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.

22 January – 28 February

My exhibition deals with the purpose and distribution of information. I continuously come across different deliberate misrepresentations of information, in various situations, which is sometimes so distorted that it almost becomes transparent. Distorted or deliberately altered forms of information can be found in all different kinds of situations from the news to letters to the editor.

22 January – 3 April

Tommi Toija’s mystic but delicately sweet ceramic figures, Strangers, cover the floor of the main gallery at the Jyväskylä Art Museum. Standing in the midst of these ceramic figures the viewer is forced to ponder their relationship with themselves and with others, individually and as a society. We are softly reminded of the fundamental questions of existence raised by Paul Gauguin in his 1897 painting Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?

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.–21.5.2017

The common thread of this exhibition runs along edge between painting and drawing. Within the artwork, drawing turns into painting and various spaces in limbo and periphery fields are born. The artwork questions the traditional juxtapositions of painting and drawing: is the work representational or abstract, where is the line drawn between colour, what can be called black and white. The artwork displays unwavering aesthetics, impending romantics, but also a modernist straightforwardness that sits easily with Fins.

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.”

April 20 – May 27, Lower gallery

This spring, the Jyväskylä Art Museum turns it’s regard to the budding generation of young artists. In correlation with the museum’s main exhibition ”Generation”, which presents work by artists aged 15–23 from around Finland, the museum’s lower gallery shows work by Jyväskylä’s own youth.

March 16 – September 3, 2018

− My work deals with identity, constructs of power and human relations in which reality and desire do not always meet. My work often includes irony, humour and cynicism, but they are also honest illustrations of my real thoughts and feelings.
Henriikka Harinen

− My photographs often deal with quite personal themes. For a long time the underlying theme has been mental health and inner struggles in my head. How do light and shadows take turns and avoid each other, how does it feel to be driven into a corner?
Svante Gullichsen

March 9 – April 15, Lower gallery

– MORPHEUS is a double exhibition which takes place in the two cities of Kokkola and Jyväskylä simultaneously. Kokkola is the city of my birth, the place where I spent the years of my childhood and youth. Jyväskylä is the city of my adult life; where I came to study in 1981. I am still on that road. The artwork shown in this exhibition was exposed to daylight between 2014 and 2018.

Anna palautetta sivuista tai palveluista palautejärjestelmällämme.

a Journey through dreams and layers of the mind
Jun 6 – Oct 7, 2018

The Jyväskylä Art Museum exhibition production, Other Realities takes the viewer on a journey into a world which is both familiar and unknown.

– In choosing the artwork, our attention was particularly drawn to inexplicable, mystical and dreamlike pieces, says the Museum’s Head Curator Jukka Partanen.

The purpose of this exhibition is intended to act as a reminder that the power of art is precisely in its ability to drift beyond reality.

October 19 – January 20, 2019