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Taiteen tähtitaivaat

The Starry Skies of Art is the first review in Finland in which the distant cosmos is brought closer, both in old realistic depictions and in recent works of contemporary art. The sky and its phenomena can be much more than the dramatic background of landscape paintings. Space, stars and the entire universe may be […]

Summer Days

The main exhibition of summer 2017 brings the works of Nordic artists to Serlachius Museum Gösta. The artist represent different generations and different approaches to making art. Parallel to figurative paintings and sculptures, many materials, works specially realised for the space, and conceptual perspectives are on show. The artists of the exhibition are united not […]

Riiko Sakkinen

“If you demand that Europe’s borders be closed, you are not following your time. Our borders have already been closed, with concertina wire that tears both flesh and clothes. The Iron Curtain of the Cold War was a toy compared to the present border fences of Europe.” Riiko Sakkinen’s exhibition Closing Borders studies a Europe that […]

Esther Shalev-Gerz

Vilnius-born and Paris-based Esther Shalev-Gerz (b. 1948) is a subtle concept artist. In her photographic and video works she investigates how cultural identities are constructed and examines the role and status of traditional professions in a world that is global and undergoing a rapid digital transformation. The exhibition Factory is outside comprises four interweaving series of works, […]

Koen Vanmechelen

Koen Vanmechelen (b. 1965), from Belgium, is a multidisciplinary artist whose output includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos and installations. He is best known, however, for his work over many decades with living animals such as chickens. The Vanmechelen exhibition brings the full range of his art to Gösta Museum and its surrounding park. Vanmechelen is […]

Salvador Dalí

An installation comprising works from late output of the master of Surrealism, Dalí’s Gala is a delightful tribute to Salvador Dalí, whose life and art cannot be separated. The exhibition based on the surrealist cook book Les dîners de Gala, published in 1973. Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was a controversial artist whose meris a pioneer of surrealist […]

Elina Brotherus

Elina Brotherus photographs and video works from 2016–18 are humorous and adventurous and at the same time absurd. They present a new development in Elina Brotherus’ work. The works from 2016–18 take as their inspiration from the ‘event scores’ of the 1960s’ Fluxus artists. These event scores allow any artist to create the event or performance later on in […]

Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s hybrid piece combines sculpture with moving image technology. Potentiality for Love deals with the potential for empathy and love towards other living beings. The work turns attention to those human emotions that could serve as a foundation for dismantling the hierarchical structures between living things, thereby engendering a turn towards non-humans and the recognition […]

Time of Stone

Harry Kivijärvi (1931–2010) is remembered as one of the most important sculptors of his generation. His modernist themes that he carved into stone formed part of the international success of Finnish sculpture in the 1960–70ies. Serlachius Museum Gösta’s exhibition Time of Stone, in parallel with Kivijärvi’s works, showed international modernism of the artist’s own time […]

Distant Cool Shadow

We cannot touch the colour. It touches us, however, in many different ways. Distant Cool Shadow – A Small Exhibition of Colour at Serlachius Museums Gösta evokes colour-related perceptions and experiences. How do we see colours and how do they affect us? How is the evolution of colour pigments reflected in the history of art? What […]

Keith Tyson

Keith Tyson