Exhibitions

Current exhibitions

CATCH

What can we extract from the flow of life?

Serlachius Museum Gösta

4 November 2023 — 14 April 2024

Albert Edelfelt, Kööpenhaminan ankkuripaikalta III, 1890, öljyväri kankaalle, Gösta Serlachiuksen taidesäätiö. Kuva: Tomi Aho

Classic Works of Fine Art at the Manor

Updated collection hanging

Serlachius Museum Gösta

6 April 2019 —

Oneself As Another

Works from the Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation’s collection

Virtual exhibition space

10 August 2022 —

Upcoming exhibitions

Devan Shimoyama, Stay Still, 2023, öljyväri, värikynä, vinyyli, strassit, osakuva teoksesta. Kuva: Kavi Gupta

Fade Cut

Devan Shimoyama’s barber shop installation

Serlachius Museum Gösta

23 March 2024 — 18 August 2024

ROR ABC

Revolutions On Request

Serlachius Museum Gösta

23 March 2024 — 23 March 2025

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), Noire et blanche, 1926 (1980), photograph, new print. Courtesy Gio´ Marconi, Milano.

Masks

Multiple Identities from Antiquity to Contemporary Art

Serlachius Museum Gösta

11 May 2024 — 15 September 2024

Kuvanveistäjä Hannes Autere ja vuorineuvos Gösta Serlachius Huhkojärvellä. Serlachius-museoiden kuva-arkisto.

Patrons

The story behind the Serlachius Art Collection

Serlachius Museum Gustaf

15 June 2024 —

Riiko Sakkinen, Finlandia (Fuengirola)-postikortti.

Los moimoi de Fuengirola

Exhibition and research project on the Finnish identity

Serlachius Museum Gustaf

15 June 2024 — 16 February 2025

Anne Koskinen, Arsenia (Foundling) 2019 ja Guardian XVI, 2019, luonnonkivi. Kuva: Jussi Tiainen, Galerie Anhava.

Thank-you Letters

A chain of letters and an exhibition on works having left a permanent impact

Serlachius Museum Gustaf

15 June 2024 — 16 February 2025

Nastja Säde Rönkkö, salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears, 2023, stillkuva kolmikanavaisesta videoteoksesta.

salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears

A tragic story about lost love

Serlachius Museum Gösta

7 September 2024 — 23 March 2025

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Heijastus metsästä, 2024, stillkuva monikuvainstallaatiosta.

Reflection on a Forest

Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s multichannel installation

Serlachius Museum Gösta

12 October 2024 — 27 April 2025

Past exhibitions

Apteekkarin kauppahuone | Apotekarens handelshus | Apotheckary's Trade House

Apothecary’s Trade House

Experience history – hands-on

Serlachius Museum Gustaf

16 November 2013 — 19 November 2023

Anna Estarriola, Moment, detail, 2023. Photo: Sampo Linkoneva

Moment

Anna Estarriola’s installation

Serlachius Museum Gösta

23 September 2023 — 03 March 2024

Elena Näsänen, Yö ja päivä, 2023, stillkuva videoinstallaatiosta.

Night and Day

Elena Näsänen’s 2-channel video installation

Serlachius Museum Gösta

25 March 2023 — 03 March 2024

Albert Edelfelt, Kööpenhaminan ankkuripaikalta III, 1890, öljyväri kankaalle, Gösta Serlachiuksen taidesäätiö. Kuva: Tomi Aho

Classic Works of Fine Art at the Manor

Updated collection hanging

Serlachius Museum Gösta

6 April 2019 —

Paper Devil

The life and business affairs of G. A. Serlachius

Serlachius Museum Gustaf

11 May 2013 — 19 November 2023

Behind the Pulp Gate

Work and stories from Mänttä pulp mill

Serlachius Museum Gustaf

29 February 2020 — 19 November 2023

Genesis

The birth of Mänttä’s paper industry from an other point of view

Serlachius Museum Gustaf

4 February 2023 — 19 November 2023

Lorna Simpson, Ice 8, 2018, muste ja akryyli gessolla pohjustetulle puulle, ©Lorna Simpson. Taiteilijan ja Hauser & Wirth -gallerian omistuksessa. Kuva: James Wang

Haze

Lorna Simpson’s debut in the Nordic countries

Serlachius Museum Gösta

13 May 2023 — 08 October 2023

Oneself As Another

Works from the Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation’s collection

Virtual exhibition space

10 August 2022 —

Installation view of the Pirjetta Brander's exhibition Undercurrent. Photo: Sampo Linkoneva

Undercurrent

Works by Pirjetta Brander from the years 1996–2023

Serlachius Museum Gösta

25 March 2023 — 03 September 2023

Photograph of Ville Lenkkeri depicting autumn landscape in Mänttä by the name Morning Coffee on a Roof of a Town. A man is sitting on metal staircase on the roof of a paper mill enjoying his newspaper and coffee.

Morning Coffee on the Roof of a Town

Works from the Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation’s contemporary art collection

Serlachius Museum Gösta

5 November 2022 — 16 April 2023

Clare Woods, The English Smile, 2021.

Between Before and After

Clare Woods’ paintings

Art Museum Gösta

26 March 2022 — 05 March 2023

EGS

This Could Go on Forever

Graffiti artist EGS’s body of works

Art Museum Gösta

24 September 2022 — 05 March 2023

Trish Morrissey, Self-portrait with snail, 2020 © Trish Morrissey

Trish Morrissey: Autofictions

Twenty years of photography and film

Museum Gustaf

5 February 2022 — 08 January 2023

Clare Woods, The language of the body is yet to be explored (detail), 2017, porcelain, Corian and adhesive, private owner.

Punoutua

Porcelain sculptures of Rachel Kneebone

Art Museum Gösta

14 May 2022 — 09 October 2022

Andy Freeberg, Marlborough, Art Basel Artist: Ad Reinhard from the series Art Fare, 2009–2011.

Where Art Thou?

Works by American photographer Andy Freeberg

Art Museum Gösta

26 March 2022 — 04 September 2022

Art Odyssey 2021. Photo: Arttu Kokkonen

Art Odyssey 2021

The exhibition from the world of science fiction

Art Museum Gösta

6 November 2021 — 17 April 2022

Posing Time

Santeri Tuori’s photograph and video works

Art Museum Gösta

27 March 2021 — 06 March 2022

Lands of Treasure

Animation work of IC-98

Art Museum Gösta

25 September 2021 — 06 March 2022

Simon Patterson, Head to Toe. In the picture his artwork Manned Flight 1990. Courtesy the Artist. Photo: Sampo Linkoneva.

Head to Toe

Simon Patterson’s artworks

Museum Gustaf

6 February 2021 — 09 January 2022

Banksy, Love Is in the Air, 2003, screen print on paper, private collection. Photo: 24 Ore Cultura.

Banksy. A Visual Protest

The world’s most famous street artist

Art Museum Gösta

15 May 2021 — 10 October 2021

The Truth

Jani Leinonen’s magical installation

Art Museum Gösta

27 March 2021 — 05 September 2021

Rodney Graham, Gallerian imurointi 1949, 2018, maalattuun alumiiniseen valokaappiin pohjustettu kromogeeninen valokuva. Courtesy Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar. Kuva: Rodney Graham.

Artists and Models

Disguise Self-Portraits of Rodney Graham

Art Museum Gösta

24 October 2020 — 18 April 2021

Procedural Memory

Petri Eskelinen’s interactive sculptures

Art Museum Gösta

21 March 2020 — 07 March 2021

Nanna Hänninen, How About the Future? , sarjasta Now is Now, 2019, digitaalinen värituloste.

How About the Future?

A retrospective of Nanna Hänninen

Art Museum Gösta

1 February 2020 — 07 March 2021

Woman's gown for Fellini's Casanova from the Tirelli Collection exhibited by Serlachius.

Glamour

Famous Gowns of the Silver Screen

Museum Gustaf

26 September 2020 — 10 January 2021

Goldschmied & Chiari Where Shall We Go Dancing Tonight? | Dove andiamo a ballare questa sera? 2019 site-specific installation, mixed media installazione site-specific, materiali vari. Photo: Sampo Linkoneva, Serlachius Museums.

The Quest for Happiness

Italian Art Now

Art Museum Gösta

26 October 2019 — 27 September 2020

Olli och Bucklan | Olli ja Bucklan | Olli and Bucklan | Serlachius Museums

Olli and Bucklan

The Life and Art of the Ehrströms

Museum Gustaf

26 January 2019 — 30 August 2020

Gerard Byrne | In Our Time | Serlachius

In Our Time

Gerard Byrne

Art Museum Gösta

21 September 2019 — 08 March 2020

Det var en gång på den här platsen– Johann Lecklin. Olipa kerran tässä paikassa. Once Upon a Time, in this Place.

Once Upon a Time, in This Place

Johanna Lecklin

Gustaf

23 February 2019 — 09 February 2020

Maa | Matthew Day jackson | Odalisque | Serlachius Museum Gösta

Maa

Matthew Day Jackson

Art Museum Gösta

18 May 2019 — 29 September 2019

Sigrid Schauman, Maisema, 1934, öljyväri vanerille, Gösta Serlachiuksen taidesäätiö. Kuva: Matias Uusikylä

Distant Cool Shadow

A Small Exhibition of Colour

Art Museum Gösta

23 February 2019 — 08 September 2019

Kiven aika |Time of Stone | Stenens tid | Serlachius

Time of Stone

Harry Kivijärvi and six contemporary sculptors

Art Museum Gösta

13 October 2018 — 14 April 2019

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Potentiality For Love. Kuva: Liisa Takala.

Potentiality of Love

Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s hybrid piece

Art Museum Gösta

3 February 2018 — 06 January 2019

Elina Brotherus, Orange Event, 2018, valokuva.

Playground / leikkikenttä

Elina Brotherus’s photographs and videos in the spirit of Fluxus art

Museum Gustaf

16 June 2018 — 06 January 2019

Les dîners de Gala näyttely Serlachius-museot

Les dîners de Gala

An installation based on the cook book illustrated by Salvador Dalí

Museum Gustaf

16 June 2018 — 21 October 2018

Koen Vanmechelen It's About Time -näyttely Serlachius-museot. Kuva: Sampo Linkoneva

It’s About Time

Koen Vanmechelen’s exhibition featuring chickens

Art Museum Gösta

19 May 2018 — 16 September 2018

Esther Shalev-Gerzin näyttely Serlachius-museo Gustafissa.

Factory is Outside

Esther Shalev-Gerz’s exhibition on work and its transformation

Museum Gustaf

1 April 2017 — 01 April 2018

Riiko Sakkinen, Rajat kiinni -näyttely Serlachius-museoissa. Kuva: Sampo Linkoneva.

Closing Borders

Riiko Sakkinen’s exhibition about European borders

Art Museum Gösta

4 February 2017 — 07 January 2018

Troels Wörsel

Summer Days

Eight Nordic artists

Art Museum Gösta

20 May 2017 — 01 October 2017

Greg Mort, Zero G Apples, 2008.

The Starry Skies of Art

Exhibition in which the distant cosmos comes closer

Art Museum Gösta

14 May 2016 — 08 January 2017

Mark Wallinger, Ecce Homo

Mark Wallinger Mark

Art Museum Gösta

28 May 2016 — 09 October 2016

Anselm Kiefer, Am Anfang, 2008, öljyväri, emulsio, lyijy ja valokuvauspaperi kankaalle, Grothe-kokoelma. Kuva: Charles Duprat.

Anselm Kiefer

Works from the Grothe Collection

Art Museum Gösta

3 October 2015 — 24 April 2016

The Art of Others

Outsider art from Korine and Max E. Ammann’s collection

Art Museum Gösta

16 May 2015 — 13 September 2015

Kaukainen kosketus -näyttely 2015

Touching From a Distance

Touching from a Distance

Art Museum Gösta

13 June 2015 — 13 September 2015

The Marquise and the Baron

The Neo-Rococo in the North

Art Museum Gösta

24 January 2015 — 26 April 2015

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Tutkimuksia draaman ekologiasta 1, stillkuva teoksesta, 2014.

Studies on the Ecology of Drama 1

Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s video installation in four-channels

Art Museum Gösta

14 June 2014 — 11 January 2015

Paul Osipov, Kolari, 1965, öljy ja akryyli kankaalle, Sara Hildénin taidemuseo. Kuva: Jussi Tiainen.

SuperPop!

Classic pieces of Pop art and contemporary art

Art Museum Gösta

14 June 2014 — 28 September 2014

Riiko Sakkinen, MuNA, 2014, Gösta Serlachiuksen taidesäätiö.

Museum of No Art – MuNa

Riiko Sakkinen’s museum with no art

Art Museum Gösta

14 June 2014 — 07 September 2014

Kotkan siipien suojassa

Under the Eagle’s Wings

Serlachius Museum Gustaf’s first main exhibition

Museum Gustaf

17 May 2003 — 10 March 2013