October 17–November 23, Lower gallery

”A current slogan repeated on a daily basis, is that ‘we have to get away from the comfort zone’. The comfort zone refers to a person’s natural state of being, which is somehow related to being numbed in a routine of rigidity. To me that doesn’t seem very enjoyable. This phrase also includes an unpleasant, forced element of someone knowing what is best for you, more than you know yourself. And after childhood this should not be the case.” 

September 19 - October 12, Lower gallery

Anssi Kasitonni: Masa (2009)
Anneli Nygren: Laundry work(1992)
Timo Vaittinen: Central park(2011)
 

19 September – 30 November

Hannes Heikura’s photography exhibition ZONE 

This exhibition is composed of two series of black and white photographs: DARK ZONE (2011) and WE WALK ALONE (2013).

6 June – 7 September

Jyväskylä Art Museum's summer exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see Kuutti Lavonen's (b. 1960) complete artistic production, especially prints. Lavonen is one of Finland's most famous artists. The most recent works in the exhibition date from May 2014 and the oldest piece dates from 1977. Lavonen's large-scale silk screen series, printed in Atelier Arcay in Paris between 1998 and 2014, is now exhibited for the first time. A vast selection of lithography and intaglio, as well as paintings and drawings, is on display.

12 April – 25 May

The artists shown in this exhibition are Satu Haiko, Toni S. Halonen, Emma Heinonen, Saara Heinonen, Veera Hoppula, Sdalla Huttunen, Maire Karuvuori, Annika Kiiskilä, Tiia-Mari Kolibri, Antti Johannes Kääriäinen, Jasmin Leinonen, Heidi Montti, Frida Moukulainen, Riikka Nikko, Reetta Partanen, Jenna Piirto, Kirsi Riihiluoma, Minttu Saarinen, Minna Salonen, Tapani Saraste, Marja Sarja, Elina Saviaro, Merilii Simonen and Jani Vepsä.

24 January – 6 April

The Artists Kaisa Lipponen, Ron Nordström, Stefan Nyström, Sari Palosaari and Thomas Westphal examine technological and economic systems and through them, the emotional adolescence observed throughout our society aesthetically, critically, with melancholy and humour.

It is and examination of the question of architecture/space/technology/humanity (and the often hidden) hierarchy therein.

October 11th, 2013 – January 12th, 2014

Olli Marttila invited six of his artist friends to show their work in the museum’s lower gallery. All artists have the Orivesi College of Arts as their common denominator. According to Marttila, he has learned at least as much from these friends as they have from him.

October 11th, 2013 – January 12th, 2014

The most appropriate word to describe Olli Marttila’s art would be: Touch. The way in which the artist touches the paper with colour and the way in which the painting touches the viewer.
- Kimmo Sarje, 1998

2 October, 2015 – 10 January, 2016

This exhibition presenting Central Finnish art came about when the Jyväskylä Art Association and the Jyväskylä Art Museum, the Keuruu Museum as well as the Saarijärvi Museum were contemplating development possibilities for regional exhibition opportunities. These institutions were jointly interested in providing artists the possibility of showing their work in a broader context, over the traditional form of the Artist Associations annual exhibition.

5 June – 13 September, Lower Gallery

Fragile materials are transformed into clothes, nests or hearts through the hands of the Swiss artist Françoise Jaquet who knits, crochets or intertwines the different materials together. The sculptor’s work deals with nature and humans. Her material includes everything you can find in nature from seaweed to moss; from a tree’s root to their branches. These materials are also shaped into other to forms from nature such as shells, feathers, insect cocoons, plants or parts of these things.

5 June – 13 September

Wolves howl, a Moose King bursts into flower, rabbits come and go, multifaceted installations send messages, meanings, along with the joy of discovery and the understanding of woe when Veikko Hirvimäki’s jubilant wooden sculptures take-over the art museum.

This exhibition focuses on work made in the 2000’s, but the exhibition also shows how this artist, who is best known for his stone sculptures, began building things. Veikko Hirvimäki’s main building material is wood of which he uses every precious scrap.

17 April – 24 May, Lower gallery

Valley L447 is an installation composed of two video works along with a selection of photographs and sculptural elements.

3 March – 12 April, Lower gallery

”Three men try to change physical circumstances through social action.”

16 January – 22 February, Lower gallery

Nummer dertien, effugio C You’re always only half a day way
12 hour HD video, Hassi Finland, 2011

19 December, 2014 – 24 May, 2015

Paris can wait is an extensive art exhibition of the visual arts from Central Finland made be-tween 1947–1973. The exhibition is based on research and organized by the Jyväskylä Art Museum. Nearly one hundred works of art from 26 Central Finnish artists are showcased in the exhibition. The displayed works are primarily from the art collections of the City of Jyväskylä.

28 November, 2014 – 11 January, 2015
The Anime and Manga association Tsukiai presents

Welcome to The Manga Pages exhibition of art inspired by Japanese comics or Manga! Apart from enjoying the art in this exhibition, you are also invited to spend time in our reading corner to devour Mangas, or to sit at our drawing table to draw exhibition inspired images or to pour out your soul on paper. The resulting artwork can also be hung on the black board for others to admire.

7.10.2016–1.1.2017

Torbjörn Damm · Dany Danino · Tom Huck · Catherine Keun · Jean Le Gac · Patrick Merrill · Ernest Pignon-Ernest · Tomas Regan · Teemu Saukkonen · Kiki Smith · Hanna Vihriälä · Camilla Vuorenmaa · Dominik Wlodarek · James Ensor · Oskar Kokoschka · Pentti Lumikangas · Alain Jacquet · Matti Waskilampi · Marjatta Hanhijoki · Tapani Mikkonen · Albrecht Dürer · Jacques Callot · Anton van Dyck · Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn · Giovanni Battista Piranesi · Francisco Goya · Suzuki Harunobu · Kitagawa Utamaro

3.6.–18.9. lower gallery

– Recently I began studying the rhythm and possibilities of line in my art. The process has been intense and the pieces have become increasingly more passionate and bold. In my work I have a kind of lust for line, tells the painter Sami Korkiakoski.

June 3 - September 18
Alvar  Aalto Museum, Alvar Aallon katu 7, Jyväskylä

April 15 - May 22

Color and steel meet in the retrospective exhibition of two masters of their field. Sculptor Anne Alho (1955–2010) and visual artist Juhani Petäjäniemi (1956–2015) passed away relatively young, yet they left an indelible mark on Jyväskylä – both with the works of art they produced, and as teachers as well. The exhibition presents Anne Alho’s sculptures and Juhani Petäjäniemi’s paintings from the art collection of the City of Jyväskylä.

Anne Alho

April 15 - May 22, Holvi, lower gallery

Pekka Suomäki is a visual artist who details our modern way of living and our complicity in the current state of the world. Suomäki’s assemblages and collages bombard the viewer with conflicting emotions, and the thoughts provoked by his pieces continue to niggle at the back of the mind even in the comfort of one’s own home. Suomäki boldly throws before us unpleasant – even dubious – subject matters. His criticism is biting, haunting, and disturbingly accurate, yet also gentle, understanding, and laced with humor as well.

4 March–10 April Holvi, lower gallery
4 March–15 May window gallery of the Craft museum of Finland

The exhibition is a retrospective of Eila Minkkinen’s multifaceted body of work. The artist’s metal sculptures are displayed in Jyväskylä Art Museum, and her jewellery and glass sculptures are showcased in the Craft Museum of Finland. Born in Central Finland’s Konginkangas in 1945, silversmith-sculptor Minkkinen casts, solders, welds, and grinds. In her hands, copper, steel, silver, bronze, and recycled materials are all turned into sculptures and jewellery.

Short films by artists and citizens
19 October – 3 December

Exhibition Our Land! shows works by Finnish videographers. These videos are products of the Yle's (Yleisradio, Finnish broadcasting company) archival film clips. Dozens of video amateurs also used the same material to make new videos. The language of the videos is Finnish.

Mika Taanila represents the cream of the professional videographers, whose films were simultaneously shown in both London, England and the opening of this exhibition in Jyväskylä. Taanila has made three videos from the Yle archives.

Fine art a key to finnish identity

On June 9th, 2017, the exhibition One Hundred Years, A Thousand Meanings, opens at the Jyväskylä Art Museum. The exhibition shows a selection of significant Finnish artwork from between the 1800’s to the 2010’s. These pieces are presented from a new perspective which is made through a variety of different interpretations. Fine art helped build Finnish identity but do we interpret those images differently today.

10.3.–21.5.

”The subject of my artwork deals with our trek through time as people, the hard, sometimes merciful daily life. I can only describe what I feel… I don’t believe in touristic vacations, going to the sea or dramatically withdrawing into seclusion. Just like Vilho Lampi, I believe – there are berries to be picked on the bank of my own creek.”