Category: Foundation

Kim Simonsson’s Moss People sculpture is part of the Hey!Ceramics exhibition at Halle Saint Pierre in Paris. The Hey!Ceramics exhibition brings together 34 artists from 13 countries and exhibition encourages the viewer to look at contemporary ceramics from a new perspective. The exhibition is open until August 14^th, 2024.

© Photo: Kim Simonsson

Tiftö Foundation, a foundation dedicated to promoting contemporary Finnish art, has awarded a grant of 120 000 euros to HAM Helsinki Art Museum. The grant will be allocated for the 2025 Helsinki Biennial and will enable the commissioning of a work by one artist. The grant is Tiftö Foundation’s first donation to a museum.

© Photo: Minna Kurjenluoma

The world premiere of the one-hour long film Kaarina Onde Vita Camicie by Alberto Valtellina will take place at Cinema Capitol, Bergamo, Italy on November 19, 2023. The film describes the making of Kaikkonen’s work Waves of Life in Bergamo, Italy.

© Photo: Kaarina Kaikkonen

Between 3 Spaces, 2004, by photographer Ola Kolehmainen is the latest addition to the collection.  Paintings by Marjatta Tapiola, Yksi yö halkeaa, 1984, and Camilla Vuorenmaa I promised to come back for her birthday, 2022, have also been received as donations – both artists’ first artworks in the Foundation’s collection.

© Photo: Jussi Tiainen

The national epic of Finland has inspired multi-talented artist Hannu Väisänen, who will present his Kalevala-themed exhibition The Heart of Lemminkäinen in the historic Laukko Manor near Tampere, June 7-August 27, 2023

© Photo: Galerie Forsblom

Moma PS1 presents photographer Iiu Susiraja’s first ever solo museum exhibition in the US, A style called a dead fish, between April 20-September 4, 2023. In May Susiraja has the honor to be the first artist to exhibit in Nino Mier Gallery’s new space in Tribeca, New York.