4.2. – 3.6.
In Search of Beauty
– Works from the Tuomo Seppo Collection

The Oulu Museum of Art will continue its displays of Tuomo Seppo’s art collection. Containing over 1,700 works of art, this collection emphasizes the North Finnish aspect. Artists of North Finland, or ones who have been professionally active here, that are featured in the exhibition include Marjatta Hanhijoki, Niilo Hyttinen, Tapio Junno, Paavo Leinonen, Markku and Olli Keränen, Kaarlo Mikkonen and Carl Wargh. Among the exhibits are Marjatta Hanhijoki’s masterly interior scenes in watercolour, self-portraits by Niilo Hyttinen, and work by the late academician Kain Tapper, who was a trailblazer of Finnish sculpture in wood. Other artists of the exhibition are Mirja Airas, Göran Augustson, Jaakko Heikkinen, Outi Heiskanen, Hannele Kylänpää, Raimo Reinikainen, Anja Rönty and Päivi Sirén.

21.1. – 5.4.
Jaakko Mattila
– A  Year of the Dragon

The paintings of the Oulu-born artist Jaakko Mattila (born 1976) combine in a subtle manner the systematic and the random. Their relationships of form and colour create unique geometric thinking, while his present work also contains physical-material expression of an increasingly liberated kind. Although Mattila’s works are mainly abstract, he has also been inspired by the diversity of nature and the simple, uncluttered aesthetic of the landscape of North Ostrobothnia. This exhibition is the artist’s first major museum show.

21.1. – 5.4.
Marjukka Vainio
– Episodes

Photographer, Artist Professor Marjukka Vainio (born 1953) is known for her photographs of plants displaying extreme sensitivity, beauty and a sense of transience. There is a great deal of mystery in her works, the invisible made visible. A new video installation designed for the museum’s exhibition space combines projected images with textile sculptures and lightboxes.

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