Korttelit exhibition

Untitled (2021)

This work resembles a digital clock, but it does not display the time in the usual way.
Every second, the patterns on the display change into different abstractions. The work focuses on light, movement and making the passing of time visible. The moving boundary between light and darkness, which divides the planet into day and night, appears to be blurred in this work. Night and day are intermingled, just like shift work or light pollution confuse the circadian rhythm. The work serves as an allegory for a reality where daylight lamps illuminate the streets at night.

Taneli Rautiainen (b. 1983) has become well-known for his works in which everyday elements become strange, reshaping our perception of reality. Rautiainen uses many different techniques in his work, from sculpture to light and sound. Rautiainen’s works can be found in many art collections, and he has created many public artworks.

The Dough Body Spa (2025)

The Dough Body Spa uses sculpture and installation to create, in a clothing store window, a tableau of a figure in an expensive spa. The figure’s body is a malleable mass, not quite a real human after all. It’s a situation where you are both the consumer and the product, yet you’re trying to relax. Something doesn’t feel right. Beads of sweat mix with droplets of water. The drain smells and is clogged with hair. A Christmas holiday at the spa, or just an ordinary sauna night? Penniless in the rags of the rich.

The core of Rusto Myllylahti’s art is free form and joy. Their work approach emphasises the flow of ideas, following them and relying on improvisation. Myllylahti’s exhibitions often consist of space-based installations that combine sculptures, figures, sound, paintings and video.
The underlying elements visible in their works include tenderness; the waste, litter and damage caused by consumer culture; and digital noise generated by artificial intelligence.

Myllylahti’s works have been on display in several group exhibitions, for example at the Mänttä Art Festival, SIC Gallery, Aine Art Museum, Lofoten International Art Festival, and Sequences XII Festival in Iceland.

In addition to exhibitions, Myllylahti is working on the Elatu Nessa project, which combines performing arts, music and sound art. Elatu Nessa has toured Finland and Europe since 2015, performing in art spaces, music events and festivals.

Glitch – A New Beginner Level (2025)

The sound is on from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Glitch acts both as a disruption and as a connection – a momentary stretch or tear in reality, a visible and audible break in the fabric of everyday life. This work explores the layers of the visible and the audible, the porosity of boundaries, and utopian imagination. It invites the viewer to stop at the threshold where an error becomes a possibility and a disruption opens up space to see and hear in a different way.

Kaija Hinkula holds a degree of Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki.
Her art consists of sculptural paintings, installations and video performances. Her works have been exhibited in Finland and abroad.

Sound designer and musician Jarkko Kela holds a degree of Master of Arts from the Department of Film at Aalto University and has also studied music technology. As a sound designer and composer, he has collaborated extensively with professionals in various artistic fields.

Atlas (2024)

Atlas is a video installation consisting of 50 animated loops. This work is inspired by the space race of the 1950s–1970s. It is an abstract and playful visualisation of space research and how the theme was portrayed in films and books at the time. Suosalo creates works from scanned paper clippings and digital vectors by animating them with image editing and video software.

Irene Suosalo is a Helsinki-based video artist who focuses on experimental animation. Most of her works are short animated loops or video installations composed of hundreds of animated elements. Her works have been exhibited at the Design Museum, Amos Rex and Aboa Vetus Ars Nova. In 2022, the Finnish Illustration Association chose Suosalo as Illustrator of the Year. Her clients include The New York Times, Iittala and Bottega Veneta, among others. She also works as a visual DJ.

Saxophone, knight, parallel (2025)
The light, house, more-than-human (2025)

The works Saxophone, knight, parallel and The light, house, more-than-human explore public art. They utilise the ‘universal’ basic features of art – light and colour – and draw on the installation art of the 21st century.

Eeva Juuti’s works explore the meaning of the present. She treats materials, objects and images as temporal artefacts and carriers of both natural and human energy.

A Base for a Crane (2025)

A Base for a Crane is a collaborative project by CraneBird, a team formed by Fox and Vairio, that was created under mist and the moon on Connection Road, a passage from the city to a mire. A savannah of reed grasses where plants hold hands to form a sturdy base for flight, movement and time.

Maija Fox (she/her) is a Helsinki-based artist whose sculptures and installations are created using metal fabrication techniques. Fox highlights the intersections between feminist and environmental perspectives by contemplating the identity, material processes and function of objects in their respective environments.

Valo Vairio is a Helsinki-based visual artist who frequently reflects on popular culture and consumption in his works. Vairio works mainly in sculpture, using metal casting techniques, while simultaneously playing with the contrasts between DIY-style fabrication and traditional methods.

Bleach 3 (2018-2025)

Bleach 3 combines hand-dyed Molton fabrics and lattice structures – materials that usually go unnoticed in the background of theatre stages and events. This work invites the viewer to rethink these tools of support and concealment, giving them a new presence and meaning when they are detached from their functional roles and brought back into the open as material for personal artistic expression.

Timo Vaittinen is a Helsinki-based visual artist who works with various materials and media. At the heart of his work are experimentation with materials, reflection on contemporary concepts, and the balance between the poetic and the conceptual.

Vaittinen’s art has a touch of mystery that is strongly rooted in psychedelia and underground cultures. Vaittinen is involved in artist-run projects such as Rooftop Press (2017–) and SIC (2012–).

The Unruled in old pink (2025)

This stained glass work was made with an anomalous script, with polymorphic and misshapen letters. By obscuring readability, Ruscica restores an almost primitive expressive and semantic potential to the writing, while simultaneously turning observation and reading into a playful puzzle.

Jani Ruscica works with moving and printed images, sculpture and performance. What is key to the artist’s work is the fluidity of meaning, which transcends time, space, and the shapes of the body. When working with fragmentary characters or images, Ruscica uses seemingly familiar elements to undermine immediate comprehension and favours uncertain, improvised processes.

Ruscica’s multidisciplinary work has led to collaborations and commissions with the Camden Art Centre and Animate Projects in London, and MoMA PS1, Creative Time and MTV Global in New York, among other things.

Rinnakkaiset (2025)

Voice: Mikko Joensuu

The sound is on from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Havas and Vilppula have created an installation inspired by the iconic Stockmann Christmas window. In this work, the figures carved out of wood each seem to be focused on their own activities. Together, they form a sympathetic and quirky group, living side by side with each other but in their own worlds.

Milja Havas (b. 1985) is a visual artist who works with sculpture and drawing. Her works often feature references to fairy tales and folktales that turn play into reality. The drawn and sculpted figures inhabit their own miniature world within our own reality.

Emma Vilppula (b. 1994) is a Helsinki-based sculptor who uses sculpture to create works that mix fun and excitement. Vilppula’s works are characterised by their functionality. You can go inside the work, interact with it or make something in it.

Freed from Desire, Nananana (2020)
Return to innocence (2025)

These two ink drawings on home fabrics follow the vagaries of the nervous system, depicting the bodily experience as ever-denser surfaces, patterns and mental landscapes. Return to Innocence is part of a series of nervous system drawings created at the Saari Residence (2025) that returns to the world of Freed from Desire, Nananana (2020).

Based in Pihlajamäki, dylan ray arnold is a visual artist who works with materiality, corporeality and spatiality by means of sculpture, drawing and installation. Their practice also includes long-standing collaboration with artist Océane Bruel. dylan’s works have been on display in solo and duo exhibitions at places such as SIC Space, Forum Box and HAM Gallery in Helsinki and In extenso and Glass box in France, as well as group exhibitions at
Kiasma in Helsinki, Galerie CC in Malmö and Pauline perplexe in Paris, among other places.

Vision #16 from the Shallow Waters, Misty Waves (2024)
Vision #42 from the Shallow Waters, Misty Waves (2024)

The Shallow Waters, Misty Waves project reveals the invisible dimension of everyday life. This project, which is based on esoteric experience, reveals the hidden script of the world around us – mysteries that still breathe even though we have forgotten how to see them.

Sari Soininen (b. 1991) is a Finnish fine art photographer who is well-known for her vivid, dreamlike photos and atmospheric visual worlds.
By using colour gels, flash and long exposure techniques, she constructs alternative realities within the moment and explores the boundaries between perception, symbolism and the invisible. Her work is rooted in philosophical research and esoteric thinking. She draws on personal mystical experiences that challenge and expand our understanding of reality. She has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States.

On mahdollista (2025)

This work was created by removing text from the pages of an old non-fiction book, leaving only some of the words and letters visible. Erasure can bring to mind censorship, but also remembering and forgetting. The empty space and missing words are similar to silence. This method can also be thought of as rewriting, communicating past texts from a new perspective.

Milja Laurila (b. 1982) is a visual artist who works with archival photographs and texts. Laurila holds a degree of Master of Arts in Photography from Aalto University (2010) and a degree of Master of Arts in Writing from the University of the Arts Helsinki (2025). Her works have been exhibited at the National Library of Finland, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte and Kunsthalle Helsinki in Finland and abroad at Paris Photo, the Brooklyn Museum and LACMA in Los Angeles. Her works are found in several public and private collections.

Orrida Bellezza (2025)

Orrida Bellezza is a body of work that delves into the themes of exploration and discovery. The work is based on photographs of snow, grit, ice and dirt in urban settings. The creation process involves Reis printing out the photos, transferring, cutting and taping them, painting over them and adjoining them with individual free-standing structures.

Sebastian Reis is a Helsinki-based visual artist from Austria.
He combines photography, painting and sculptural elements. Reis’s approach stems from a synthesis of subjective experiences, cultural events and events in art history. In his works, he often explores the contradiction between monumentality and transience.

Reis holds a degree of Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts and studied at Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in Germany. His works have been on display in several solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad.

Big Frown (2025)

The work Big Frown is made from recycled metal from tables used in an unauthorised banquet room. The work and its material conceal several layers of history. It is originally an industrially mass-produced piece of furniture assembled by an artisan that has developed a patina through use by visitors to the banquet room and that the artist has finally reassembled and reworked.

Matti Sumari (b. 1987) lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. His works explore the exploitable resources of the urban environment – free slag, a by-product of modern life – that have been sorted and disposed of in landfills through urban metabolism. He collects waste electrical and electronic equipment, aluminium, copper and other metals and uses them in sculptures. Through his works, Sumari negotiates the terms of use of our social environment.

Bodily Creatures 02 (2023)
Distortion_07 (2016)
In Between I-VII (2015)
Longing I (2012)
Longing II (2013)

The exhibition displays a selection of Ikram’s artistic works from 2015–2023 that explore intermediate spaces, longing, cultural identity and memory.

Nayab Noor Ikram (b. 1992) is a visual artist and photographer of the Pakistani diaspora in the Åland Islands who is based in Finland. Ikram uses moving images, photography, performances and installations in her artistic works, exploring intermediate spaces, cultural identity and concepts of memory through rituals and symbolism.

Her works have been exhibited in Finland and abroad in contexts such as Art Week Tokyo, the Finnish Pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale, Mänttä Art Festival in 2021 and the European Parliament in 2020. Her works can also be found in the public and private collections of the City of Helsinki, which are managed by HAM and the Åland Islands Art Museum.

Oral Stories (Pleurer dans sa bouche) (2025)

Oral Stories (Pleurer dans sa bouche) is related to emotional stories and how they make us feel. This work features enlarged wooden apricot and olive stones placed on a handkerchief.

Océane Bruel (b. 1991) is a French visual artist based in Helsinki. Bruel works with sculptures and installations. Her works have been exhibited both in Finland and abroad in places such as SIC Space in Helsinki and Titanik in Turku. Last year, her works were on display at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art and Kiasma. Internationally, her works have been on display at galleries in Clermont-Ferrand and Lyon in France and at Gether Contemporary in Copenhagen, among other places.

In addition to her solo artistic pursuits, she has been collaborating with dylan ray arnold since 2016. In 2021, they received a grant from the Raimo Utriainen Art Foundation.

Coincidence (2025)
Vocals: Iida Valme
Mixing and mastering: Lucian Loven
The sound is on from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

In this work, remembrance is intertwined with belief; both exist in the space between reality and imagination. The traces of myths and lived experiences remind us that even the invisible leaves traces in what we touch, do and remember. These beliefs act as tacit guidelines passed down from generation to generation that guide gestures, shape interactions and create the possibility of exception.

Naomi & Wanda Holopainen form a multidisciplinary duo of artists who explore memory, movement and the mysteries of time. Through installations and collaborative creation, they create moments and experiences that draw on archives, ancestral knowledge, symbolism and the spaces between them. Through repetition, variation and observation, the works highlight the connections between people, places and stories that shape the past, present and future.