20.9.2025–4.1.2026
Jukka Lehtinen – Once Upon a Time.
Sculptor Jukka Lehtinen’s (b. 1962) monumental spatial sculptures will spread throughout Salo Art Museum’s halls in the autumn exhibition. Lehtinen portrays current world events and phenomena as an individual’s experiences. The titles of both the exhibition and the artworks allude to fairytale scenes and the power of imagination.
In the works, big bad wolves smash the walls of a house, and alchemists manipulate the structures of atoms in a fervent quest to create gold. As the viewer enters the space, technology and science merge with the core of humanity – emotions – bringing the artworks to life.
Photo: Jukka Lehtinen, Kaikki järjestyy, 2015, photo: Petri Wilenius.
20.9.2025–4.1.2026
Gallery Sidetrack:
Anna Tahkola – Origins of the World
Visual artist Anna Tahkola (b. 1983) created her large-scale pencil drawings after studying island scenery in places such as Källskär in Åland and elsewhere in the outer archipelago. Tahkola combines her observations of the landscape, shrinking the vastness before our eyes and transforming the small subject matter into a large, even surreal, surface. Alongside everyday natural phenomena, Tahkola is interested in the principles of physics and the layers of time visible within the environment.
Photo: Anna Tahkola, solid rock, my love (detail), 2022, photo: Noora Isoeskeli.