19.10.2024–5.1.2025
Truly Yours – Vilpittömästi sinun. Salo Art Museum’s collection exhibition
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Salo Art Museum Veturitalli, the museum will host its first ever collection exhibition towards the end of the year. The City of Salo’s collection comprises nearly 2,500 works, more than half of which are housed and displayed at various locations in the city. These works have never before been put together. What does the collection actually contain?
In addition to paintings, sculptures and photographs, the exhibition aims to open up to the visitor the behind-the-scenes work of the museum, such as the preservation of visual heritage. Why and on what basis are works acquired? What happens to them in the museum? As the collection expands over the decades, interesting connections and tensions grow within it. The exhibition offers an opportunity to discover the gems and rarities of the collection through juxtapositions of works. Come and experience the enchantment of the collection in October!
Photo: Stefan Bremer, Syleily, 1997
19.10.2024–5.1.2025
Jonna Kina: Four Sculptures in Fifteen Parts
Jonna Kina’s (b. 1984) film Neljä veistosta viidessätoista osassa (Four Sculptures in Fifteen Parts) explores creation and destruction and the important role of a museum as a custodian of cultural heritage. The work is based on four Estonian marble sculptures that were destroyed in bombing during the Second World War. The damaged sculptures in Kina’s work reveal the multi-level work done by museums. The film observes how museums are not only exhibition builders, but also have a role to play in preserving, maintaining and caring for our common heritage.
Kina, a multimedia artist, is interested in the physical heritage of our culture and seeks to find a new perspective on it.
Photo: Jonna Kina, Four Sculptures in Fifteen Parts, 2022. Still.