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CHANGING EXHIBITIONS AT MIKKELI ART MUSEUM
29.1. - 14.3. Anna Sahlstén 1859 – 1931
150th anniversary exhibition
29.1. – 14.3. Silks, velvets – Opera Costume Treasures
Exhibition produced by the Theatre Museum
26.3. – 2.5. Tuija Markonsalo
Original jewellery and pictorial art from recycled materials
26.3. – 5.9. Hiroyuki Masuyama
International photography from Germany
20.5 - 5.9. Martti Airio Art Collection
24.9. – 31.10. Mikkeli Artists' Society - 10th Anniversary Exhibition
12.11. 2010 – 30.1.2011 Esa Tuomiranta
Newest works by the South Savo-based artist
12.11.2010 - 30.1.2011 Tingatinga African stories
Small exhibition room, Art Museum, ground floor
5.2. – 28.2. BLUFF – Media project, 8th graders from Mikkelin Lyseon koulu -school
26.3. – 18.4. ARTO10: Harri Heinonen - Hey on the Highway
20.4. – 2.5. Student works by Mikkeli Children's Art School
18.5.- ARTO10 Summertime Jussi Tukiainen, Esa Tuomiranta, Petri Turunen, Juha Lahtinen, Riikka Rapo
Previous exhibitions in 2009
13.2. - 19.4. Art Patron Rakel Kansanen
Finnish Expressionism from the VarkausArt Museum’s collection.
13.2. – 19.4. Meeting the Unknown – New Collection Exhibition
Artists: Kalle Hamm, Heimo Karttunen, Markku Laamanen, Anne-Maria Muhonen, Eino Ruutsalo, Sam Vanni etc.
15.5. – 20.9. Tuuva Today - History as seen by today’s artists
Curator Otso Kantokorpi.
15.5. – 20.9.Double-headed Eagle over Virgin Fields - Life 200 years ago in and around Mikkeli
What was life like when Finland was transferred from the reign of a King to that of an Emperor?
2.10. – 8.11. Hanna Räty and Reija Palo-oja
Two artists, one inspiration - the landscape.
2.10. – 8.11.Susanna Pälviä
Photographic works and installations. Reflections on the delicate balance between nature’s silent moments and today’s hectic life.
20.11. 2009 – 17.1.2010 Helmi Usmala (1904 – 1993)
Water-colours and drawings by the Mikkeli-born artist from the 1930s to the 1990s.
20.11.2009 - 17.1.2010 The Cow – Exhibition of Children’s Art
An exhibition produced by Hyvinkää Art Centre for Children and Young People.
Small exhibition room, Art Museum, ground floor:
13.2. – 8.3. ART09: Langenhagen – Erla Haraldsdottir
10.3. – 29.3. ART09: Streetlife – Pavel Hokynek & Christoph Runné
30.3. – 19.4. Jonna Jantunen - Invisible Girl, Graphic Art
5.10. - 8.11. ART09: Far Away - Tuomo Kukkonen
20.11. – 20.12. ART09: Brainworks3 – Anatomy of Sorrow
Previous exhibitions in 2005
11.2. - 3.4.2005 Master K and his pupils
Pentti Kaskipuro, Mirja Airas, Marjatta Hanhijoki, Outi Heiskanen, Inari Krohn, Elina Luukanen, Marjatta Nuoreva, Esa Riippa.
15.4. - 5.6.2005 Juha-Pekka Pohjalainen
An installation by an artist from Juva.
15.4. - 5.6.2005 Snow White
A pictorial exhibition by Outi Mietala, Toini Sepponen and the pupils of Hakala special school, Hyvinkää, on the themes of the fairytale Snow White.
17.6. - 9.10.2005 Mikkeli's 7th Illustration Triennial
The elite of Finnish newspaper illustration of the past three years.
27.10.2005 - 29.1.2006
MANNERHEIM, officer of Imperial Russia - marshal of independent Finland
A large-scale introduction into the life's work of C.G.E. Mannerheim (1867-1951). Organized in collaboration by the Hermitage Museum, the Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg and Finnish and Russian experts.
Small exhibition room, Art Museum, ground floor:
22.4. - 31.5.2005 Pupils as interpreters of history
Works by the 9th grade pupils of the Mikkelin lyseon koulu school on "Man and Architecture". They have interpreted periods of interesting art history through human sculptures. The project was led by artist Marja-Riitta Siimala.
Previous exhibitions in 2006
17.2. – 9.4. Painter Heimo Karttunen (1926 – 2002) – Minimal immaterialism
A retrospective exhibition by the Pieksämäki-based artist.
17.2. – 9.4. Surface and space - Heidi Vasara
Paintings by Heidi Vasara from Mikkeli.
21.4. – 4.6. FAITH
Spirituality, the theme of the exhibition, as explored by Kalle Kataila, Johanna Ketola, Katja Lösönen, Tuomo Manninen, Hannu Pakarinen, Saara Pelkonen, Sari Poijärvi, Nina Tuittu and Maria Åsvik.
21.4. – 4.6. Football colours
Portraits of Finnish football fans by photographic artists Mikko Auerniitty and Harri Heinonen.
16.6. – 10.9. Local? Global? Czech version
The exhibition is a continuation of collaboration between the Arts Council of South Savo and the Czech Republic Ministry of Culture. The Local? Global? exhibition in Prague in spring 2005 showed art by pictorial artists from South Savo Province. The Czech artists chosen to the ‘Czech version’ are Veronica Bromova, Kristof Kintera, Petr Pisarik,Vladimir Skrepl and Adam Vackar. The curator of both exhibitions is Monika Burian, Vernon Fine Art.
22.9. – 5.11. Animal charm - Pekka Hiltunen
Big, colourful paintings by Pekka Hiltunen from Juva.
22.9. – 5.11. Panoramas and village idiots – Matti Sikanen
Photographs of his hometown and its people by Mikkeli-based Matti Sikanen.
17. 11. 2006 – January 2007 From the enchanted castle to the magic forest – from the Middle Ages to the present with the Grimm brothers
The Grimm brothers’ jubilee exhibition is the result of collaboration between Outi Mietala, Toini Sepponen and Art Centre for Children and Young People, Hyvinkää.
21.2. - 9.4. Animations by children
First to third grade pupils of schools in the South Savo region have taken part in animation workshops organised by the Arts Council of South Savo and the Mikkeli Art Museum since 2003. Altogether eighteen animated films have been completed.
Small exhibition room, Art Museum, ground floor
16.6. – 21.7. Airi Kianto
17.11.2006 – 21.1. 2007 Raimo Uimonen (1933 – 2003)
Previous exhibitions in 2007
8.2.–1.4.2007 From Time to Time– Paavo Pelvo
60th anniversary exhibition by the Savonlinna-based painter, paintings from the past decade.
8.2.–1.4.2007 I Look Beyond– Ritva-Liisa
Virtanen
Ritva-Liisa Virtanen from Savonranta has been an artist for the last thirty years. She started out as a graphic artist and moved on to installations and mixed techniques. The exhibition shows some of her most recent works.
12.4.–27.5.2007 Ytimestä – Coring– Marianna Uutinen
A half-retrospective look at this internationally famous redefiner of the art of painting complemented by recent works created especially for the museum space.
7.6.–9.9. Summer Winds – Eero Järnefelt and Venny Soldan-Brofelt
Works by the two important members of the Tuusulanjärvi artist colony, now in Mikkeli for the first time. The art comes from the collections of the Järvenpää Art Museum.
20.9.–11.11.2007 Perttu Saksa– Photographs (2001–2007)
30.9.2007–3.2.2008 Pictures in Books
Illustrations by Sari Airola, Marjo Nygård-Niemistö and Virpi Talvitie.
22.11.2007–3.2.2008 Ars Nova ry
Exhibiting artists: Ritva Kosonen, Timo Kukkola, Tuomo Kukkonen, Pirita Lautala, Anne Pelkonen, Paavo Pelvo, Susanna Pälviä, Maisa Tikkanen, Jussi Tukiainen, Esa Tuomiranta, Petri Turunen, Hanna Vahvaselkä and Jarmo Vellonen. The artists for this exhibition were chosen by painter Pekka Vesterinen from Helsinki.
Small exhibition room, Art Museum, ground floor
6.3.–1.4. All those wasted years– Jari Asikainen
12.4.–27.5. Vesta-Linnea – Illustrations by Salla Savolainen
19.–30.9. Inchworm – art from the art museum’s workshops
Previous exhibitions in 2008
15.2. - 30.3.Lowest common denominator – Janne Laine, Marko Lampisuo, Arto Nurro and Johanna Pihlajamaa
Contemporary graphics produced by Himmelblau Printmaking Studio.
12.4. – 1.6. Aarre Heinonen (1906 – 2003) – Landscapes and natures mortes
Oils and aquarelles from the 1940’s and 1950’s by painter and professor Aarre Heinonen.
12.4. – 1.6. Searching for the Light - Jan Pohribný
Czech photographic art.
14.6. - 21.9. Mikkeli´s 8th Illustration Triennial, Love of machines
The task of the participators in Mikkeli´s 8th Illustration Triennial is to illustrate Arja Tiainen’s poem Rakkaus koneisiin (Love of machines). The competition theme is the union of picture and word.
3.10. – 9.11. Illusions – Sami van Ingen
The exhibition explores the pictorial and conceptual space between moving and still pictures.
3.10. – 9.11. Souvenirs - Hanna Vahvaselkä
A large private showing of works by the Mikkeli-based artist.
21.11. 2008 – 18.1.2009 SKjL 08 - Annual Exhibition of the Union of Finnish Art Associations
An annual exhibition open to everybody and organised by the Union of Finnish Art Associations.
21.11.2008 - 8.1.2009 At the home gate - Martta Wendelin
Works by Martta Wendelin themed around her most beloved subject matter: the idyllic Finnish home with all its virtues, summery lakescapes, winter roads to church, children and fairytale illustrations.
Small exhibition room, Art Museum, ground floor:
1. - 30.3. Timo Kukkola
Mikkeli Art Museum
Ristimäenkatu 5, 50100 Mikkeli
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open Tue-Sun 10-17, Wed 12-19, Sat 10-13, Mon closed. In winter (October-April) Fridays free entry. Admission 4 €, students 2,50 €, under 18-year-olds free, groups (more than 12) 3 €/person. Visits outside opening hours 40 €/group plus admissions.
The Art Museum is closed 1.1., 6.1., 18.-28.1., 15.-25.3., 2.-5.4., 24.4., 1.5., 13.5., 25.-27.6., 6.-23.9., 1.-11.9., 6.12. and 24.-26.12.2010
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