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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 2022-23

The exhibition programme for the next season is finally ready. Despite some last-minute changes, it was the most varied yet. We are looking forward to the Night of the Arts and the official opening of the season with Jukka Suhonen‘s exhibition Je suis la mort. After that in September textile artist Helena Kaikkonen from Oulu will take over the gallery.

After the Apokalypsis project ws postponed, we replaced it with Sivuttain / Sidlänges –  a joint exhibition of 10 Finnish photographers, which will be on show throughout October. The artists taking part are Onni Aaltonen, Aino Aksenja,Noora Geagea, Elina Julin, Kreetta Järvenpää, Christian Langenskiöld, Marja Saleva, Paula Saraste, Marja Söderlund, Ulla Schiltdt and Juha Vakkilainen.

An international artist cancelled her arrival Lapua Residence, so unfortunately the exhibition could not take place. However, thanks to a tip from a friend of the gallery, we were able to replace it with the BC Ensemble, a recycled art exhibition which was a big succes in Tampere last summer.

Artists from Vaasa are represented this season by Cata Ahlbäck in the autumn and Mia Damberg and Inkeri Viljanen in the spring.

The year 2023 will be opened by strong painters Marja Karisalmi and Mira Kankaanranta. For both of them, this is their first time in Vaasa. Mia Damberg’s exhibition will be shown in two parts, on both sides of the winter holiday. Graphic artist Antti Tanttu is also showing his work in Vaasa for the first time in a solo exhibition. Inkeri Viljanen brings her melancholic and quietly humorous paintings to the gallery at the end of April.

The season will close with an exhibition by the Helsinki-based Japanese artist Shoji Kato, curated for us by Paula Toppila, Executive Director of IHME-Helsinki.

Before the official opening, we will be hosting Katja Kokko’s exhibition Vintage Love during Pride week. The opening is on Monday 11.7. at 17-19. Welcome!

APOCALYPSIS IN OCTOBER 2022

In October 2022, together with the Vaasa Parish Council, we will organise the first national invitational exhibition at the Makers’ Gallery.

OPEN CALL FOR WORKS IS UNDERWAY!

More detailed information can be found here >>

How do Dürer’s apocalyptic visions resonate in this time? How do they communicate with the visions, views and interpretations of contemporary artists? Our goal is to find new perspectives on the present and the past through the dialogue of Albrecht Dürer’s apocalypse series of woodcuts and the works of contemporary artists commenting on them.

The works selected for the exhibition are based on Albrecht Dürer’s series of works or part therefly and/or the text of John’s revelation. We hope for our own perspective, approach, theme from the works: whether it comes from the past, the present or the future. Copies of Dürer’s works and new works go side by side and engage in dialogue in the exhibition.

Albrecht DürerApocalypsis cu Figuris, 1511

EXHIBITION TIMES 2021-2022

Apple for exhibition times for the next season. You can find information about applying and the gallery facilities here >>

Send your application in PDF format to pasi.kirkkopelto @ makersgallery.fi

AUTUMN 2021

12.8.-29.8 Reserved

31.8.-19.9.

21.9 -10.10. Reserved

12.10-31.10.   Residence artist from Vanha Paukku ( Lapua)

9.11.-28.11. Reserved

DECEMBER Pasi Kirkkopelto

SPRING 2022

11.1-30.1.2020

1.2.- 20.02.

1.3.-20.3. Reserved

22.3-10.4. Reserved

12.4-1.5.

3.5-22.5.

24.5-12.6.

EXHIBITION PROGRAM 2020-2021

AUTUMN 2020

1.9.-20.9. 2020  Pan Jianfeng: With hope >>
22.9.-11.10. 2020 Aini Tolonen: Compassion >>
13.10.-1.11. 2020  Elina Tammiranta-Summa >>and Pertti Summa >>
3.11.-22.11. 2020 Virve Lilja >>
24.11.-13.12. 2020  Pirkko Mäkelä-Haapalinna >>

SPRING  2021

19.1-7.2  2021  KASVOIN – Blythe Smith >>,Liisa Luostarinen >>and Selja Raudas >> POSTPONED TO DECEMBER 2021
9.2.- 28.2.2021  Marje Viitala >> and Heta Laitakari >>
2.3.-21.3.2021Arthur Ragnarsson >>
23.3-11.4. 2021Janne Saarinen >>
13.4.- 2.5.2021 Aaron Hermunen >> and Heidi Anniina Mattila >>
4.5.-23.5.2021  Minna Maija Lappalainen >>
25.5.-13.6.2021 Wyrd ritual art – Jani-Petteri Olkkonen and Jenny Olkkonen >>