Past exhibitions
Documenting the body – a history of the Finnish passport
2020
The passport can fulfill its function of opening doors only if the human body is linked to it in a reliable way. As identification methods have evolved and control increased, the body's relationship to the passport has been in a constant state of flux....
Unfold
2020
The Unfold exhibition introduces a group of photographic artists from the master's degree program in photography at Aalto University. The exhibition showcases the multi-device nature and conceptualism of modern photography. The exhibition, which was created as a result of close collaboration...
Photofuss: The Last Generation
2019–2020
“We are the last generation that can stop climate change.” The Last Generation exhibition by Photofuss group contemplates current environmental issues.
Caj Bremer: Finnish Everyday Life
2019–2020
The classic series of photographs Finnish Everyday Life (1971) by Caj Bremer (b. 1929), who reinvented photojournalism in Finland, was brought to life after Bremer gave up his daily newspaper work to tour the country, supported by a grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. Bremer wanted to...
Sakari Piippo: Some Observations on the Political System of Finland
2019–2020
Some Observations on the Political System of Finland (2015–2019) is a documentary trilogy by photographer Sakari Piippo.
Lotta Sulin: Lottaland
2019–2020
The Finnish Museum of Photography collection also includes photographs by artists that publish mainly on Instagram.
Rasoul Khorram: My Mother Wants Me to Return Home
2019–2020
Photographer Rasoul Khorram (b. 1980) recorded the life of his elderly mother Halima Khanomilla in a series of photographs over a period of three years in Oshnavieh, Kurdistan, Iran, on the border of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. The photographs show his mother going about her daily chores, tending to...
One Picture Manifesto
2019
In One Picture Manifesto, photographers Marja Pirilä (b. 1957), Harri Pälviranta (b. 1971), Maija Annikki Savolainen (b. 1980) and Maija Tammi (b. 1985) challenge their own ways of creating art as well as photographic practices in general. In the exhibition, each artist presents one independent...
Out of Sight: Picturing the Unseen
2019
The exhibition asks who is unseen, particularly in the West, and considers how difference is confronted through forms of visual representation.
Per Olov Jansson
2019
P. O. Jansson (1920–2019) was a professional photographer and photography enthusiast who took photos throughout his life. He particularly enjoyed taking photos of nature in the archipelago and of those closest to him, such as his family and his sister Tove Jansson.
Belonging to the story
2019
The exhibition hovers between reality and fiction and uses the techniques of contemporary photographic art to examine the way in which we cling to one another and the world, dream, create utopias, and imagine the future.
Hertta Kiiski: Violet sea
2019
This is Violet Sea. Here, works by artist Hertta Kiiski (b. 1973) from the last ten years are brought together with new works and a new exhibition space. Their energies are ready to meet your energy. Girls, animals of other species, rocks and time take the center stage....
Festival of Political Photography 2019: Potentiality
2019
The 2019 Festival of Political Photography explores the capacity for collective imagination and the potential for action. The festival highlights photography projects that deal with smaller and larger changes, as well as alternative mindsets and lifestyles.
Matti Koivumäki: Puu-Vallila
2019
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the building stock of Helsinki was modernised, as old buildings were frantically torn down to give way to new ones. For a period of two years, the photographer Matti Koivumäki (born 1950) spent time exploring his childhood home district and documented the Puu-Vallila area of wooden buildings, which was threatened with being condemned due to changes in town planning. The photographs in the exhibition are original gelatin silver prints from the years 1974–1976. The exhibition is on view at museum's collection corner Kuvakulma.
Photofuss: Muutoksessa – In Transition
2018–2019
In this exhibition, Photofuss, the youth group of Finnish Museum of Photography, presents thoughts on things that are undergoing change.
Iiris Kaarlehto & Inka Kynkäänniemi: All Connections Are Boundaries
2018–2019
The work of the artist duo Iiris Kaarlehto and Inka Kynkäänniemi focuses on structures and manifestations of power that are created and reinforced through a variety of stories and everyday practices, and their deconstruction. These themes take on a visual form in their newly completed video artw...
Marja Helander, Harri Pälviranta and Kari Soinio: Inherited ideals
2018–2019
Marja Helander, Harri Pälviranta and Kari Soinio are three long-time photographic artists. The exhibition Inherited Ideals delves into the values and norms upheld and promoted by the media, modern society and our own spiritual heritage. Each artist examines the ideals that guide us from their own point of view, in addition to confronting the challenges related to dismantling the tacit rules: can we do anything to the forces that define us? And what are the things that we are completely blind to in our own environment?
Markus Jokela, Jouko Lehtola, Pentti Sammallahti, Iiu Susiraja: Slow Art Moment
2018–2019
Slow Art Moment Exhibition encourages to look art slowly. So give a moment to the art work, breathe deeply, sit down and relax.
JH Engström: Härifrån
2018
Swedish photographer JH Engström (b. 1969) is known for his personal photographic series, in which he has expressively documented himself and those around him. The exhibition at the Finnish Museum of Photography is, to date, the broadest sample of JH Engström’s artistic production, with photographs from 1991 to 2017.
fin.land.
2018
The Photobooks from Finland association has conceived an exhibition and a photobook, both based on doing things collectively. Eight artists were selected for the project in the spring of 2018. The thematic starting point was the Finnish landscape.
Elsa & Tyyne 1918 – war photographers by chance
2018
How did the civil war look like for a young female photographer in Helsinki in 1918? Tyyne Böök had a popular photographic studio in a worker’s district to the north of the Pitkäsilta bridge. Elsa Sillman was a medical student and an amateur photographer. When the war erupted, both women grabbed their cameras.
Kati Leinonen: Äimärautio
2018
Äimärautio is a community that revolves around a deep passion and commitment to horses. In her series of photographs, shot in Oulu, Finland, Kati Leinonen examines the relationship between horses and humans.
Daniela Friebel: AUSPICIA
2018
Each winter, the sky in Rome is the stage for mesmerizing
murmurations of millions of starling birds. Swirling and ever shape-shifting liquid-like clouds are formed by a myriad of tiny black dots, moving like one single being. AUSPICIA is a work about the impossibility of control and man's futile and unremitting attempts at exerting it. The exhibition is on view at museum's Project Space.
Noémie Goudal: Stations
2018
The works by the French artist Noémie Goudal (born 1984) play tricks on perception and make the viewer doubt their own senses. Where are the boundaries between the imagined, the natural and the human-made?
Erica Nyholm: We Are Temporary Reality
2018
Erica Nyholm’s works deal with family relationships, often between mothers, daughters and siblings. They explore the family dynamic from a woman’s perspective. In her works, families appear as units that run according to their own rules, in which we grow into individuals, mirroring ourselves off the other family members.
Ian Waelder: Who would be interested in an empty parking lot?
2018
In his art, Ian Waelder examines skateboard and youth culture and their forms of reproducibility through film, photography or sound. In this exhibition, none of the images on view are originally taken by Waelder, but are reframings and edits of images taken from films, magazines and books that are influential in the skateboarding culture.
Heidi Piiroinen: The Invisibles – Story of a Beggar Family
2018
For 10 years, photographer Heidi Piiroinen and journalist, author Kimmo Oksanen have been following the life of Romanian Mihaela Stoica and her family and siblings in Finland, Romania, Greece, Estonia and France. Through the personal story of Mihaela, the exhibition deals with larger societal issues and the phenomenon of Romanian people leaving their homes and becoming street beggars in Western Europe.
Miia Autio: Variation of White
2018
In Miia Autio's works, portraits of Tanzanian youths have been converted into negatives, in which the original colours become their opposites. Bright spots appear as shadows, and dark spots as light. Three works of the series are on view at the museum's collection corner Kuvakulma.
Does it feel familiar? – Photographs of everyday life in Finland
2018
What does your everyday life feel like: the morning rush-hour or a sleep-in in the morning, lunch at the canteen or a quickly grabbed ready meal from the shop? In 2016, ten photographers documented everyday Finnish life, each from their own personal point of view. The starting point was to comment on the increasing inequality in Finnish society. People may find some of the stories captured in the images easy to relate to, while others may be more remote.
Life is... – Picturing everyday life of young people
2018
Everyday life is repetitive; it does not go away. It's there again tomorrow, not going anywhere. Everyday life is often grey and dull. Everyday life is just everyday life. It’s the alarm clock ringing. It’s running to catch the bus; it’s homework, friends, playing games... It’s everything you want it to be. The exhibition by our museum's friendship class in Vuoniitty Comprehensive School examines the everyday life of a 7th-grader. The exhibition is on view at museum's Process Space.
Photofuss: I am on vacation.
2018
Photofuss, the youth group of The Finnish Museum of Photography, presents photographic material from a holiday spent in everyday life. The exhibition is on view at the museum's Process Space.
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Katja Eydel: Koulutus
16.9.2022–6.11.2022
Suomen valokuvataiteen museo,
Kaapelitehdas, Kaapeliaukio 3, G-rappu, Helsinki
Avoinna ti–su 11–18, ke 11–20
Kuva: Alakoulu, sarjasta Koulutus, 2019 https://t.co/cHEzr3bLnC
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Artist: Penelope Umbrico https://t.co/Dx3FPb64uF
Torstain K1-klubille vieraaksi saamme kansainvälisesti erittäin arvostetun ja useasti palkitun kuvajournalistin, tanskalaisen Jan Grarupin, jonka kanssa keskustelemme hänen työstään sekä muun muassa ilmastonmuutoksesta.
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Veera Konsti: It’s Complicated
16.9.2022–6.11.2022
Suomen valokuvataiteen museo,
Kaapelitehdas, Kaapeliaukio 3, G-rappu, Helsinki
Avoinna ti–su 11–18, ke 11–20
Kuva: Veera Konsti, Metsän pidot, sarjasta Vanitas 3000, 2018 https://t.co/6xiJge4gFS
F5.6 X K1-klubi 3.11. klo 19:30–21:30: vieraana moninkertaisesti palkittu tanskalainen kuvajournalisti Jan Grarup. Vapaa pääsy, nähdään K1:llä! @Kuvajournalisti https://t.co/gtekFjw9gz
