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Past exhibitions

Katja Eydel: Educational

2022
Katja Eydel reflects on how identity is shaped through the functioning of social structures, such as state-run institutions and other organizations.
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Veera Konsti: It's Complicated

2022
Filled with kitsch, golden frames, fur, and glitter, Veera Konsti's exhibition carnivalizes and parodies the traditions of both painting and nature photography.
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Ritva Kovalainen & Sanni Seppo: Forests of the North Wind

2022
Forests of the North Wind is the final part of a forest trilogy based on research through photographic art by Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo, culminating their three decades of work on forest themes
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So Sweet Ukraine

2022
So Sweet Ukraine is an online exhibition featuring contemporary Ukrainian photographers.
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Agnès Varda – My First Life

2022
Film director Agnès Varda's (1928–2019) first creative life was as a photographer. Varda's first photography exhibition from 1954 will now be presented in Finland.
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Photofuss: A Nightly Sun, a Dawning Moon 

2022
Art collective Photofuss approaches the various undersides of everyday life, pondering both darkness and illumination in this versatile group exhibition. 
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Paradoxes of Photography

2022
The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the expectations and concepts related to photography. The exhibition is a selection of research-based projects that challenge the idea of “the photographic”.
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Zanele Muholi: ZAZISE

2022
Zanele Muholi: Thathu I, The Sails, Durban 2019.
Zanele Muholi is a South African LGBTQIA+ activist and among the most influential international photographers working today.
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Cartes-de-visite from the Finnish Museum of Photography

2019–2022
A view of a pedestrian and cycling path under a bridge. In the foreground is a blurry cyclist. In one pillar of the bridge there is an advertisement that has an old black and and white photograph. The ad says: " Do you notice how different worlds have been created in studios?"
Cartes-de-visite were the biggest photographic craze of the 19th century and early 20th century. The exhibition Cartes-de-visite from the Finnish Museum of Photography showcases cards from 1894 to 1920 at Länsilinkki in Ruoholahti.
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Impression remains – Helsinki Darkroom Festival

2022
The main exhibition of Helsinki Darkroom Festival – organized for the first time – celebrates current darkroom art and the creative possibilities of analogic photography.
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Pictorialism – the Dawn of Photographic Art

2022
The historical exhibition presents unprecedented gems from the early stages of Finnish photographic art from the beginning of the 20th century.
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Susanna Majuri: Love

2021–2022
The retrospective exhibition of the work of Susanna Majuri (1978–2020), titled Love, gathers together photographs from her entire career: her most well-known pieces are shown side by side with less common early works.
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Cecilia Vicuña: Songs to the Waters

2021–2022
Poetry and political resistance are inextricably intertwined in the artistic work of Cecilia Vicuña. The Chilean artist's works are on display for the first time in Finland.
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Festival of Political Photography 2021: Bird’s-Eye View

2021–2022
What if a crow could take photographs? What kinds of photos would it take? What would the world look like through the eyes of a bird? Opening in October 2021, the title of the fifth Festival of Political Photography is ‘Bird’s-Eye View’. The festival reflects, through photography, on the capacity of humans to imagine the perspective of birds and to understand the world in an alternate way through that lens.
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Night Time Photographs of Vuosaari

2021
The exhibition brings photographs by Vuosaari based photographers to Vuosaari House gallery.
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Uwa Iduozee: Blind Spot(s)

2021
Two black children. Other is a bit taller, and is leaning on the other’s head. Both have a light red collared shirt and both are looking straight into the camera.
Uwa Iduozee is a photographer and documentarist who strives to tell stories that are often neglected in mainstream media. Iduozee focuses particularly on structural racism and its impacts in both crisis situations and in day-to-day life.
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Photofuss: Our natures – Interpretations of National Romanticism

2021
Photo: Lyy Raitala: Velloa, 2020.
The exhibition Our natures – Interpretations of National Romanticism by the Finnish Museum of Photography's young adults' group Photofuss draws reflection on "Finnishness" today. The word nature in the title refers to human nature and natural environments—this duality is studied both together and...
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Vivian Maier

2021
A black and white picture, where a black man is riding a big, dark horse on a city street. The horse is not wearing a saddle, only a bridle.
Vivian Maier returns to Helsinki with a new exhibition focusing on street photography
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Maria Kapajeva: When the world blows up, I hope to go down dancing

2021
A woman in a green full body skinsuit that covers her face too, stands in front of a crosswalk at a red light. She is carrying four white shopping bags. Next to her is a woman in a brown jacket looking at her.
In her work, Maria Kapajeva explores the stereotypes, expectations and roles that women continue to face.
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Vuosaari 21: Uusi arki

2020–2021
A fence made of glass next to an escalator in a shopping centre. There are big photographs attached to the glass. In the middle there is a photo of a bird on a branch of a spruce, on the right side there is a photo of a bridge in the woods and on the left side there is a photo of red flowers.
Mitä on hyvä elämä silloin kun uusi ja tuntematon muuttaa tutun toiseksi? Vuosaarelaisten valokuvanäyttely levittäytyy Vuosaaren kauppakeskus Columbukseen. Näyttely on osa Vuosaari 21 -hanketta.
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Jari Silomäki: Atlas of Emotions

2020–2021
Jari Silomäki, from the series Atlas of Emotions, 2009–2020
The photographic series Atlas of Emotions by Jari Silomäki (b. 1975) is a record of 21st century events: the rapid rise in prosperity and inequality in developing countries, the shared server-run home country that is the Internet, the public presentation of personal histories and privacy...
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Minna L. Henriksson: Sensitometric experiment with Polaroid

2020–2021
The museums collection exhibition asks if a camera can be racist.
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Douglas Kirkland: Coco & Marilyn

2020–2021
Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood, 1961 ©Douglas Kirkland/Photo Op
The Finnish Museum of Photography's new exhibition space, named K1, will be opened with an inaugural showcase, featuring two exhibitions in one — Coco Chanel and An Evening with Marilyn — from Canadian photographer Douglas Kirkland (b. 1934). The photographs depict two iconic women who developed...
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Liisa Vääriskoski: @munalissu

2020–2021
Vierekkäin kaksi lähes identtistä kuvaa. Molemmissa on nainen vedessä, olkapäistä ylöspäin vedenpinnan yläpuolella. Vesi on vaaleanpunaisen sävyistä ja se kimaltelee. Näyttää kuin naisen hiukset olisivat pienenpieniä helmiä rivissä. Hiukset ovat osittain kasvojen päällä. Naisen silmät ovat siniset ja ne tuikkivat. Naisen pään ympärillä on sateenkaariympyrä.
Media artist Liisa Vääriskoski's Munalissu is a feminist alter ego and art project that blurs the line between reality and fiction. The main platform used for the project is Instagram.
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Clare Gallagher: The Second Shift

2020
Photo: Clare Gallagher
Clare Gallagher's exhibition The Second Shift is an attempt to recognise the complexity and value of the invisible housework and childcare primarily carried out by women on top of their paid employment.
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AdeY: The Censored Exhibition

2020
AdeY: Evolution, part II, Australia, 2018.
AdeY’s images are driven by a particular focus and attention on people’s right to differences, primarily with regard to differences in physical appearance, gender, race and sexuality.
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Yann Mingard: Everything is up in the air, thus our vertigo

2020
Yann Mingard: A full mount maned lion, Evolution auction, Billingshurst, UK, 25th November 2015.
In January 1968, a US Air Force bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed onto ice along the coast of Greenland. In South Korea, a group of scientists is attempting to clone a mammoth using DNA preserved in permafrost. In the Illgraben valley in Switzerland, scientists use an electronic alarm...
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Inanimate Life and Dead Nature

2020
Photo: Wladimir Schohin, 1907 / The Finnish Museum of Photography
Still life has a curious force that makes us see everyday things anew, to observe the overlooked.
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Sanna Kannisto: Sense of Wonder

2020
Sanna Kannisto: Days of Departure 2, 2015.
In summer 2020 the Finnish Museum of Photography will exhibit the works of photographer Sanna Kannisto (b. 1974), spanning a period of 20 years. This will be Kannisto’s largest exhibition to date. Sense of Wonder is a cross-section of the artist’s career, including her long-term photographic work...
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Lasse Lecklin: Crossings

2020
Lasse Lecklin: Skeidararjokull, from the series Crossings, 2019.
Humanity has now left behind the Holocene, a geological era in which the globe has been since the last ice age, and entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. In the Anthropocene, the human influence on the Earth is so great that the change is irreversible; in a sense, it is a point of no return. ...
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The Friendship Class of The Finnish Museum of Photography: #teenmirror

2020
Class 9D of the Vuoniitty Comprehensive School has been the friendship class of the Finnish Museum of Photography from 2017 to 2020. The exhibition #teenmirror displays new photographs inspired by Vivian Maier's self-portraits and older photographs from previous exhibitions by Vuoniitty friendship class. Selected parts of the exhibition are on display at the Columbus shopping mall in Vuosaari 14.5 - 1.6.2020.
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Vivian Maier: The Self-portrait and its Double

2020
Vivian Maier (1926–2009) was an American photographer whose extensive body of work has stormed into the public eye since her death with numerous exhibitions and a documentary film. Maier remained a keen photographer throughout her adult life but never sought to showcase her work. Instead, she...
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Katja Eydel: Koulutus
16.9.2022–6.11.2022
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Veera Konsti: It’s Complicated
16.9.2022–6.11.2022
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