19.7.2024

Open call to the Seinäjoki Summer Artist’s Statue Committee!

Apply to join the Seinäjoki Summer Artist’s Statue Committee by filling application form!

The light-hearted statue committee is part of a project by The City of Seinäjoki Summer Artist 2024, Henri Airo. Henri’s project invites people to reflect on the meaning of statues, celebration and remembrance by addressing the Entrepreneur-Jussi statue at Seinäjoki Central Square. As a member of the statue committee, you will get to design a new identity for Entrepreneur-Jussi in a meeting with the summer artist and other members of the committee. The application is open to all ages and backgrounds. You don’t have to be an arts expert, a seasoned local or sprouting with ideas. Come and join us in deciding together on a momentary mark in the Seinäjoki’s urban space!

16.7.2024

Summer artist Henri Airo examines the statue of Entrepreneur Jussi in his art project

The City of Seinäjoki’s Summer Artist has started his artistic work! Summer artist Henri Airo explores, through the statue of Entrepreneur Jussi in Seinäjoki’s central square, which human traits are worthy canonising. It invites people to reflect on the meanings of statues, celebration, and remembrance now and in the future. The summer artist will be available on the central square from Wed 17.7 to Wed 24.7 from 10 am to 3 pm to collect answers from passers-byes to the question What ennobles a person? Henri Airo is also putting together a statue committee, which will work together to design an alternative new identity for Jussi based on suggestions from its members.

3.6.2024

The exhibitions in 2025 reflect on power, borders and roots

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki announces new exhibitions for the year 2025. The program consists of four contemporary art exhibitions by Finnish and international artists.

The Summer Artist 2024 is Henri Airo

During the summer, Henri Airo will carry out an art project that traces the history of the Yrittäjä-Jussi (Entrepreneur Jussi) statue in Seinäjoki. It examines the different meanings that residents have attached to the statue at different times.  Airo studies which human traits are worthy canonising. It invites people to reflect on the meanings of statues, celebration, and remembrance now and in the future.

14.12.2023

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki announces new exhibitions for 2024

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki announces new exhibitions for the year 2024. The Kunsthalle presents two solo exhibitions from Nordic artists: Imagine a Tree by Danish visual artist Jacob Juhl and The Horse, The Robot & The Immeasurable by Swedish sculptor Tove Kjellmark. Valoon kahlitut (Chained to Light) by the Finnish multidisciplinary working group will be opened at the end of the year.