Past exhibitions
Mats Bergsmeden: Border Line
2012
The artist Mats Bergsmeden’s beautiful landscape pictures have a grim underside: every photograph is of a place where someone has lost their life in their struggle to get into the EU illegally.
Studio – a moment between body and clothes
2012
On two weekends in February, photographer Merja Hannikainen (b.1982) and artist Vappu Jalonen (b.1979) set up a studio in the Museum’s Process space. More than 40 participants designed and constructed temporary clothes for themselves out of a pile of fabrics, and were then photographed.
Marcus Hansson: Souvenir
2012
The Swedish artist Marcus Hansson views the world through the torrent of news reports, incorporating news images from the BBC and Al Jazeera into his artworks. In this “souvenir shop” everything is for sale at an affordable price.
Hans von Schantz: ENTER HELSINKI
2012
In these photographs the night encircles, isolates and simplifies the views. At the centre of observation are the anonymous architecture of the everyday and chance encounters with people. Helsinki becomes a mythical non-place.
Riitta Supperi: 50+ THE FINNISH MAN – A PORTRAIT
2012
What do men in their fifties think? What are their hopes and dreams, and do they come true in the Finland of the 2000s?
Aida Chehrehgosha: To mom, dad and my two brothers
2012
Born in Tehran in Iran, Aida Chehrehgosha spent her childhood surrounded by violence and fear. Both her parents took out their frustrations on their children. It was only as an adult that Chehrehgosha began to understand the harshness of her childhood experiences. This led to the series of photographs To mom, dad and my two brothers.
Significant places
2012
The Significant Places exhibition tells us about the lives of women who have moved to the Helsinki Metropolitan region from various parts of the world. Taking photographs inspired the women to observe their surroundings, to share their experiences, and to communicate both in Finnish and their own mother tongues, and without words.
Young Helsinki
2012
In various workshops and independent photography projects, young people have used photographs and videos to investigate and open up their own experiences of Helsinki and their own districts of the city, including Ruoholahti, Kontula and other parts of Eastern Helsinki and the city centre.
Kollective: Preview 5
2012
In this fifth exhibition by the Kollective group, which began on the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts’ Time and Space Arts study programme, the various works conduct a mutual dialogue. Here taking photographs also becomes a performative gesture, and pictures turn into multi-layered stories.
Timo Kelaranta: Strange Love
2012
Strange Love focuses on photographic artist Timo Kelaranta’s (b. 1951) long involvement with photography. As a photographer Kelaranta is a poet, a master of the abstract image and of minimalism, for whom the most important thing in a picture is its form.
Octavian Bâlea: Flexi-in-security
2012
What is happening to the European workforce in the middle of the economic crisis? Octavian Bâlea’s (b. 1984) picture series is about people hit by unemployment and about a deserted village. He investigates the changes in the lives of the local community in a city in Germany, from where the jobs provided by the Nokia factory are disappearing, and in a dwindling village in Romania, where all the villagers of working age have left for the new factory.
East–West battle
2012
Participants in a workshop run by the Photo Do organization for professional photographers took on common themes to photograph the present-day realities of eastern and western Helsinki. They had five days. What did Helsinki look like in that week in February? The results are on display at the Finnish Museum of Photography.
Kalle Hamm & Dzamil Kamanger: On Freedom
2012
The artist duo Hamm-Kamanger met in 1998 in a Helsinki kebab-pizzeria where they were both working. Alongside their work it occurred to them to carry out a joint art project, which was shown at Kunsthalle Helsinki in the year 2000.
2000 & 11 self-portraits
2011–2012
A hundred Turku residents made more than two thousand self-portraits in workshops run by Finnish and international artists. This exhibition comprising an enormous number of works is being shown in the Finnish Museum of Photography’s Process Space.
Raakel Kuukka: Retrospective
2011–2012
Raakel Kuukka (b. 1955) belongs to the generation of powerful photographic artists in Finland who came onto the scene in the 1980s. One of the advance guard of photographing women, Kuukka turned her camera onto her own personal and family history. Ever since her debut exhibition in 1985, she has been photographing those close to her: her mother, her siblings, and her own daughter, Rebekka.
Johan Jakob Reinberg – The earliest photographic artist in Finland?
2011–2012
Was the Estonian-born J.J. Reinberg (1823–1896) Finland’s first photographic artist? Reinberg’s touching portraits and landscapes open up a view of the Turku of 150 years ago. In these old, salted-paper prints we feel the presence of a different time and society, when the gentry and bourgeoisie,...
Milja Laurila and Hannele Rantala: A room of one's own
2011–2012
When the artists Hannele Rantala and Milja Laurila are making A Room of One’s Own in the museum’s Project Space, they will be creating installations there that deal with limited space, individual autonomy and livelihood, and artistic work.
Alice in Wonderland
2011
The name of the exhibition refers to Lewis Carroll's famous book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), in which a girl falls down a rabbit hole and ends up in strange places. Like the book, the exhibition moves from depictions of everyday life to fantasy worlds created or presented by the artists, and life is manifested as a ceaseless wavering on the borderline between these two domains.
Breaking the Silence II
2011
What does a city look like to a homeless person? Where can you rest, eat or go for a wash? Once your basic needs have been met, what else do you have the energy to notice? And what does it feel like to move from the street into your own home? The seven individual series of pictures in the exhibition in the Process space give us some idea.
Ulla Jokisalo: Intentions - Under the Guise of Play
2011
Ulla Jokisalo (b. 1955) fills the Finnish Museum of Photography with her photographic works, unique paper cut-outs, needle punctures and embroidery. Object assemblages installed between the picture collages by the artist herself create their own narratives.
An off-camera flash in your face and other stories from the Finnish Museum of Photography's collections
2011
The Finnish Museum of Photography houses a substantial collection, one that can sometimes surprize even the museum’s own staff with its variety. Gems from this cornucopia of images can now be seen in the Museum’s Process Space.
Kristiina Männikkö: The Gaze
2011
When a daughter and mother want to get to know each other better, swapping clothes can help. Photographic artist Kristiina Männikkö contemplates her own relationship with her mother in the series Katse (The Gaze). Looking out of the portrait photographs are the artist in her mother’s clothes and the mother in her daughter’s surroundings.
Tuula Närhinen: Animalcams
2011
What does a ladybird see? What kind of photographs would a mole take? How would you like to see the world through an elk's eyes?...
Heidi Lunabba: Twins
2011
Clothes make the man - but what about the child? Visual artist Heidi Lunabba's (b. 1977) series of pictures investigates how clothes and other visual emblems are used to accentuate and define a child's gender. Each child at a workshop has been photographed as both a girl and a boy, and the two pictures have been digitally merged into a single image to make "twins".
Johanna Heldebro: To Come Within Reach of You (Gunnar Heldebro, Hässelby Strandväg 55, 16565 Hässelby, Sweden)
2011
Johanna Heldebro’s (b. 1982) often uncomfortably personal work explores notions of obsession, photographic representation and personal boundaries.
Beata Fransson: Ghost Town
2011
In her exhibition Fransson contemplates fashion-store display windows, both as a visual phenomenon and as part of the cultural history of consumerism. The windows are like theatre sets or cinema screens, in which the objects shine in the spotlights. Like a theatre performance, in order to have...
Alice's living room
2011
Before or after seeing the exhibition in Turku, its atmosphere can also be experienced in the Finnish Museum of Photography's Process Space, which has been turned into a comfortable Alice in Wonderland living room.
Pentti Sammallahti: Retrospective
2010–2011
Sammallahti's photographs take the viewer beyond everyday experience into a wistfully enchanting world. Regardless of where on the globe Sammallahti goes - Finland, Russia or France - there is a gentle humour in his gaze. In Sammallahti's universe things that are considered unimportant...
Iiu Susiraja: Everyday Life, Style: 100%
2011
In the pictures in the exhibition the rules of everyday life are broken, with strange juxtapositions and familiar objects used in disruptive ways. A human body and a broom, a hanger or cutlery are given new roles in relation to one another. The very existence of the artist, who appears as herself...
Tero Puha: Unfinished
2010–2011
"When I became friends with the models, I realized that documenting the physical changes was not enough to show the pressures involved in the process, pressures that society places on transgender people. Transgender people are born physically in an in-between state, and in seeking a complete life...
Ricardo Trabulsi: The Zapatistas
2010–2011
The Zapatistas hide their faces with commando-style ski masks. These "pasamontañas", originally used for reasons of security, have become the Zapatistas's symbol and trademark. The exhibition turns our gaze to our own society and, for example, to the state of civil society.
Sami Parkkinen: Paradise
2010
The photographic artist Sami Parkkinen’s (b. 1974) Paradise photograph series records his life in pictures over a period of a year. The series is about depression and recovery from it.
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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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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
