8.12.2007 - 10.2.2008 Holvi

Carborundum is a printmaking technique that landed in Finland in the late 1980's, where the printmaking plate is painted with a mixture of glue and carborundum sand. My first works with this technique were prints made from thickly painted plates with undiluted paint. With time, the prints have become more delicate. Controlled coincidences frequent in my current work. I might think of a certain colour; the sodden chill conferred by an autumn storm, a beach gilded orange by the sun, a longing that paints the sky black...

28.11.2007 - 6.1.2008 Holvi

This autumn arrives with the 120th anniversary of Urho Lehtinen's (1887-1982) birth. We commemorate the artist by directing our gaze at his homestead and the images of his loved ones. His beloved atelier home, Pälvelä, and the beautiful houses and idyllic gardens of the Jyväskylä of his time were documented in his work. The blaze of the blooming garden of Pälvelä brought rich and vibrant colours into his work.
The artist's spouse, Anneli Lehtinen, and his granddaughter Outi Markkanen have participated in the making of the exhibition.

Apr 9.–May 31. Holvi, The Lower Gallery

Spanish painter Bartolomé Roca’s paintings are like colourful Spanish fans, which gradually open up to the eyes of the viewer, one sensation at a time – strong colours, abundant themes, movement and shifting forms. With careful observation, many newfound nuances and details rise to the surface and the complexity of the work is enhanced. At the same time, each and every painting breathes harmony into its own shapes and depths, and unites the exhibition as a whole.

Mar 19. – May 24. Holvi

Thoughts about flying have a strong aesthetic dimension. Bird’s ability to spread their wings and rise into the sky and people’s desire to follow are both abundantly described in romantic terms.

17 September – 24 October, Holvi

Artwork on light and shadow

"In our work we are interested in the combination of natural and artificial light along with shadows and darkness. In our sculptures, installations, and public artwork we study light in space: what does light represent, how do materials reflect light and how can we combine the functional and artistic in lighting?

22 July – 12 September, Holvi, The Lower Gallery

Juicy Pig’s Restaurant presents a brave new world of queasy optimism. The show combines paintings, decorative plates, projections and looped animations that celebrate a fictional restaurant chain.

5 June – 29 August, Holvi

Herman and Elisabeth Hallonblad – Art Patrons from Ladoga Karelia

The state councilman Herman Hallonblad (1825–1894) and his wife Elisabeth Hallonblad (1831–1907) from Sortavala were the most significant supporters of the Finnish and Karelian culture, in their time. Ladoga Karelia was formerly an area of Finland which was ceded to the Soviet Union after the Second World War.

2 June – 18 July, Holvi, The Lower Gallery

“My work is based on the admiration of the diversity of nature, to which I return again and again. How much happens in our environment and how little is observed. Through my work I define my place in the world and study experience, understanding and spirituality of the moment.”

June 17–Oct 23 Holvi

The Jyväskylä Art Museum’s summer exhibition brings attention to the works of our national artists Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865–1931) and Pekka Halonen (1865–1933) made in Central Finland, and shows the artists as an integral part of their era, in which the concept of the “Finnish landscape” was born.

Feb 23 – Mar 27 Holvi, The Lower Gallery

Live Herring ’11 will take place in spring 2011 in Central Finland. This project is a series of exhibitions and events focused on (new)media art, organized by the Live Herring group.

Feb 4 – Apr 3 Holvi

“I am a socialist-anarchist-individual-collectivist-individualist-communist-aristocratic-democratic” was the answer the influential American research journalist Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847–1903), gave when asked of his political views. Lloyd was uninterested in categorizing himself and instead brought forward the complex relationship between the private and the communal. Lloyd’s answer is the starting point for the exhibition curated by Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen.

Nov 11. – Jan 16. Holvi, The Lower Gallery

MUM's is a Finnish trademark found by Finnish artist Outi Puro in 2006. MUM's is specialized in socially and environmentally sustainable design. MUM's is collaborating with South African designers and their workshops.

In the exhibition there are on dispaly artworks and products which all are made of recycled materials in South Africa. The textile sculptures are weaven by female artisans in Mielie workshop in Capetown, see more information www.mielie.com

Nov 5. – Jan 16. Holvi

The retrospective exhibition celebrates Päivi Meriläinen's (born 1959 in Piippola) career of the past 30 years. She has graduated as a painter from the Art School of Lahti in 1980. She has lived and worked in Jyväskylä since 1981.

In time she has been working with plenty of different kind of techniques and materials. She has painted abstract as well as figurative and monumental works. Furthermore she has sculptured reliefs and other works of wood and fibreclass. In recent years Meriläinen has focused more on large figurative oil paintings.

November 30th, 2018 – January 20th, 2019

21 September – 2 December

This three-artist exhibition provides an enjoyable art museum experience for children of all ages. Adults and parents can also enjoy themselves amongst these memorable creations. An extensive programme is offered in connection to the exhibition.

12.6.–27.9.2009

Organised since 1975, Graphica Creativa is the oldest recurring international printmaking exhibition of the Nordic countries. Graphica Creativa differentiates itself from other traditional printmaking bi and triennials in its efforts to find particular themes or perspectives in current printmaking. Previous themes included printmaking outside of Europe, publishers and work-shops, the border zone of printmaking, and the 2009 theme, printmaking collaborations with other artists.

Feb 16 – Apr 22, 2012, Holvi, Lower Gallery

Outi Markkanen, Piski

Feb 3 – Apr 22, 2012

Day-to-day Life of a Horse and a Human 

June 6th – September 29th

The Jyväskylä Artists’ Association, founded in 1945, is an association for professional artists in Central Finland. The annual exhibition is organized alternately at the Jyväskylä Art Museum and the Museum of Central Finland. The annual exhibitions are compiled from artwork submitted to an open call to all artists living in, or from, Central Finland. Each year, a different arts professional, exterior to the artists’ association, acts as curator.

May 15th – June 2nd 2013

"In this exhibition, we approach football as part of landscape and urban space, the cultural stratification of football and landscape. We have sought milieus to be photographed for example with the aid of maps and webcams. Football is a wonderful game; as its simplest its beauty is expressed in goalposts made of sand on a beach, or a goal made of birch trunks. We hope that our photographs present the poetic beauty of football and the landscape, while reinforcing our awareness of the game and its cultural meanings." 

March 15 – June 2

The New Cubism exhibition brings three internationally up and rising young artists to Jyväskylä. Mikko Ijäs, Sami Lukkarinen and Liisa Lounila share; a common interest in our visual observations as humans, and the innovative use of contemporary techniques to present their work. Ijäs’ drawings, printed on canvas, were drawn on a computer, an iPad and an iPhone; in the spirit of cubism. Lounila’s work utilises different technical devices such as temps mort effects and the red-green glasses through which three-dimensional images can be observed.

March 15th – April 28th, Holvi, Lower Gallery

Terike Haapoja, Päivi Hintsanen, Jeanette Schäring

11 January – 3 March

Ritva Kovalainen (1959) and Sanni Seppo (1960) contemplate our human relationship to nature through their photographs and two short films. The exhibition reveals nature from three different perspectives: as a cultural, a wild, and as an industrial space. The exhibition’s subtitles; The Island of Spirits, Softly Sways the Ancient Pine and Silvicultural Operations, describe the directions from which we are invited to approach the kingdom of the trees.

Prints and Pasi in a 1960’s home
exhibition in the Association of Finnish Printmakers’ permanent exhibition The Treasures of the Orava Family

- I am grounded for the third night. On Monday I got a letter from Mother in which she stated that I could no longer go home. That was apparently decided with Mr. Orava (Mr. Squirrel) earlier in the spring. It’s just that no one had bothered to tell me the truth!