Oulun taidemuseo - Oulu City Art Museum




		REAL – new Finnish jewellery art and clothing design 8.10. 2012 – 22.1.2012 The Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo will celebrate its 100-year history in 2011. Many exhibitions will be arranged in the course of the jubilee year, and REAL is carried out in collaboration with the Finnish Jewellery Art Association, the Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo and the Oulu Museum of Art. Experimental and unique qualities have been emphasised when selecting works to this juried art exhibition. REAL will display eight jewellery artists and six clothing designers. Juhani Hakalahti – Symphony to Composition 18.6. 2011 - 22.1.2012 Juhani Hakalahti (1934-2010), the painter born in Raahe, did his life's work in Oulu. He took part in Oulu art circles in the roles of an active member of art organisations and committees, as well as a teacher. During his career the artist experimented with many styles of art, but he is best known as a Cubist artist. Music as an art form was central for him, also as a source of inspiration. Jodi Bieber: Real Beauty 24.09. 2011 – 8.1. 2012 The winner of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011, South African Jodi Bieber's photographs of women and their beauty. Real Beauty is an independent part of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma's ARS 11 exhibition. Real Beauty is produced by the Oulu Museum of Art and Northern Photographic Centre, and curated by Alla Räisänen, D.Phil. Stars of Africa In collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma's ARS 11 exhibition 24.9.2011 - 8.1.2012 Artists in this exhibition have been chosen from across Africa in the style of the 60-year-old Finnish board game ”Star of Africa”. The artists are united by the fact that they have no official training in the arts. Their techniques are pretty much self-learned, sought after or even self-discovered. The artists rely on both old pictorial traditions and on their own creativity. There is a strong sense of personal experience present in everything. Art has a story behind it and art represents feelings. In this contemporary folk art there is probably a stronger sense of originality left than within the so-called Academic art. The Stars of Africa is an independent part of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma's ARS 11 exhibition, co-produced by Hämeenlinna Art Museum and the Oulu Museum of Art with the Finnish Union of Rural Education and Culture. This exhibition is curated by Tuula Karjalainen, Ph.D., and Laurent Danchin. Strange Opera Jouni Kesti 18.6.– 25.9. The Oulu-based Jouni Kesti (b. 1946) is a visual artist, a composer, a drummer and a writer, who is hard to put in a box. He is an unyielding artist who goes his own way and expresses his thoughts in an inspirational manner. His goal is to fight grey apathy. Jouni Kesti is the Artist of the Year 2011 in the Oulu Museum of Art. Close to a Wonder Samuli Heimonen, Antti Immonen, Pekka & Teija Isorättyä, Ville Löppönen, Perttu Saksa 7.5. – 11.9. There are many wonderful things in the World. They are often small incidents in everyday life, moments of courage or new perspectives on reality. The artists in the exhibition have an ability to see and create something different and special. Close to a Wonder is a group exhibition by six talented and eminent contemporary artists. There are photographs, paintings, sculptures and installations in the exhibition. Chaos of the Senses 29.1. – 21.4. Art belongs to everybody, is the bright guiding star and principle for curators Outi Dekker, Sanna Hankala and Minna Myllykangas. The exhibition takes into consideration the many ways in which people use their senses. The works of the eight visual artists chosen to the exhibition are gentle and image provoking. You can touch all works! Chaos of the Senses has been carried out in collaboration with the Oulu University Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education. Tarja Pitkänen-Walter 15.1. – 27.3. Tarja Pitkänen-Walter's (b. 1960) painting installations appeal to the viewers' senses of touch, feeling and sight. The materiality of colour surfaces and brush strokes, as well as objects that are combined to the artworks create enchanting entities, in which the borders of paintings are literally bent. Pitkänen-Walter is a professor at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, and the first woman to have earned a doctorate degree in Fine Arts in Finland. Essi Renvall, the Sculptor – 100 years from her birth 15.1. – 27.3. Essi Renvall (1911- 1979), who was born in Oulu, is one of the female pioneers of Finnish sculpture, and especially known for her portraits of children and authors. She mostly made bronze sculptures and combined also other materials with bronze. Essi Renvall has made The Second Coming of Christ altar sculpture to the Karjasilta Church and The Spirit of Freedom relief to the facade of the Oulu Deaconess Institute. 9.12.2010 - 2.1.2011 ERKKI SAKARI HEINONEN IN MEMORIAM 18.11.-2.1.2011 Katri Haahti - Textile artist Katri Haahti's works at the exhibition room Tasku. 9.10.-2.1.2011 Pilgrim’s Diary Martti Anttila’s photographs from the holy rivers of India Many of those seven Indian rivers that are considered holy are severely polluted. The River Narmada is due to a much-debated hydroelectric power plant scheme turning into a line of reservoirs. Martti Anttila has been photographing river cultures in India since 1986. He is fascinated by the idea of river as something with a higher meaning, as something holy. Life along great rivers has changed. By the River Narmada the photographer himself started walking on a pilgrim’s path. 18.9.-2.1.2011 Lauri Rankka This partly retrospective exhibition displays the practised graphic artist from Oulu, whose career started in the 70s. Rankka, who is a skilled artist in black and white metal graphic, is nowadays also known for his wooden, concrete and metal sculptures. The starting point for his expression is people’s corporeality as forms of the body, in movement, as human groups, and as people’s relation to others. A book on Rankka’s art will be published in connection with the exhibition 12.6.-2.1.2011 (Salkku) Men’s Salon – Works from the Collection of the Heinänen Foundation of Naive Art In Men’s Salon you will literally look at the world and everyday life through men’s eyes. There are works from both professional artists and amateurs. The theme and the entity of the exhibition create an intentional dialogue with the somewhat naive female point of view of The Little Red Riding Hood exhibition. Men’s Salon exhibition will be accompanied by a website that displays the works. 12.6.-26.9. Little Red Riding Hood Kaarina Alsta, Anna-Liisa Hakkarainen, Petra Innanen, Pirkko Lepistö, Stiina Saaristo, Katja Tukiainen Six individual painters are having adventures in fairy-tale-like imagery, which combine the experiences of modern women and the darker side of girly women. We promise you sour-sweet and bitter-sweet art experiences. The curator of this exhibition is Satu Itkonen, the art historian. 8.5.-5.9. Demons and Darlings Dolls in art and as art Dolls as objects have had their own special place. Princess dolls have been ideals of beauty, baby dolls have been objects of tenderness, or voodoo dolls have been representatives of evil. Contemporary art has been using dolls as images of people and meaningful objects in works of art. 6.3.-30.5 Gl’amour Anna-Maija Aarras, Klaus Haapaniemi, Ulla Pohjola, Caroline Slotte, Virpi Vesanen-Laukkanen The five artists in Gl’amour come straight from the top of the Finnish and international visual arts and design. Their textile works, ceramic works and different hybrids are playing with a variety of materials and techniques. These offer luxurious surfaces and human warmth; real comfort food for lovers of beauty! 18.5.-13.6. (Satula) Teuvo-Pentti Pakkala 1920-2101 In Memoriam 5.12.-30.5. Pentti Kaskipuro Pentti Kaskipuro's works are on display in the collection room Salkku. 27.2.-25.4. 2010 Jaakko Pakkala: Slow Mirror – paintings from two decades The works of this aquarellist expert radiate such light, power and colour that the viewer’s task is only to receive it all. Even though you might be looking for some shapes of plants, branches of trees and protozoa, the pictures follow their own secret universe in brilliant colours. Jaakko Pakkala is currently living and working in Fiskars, but his family roots go to the Oulu region. 27.2.-25.4.2010 (Tasku) Glass Circus: Alma Jantunen & Johannes Rantasalo The Glass Circus, which is known for its colourful and personal products, was founded at the Nuutajärvi Glass Village in 1999. Alma Jantunen and Johannes Rantasalo design and make objects in which tradition meets new forms and rich variety of colours. These unique works made by skilled glassblowers will delight viewers in the dimmed lights of the exhibition room Tasku.