8.10.2025

Kuntshalle Seinäjoki announces new exhibitions for spring 2026

Fragile, hostile and threatening nature

Jessica Segall’s solo exhibition Oddkin presents multichannel video works and installations by the Brooklyn and NY based artist. The exhibition is open 24.1.2026—23.5.2026 in the exhibition space Halli of the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki.

Jessica Segall investigates threatened environments that can be hostile to humans. Segall’s works are sited in locations both exploited and wild. Where Human Energy (2023) is set in the vastness of oil fields, un(common) intimacy (2018) is filmed in private animal parks. The endangered ecological sites in Segall’s works are seen as attractive, fragile, dangerous and vulnerable at the same time. Her works reveal the fantasies and contradictions of human power relations with nature.

Segall works with a wide range of researchers, activists and non-human actors. Her thinking is guided by an interdisciplinary theory of queer ecology. Queer ecology is a theory and discipline that examines the power structures that both oppress and categorize gender, sex and nature. In her works, Segall performs herself and collaborates with other non-human actors. The visually striking works are both tactile and affective.

The title of the exhibition, Oddkin, refers to a concept developed by American theorist Donna Haraway. Haraway suggests that care, partnership and survival during the time of environmental crisis do not require blood or family ties. Unlikely alliances that transcend species boundaries can arise unexpectedly and are crucial for our earthly survival.

Jessica Segall (b. 1978 Illinois) has exhibited her work internationally, including in The Fries Museum, The Coreana Museum of Art, The National Museum of Jewish American History and The Queens Museum of Art. Oddkin is Jessica Segall’s first solo exhibition in Finland.

The exhibition opening will be held in conjunction with Kalevan Navetta’s Winter Day on January 23, 2026.

10 years of partnership! Kunsthalle Seinäjoki celebrates the Summer Artist model

It’s time to celebrate! For 10 years, Seinäjoki’s Summer Artists have been creating amazing art experiences together with the local audience. The exhibition will be on display in Kunsthalle Seinäjoki’s exhibition space Vintti 7.3.—8.8.2026.

Each summer since 2017, the City of Seinäjoki has employed a professional artist or art student to work as a Summer Artist. The Flashback group exhibition brings together six Summer Artists from 2018 to 2023. The exhibition displays new works from Eetu Kevarinmäki (Summer Artist of 2018), Aeon Lux (Summer Artist of 2019), Sofi Häkkinen (Summer Artist of 2020), Riikka Gröndahl (Summer Artist of 2021), Olivia Viitakangas (Summer Artist of 2022), Baran Caginli (Summer Artist of 2023). The exhibition will include site-specific art, sculptures, paintings, photographs and installations.

The Summer Artist, “Kesäkuvataiteilija” in Finnish, works as an employee for two months with their own independent artistic project that has been visible or participatory to the citizens of the city. The City of Seinäjoki’s Summer Artist program has broadened the view of the possibilities in which municipalities can cooperate with visual artists and act as an employer. The program has been a unique opportunity for a visual artist starting out in their career. At the same time, the Summer Artists and their work have become a beloved part of the summer in the City of Seinäjoki. Each project has been adventurous, fresh and unexpected. Summer Artists have, among other things, created bread sculptures, archived video portraits, and explored the possibility of chance.

The Flashback group exhibition is a glimpse into the past and a clear vision of the future. The name Flashback refers to memories and recollections. The artists return to the works of the summer art year, but above all, they look ahead.

 

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki

Kunsthalle Seinäjoki showcases art exhibitions and offers a varied programme of other events. The charming exhibition spaces and multidisciplinary community at the Art and Culture Centre Kalevan Navetta provide a framework for a visionary contemporary art programme. Kunsthalle Seinäjoki draws inspiration from the story of the building as well as the themes and issues arising from the countryside – both in South Ostrobothnia and globally.

Find out more about the venues and programme choices.

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More information and inquiries:

Laura Laukkanen, Art curator

tel. +358 40 774 8560
laura.laukkanen(at)seinajoki.fi