Anish Kapoor

Serlachius Manor

23.05.2026

—04.04.2027

Kapoor is renowned for his bold, sensual sculptures that hold a dynamic relationship with the viewer in the spaces they inhabit and create. Often using scale as a tool, his works are both intimate and architectural in their reach.

Utilising an ever-growing lexicon of materials, his art can be eye-catchingly beautiful, rough in its physicality, or almost immaterial and seemingly untouched in its formation.

Kapoor explores the borderland between our inner world and external reality. He makes skilful use of visual archetypes and metaphysical opposites, the eternal questions of being and non-being, destruction and birth.

Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and moved to London at the age of 18, where he initially studied art at Hornsey College of Art and then at Chelsea School of Art and Design.

Kapoor gained worldwide fame in the early 1990s. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and was awarded the Premio Duemila for Best Young Artist. The following year, he won the Turner Prize, considered Britain’s most important art award. 

His works are regularly shown in major art museums around the world and have been acquired for the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, and more.

Anish Kapoor was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013 in recognition of his contribution to the arts.

Who is Anish Kapoor?

In his article, Pauli Sivonen, Director of the Serlachius Museums, discusses the background and artistic work of the artist Anish Kapoor.

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What is Anish Kapoor going to do in Mänttä?

In another article, Pauli Sivonen takes a closer look at Anish Kapoor’s exhibition at Serlachius – but leaves some things unsaid.

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Artwork image: Anish Kapoor, Prophesy to Breath, 2020, oil on canvas, Ⓒ Anish Kapoor. Photo: Stephen White & co