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RiverBulls (Letter to Vladimir Putin) Screening

In honor of the last week of the Derby exhibition, Kunsthalle will show Teemu Mäki’s documentary RiverBulls (Letter to Vladimir Putin) in Kalevan Navetta’s Hugo event space on Wednesday 24.5. at 6 p.m. The artist Teemu Mäki will be present at the screening. The duration of the film is 58 minutes. The film has English subtitle. The screening includes to the admission fee to Kunsthalle Seinäjoki 6/4€.

Teemu Mäki has made a documentary film about the RiverBulls team of Seinäjoen Taitoluistelijat. Before getting to know the team, he hadn’t even heard of their sport. The works describe the men’s synchronised skating team as a unique phenomenon and reflect on the ways of being a man in this world. The first part of the documentary shows the team’s competition program for the 2022–2023 season and brings out the skaters’ thoughts about their hobby. This time, the competition program was based on the artist’s proposal to Toivo Kuula’s adaptations
of two southern Ostrobothnian folk songs Niin Kauan Minä Tramppaan (I Am Gonna Trample) and Tuuli Se Taivutti Koivun Larvan (Wind Bent the Birchtop). In the second part of the film, the perspective expands. The artist’s memories of what it was like to be a man in southern Ostrobothnia in his youth are brought into the narrative of the film, alongside the current Russian president Vladimir Putin, who is known to enjoy judo, ice hockey, and warfare, among other things. At the end of the letter heard in the film, Teemu invites Vladimir to Seinäjoki to try a different
way of being a man on skates. The film’s third part introduces two composers who died because of the war—Toivo Kuula and the Ukrainian Hanna Havrylets— and shows a duet bet ween two male skaters.

Script and direction: Teemu Mäki, Production company: ISLE Ar t Industries O y. Producer Janiv Oskár

Watch RIVERBULLS (A LETTER TO VLADIMIR PUTIN) Documentary 2023 teaser-video from Youtube.

Teemu Mäki (b.1967) is a writer, visual artist, theatre and film director, and researcher. In his doctoral dissertation, Mäki considered the intersections of art, philosophy, and politics. In his book of essays, Taiteen tehtävä, he discussed the role of art for both the individual and society. In recent years, he has examined, e.g. themes of gender diversity, the concentration of power and wealth, and human-caused mass extinction. Mäki is currently the chair of the Artists’ Association of Finland.

Derby is an art exhibition about sports. The exhibition studies the numerous sports activities in Seinäjoki and asks what art and sports have in common. Kunsthalle Seinäjoki invited six artists and five local sports communities to join the exhibition project.

Meet the artist: Maria Stereo

Meet our Derby artist Maria Stereo at the Halli exhibition space on the free admission Friday May the 5th. The artist is present from 4-6 pm.

Maria Stereo got to know the skateboarding culture of Seinäjoki with the guidance of members of the Lakeuden WallRiver SK8boarding association. In the artwork, the imagery of skateboarding and the artist’s aesthetics combine into an altar—a tribute dedicated to skateboarding.

Maria Stereo (b. 1979) lives and works in Kangasala. She is known as an artist who uses richly decorative visuals and insightful recycled materials. Stereo’s world is full of rococo, kitsch, and surrealism. The works are strongly related to the artist’s childhood in the 80s and her image of those times. Stereo graduated as a visual artist from Tampere University of Applied Sciences.

Photo: Tomi Salminen

Meet the artists: Aeon Lux, Ville Kirjanen & Aleksi Kolmonen

The three artists in the Trinitas exhibition can be met at the Mee the artists event on our free entrance day, Friday the 31st of March. The artists are present from 4 pm to 6 pm.

Read more about the artists and the Trinitas exhibition.

Derby: The Aftermath

Sports take over the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki and surroundings on the Friday 5th of May in the Derby side-event The Aftermath. Two sport communities participating in the Derby exhibition produce their own events: the local rollerskate association Lakeuden WallRiver SK8Boarding ry (LWRS) and the Seinäjoki orienteering club Rasti-Jussit. Derby-artist Maria Stereo will be present in the event also.

Rasti-Jussit will organize their traditional evening orienteering event in the Itikanmäki area, around the Kalevan Navetta and Kusthalle Seinäjoki.

The workshop space Itikka will be taken over by the LWRS in their ”Savottaa & kolistelua” event from 6 pm to 9 pm. The program consists of skateboard maintenance workshops (non-stop) and skate movies.

Visual artist Maria Stereo is present at the Derby exhibition from 4 to 6 pm. Maria collaborated with the LWRS to create her art work, the sculpture Holy Arch, to the Derby exhibition.

Friday is also the monthly free entrance day in the exhibitions at 11am to 10 pm.

The events are part of the Afterwork Art event at the Kalevan Navetta.

Derby – the art exhibition about sports – is open at the Halli exhibition space until the 27th of May.

Discussion guides in exhibitions

Our discussion guides are there to answer questions and talk about the exhibitions from 12 o’clock to 3 pm.

You can also book a private tour for a group. Read more on the Services page.

Picture: Katariina Vestergård

Discussion guides in exhibitions

Our discussion guides are there to answer questions and talk about the exhibitions from 12 o’clock to 3 pm.

You can also book a private tour for a group. Read more on the Services page.

Picture: Katariina Vestergård

Skating Croquis Workshop

An open non-stop croquis workshop modeled by the skaters of the RiverBulls synchronised skating team. Workshop is free of charge, 1 hour long at 5.30pm to 6.30 pm. All welcome!

RiverBulls is a mens’ synchronized skating team from Seinäjoki. Riverbulls are one of the sport groups in the Derby exhibition.

The Skating Croquis workshop is part of Afterwork Art program in Kalevan Navetta.

Th workshop is funded by the Kuortaneen säästöpankkisäätiö.

Picture: Rene Luhtala

Free admission Friday & Afterwork Art

The first Friday of the Month is always a free admission day at the Kunsthalle! The exhibitions are open free of charge from 11 am  to 7 pm.

Afterwork Art is an evening full of good food and interesting events at the Art and Culture Centre Kalevan Navetta. The Afterwork Art evenings are held on free admission Fridays. For the full program of the Afterwork Art events, see the Kalevan Navetta website.

All Free admission Fridays in 2023 are listed here.

Opening party: Trinitas

Welcome to the opening party on Friday 24th of February at 5pm to 8pm

The three artists Ville Kirjanen, Aleksi Kolmonen, and Aeon Lux in Trinitas are united by critically examining the multiplicity of being human and cultural phenomena.Combining sculptures, photography, and video, the show places images and findings from modern humanity onto a kind of altar. All are invited and entrance is free of charge to the Kunsthalle’s exhibitions.

Opening program:

from 5:00 pm onwards Trinitas exhibition, Äärellä restaurant is open

At the evening brunch, you can enjoy salads, savory and warm snacks, as well as sweets from the buffet. The price of the evening brunch is €25, for children under 12 €14.50.

at 6 pm Artist talk in the exhibition space Vintti, moderator art curator Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen, 3nd floor

Artists talk: Ville Kirjanen, Aleksi Kolmonen, and Aeon Lux about their own artistic working processes and giving more insights to the art works on the exhibition.

at 6.30 Performance by Kainulainen & Latva

Performance art duo Kainulainen & Latva, established by Katri Kainulainen & Maximilian Latva in 2014, has created around 70 unique performances as well as exhibitions in Finland and all around Europe. Kainulainen & Latva’s performances include wordless, physical expression that utilise plentiful, hand-made props and soundscapes created on site. The keywords for their work are trauma, resilience and power relations between genders.

at 8pm Music gig: SMG-trio at Hugo event space, 2nd floor | tickets on the door €32

Age limit: 18+, Time: Doors at 19:00, Tickets from the door 32 €, if any left. Schedule:19:00 Doors, 20:00 Scandinavian Music Group (trio), Sales closes at 24.2.2023 19:00.

How to get to Kalevan Navetta:

Kalevan Navetta is located on Itikanmäki in Seinäjoki at Nyykoolinkatu 25. The main door of the building is located on the side of the courtyard between Kalevan Navetta and Itikanmäki residential buildings. You can get to Kalevan Navetta via Vaasantie on foot or by bike or along the Lakeuden aamunkoi bridge crossing the Pohja highway.

There are around 50 parking spaces for customers around Kalevan Navetta. The first hour is free e.g. with a ticket available from the vending machine and €1 for the following hours. The nearest public parking lot is located on Maakunnankatu about 700 meters away. On busy event days, we recommend using other arrival options instead of a car or parking your car in the Maakunnankatu parking lot if necessary.

Free Admission Friday & Afterwork Art

The first Friday of the Month is always a free admission day at the Kunsthalle! The exhibitions are open free of charge from 11 am  to 7 pm.

Afterwork Art is an evening full of good food and interesting events at the Art and Culture Centre Kalevan Navetta. The Afterwork Art evenings are held on free admission Fridays. For the full program of the Afterwork Art events, see the Kalevan Navetta website.

All Free admission Fridays in 2023 are listed here.

Free admission Friday & Afterwork Art

The first Friday of the Month is always a free admission day at the Kunsthalle! The exhibitions are open free of charge from 11 am  to 7 pm.

Afterwork Art is an evening full of good food and interesting events at the Art and Culture Centre Kalevan Navetta. The Afterwork Art evenings are held on free admission Fridays. For the full program of the Afterwork Art events, see the Kalevan Navetta website.

All Free admission Fridays in 2023 are listed here.

Free admission Friday

The first Friday of the Month is always a free admission day at the Kunsthalle! The exhibitions are open free of charge from 11 am  to 7 pm.

All Free admission Fridays in 2023 are listed here.

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki announces exhibitions for 2023

The year 2023 begins with group exhibitions of artists working in Finland, while the exhibitions opening in summer and autumn are a continuation of the cooperation between Nordic artists and art institutions.

Sixth Sense Experience Room

Artist meeting Ida Sofia Fleming & Vesa Rahikainen

Friday 4.11. at 6 pm

Artists of the Liminal Space exhibition are guiding the exhibition and telling more about the working process. The artist meeting is part of Kalevan Navetta Afterwork Art event. Fee entrance.

The heart of Ida Sofia Fleming and Vesa Rahikainen’s exhibition Liminal Space (Välitila) is a spacious metal sound sculpture. The resonant surface is made of steel plates that have gone through their own cycle to become part of the finished work. They have been burned with fire and dragged on the ground. Having been at the mercy of the weather, they are partly shaped by nature and partly by human touch.

Ida Sofia Fleming works at the interface of sculpture, performance art, acting, and music. It is typical of her work to pick up meaningful elements of different art fields from each other, thereby deepening her practice. Fleming lives on a hundred-year-old farm in Kyrönlahti, Finland and works mostly outdoors, even during winter. Her working spaces are a workshop, a studio in the yard, and the fields—where the process of rusting the metal sheets takes place in the furrows. The countryside way of life is strongly reflected in her works. Nature is firmly present in everything she does. Essential in Fleming’s work is tactile physicality and the processing of materials in nature. Through nature, Fleming feels that she finds the most important tools for making art and transmitting notions around the perception of time, fragility, strength, and silence. The themes of Fleming’s works are architecturally focused on spatial, sacred, sound sculpture installations. The works are stage sets embedded in architecture about memories and the transience of matter at this moment. She does not create objects, but spaces to be experienced, or a traces, which inhabit the viewer’s body through movement. The essential starting point in the work is always the structural environment, how the sculpture will be in the location, what it brings to the space from the present moment, and how it exists.

Vesa Rahikainen’s artistic work explores the fundamental essence of materials and techniques. His sculptural work is a ritual-like expressive process where the body, as both the creator and experiencer of art, is contemplated. An interest in physicality and immaterial expression has come through Taiji, Qi Gong, and Taoist exercises, which he also teaches. He works at the Academy of Fine Arts as the technician of the sculpture studios and as a metalworking class teacher; and in this role, he is a silent background support for many young sculptors. Currently, he is on leave from his work, focusing on a project about his personal connection to nature supported by the Kone Foundation.

Glow Up performance club w/ MALLA

Fri 4.11 from 19:00 to 23:00 | Tickets: €17.50 and €19, tiketti.fi |  Hugo event space, Kalevan Navetta

The performance club Glow Up is about taking care of yourself and others. The theme has arisen from the general need for relaxation and caring for one’s well-being. The event includes performances by Tiia Kasurisen, Eero Yli-Vakkuri & Co and Vishnu Vardhani Rajan. The evening ends with a music gig by Malla. Multitalent Malla Malmivaara is an award winning actress and musician. Malla’s music is an eclectic mix of electro pop and house music, inspired by analogue synthesizers and drum machines.

Malla, photo J. Särkilahti

“Glow Up” is a phenomenon that has become common during the covid pandemia. Glow up is about enhancing one’s being, for example, from the messy home look during quarantine to a well-groomed and as “good-looking” as possible. Glow up may include self-indulgence and self-care, but the aspiration of these actions is primarily making an external transformation. Is the phenomenon problematic? Can only people, who are considered beautiful, be able to glow up? Or is it a form of self-indulgence to enjoy your updated look?

Tiia Kasurinen, photo. Teea Kasurinen

Tiia Kasurinen is an artist and choreographer who graduated from Stockholm University of the Arts in 2017. Kasurinen is interested in themes of identity, gender, gaze and pop culture, and explores them in her work utilizing makeup, visual transformation and movement as her tools. Youtube tutorials and somatic practices go hand in hand in her work, creating a recognizable aesthetic. When Kasurinen is not working on her own projects, she works as a dancer, performer and collaborator for and with other artists.

Eero Yli-Vakkuri, photo Leena Kela.

Eero Yli-Vakkuri (b.1981) is a recovering survivalist. In the past he made annoying street interventions which made people uncomfortable, presently he is advancing sustainable design through campaigns, workshops and artistic presentations. He prefers to work in groups and to develop antidisciplinary collaborations with specialists from different fields.

The performance of the Glow Up club has been prepared by a group of twelve artists. The performing group includes Tonya Björkbom, Julia Elo, Viola Jalaskoski, Uljas Kaitala, Anni-Maaria Leppänen, Sade Marila, Pinja Minkkinen, Piia Muurinaho, Ignacio Pérez Pérez, Tiia From, Sanna Svartström and +1. The performance of the artist group is using activities that change the forms of matter and defy gravity.

Vishnu Vardhani Rajan

Vishnu Vardhani Rajan ( Hyderabad, Helsinki) is a body-philosopher, filmmaker and a performance artist. A hyphenated identity, multidisciplinary practices and building connections between art, science, witchcraft, history and cultures define them. Vishnu’s work spans, dance, non-performance-performance, performing arts, performance poetry, stand-up comedy, moving images, punk-architecture and cultural poethics of community building. Quilting as a methodology centering topics of sleep, rest , conflict and shame, ‘Convivial Complaint Cell’ and Infinite Playlist Afterisms (IPA) centering politics of pleasure , splendour and joy are their ongoing work. Vishnu’s persona, Vamp Master Brown, is the first Indian drag king in Helsinki.  They are currently researching on how to combine various disciplines to achieve a new visual vocabulary and language in performance, storytelling and cinema. They are currently reading Sara Ahmed’s Complaint with a reading-circle. Vishnu’s guerilla curatorial praxis aims to address Multi-Scalar social challenges.

The event is curated by VarikkoGalleria and studios artists Aeon Lux ja Alan Bulfin. The theme of the performance club is about taking care of yourself and others. The event is called “Glow up”. The theme has arisen from the general need for relaxation and caring for one’s well-being. In the background, there is also the curator Aeon Lux’s own interest in trying to sort out what is the essence of these relaxing places, activities and times, such as holidays, hotels and nursing homes. What stimulates our sensory system to relax? Is the experience of visiting a forest or sleeping in a hotel possible to create some other way or another place? Is it possible in performance art to create a bare and confidential relationship between the performer and the viewer as it is seen between the relationship between the patient and the caregiver?

Curator Alan Bulfin’s accompanying words: “Performance art is the poetics of becoming otherwise with audiences and everyday objects.” Performance art uses everyday objects and gestures in a new way. It intensifies them and makes them become poetic, for example using repetition as a tool. When the purpose of everyday use disappears, new meanings can arise.

Photo on the right: I’m Not Entirely Here (cypersad) Tiia Kasurinen, photo Saara Taussi

Sound Bath

Sat 26.11. at 10-11 am

Come and experience a sound bath class in an art exhibition, where the facilitator plays different sound bowls and also the art work is giving its own resonant sound. The heart of Ida Sofia Fleming and Vesa Rahikainen’s exhibition Liminal Space (Välitila) is a spacious metal sound sculpture. The resonant surface is made of steel plates that have gone through their own cycle to become part of the finished work.

Sound bowl relaxation lasting about an hour is done gently on a yoga mat lying down or sitting. During relaxation, the facilitator plays singing bowls instruments such as Tibetan singing bowls, koshes, tingsha, kalimba and uses his own sound. Sound Bath Facilitator: Elina Muotio.

After the sound bath, there is Saturday brunch at the Äärellä restaurant . Book your table at aarella.fi

Muu-Mau’s Autumn Day in Kalevan Navetta

Welcome to the art and culture event for the whole family at Kalevan Navetta Sat 24th of September. Free entry.

Summer artist Olivia Viitakangas exhibition On going 06-08/22, items, clues and hearings

Exhibition takes place in pedatila Itikka 2. floor of Kalevan Navetta at 22th to 24th of September. Free entry. Read more about the exhibition.

Exhibition Opening: Liminal Space

Exhibition Opening  21.9. at 5 pm to 7 pm

Ida Sofia Fleming and Vesa Rahikainen: Liminal Space

Exhibition space Vintti, free entrance

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki is opening a new exhibition, all are welcome to the opening event! The focal point of the Liminal Space exhibition by Ida Sofia Fleming and Vesa Rahikainen is a spatial metal and sound sculpture. The resonant surface is formed of rusty metal plates, which have gone through their own cycle to become part of the finished piece. They have been burned by fire and dragged through the ground. They have been at the mercy of the weather. Partly they are shaped by nature, partly by human. Their surface has been processed by ritual-like working methods using self-made tools. All this has left visible traces and hidden layers in them. The piece invites the viewer to a meditative atmosphere by approaching the liminal space, timespan between life and death, from the Buddhist and other old traditions of wisdom.

Program

Vintti, 3rd floor

beginning at 6 pm

Opening words by art curator Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen

Artist interviews: Ida Sofia Fleming & Vesa Rahikainen

Music performance: Kielo Kärkkäinen

Kielo Kärkkäinen is known for his deep and touching voice. He has released three solo albums of new age songs combining folk and jazz, as well as two albums with the world music group Belize. Pauli Kallio of Soundi magazine compared the atmosphere created by Kärkkäinen to the productions of Joni Mitchell , Joan Baez and Violeta Parra .

In addition there will be the summer artist Olivia Viitakangas’ book release party at itikka space, 2nd floor. “Vireilla 06-08/22, esineet, vihit, kuunnelmat” (“On going 06-08/22, items, clues and hearings”) is a book combining photographs and text. The name refers to the period that Viitakangas spent working with Seinäjoki’s Kalevalanpuisto (Kalevala park), examining its condition, events and past.

Ida Sofia Fleming is a sculptor and performance artist, also works as an actor and musician. Has participated in several exhibitions in Finland and abroad with his spatial sound sculptures and performances. The theme of his works is focused on spatial sculptural installations dealing with holiness, conveying a physical experience to the viewer. The materials are rusted metal plates, sound, and performance. In his work, it is customary to build the works by reflecting with the space, so that the work is in an architectural dialogue with the space. The rusted metal sheets travel along again and again in different forms in new exhibitions, but between exhibitions they are buried in the ground and nature.

Vesa Rahikainen has focus on his artistic practise on material- and technique-oriented making that explores the basic nature of things. His interest in sculpture is in the expressive process and the examination of the essence of the material, as well as pondering the bodily aspects of making and experiencing art. In addition to art, his interest in fitness manifests itself through the practice of taiji and qigong, which he practices and teaches. Rahikainen works at the Art University, Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki as a technician and teacher of metalwork and sculpture, and is the quiet background support to help many young sculptors. Regarding exhibitions, Rahikainen has focused on group exhibitions and working in collective projects.

Olivia Viitakangas: On going 06-08/22, items, clues and hearings

Ukrainian artist Oleksandra Viazinko’s exhibition in Itikka Space

The Visible Radiation exhibition is open from 2 to 8 of September 2022, Sat 11am-3pm and Mon-Thurs 11am-7pm. Free entrance.

Ailish Maher: All This Silent Space

Ailish Maher: All This Silent Space

The dance performance takes place in the exhibition space Vintti, Välitila-exhibition on Sat 1st of October at 11.30 am. The performance is included in the price of the admission ticket.

The dance piece All This Silent Space deals with loneliness and social distancing. The solo work explores the importance and impact of touch, social interaction, and how missing this affects our bodies. How can we rebuild the connection with ourselves and others by activating our body and senses.

Irish-Finnish dance artist Ailish Maher has lived in Vaasa since 2019. She graduated from The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance in 2014 and since then she has worked extensively with several choreographers and groups, both as a performer and in creative work, and has also taught internationally. In her artistic work, Ailish is interested in forms of collaboration that draw on and explore emotional and physical communication between the body, movement and performance.

The Regional Dance Centre of Ostrobothnia is organising the tour in cooperation with the galleries and art spaces in the area. The tour brings high-quality and accessible dance art for art and culture lovers.

Dance & Choreography: Ailish Maher
Lights: Jakob Löflund
Premiere: 25.9.2020 Black Box Genesis, Vaasa
Made with the support of: The Regional Dance Centre of Ostrobothnia, Svensk-österbottniska Samfundet and Black Box Genesis Gallery
Production of the tour: The Regional Dance Centre of Ostrobothnia

Oleksandra Viazinko: Visible Radiation

“Once upon a time when there was no moon, there was no death.”

-Mende fairy-tale “How the Moon Appered”-

Opening on Friday 2nd of September from 4 to 7 p.m.All welcome!

The exhibition is open from 2 to 8 of September 2022, Sat 11am-3pm and Mon-Thurs 11am-7pm.

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki has invited the Ukrainian artist Oleksandra Viazinko to have an exhibition in Itikka space, as part of the Kunsthalle mediates – side program concept.

Viazinko’s print collage series Visible Radiation is on display at the week-long exhibition.

In “Visible Radiation” I used photographs from my family archives, my photographs of the moon, Galileo Galilei’s and Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings of the Moon as well as the photograph titled “Earthrise” taken aboard Apollo 8. Visible radiation is a visible light, electromagnetic waves which our eyes can perceive. It is a metaphor of light which our relatives radiate no matter how far they are from us.Moon is the symbol of never-ending life, of rebirth, it becomes young and old as people do. With the help of the moon people used to measure time. They used to believe that there are cities and towns on the moon. “Visible Radiation” is a story about our roots and our memory, our ancestors and our deep connection to them.

– Oleksandra Viazinko

Oleksandra Viazinko is a visual artist born in 1991 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Viazinko studied literary criticism at National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” and has been an editor at Kyiv Academic Pechersk Theatre. She has spent the summer of 2022 as an artist-in-residence at the Nelimarkka Museum, supported by the Pentti Moisio cultural heritage fund.

AARG Movie Night

AARG

Free entrance to the movie night. The bar is serving beverages the first hour of the event.

AARG Evening program at Hugo event space

5:30 pm the bar is open (1h)
5:45pm Ida Enegren: welcome and introduction
6 pm Video: Asunción Molinos Gordo: Purpose, scope and penalties
6:20 Document: Habib Ayeb: Couscous: Seeds of Dignity
Commentary
20.00 The event ends

Purpose, Scope and Penalties

Asunción Molinos Gordo
2016, Video, 18 min
In the video Purpose, scope and penalties, three farmers and a researcher meet at a local café in Uchisar, Turkey, to drink tea and to discuss factors that impact farming and, in particular, to evaluate the consequences of the controversial seed law that was enacted in 2006. Seed law no. 5553 was carried through at record speed without the opportunity for citizens, farmers, or scientists to comment on it. The law regulates the production and selling of seeds and aims to restructure the seed sector to increase productivity and yield. Artist Molinos Gordo wants to shed light upon the bureaucratic and political obstacles faced by farmers.

Couscous: Seeds of Dignity

Habib Ayeb
2017, Document, 57 min
Couscous, with its various recipes, constitutes the staple food of all of the populations of the Maghreb region, including Tunisia. Almost self-sufficient in cereals until the beginning of the 20th century, Tunisia now imports more than half of its food needs as dependency increases year on year. The documentary, filmed in Tunisia, approaches food issues from a local viewpoint and highlights the food productions’ diversity and complexity that go beyond national borders. Couscous: Seeds of Dignity focuses on the political, social, economic, and ecological conditions of cereal and couscous production.

Admission free day

Admission free

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 am to 7 pm.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Mammu and Pasi Rauhala: Beals All Things -exhibition, photo Mika Rinta-Porkkunen

Admission free day

Admission free

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 am to 7 pm.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Mammu and Pasi Rauhala: Beals All Things -exhibition, photo Mika Rinta-Porkkunen

Admission free day

Admission free

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 am to 7 pm.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Mammu and Pasi Rauhala: Beals All Things -exhibition, photo Mika Rinta-Porkkunen

Video installations of strange human-animals create an immersive art experience

Noelia Mora Solvez’s first exhibition in Finland invites viewers to enter a strange world. Farming is an energetic, sonic and performative exhibition composed of video installations. All six works are based on and inspired by farm-raised animals. The exhibition invites viewers to ask questions and reflect on human social behaviour by shifting the boundaries of the human/animal dichotomy.

Farming -Exhibition Opening & Speech Karaoke at Kalevan Navetta Summer Day Event 2022

Noelia Mora Solvez‘s first exhibition in Finland invites viewers to enter a strange world. Farming is an energetic, sonic and performative exhibition composed of video installations. All six works are based on and inspired by farm-raised animals. Farming’s opening event is a part of summer fest in Kalevan Navetta on Wednesday 29.6.2022 at 5-8 pm. The program consists of e.g. Speech Karaoke for the first time in Seinäjoki and a picnic at the inner yard.

Everyone is welcome to join! Free entry. More information

The Essence of the Park – Workshop Day & Picnic

Olivia Viitakangas has been chosen as the sixth summer artist for the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. Viitakangas begins her work in June until the end of September 2022. During the summer, Viitakangas will conduct an artistic site-specific survey of a 55,866 m2 size park in the Pohja district. The process-based performative work borrows methods from the research practices. What is the character or the essence of the park? Activities will include participatory art, and the data collected will be in the end of the project a published book that mimics a research paper. The area of ​​operation is Seinäjoki’s Kalevala Park (Kalevalanpuisto).

More information: Olivia Viitakangas, kesäkuvataiteilija, tel 040 537 7716. olivia.viitakangas@seinajoki.fi

Parsi Art WKND Art Sales event

Seinäjoki Artists Association Seinäjoen Taiteilijaseura is organizing art sales event Parsi Art WKND together with Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. Art sales takes place in exhibition space Vintti at second of September at 4pm to 7 pm and Sat-Sun Third and Fourth of September at 11am to 3 pm. Free entrance.

You are warmly welcome to come an see local artists artworks. All the artworks that are on display are on sale. The Artists Association has Parsi Art rental shop in art and culture centre Kalevan Navetta. You can buy art in the art rental shop and in the art sales event eather with one payment or using part payment.

Support your local artist!

Meet the Artist: Mammu & Pasi Rauhala

Tuesday 5.7. at 1 pm

Art curator Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen will interview the artist couple Mammu and Pasi Rauhala at the exhibition space Vintti. Event is included to the admission fee.

The artist couple Mammu and Pasi Rauhala celebrate their joint project of a 10-year journey with an anniversary exhibition at Vintti in Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. Bears All Things (originally in Finnish ‘Kaiken se kestää’) is a lifelong art project where the artists document their daily lives wearing their wedding attire. The work is continuous and intertwined with the everyday life of the artists, from home renovations to yard maintenance. The undertaking, which began in 2013, has been carried out annually. The works explore time, humanity, and interpersonal relationships. A vital component of the oeuvre is the photographs in which artists look seriously at the camera while wearing their wedding outfits. Over the years, the work has also evolved in its form to include video installation, performance, and sculpture. In addition to Bears All Things, other correlative series have emerged—focusing on issues related to love and its preservation.

Mammu Rauhala holds a Bachelor of Culture and Arts degree in theatre. Throughout her life, she has used both the visual arts and her body to express herself. Mammu’s practice experiments with, and straddles
the intersections of, sculpture, painting, media art, and performance, among other things. Art masks and related performances are the objects of her passion. Together with numerous activities, Mammu has worked as a theatre teacher, director, and coordinator of applied arts. Pasi Rauhala has a Master’s degree from the Department of Photography at Aalto University and in Time and Space Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts. Pasi Rauhala is a media artist focusing on interactivity, spatiality, and public space. During his 20 year career, he has taught in all the major Finnish art schools and participated in dozens of art productions as an artist, curator, producer, and coordinator. For Pasi, art is a never-ending adventure that can lead you anywhere. Mammu and Pasi Rauhala have been working together since 2010. Bears All Things is their most important joint project, which they have been working on since 2012. Parts of the project have been on display at the Paikkari Performance Festival 2013, Galleria Forum Box 2014, Galleria Lapinlahti 2016 and Riga Art Space, Latvia, 2016. Love Never Fails has been seen at Galleria Huuto 2016 and at the Pyhäniemi Manor summer exhibition 2018. Hanging in There was seen at Mänttä Art Festival 2019 and at ARS Kärsämäki 2020.

Admission free day

Admission free

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 am to 7 pm.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Mammu and Pasi Rauhala: Beals All Things -exhibition, photo Mika Rinta-Porkkunen

Farming -Exhibition Opening & Speech Karaoke, Kalevan Navetta Summer Day Event 2022

Exhibition opening

Noelia Mora Solvez: Farming | exhibition space Halli

29.6. 5pm – 8pm, free admission

In the exhibition of Noelia Mora Solvez, who exhibits in Finland for the first time, the viewer enters a peculiar world. ‘Farming’ is a colourful and energetic exhibition consisting of video installations, sound and performance. The exhibition creates a humorous zoomorphic world in its quest to define the human animal. Each work is based on and inspired by animals we see on farms. As a whole, ‘Farming’ reflects the social structures of society through people presented as other animals.

Opening program in Hugo event space in Kalevan Navetta

Artist Interview, Noelia Mora Solvez from 6 pm to 6.30 pm, Hugo event space

Speech Karaoke 5pm-6pm & 6.30-8pm, Hugo event space

Speech Karaoke is an innovative format that combines the spoken word with the world of karaoke. Our speech catalogue contains over 700 speeches in 12 different languages, mostly in English and Finnish. Speech Karaoke is not only a unique club event, it is also a great training ground for public speaking. By imitating well known and powerful speeches in a safe environment the audience can practice their public speaking skills – an essential skill in a functional democracy. Using the playful karaoke format people can overcome their fear of public speaking, which is the most common phobia ahead of death, spiders, or heights.*

Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen from the Speech Karaoke Action Group will arrive in Seinäjoki with Julius Valve, who will be the karaoke host during the evening. DJ Josio entertains the guests with some sweet chillin tunes.

See the trailer and more information.

Photo: Speech Karaoke Action Group

Opening and Speech Karaoke is part of Kalevan Navetta Summer Day 2022 event . Art and Culture Centre is full of activities, good food, music, crafts and design during the afternoon, all welcome, free admission!

Anniversary exhibition at Vintti’s church-like atmosphere

The artist couple Mammu and Pasi Rauhala celebrate their joint project of a 10-year journey with an anniversary exhibition at Vintti in Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. Bears All Things (originally in Finnish ‘Kaiken se kestää’) is a lifelong art project where the artists document their daily lives wearing their wedding attire. The work is continuous and intertwined with the everyday life of the artists, from home renovations to yard maintenance.

Exhibition Opening

Opening

New exhibition will open at the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki: Mammu and Pasi Rauhala: Bears All Things – First 10 years

The artist couple Mammu and Pasi Rauhala celebrate their joint project of 10-year journey with a jubilee exhibition at Vintti in Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. Bears All Things (originally in Finnish ‘Kaiken se kestää’) is a life-long art project, where the artists document their daily lives wearing their wedding attire, often in the midst of renovation. The jubilee exhibition contains a collection of works over the years in addition to the new works.

Opening is on the first of June at 5-7pm at the exhibition space Vintti, 3rd floor.

Programme

5.30pm Opening words by art curator Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen

5.45pm Artists Interview: Mammu and Pasi Rauhala

6 pm Villakko band is performing. Singer-song writer couple Jaakko Elenius and Marika Torkko will embrace the listener to a peaceful and calm music journey that ponders of our humanity. 

Photo of Villakko, singer Marika Torkko and pianist Jaakko Elenius, photo by Villakko

Äärellä catering services will sell at the opening drinks and other beverages. Free entry on Criss-Crossing Ecologies exhibition, Exhibition space Halli, 2nd floor.

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki is located in the Arts and Culture Centre Kalevan Navetta in Itikanmäki, Seinäjoki. (Nyykoolinkatu 25,Seinäjoki)

The Summer Artist 2022 is Olivia Viitakangas

Visual artist Olivia Viitakangas, who works with performativity, photography and video art, has been chosen as the sixth summer artist for the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. During the summer, Viitakangas will conduct an artistic site-specific survey of a 55,866 m2 size park in the Pohja district. The process-based performative work borrows methods from the research practices. Activities will include participatory art, and the data collected will be in the end of the project a published book that mimics a research paper.

The Kunsthalle is open on two Sundays in May

The exhibitions are open on Vappu 1st of May and on Mother’s Day 8th of May from 11 am to 3 pm. Free admission.

Meet the Artist Tamara Piilola

Tamara Piilola will tell about her paintings in the exhbition Tree is a Miracle on the 13th of April at 6pm.The tour begins from the art and culture centre’s lobby area with the artist. Tour is included to the admission fee to Kunsthalle Seinäjoki.

Tamara Piilola’s (b. 1977) works consist of large-scale nature-themed oil paintings, in which the abundance of the plant world is present in colours and shapes. In her opinion, avalanches that occur in nature are endlessly interesting to watch due to their specifics. The purity of colours and the power of expression are an important element in Piilola’s work. The composition gives the painting a strong frame, in which there is space to play with picturesqueness and representativeness.

Piilola, who lives and works in Helsinki, graduated from the Turku Art Academy in 2003 and the Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. Her long stays in France and Germany have made an impact on her work. Piilola was awarded the Didrichsen Pro Arte Prize in 2016. Her works are included in a number of significant collections, such as Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Didrichsen Art Museum and HAM Helsinki Art Museum.

photo. Mika Rinta-Porkkunen

Panel Discussion: How can we envision the changing world through the artworks in the Criss-Crossing Ecologies exhibition?

Panel discussion is based on children art and science questions while visiting the exhibition

1.4.2022 at 5-6-pm, free entranc

In the exhibition Criss-Crossing Ecologies the research subjects of the artists lead to deeper questions than the aestheticization of the final work of art: What is coexistence like in different types of ecosystems? How do humans relate to their environment? How can we envision the changing world through these artworks? Through science, art, design and technology we are able to ponder these questions.

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki will host a panel discussion with the exhibition Criss-Crossing Ecologies artists and curators. During the spring, there will be visiting all the 10 years old pupils from the schools of Seinäjoki approx. 650 children. Kunsthalle’s exhibition guides have collected questions that the children have been pondering considering the art works or the subject of the work in the exhibition. Some of these questions will be asked from the curators and artists on the panel discussion by art curator Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen. Artists Julia Lohmann, Leena Saarinen and Antti Tenetz are at present. So is the curators Mari Keski-Korsu and Anna Puhakka. Other artists and curators are participating through online.

The event is held at the Itikka space in the art and culture centre Kalevan Navetta and also broadcasted by teams-application as online event. You will receive the link a day before to the email you gave here. The event is held mainly in English. sign up: https://link.webropol.com/s/paneldiscussion More information: Art producer Pii Anttila, pii.anttila@seinajoki.fi

Curators Anna Puhakka, Mari Keski-Korsu and Erich Berger

Curators & Artists

Erich Berger is an artist, curator and cultural worker based in Helsinki Finland. His focus is on the intersection of art, science and technology with a critical take on how they transform society and the world at large. Throughout his practice he has explored the materiality of information, and information and technology as artistic material. Berger’s current interest in issues of deep time and hybrid ecology led him to work with geological processes, radiogenic phenomena and their socio-political implications in the here and now. He moves between visual arts and science in an area which he also investigates and develops as director of the Bioart Society in Helsinki.

Mari Keski-Korsu is a post-disciplinary artist, researcher and curator who explores how ecological changes manifest in everyday life. Her current practice for several years, is focused on inter-species communication and care to possibly enable empathy towards whole ecosystems. Since 2021, she is a doctoral candidate to study towards Doctor of Arts degree in Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Within her research work, she is a member of interdisciplinary research group working in Abisko Scientific Research Station in sub-Arctic Sweden. For long, she has been collaborating with Bioart Society.

Anna Puhakka is a cross-disciplinary curator, artist and arts management professional from Finland. She is interested in alternate realities and the juxtapositioning of nature, ritual and technology. Puhakka has curated numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally over the past 15 years. She specialises in curating site-specific artworks and has a firm understanding of curating exhibitions for children created by professional artists.

Antti Tenetz (b.1975) is a visual artist from Finland. His works are situated at the interface between media arts, biological arts and urban art. Tenetz focuses on multi-disciplinary and multi-artistic cooperation between art and science.

Brandon Ballengée (b. 1974) is a visual artist, biologist and environmental educator based in Louisiana, US. Ballengée creates transdisciplinary artworks inspired from his ecological field and laboratory research. Since 1996, a central focus of investigation has been the occurrence of developmental deformities and population declines among amphibians.

German-born designer and researcher Julia Lohmann (b. 1977) investigates and critiques the ethical and material value systems underpinning our relationship with flora and fauna.

Sweden-born Cecilia Jonsson’s (b. 1980) works are devised by strategies in which materiality, site-specific navigation and objective research methods are woven together through a personal, subjective experience of contemporary alchemy. Her projects develop as investigations of physical and ideological properties of the raw materials that form the basis of human existence: from origins deep in the earth, to the extraction, transformation and global exploitation.

Leena Saarinen (b. 1988) is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Her practice is multidisciplinary and research based. She works with questions of posthumanism in the age of climate change and mass extinctions. In her work she studies culture, language and the relationship between human and non-human species.

Aiming to make art that openly engages with the world, Soichiro Mihara (b.1980) creates systems that employ a wide range of materials, media, and technologies, such as acoustics, bubbles, radiation, rainbow, microbes, moss, air streams, soil and electrons in order to continually question the here and now.

View of the Criss-Crossing Ecologies exhibition at Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. Photo: Katariina Vestergård

Afterwork Art

Kuva: Visio Creative

Afterwork Art

Kuva: Visio Creative

Afterwork Art

Kuva: Visio Creative

Admission free day

Admission free

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 am to 7 pm.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Mammu and Pasi Rauhala: Beals All Things -exhibition, photo Mika Rinta-Porkkunen

Admission free day

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 am to 7 pm.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Elina Teitti

Tamara Piilola’s exhibition celebrates trees

For her solo exhibition at Vintti in Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Tamara Piilola has painted living beings called trees and their habitats. Large-scale oil paintings offer absorbing moments in a world of colours, depths and shapes. The subject of Piilola’s paintings is classic and seemingly very simple and clear. In her exhibition, the artist reflects on the fact that a painting has the ability to show things from a different perspective. A painting can be used to express something that is hard to put into words – give voice to a tree.

Raluca Voinea got chosen for The Helsinki International Curatorial Programme

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki took part as a co-host for the first time to The Helsinki International Curatorial Programme. As a result curator Raluca Voinea got chosen to the The Helsinki International Curatorial Programme in autumn 2022 for one-month curatorial residencies. Raluca Voinea, based in Bucharest, Romania, is a curator, art critic, and co-director of the Romanian association tranzit.ro since 2012.The Helsinki International Curatorial Programme, hosted annually by Frame and HIAP – Helsinki International Artist, aims to provide internationally active curators with the chance to connect with the Finnish contemporary art field and to support curatorial research in its diverse and emergent forms. In addition to individualised assistance and networking support from HIAP and Frame, Raluca Voinea is provided with the opportunity to begin a collaboration on curating an exhibition to Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. Read more

Opening party: Tree is a Miracle – Tamara Piilola

Opening party

14.2.2022

Apply for the Summer Artist Job 2022

Summer artist 2022 open call is on until 13th of March 2022! The Cultural Services of Seinäjoki City is hiring professional artist to do visual art in the city. The idea is to hire an emerging visual artist or art student to do artistic work. Every year the location is a bit different. Multidisciplinary, communal, site-specific, performative art are possible. The summer artist will become part of the staff at the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki and can use the Art and Culture Centre Kalevan Navetta as the workplace.

27.1.2022

Exhibition of internationally renowned bio-artists opens on the 3rd of February

The first new exhibition of the year in Kunsthalle Seinäjoki opens in the Halli exhibition space. The Criss-Crossing Ecologies carried out in collaboration with the Bioart Society, presents works by artists whose research leads to questions about what coexistence is in different types of ecosystems and how humans relate to their environment. In the exhibition, the findings are conveyed in the languages of art, science and technology, in the form of photographs, installations, sculptures, videos and sound.

At the Artist’s Studio – Video Art Screening

At the Artist’s Studio video art screening in the workshop space Itikka

Rea-Liina Brunou, choreographer
Pauliina Haasjoki, poet
Anne Naukkarinen, visual and performance artist
Piia Rinne, clothing and visual designer

At the Artist’s Studio is a recording of a session and reading drama that has emerged from artist’s visiting alongside each other’s work processes.  The video work that is screened non-stop during The Kunsthalle Seinäjoki opening hours on Friday and Saturday 4.-5.2.2022.

”I had imagined this to be sitting at the table, so that in part we are turning towards the common center but at the same time a little open to the audience. And the speech is addressed to each other. It is perhaps partly written in advance and partly a reaction and a discussion that arises in the situation.  Maybe we’ll also give an other voice to what someone else was written: you wrote like this. You reflected this way to it.  I think this basic situation breaks down from short inserts, some of us might get up to do something, it could happen organically (“and then you did that, and then I performed this way to it) or why not as a surprisingly. It is also possible that something is set to appear as a projection or as a sound recording. Some object may be handed to others in a circle, someone may be wearing something or put something on over someone, maybe.’

At the Artist’s Studio -screening is part of Taidehalli välittää programme.

The Taidehalli välittää program offers artists and art professionals space to produce art projects or events at the Kunsthalle. The program aims to provide space for community-based, process-based and experiential art and art events. The program consists of artist-run events that offer interesting activities to Seinäjoki, bring out contemporary phenomena and experiences and create and strengthen co-operation between different factors in the art field.

Photo on the right: the collective performing Swap in Oksasenkatu 11 gallery.

AARG Aamunavaus (Morning Assembly) Bioart Society Developing Activities around Art and Natural Sciences

AARG Morning assembly will dig deeper into the rural phenomena in contemporary art by opening activity and cooperation models in the domain of contemporary art especially in rural areas. The morning assembly is aimed at artists and actors in the creative domain as a platform for discussion and meetings.

Bioart Society Developing Activities around Art and Natural Sciences

Curator and artist Erich Berger

4.2.2022 klo 10-11 Online talk, Teams -application

Erich Berger: Bioart Society Developing Activities around Art and Natural Sciences

Curator and artist Erich Berger will tell about Bioart Society’s activities. The event will be an online talk using Teams application. Erich Berger has co-curated with Anna Puhakka and Mari Keski-Korsu the exhibition Criss-Crossing Ecologies (Poikkipolkuja ekologiaan) that will be opened in Kunsthalle Seinäjoki third of February 2022.

Bioart Society is a Helsinki-based association developing, producing and facilitating activities around art and natural sciences with an emphasis on biology, ecology and life sciences. It runs SOLU Space, an artistic laboratory and platform for art, science and society in Katajanokka, Helsinki, and – together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki – Ars Bioarctica, an art & science program with focus on the sub-arctic environment. Bioart Society was established in May 2008 and it currently has 127 members from Finland and other countries.

To sign-up: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/56404A3AB220FB61

The signing-up will be closed at noon on the third of February. After the closing you will received a teams -link on your email to join the online talk the next day.

24.11.2021

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki announces future programs

The exhibition program of Kunsthalle Seinäjoki for 2022 is ready. A total of five exhibitions will be seen in the two exhibition spaces, embodying the diverse forms of contemporary art from bioart to oil painting. The themes reflect current discussions in contemporary art, such as the coexistence of different species, social structures such as sex and relationships, and spirituality. The program in exhibition space Halli is international, while Vintti’s three exhibitions feature the art of Finnish artists.

Parsi Art WKND Art Sales event

Seinäjoki Artists Association Seinäjoen Taiteilijaseura is organizing art sales event Parsi Art WKND together with Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. Art sales takes place in exhibition space Vintti at 27th to 28th of November 2021 at 11am to 3pm. Free entrance.

You are warmly welcome to come an see local artists artworks. All the artworks that are on display are on sale. The Artists Association has Parsi Art rental shop in art and culture centre Kalevan Navetta. You can buy art in the art rental shop and in the art sales event eather with one payment or using part payment.

Support your local artist!

Admission free day

The Kunsthalle is open on two Sundays in November: Father’s Day 14.11. & Parsi Art WKND 28.11. at 11-15 pm.

11.10.2021

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki is co-organizing the open call HICP – Helsinki International Curatorial Programme

Performance club Domestic

Welcome to the Domestic performance evening in Hugo event space on Wednesday the 27th of October from 7 pm to 9 pm. Event is free of charge.

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki invited two artists from the Varikko Gallery & Artists’ Studios, Aeon Lux and Alan Bulfin, to curate the performance evening at Kalevan Navetta. The club is bringing domesticity to Hugo event space.

The performances are about domesticity, household chores and household traditions. Prior to the event, artist-led workshops on the same topic will be held at Varikko. Workshops are taking a deeper look into the biodegradable materials at home that artists are using in their art practice and also as domestic products. Open workshop day at Varikko will be held on the 27th of October at 4-6pm.

Workshops are running at the same time for 2 hours.

Alan Bulfin: Scopy-eco leather workshop. Scoby-leather is made with dried scoby that has been grown in a wide glass jar. Adding oil makes it flexible and water repellent. Bulfin will run a workshop to share the method, how to grow scoby-leather to replace your leather products at home.

Aeon Lux & Jukka Nokua: Soap making workshop. Workshop about soap making from household cooking ingredients.

Nina Keltamäki: eco-paper workshop. Workshop about hand made paper from household waste.

Antti Ahonen:The Association for Experimental Electronics, KOELSE, builds art from abandoned home electronics.
The background of KOELSE has been experimental sound art but during the years, they have ended up researching the usage of abnormal devices.They run the Paranormal Museum of Technology -project, which is using unusual technical devices and creating interpretations from this electronic waste. In the workshop, you will get to know some of these equipments together.

Invited artists are Tomasz Szrama, Salla Valle and Tiia-Mari Aalto.

Tomasz Szrama
(b. 1970 in Poland) graduated in 1998 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. Currently he lives in Helsinki, Finland. Szrama shifts between multiple disciplines, including photography, video and other time-based works. Regardless of the medium, a dominant thread, common in his work is the use of his own body and methods of performance art, which he practices since 1995. Characteristic feature of his work is the use of spectators, active participation of the audience and improvisation. Such a strategy embeds his presentations into the tradition of understanding performance art as a process art, where the very moment of creation is essential. His work touches on themes of travel, trust in interpersonal relationships, and the ever present potential for personal failure.

Szrama has been regularly performing internationally in various events and festivals in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. Further, over the past 15 years, he has been an active performance art event organiser. Between 2005 and 2013 he co-organised with Willem Wilhelmus Art Contact and New Art Contact, a series of performance art events that took place in various locations in Helsinki. In 2011 he co-organised Fake Finn Festival of Experimental Art, that took over HIAP Gallery Augusta for three days, showcasing the work of 21 artists. In 2013 Szrama co-organised Uprooted Fake Nations Festival, a three-day event that presented 16 international and local artists at HIAP Gallery Augusta. Further, he, together with performance artist Liina Kuittinen, organised a series of events titled Tonight in 2014–2015. In 2016 he curated the 18th edition of the International Art Festival Interakcje in Poland. Szrama is a working grant recipient from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland for the year 2016 as well as the years 2018–2020 and from the Kone Foundation for 2017.

Tomasz Szrama, Warrior at Home, 2020 photo by Maria Kuusniemi-Szrama

Salla Valle (b. 1990) is Helsinki based performance and visual artist. She has performed frequently in festivals and events in Finland and abroad. Valle has also organized performance art events (e.g. Performance Art Now! with Timo Viialainen) and taught performance art. In 2021 She started her MA studies at The Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki in the department of time and space. Valle’s approach is rather minimalistic. The principal elements she uses are duration, space and body as well as material created with daily life objects, simple technical equipment, sound and movement. Valle likes to use found material and work responsively with the location and situation where she performs. The topics Valle is interested in are related with durations, materiality and socio-economic structures.

Salla Valle, Liquids and forms, 2020. photo by Liina Aalto-Setälä

Tiia-Mari Aalto is a visual artist who lives and works in Tampere. In her performances, Aalto combines stage poetry, visual art-based performance, guided group exercises, theater and humor. Performances are often based on Aalto’s personal experiences. Her other projects include the Pre-Failed (esiepäonnistujat) podcast with cultural producer Heidi Yli-Yrjänäinen and Tiia and Reetta’s Friday Bar social media project with visual artist Reetta Partanen. In addition, she is performing in the Horonkäristys duo together with performance artist Maire Karuvuori.

“Yeah, I have done a lot of performances related to household chores – for example, a pretty big job was when I was washing with my workmate once the car bridges in the center of Pori! But soon I’m getting married and this is what my performance will be all about. See you then!” Tiia-Mari tweets.

Tiia-Mari Aalto photo by Minja Kaukoniemi

Event photo: Oat Camouflage by Tomasz Szrama, 2019

AARG Morning: Kunsthalle Seinäjoki’s program

AARG Morning assembly will dig deeper into the rural phenomena in contemporary art by opening activity and cooperation models in the domain of contemporary art especially in rural areas. The morning assembly is aimed at artists and actors in the creative domain as a platform for discussion and meetings. The first morning assemblies will examine Kunsthalle Seinäjoki’s own operating models and programs in Finnish. AARG morning openings will continue in spring 2022. Next year’s program will become available at the end of 2021.

Program

8.10 at 10-11 Workshop Space Itikka
Kunsthalle Seinäjoki’s program, art curator Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen
Questions based on the countryside and urban-rural interfaces, unique exhibition halls, story of the building and topical phenomena of contemporary art – these circumstances determine the program of Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. The introduction will give a background to Kunsthalle Seinäjoki’s program and curatorial framework. What are the future outlooks at Kunsthalle Seinäjoki in the light of the reforms brought along by moving to Kalevan Navetta, when it was performed less than two years ago?

Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen is the art curator at Kunsthalle Seinäjoki and a doctoral student in cultural policy at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. During the last years she has focused on developing and implementing a renewed concept and program outline at Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. With the Kunsthalle team she has explored the interface of urban and rural spheres and intersections between contemporary art practices and the rural, with both local and global perspectives. At the moment she is also beginning her doctoral studies and research project with a focus on ecologically engaged contemporary art practices in the rural. Her background is in arts management and socio-cultural work. She has been working with contemporary art since 2010. She has a MA in arts management and cultural production from Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences.

AARG launched by the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki is a discussion platform and meeting place aimed at professionals working in the field of contemporary art, such as artists, curators and persons in the creative domain. AARG stands for Art and the Rural Gathering.  The program of the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki is based on countryside and issues and phenomena arising from the urban-rural interface. The Kunsthalle Seinäjoki was put into practice in 2017–2019 by the Mullistaja rural art project, in which many cooperation models were launched and since then have been developed further in the Kunsthalle’s exhibition and program. AARG will continue the development works begun by Mullistaja. A larger AARG Gathering discussion event is held each year to highlight various perspectives and approaches to the crossing of art and countryside. For the last two years, these events have been in the form of a live broadcast. In turn, the AARG morning assemblies open the subject matters and sustain the topical discussions.  AARG responds to the need to discuss working methods and peer learning from cooperation in which the countryside is a platform for contemporary art.

Exhibition opening: Gustafsson & Haapoja

New exhibition will be opened at the exhibition space Halli on Wednesday the 29th of September at 5pm to 8pm. In the exhibition Pigs, visual artist Terike Haapoja and author Laura Gustafsson focus on pig politics and poetics. The restaurant Äärellä in the building is open until 9pm. All welcome, the event is free of charge.

AARG 2021 Gathering

AARG is a gathering hosted once a year. It concentrates on themes and phenomena around contemporary art and the countryside. AARG 2021 is part of the exhibition programme of Gustafsson & Haapoja exhibition Pigs. The gathering discusses how the legislation enables the invisibility of the animal industry and what kind of ways it could be changed. Invited speakers are activist Kristo Muurimaa, researchers Birgitta Wahlberg, Galina Kallio and Animal Welfare Ombudsman Saara Kupsala. Moderator Laura Gustafsson.

Gathering was live broadcasted on the 30th of September at 1.30pm to 4pm. The recording can be watch in Finnish: The viewing link.

Authentic Movement in Radical Light

Authentic Movement in Radical Light is a dance performance that explores the atmosphere in Radical Light – Elements VI by Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad. Dancer Aisha Korpela presents solo work in the middle of the light installation. The dance performance invites the viewer to immerse in spatial experience and to open all senses.

Authentic Movement in Radical Light takes place in Halli on Saturday 4th of September at 11 am & noon at 12. Show lasts 15-20 minutes.

Free entry.

Silent Portrait video screening by the Summer Artist

The Summer Artist 2021 Riikka Gröndahl has been filming silent video potrtaits of voluntary participants at the Seinäjoki market square over the summer. The video work will be stored in the collections of the Seinäjoki Museums as a mark of the time we are currently living in, and it will be screened for the future generations in 2080. Before that the video will be screened at the workshop space Itikka of the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki. The video will run non-stop during opening hours: Friday 11-19 and Sat 11-15. The screening is free of charge.

Monumental light art and playful contemporary textile fill the Kunsthalle this summer

Radical Light – Elements VI by Anne Katrine Senstad with a sound environment by JG Thirlwell bring light, colour, sound and space together at the Halli exhibition space and explores the human senses and cognition. At Vintti, five young Finnish contemporary artists present various techniques of textile art in the PISTO. exhibition.

Vintti Open Call

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki announces an Open Call for Vintti exhibition space for the first time.The Open Call runs through 1.6.-12.9.2021. Read more on our For the artist page.

The Summer Artist 2021

Summer Artist Riikka Gröndahl is present at the Seinäjoki market square (“Keskustori”) in June and July on Wednesdays and Thursdays and on Saturdays the 3rd and 10th of June. at 9 – 11 am and at 12-2 pm. Her tent is located by the parking garage entrance, on the opposite to the Nordea bank office and the Vekseli bar.

Welcome to participate!

Persons under 18 years need a videography permit signed by their parent. The Summer Artist will provide the sheet or it can be downloaded here. Videography permit in Finnish

Picture: Sanna KoK

The Summer Artist 2021 Riikka Gröndahl works from June 16 to August 15. Her project Silent Portrait is a participatory, open project where she films silent video portraits of people. After the summer, the video footage will be stored in the collection of the Seinäjoki Museums. Later, after decades, it can be shown to future generations. The art work invites us to reflect on what is happening right  now and how we will be remembered when we are no longer here – and also perhaps the speciality of the contemporary time we are living in. The Silent Portrait will be exhibited at the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki in August, before it will be stored in the museum collection. The video can be seen at the workshop space Itikka in August 11-14 during opening hours.

You can follow the Summer Artist on Facebook Kesäkuvataiteilija page and on Instagram @kesäkuvataiteilija.

Riikka Gröndahl is a multidisciplinary artist who is particularly interested in humans and human behaviour.

The City of Seinäjoki has employed an Summer Artist each year since 2017. Read more about the Summer Artist project here.

27.4.2021

The Summer Artist 2021 is Riikka Gröndahl

The Kunsthalle Seinäjoki and the Culture Services of City of Seinäjoki have hired a young artist or visual art student since 2017 for a two month period in summer. The 5th Summer Artist is Riikka Gröndahl who will film silent video portraits of local people in the Seinäjoki market square. She will start working in the middle of June 2021.

Read more about the Summer Artist concept here. Follow The Summer Artist on Facebook and Instagram @kesakuvataiteilija.

Opening event of the summer exhibitions

The summer exhibitions open on Wednesday 16th June 5 pm. The opening event is open for everyone but sign-up beforehand is required. The Finnish registration form can be found here.

The exhibitions opening are Anne Katrine Senstad’s solo show Radical Light – Elements VI at Halli and the group exhibition PISTO. (“STITCH.”) at Vintti, presenting five young contemporary textile artists.

After the opening event, the Finnish rock band Pintandwefall performs at the Hugo venue. Multi-talented visual artist Ninni Luhtasaari in the PISTO. (“STITCH”) group exhibition also plays bass in the band. The gig is organised together with the Selmu association. The tickets to the gig are sold separately at Tiketti.fi.

Art Yoga at Vintti

10.00 – 11.00 pm

Art Yoga is a gentle art practice surrounded by art at the exhibition space Vintti. The current exhibition Stump of Prometheus  – Stay together by Jaana Maijala and Ville Linna encourages to concentrate on listening, drawing without looking and on the other hand observing the coming spring.

Gentle hatha yoga is suitable for all women and men who want to take care of their health and well-being. The base for the practice are conscious and focused exercises, natural breathing, relaxation and silencing the mind. The practice concentrates strongly on the back because it’s condition has a strong affect on the well-being as a whole.

There is space for 15 yogis in the space. Bring your own mat and warm, flexible clothing, and a blanket, if you want to use it during the relaxation at the end of the class.

Participation fee is 12 € incl. the entrance ticket to the exhibitions. Sign-up at the NetTicket online store.

After the yoga you can continue pampering yourself at the brunch table of the Äärellä restaurant. Table bookings here.

Picture on the right: Elina Teitti

Artist Tuesdays in May: Päivi Rintaniemi

Päivi Rintaniemi’s artist talks at Halli on three Tuesdays in May: 4^th, 18^th and 25^th at 6 pm. The artist and designer Päivi Rintaniemi tells about the exhibition and her work. No sign-up beforehand needed. Artist talks are included in the exhibition ticket (6/4 €).

Calix open at Halli until May the 29^th.

The STITCH Workshop: Continued Overleaf

The Kunsthalle and the Taito South-Ostrobothnia Association offer a set of contemporary textile art workshops in the summer 2021. The Continued Overleaf workshop is held and instructed in English.

The workshops are part of the complementary program of the PISTO (“STITCH”) exhibition.

Continued Overleaf

You are warmly welcome to the fabric book making & sketching workshop. This process-based project invites the audience to experiment with using textiles to record our immediate environment. The workshop is held on Saturday 19th June from 9 to 3 pm.

Each participant will make a portable artistic sketchbook out of fabric. This complete transportable set will contain both the surface and the materials for mark making. It can be used to capture images while out on a walk, visiting a museum or travelling on a train, as well as the creative ideas born in our imagination. This project is about how we view and see the world around us. Using embroidery and textile work as a means of sketching is a process that requires focus, close attention, and patience. These images cannot be erased, cannot be turned into whole again, but can be repaired and mended.

The morning will be spent preparing the materials and sharing ideas and skills. In the afternoon we will get to experiment with sketching using the current exhibition as well as the building itself as a source of inspiration. At the end of the workshop, you will have learnt to sketch using only a needle and thread, look carefully and recognise the patterns in your environment and translate them into fabric forms.

All materials and equipment will be provided, however you are very welcome to bring your own fabrics and embroidery thread, if you like (about 1x1m piece is enough). This workshop is suitable for people of all ages, beginners as well as advanced textile practitioners. It will require some movement and non-intensive walking. The languages are English, Finnish and Russian.

About the author:

Anastasia Artemeva is a visual and socially-engaged artist and researcher based in Helsinki. Her practice is focused on spaces: how we inhabit spaces, how we co-exist in the same space, even when our perceptions and experiences are different, how spaces and their histories affect us and how we affect them.

Artemeva studied Fashion Design and Sculpture & Combined media in Limerick School of Art and Design (Ireland) with 2012, and  Environmental art in Aalto University. Artemeva has written for the Visual Artist’s News Sheet, Paper Visual Art and IMAGE InSEA: International Society for Education through Art magazine.

Admission free day

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 am to 7 pm.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Elina Teitti

Admission free day

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 to 19.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Elina Teitti

Admission free day

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 to 19.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Elina Teitti

Admission free day

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 to 19.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Elina Teitti

Admission free day

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 to 19.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Elina Teitti

Admission free day

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 to 19.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Elina Teitti

16.3.2021

Jaana Maijala and Ville Linna explore the sounds of living plants in their exhibition

In the spring of 2021, Maijala and Linna will create an installation for Vintti of the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, which will explore specimens detached from nature – living plants – and their potential to produce sound and image.

Babies’ Colour Workshop

Fall 2021

Sat 2.10., 23.10. and 20.11. at 10-10.45am & 11.15-12am

Babies’ colour workshop is a multisensory visual art workshop for babies and families with babies. The main focus is on experiencing various colours and materials when a child and parent are doing and admiring things together. The activity is suitable for babies from 4 months old. Workshops are held at the workshop space Itikka. Colour workshops are offered to groups that come together several times and to individual quick-visit workshops. The language in the workshops is generally Finnish but the educator of the group also speaks English, so participating in English is possible. Sign up on the NetTicket online store.

The activity in the workshop happens on the floor. Each baby and adult have their own spot on the floor where the workshop instructor brings all the materials being used. The workshop begins with exploring different materials and colours, usually various types of objects together with the child. After that the painting starts. The paints are made of eatable materials like berries in different forms, fruits and vegetables starch, seeds and so on. The materials are chosen according to the official nutrition and food recommendations by the Finnish Food Authority.

For more information about the workshops, please read the following info text by the Pori Centre for Childrens’ Culture Kruunupää.

The workshops are held around the year, usually from February to June and from September to November. Sign-up for the workshops at the NetTicket online store.The online store is in Finnish but you can contact the workshop instructor for more information. In any questions about the workshop or participation, please contact the workshop instructor Minna Autio.

Photograph: Katariina Vestergård

Adult & Child: Art moment

Fall 2021

Adult and child workshops 3-4 years old
5.10., 12.10., 19.10 ja 26.10. at 5-6pm

Adult and child workshops 5-6 years old
9.11., 16.11., 23.11. and 30.11. at 5-6.15pm

Adult and child Art moment is a one time workshop with a child and close adult relative.

During the one time workshop we dive into one of the Kunsthalle’s open exhibitions. Inspired by the exhibition’s theme we make art together. The adult gets to do art as well. You don’t need special skills, but curiosity is mandatory. The child can participate with a parent, grandparent or other important and close adult.

You should have art proof clothes with you. In one group fits four pairs of participants.

The workshops are been held in Art and Cultural Centre Kalevan Navetta’s first floor in Näppi 1- workshop-space. The space is on the corridor to the right from the info desk.

One workshop costs 12€ / adult and child pair. The price includes workshop-guidance, materials and adults admission to the Kunsthalle’s exhibition.

The workshops are generally in Finnish.

Photograph by: Katariina Vestergård

Aikuinen & lapsi: Taidehetki

Tiloissamme ja tilaisuuksissamme noudatetaan Aluehallintoviraston antamia määräyksiä. Seuraamme tilannetta aktiivisesti ja työpajatoimintamme järjestetään koronarajoitukset ja turvallisuus ensisijaisesti huomioiden. 

Lauantai 17.4. klo 12-13.15 Sokkotaidetta

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Tutustutaan Ville Linnan ja Jaana Maijalan Prometheuksen kanto – Pysykää yhdessä -näyttelyyn

Tehdään teoksia sokkona inspiroituen Jaana Maijalan valokuvista näyttelyssä.

Aikuisen ja lapsen Taidehetki on yhden kerran kestävä työpaja lapsen ja läheisen aikuisen kanssa.

Yhden työpajakerran aikana sukelletaan yhteen, Taidehallilla esillä olevaan näyttelyyn ja tehdään, näyttelyn teemasta inspiroituen, taidetta – yhdessä. Aikuinenkin siis pääsee taiteilemaan! Osaamista ei tarvita, mutta uteliaisuutta sen sijaan vaaditaan. Lapsi voi osallistua pajaan yhdessä vanhemman, isovanhemman, kummin tai muun läheisen ja turvallisen aikuisen kanssa. Varaa mukaan taiteilun kestävät vaatteet. Yhteen ryhmään mahtuu 4 Aikuinen ja lapsi -paria.

Työpajat järjestetään taide- ja kulttuurikeskus Kalevan Navetan ensimmäisessä kerroksessa Näppi 1 –työpajatilassa. Tila on ala-aulasta katsottuna oikeanpuoleisella käytävällä.

Yhden työpajakerran hinta on 12 € / aikuinen & lapsi –pari. Hinta sisältää ohjauksen, materiaalit ja aikuisen pääsylipun Taidehalliin.

Muut Taidehetki -työpajat 

Lauantai 15.5. klo 12-13.15 Muoto ja pinta piirtäen

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Tutustutaan Päivi Rintamäen Calix -näyttelyyn.

Tutkitaan veistosten muotoa ja pintaa Mitä värejä teoksista löytyy? Miten pintaa on käsitelty? Mitä muotoja veistoksista löytyy?

Tiistai 18.5.2021 klo 17-18.15 Liikkumatonta liikettä, materiaalina savi

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Tutustutaan Päivi Rintamäen Calix -näyttelyyn.

Tutkitaan muotoja ja liikettä Rintaniemen veistoksissa oman savipalan/muovailuvahan avulla. Miten liikkumattomassa savessa voi nähdä liikettä?

Tiistai 25.5.2021 klo 17-18.15 Kasvimaalausta, maalausta kasveista

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Tutustutaan Ville Linnan ja Jaana Maijalan Prometheuksen kanto – Pysykää yhdessä -näyttelyyn

Inspiroidutaan kasveista ja luonnosta. Tutkitaan näyttelytilan kasveja sekä ulkona heräävää kevättä, maalauksen keinoin.

Kuva: Katariina Vestergård

Admission free day

First Friday of the month is always an admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 to 19.

Current exhibitions can be found here on the Exhibitions page.

Photo: Elina Teitti

Admission free day

First Friday of the month is admission free day. Exhibitions are open from 11 to 19.

Current exhibitions you find here

Photo: Elina Teitti

Sightseeing Uncertainty – a participatory ONLINE event by Sydenkoulu

Because of resent Covid-19 cases event is taking place on Zoom

Online tour happens three times at Zoom in March 12th / 19th/ 26th 17-19 o’clock

We recommend to use cellphone because of outdoor part. You can download app Zoom here: Zoom.us

Participate here: https://forms.gle/Mk2dGkJEmXBu6MYj9 

Sightseeing Uncertainty is a participatory event that addresses uncertainty and community through a variety of simple activities. We would like to invite you to a safe space where you can explore a different narrative than that of isolation, fear, and emptiness that was raised by the pandemic.

During the event we will approach the uncertainty with the curiosity of a tourist and view it from all different angles. As much as the group allows us to. But what is most important, we will gather to experience something new and observe how it informs us about ourselves – as individuals, as part of a bigger group. We are particularly interested in exploring the importance of strengthening community and coming together in this process. We are inspired by village life, social clubs, talkoot, sensorial theater, and somatics.

At the heart of the evening is an outdoor, silent sensorial walk in which participants are guided to look at the world from new perspectives. Otherwise, the event will happen indoors. It will be formed  around the unique presence of the group, a discussion led by the working group, and a shared meal. They will hold the space with gentleness and guide the group with sensitivity, participating in the exploration of the topics equally by themselves as other participants.

The event is free and open to everyone. Participation does not require any specific skills, all you need is an open mind and clothes suitable for the given weather conditions. The part outside will take up to 45min. In case of disabilities, please inform us in advance. The event will be held in either English or Finnish, depending on the participants.

Pre-registration: There is a limited number of places for the event. We strive to ensure safe participation for all and follow the official regulations. Please, confirm your place by registering via this link: https://forms.gle/Mk2dGkJEmXBu6MYj9

Sightseeing Uncertainty is organized as a tour around Finland, and as part of the Sydenkoulu’s program. At the end of the evening, there will be an opportunity to hear more about what the project is about and how it works to create a more sustainable, more beautiful future. The evening will be directed by members of a multidisciplinary, international group of artists: Julia Kukkonen (FIN), Dagmara Maslowska (POL) and Emiliano Verrocchio (ITA).

More information about Sydenkoulu and the event: www.sydenkoulu.com

Adult & Child workshop ages 7-9

Adult and child workshops are art moments shared by a child with his or her close adult (parent, grandparent or even godfather or godmother). In these workshops children and adults will enhance their art experience by visiting the current art exhibition and will make art themselves.Workshop content and themes are always related to the exhibitions, either thematically, technically or on other levels. The idea is to explore the art and the world together as a team of adult and child, and as the whole group.

This Spring the workshops base on Matthew Cowan’s exhibition ”Wildness Makes This World”. Workshops come together four times at Kalevan Navetta’s workshop space Näppi 1. There is room for 5 adult and child pairs in each group. Wear clothes that you don’t have to worry about when making art.

The language in the workshops is generally Finnish but the educator of the group also speaks English, so participating in English is possible.

The price for 4 workshops is 40 € / adult & child pair. The price includes materials, adult’s ticket to exhibitions and instruction.

Sign up on the NetTicket online store.

Workshop’s meeting times

2th. Feb. 17-18.15 O’Clock

9th. Feb. 17-18.15 O’Clock

16th. Feb 17-18.15 O’Clock

23th. Feb 17-18.15 O’Clock

Picture: Katariina Vestergård

Babies’ Quick-visit Colour Workshop

Babies’ colour workshop is a multisensory visual art workshop for babies and families with babies. The main focus is on experiencing various colours and materials when a child and parent are doing and admiring things together. The activity is suitable for babies from 4 months old. Workshops are held at the workshop space Itikka. Colour workshops are offered to groups that come together several times and to individual quick-visit workshops.

The language in the workshops is generally Finnish but the educator of the group also speaks English, so participating in English is possible. Sign up on the NetTicket online store.

Quick-visit workshop

Tuesday 2th. March.

Babes ages 4-11 month. 15-15.45 o’clock.

Babes ages 12-24 month. 16.45-17.30 o’clock.

Photographer: Katariina Vestergård

Babies’ Quick-visit Colour Workshop

Babies’ colour workshop is a multisensory visual art workshop for babies and families with babies. The main focus is on experiencing various colours and materials when a child and parent are doing and admiring things together. The activity is suitable for babies from 4 months old. Workshops are held at the workshop space Itikka. Colour workshops are offered to groups that come together several times and to individual quick-visit workshops.

The language in the workshops is generally Finnish but the educator of the group also speaks English, so participating in English is possible. Sign up on the NetTicket online store.

Quick-visit workshop

Tuesday 23th. Feb.

Babes ages 4-11 month. 13-13.45 o’clock.

Babes ages 12-24 month. 14.45-15.30 o’clock.

Photographer: Katariina Vestergård

Babies’ Quick-visit Colour Workshop

Babies’ colour workshop is a multisensory visual art workshop for babies and families with babies. The main focus is on experiencing various colours and materials when a child and parent are doing and admiring things together. The activity is suitable for babies from 4 months old. Workshops are held at the workshop space Itikka. Colour workshops are offered to groups that come together several times and to individual quick-visit workshops.

The language in the workshops is generally Finnish but the educator of the group also speaks English, so participating in English is possible. Sign up on the NetTicket online store.

Quick-visit workshop

Tuesday 16th. Feb.

Babes ages 4-11 month. 10-10.45 o’clock.

Babes ages 12-24 month. 12.15-13 o’clock.

Photographer: Katariina Vestergård

Babies’ Colour Workshop

Babies’ colour workshop is a multisensory visual art workshop for babies and families with babies. The main focus is on experiencing various colours and materials when a child and parent are doing and admiring things together. The activity is suitable for babies from 4 months old. Workshops are held at the workshop space Itikka. Colour workshops are offered to groups that come together several times and to individual quick-visit workshops.

The language in the workshops is generally Finnish but the educator of the group also speaks English, so participating in English is possible. Sign up on the NetTicket online store.

Weekly meeting groups for babes ages 4-11 month

Thursdays 4th. Feb., 11th. Feb., 18th. Feb. and 25th. Feb.

13-13.45 O’Clock

Weekly meeting groups for babes ages 12-24 month

Thursdays 4th. Feb., 11th. Feb., 18th. Feb. and 25th. Feb.

14.45-15.30 O’Clock

Photographer: Katariina Vestergård

AARG live broadcast about the current role of contemporary art in the countryside 10.12.2020 at noon till 4 pm

More information

28.1.2020

Päivi Rintaniemi’s solo exhibition presents the latest works of the artist

The first solo exhibition set in the rough Hall of the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki is Calix by Päivi Rintaniemi, an artist from Seinäjoki. The exhibition will be open from 4.2.2021 to – 29.5.2021.

19.11.2021

The first exhibitions of the year 2021 have been announced

The exhibition year presents contemporary art by both local and international artists.

AARG Gathering Live Broadcast

Thursday 10th of December 2020 at 12.30 to 16.00

Come and join the art and the rural gathering by watching the live broadcast!

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki host a gathering on the concept of art institutions developing and researching the rural areas and countryside. AARG is a meeting space for art institutions to make new productive relationships. On the co-delivered program we will hear key note speakers, case studies, artist talks and panel discussion. AARG wants to support the development of geographically dispersed network of art institutions and productions. Networking, sharing of concerns, development and mutual support by building up productive relationships is the overall plan to launch AARG gathering as a meeting place for art professionals. Learning from others what’s new in the countryside and in the rural arts creates more creative area development planning and perhaps even new funding models for contemporary art in the rural.  Presentation: AARG_gathering_2020

AARG Gathering

Programme, Live broadcasted event in English. At 12.30 until 16.00

12.30-14.00 PRESENTATIONS & TALKS
Welcoming words by Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, exhibition coordinator Elina Teitti

Artist talk, Artist Matthew Cowan will tell about his practise and concept behind
the exhibition Wildness Makes This World. Interviewed by Taru Elfving.

Case Study: Art Producer Pii Anttila, Kunsthalle Seinäjoki developing
the countryside with artistic collaborations.
Case Study: Professor at the Art University, Daniel Peltz. Rural Contextual Practice at Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies
Case Study, curator Yvonne Billimore: Re-centring rurality: a site for collective learning and exchange.

14.00-15.00 VIDEO GREETINGS
Kaspar Wimberley & Susanne Kudielka, Morning Boat, Jersey, UK, Bodil Johanne Monrad, Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark,  Michele Horrigan, Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Ireland, Mariangela Mendez-Prencke, Havre Magasinet, Sweden

15.00-16.00 PANEL DISCUSSION
Panel Discussion Contemporary Rural Agencies, moderator Aura Seikkula
Participants Taru Elfving, Pii Anttila, Daniel Peltz, Yvonne Billimore, Jussi Koitela,
Kaspar Wimberley and Susanne Kudielka

Presentation AARG Gathering

Collaborators: Art Promotion Centre Finland, Frame Contemporary Arts Finland, Viborg Kunsthal, Havre Magasinet.

1.6.2020

Mysteries of nature take over the Kunsthalle

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki opens on May 1st 2020. The current covid-19 outbreak has affected the exhibition program. Notes by Petra Koivisto is extended until the 1st of August. Also the Nice to (finally) meet you! exhibition is open until the August 1st.

14.5.2020

SoS Bunkers Live Stream Art Event

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki presents SoS – Bunkers as part of the off time program Taidehalli välittää. The live stream art event is co-produced with Pixelache Helsinki.

SoS Bunkers live stream & art event

Programme

17.3.2020

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki is closed for the time being

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki is closed based on the decicions of the Finnish Government. All events and group visits during this time will be rescheduled or cancelled. Art exhibition and other culture spaces will open gradually in the end of June 2020.

11.3.2020

Welcome to the opening!

Opening of the new Arts and Culture Centre Kalevan Navetta is celebrated with a week-long opening program 11 – 21 March.

3.2.2020

Call for experimental video

Visual artist Aeon Lux calls for experimental video art and performative art for the Aeon Lux Performance Club: Troyan Horse at the art and culture center Kalevan Navetta 4th April 2020.

Nice to (finally) meet you!

The first exhibition of the exhibition space Halli is “Nice to (finally) meet you!”.  The artists in the exhibition are Hanne Friis (NO), Sigurdur Gudjónsson (IS) and Julie Stavad (DK). The works in this group exhibition of three artists seen for the first-time in Finland explore the boundaries of material and form and take up the whole large exhibition hall. The exhibition unites dreams on many levels. The curator Laura Köönikkä has long dreamed of working with these artists, and the artists have also hoped to be performed in Finland. The exhibition, which unites professional dreams, is also the first step towards the dream of the Kunsthalle to present fresh Nordic art. The supplementary program of the exhibition discusses what kind of dreams we as a community need in this time.

Hanne Friis (born 1972) is Norwegian artist who works with textile art. They resemble almost something organic. Her work was chosen as the emblematic artwork of Révélations biennale 2019.

hannefriis.com

(Photo: Alette Schei Rorvik)

Sigurdur Gudjónsson (born 1975) is Islandic artist. His hypnotic video works take the the spectator to a state where the surroundings fade away. Gudjónsson was rewarded the Islandic Visual Artist of the Year in 2018 and he will represent Iceland in Venice Biennial 2021.

sigurdurgudjonsson.net

Julie Stavad (born 1987) is Danish sculptor whose works combine graphic shape and large, raw material surfaces. Stavad is a young and rising artist who also works with public art.

juliestavad.dk

Laura Köönikkä is a curator and founder of Finnish Art Agency. Köönikkä has been consulting the Kunsthalle team and helping them to catch dreams for almost two years. Therefore she was also invited to curate the opening exhibition.

finnishartagency.com

(Photo: Vuokko Salo)

Photo on the right: Exhibition view by Jenni Latva

26.11.2019

The opening program has been announced

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki will open in the Kalevan Navetta Arts and Culture Center in March 2020.The opening program has been announced. The program of the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki includes contemporary art exhibitions, public art and a diverse program of activities. Exhibitions are on display in the exhibition halls Halli and Vintti, located on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Kalevan Navetta Art and Culture Center.