presents cultural history of summer houses, summer settlements and cottages in Vaasa region and Ostrobothnia from the end of 18th century until present. The display includes photographs, artefacts and extensive texts. In addition, the public has been able to engage by donating their experiences, memories and
21.5.-12.9.2021 The exhibition At home is literally a homecoming, a return to Tikanoja’s home, The Tikanoja Art Museum. In honour of the 70-year anniversary of the museum, the generations stemming directly from the Tikanoja family present themselves in a group exhibition. Several of the Counsellor of Commerce Frithjof Tikanoja’s children were artistically gifted. The second
21.5.2021–25.9.2022
29.5.-8.8.2021 When light particles come in contact with light-sensitive emulsion, an image of that light is recorded. After processing, what was at first a latent image, becomes visible. The exhibition When the light hits just right shows where the magic of this alchemic process is coming from, with works by 14 artists. These artists have
12.6.-24.10.2021 Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art’s summer exhibition, 1868 I 2021 I 2068, brings forward wide social structures and problems that have deep effect on people’s lives in present as well as in the past and future. The series of years in the name of the exhibition symbolise this timeline. The starting point of the
12.6.-24.10.2021 The internationally successful photographer Erik Johansson is on display for the first time in Finland. The Swedish artist's solo exhibition Places Beyond is exhibited at Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art in Vaasa. The artist Erik Johansson (b.1985) has succeeded in creating large photographic works containing visual impossibilities that mislead the viewer towards surrealism due
12.8.–3.10.2021 What will exist in the world after mankind is gone, or what would the world be like if mankind had never existed? These questions form the starting point for Elina Helkala’s solo exhibition at the Vaasa City Art Gallery. The artist is preoccupied by our unsustainable exploration of nature. She deals with this theme
17.9.2021-13.3.2022 Jan-Erik Andersson (b. 1954) has, during his forty-year career, been calling into question the rules of society and art with his surprising and narrative works. The artist’s multifaceted production includes both performances, spatial art, video, photo and sound works, sculpture as well as architecture. At the Ostrobothnian Museum, we can see a varied display
1.10.2021 - 23.1.2022 Visual artist Joel Slotte is the Young Artist of the Year 2021. Slotte is awarded a substantial grant and an opportunity for a private exhibition at the Tampere Art Museum and the Tikanoja Art Museum, which is part of the Vaasa City Museums. He is the 37th recipient of the Young Artist
9.10.-28.11.2021 Bower is an imagined landscape; a composed representation of places the artist has visited. Collecting pieces of nature is part of the experience of travelling, and of an artist’s work process. Shells, cones and branches are treasures we make our own, loaded with great expectations towards memory. When a person travels around, photography works