Tag Archives: exhibition
Ascending and Descending
The first showing of M.C.Escher in Finland is now at the Amos art gallery. With a film and most of Eschers best loved wood cuttings and prints on show it is a real treat. What I love about Escher is his play with dimensions. He shows with his illusions on the paper the difference between [...]
Open House Helsinki 2009
It’s that time of year again. Open house helsinki 2009 with a few very notable buildings which are rarely open to the public like the German Embassy by Juha Leiviskä. Its part of Helsinki design week 4th to 13th September, which again shows why finnish design punches above it’s weight.
Ola Kolehmainen at Kiasma
Ola Kolehmainen, member of the Helsinki School a loose collective of artists, has an exhibition on at Kiasma at the moment. His work consists of heavily cropped photos of Modern Architecture, that instantly abstracts them and concentrates the qualities of space, light and surface. What I like about the pictures in particular is that by [...]
Helsinki Biennale 2008
Helsinki Biennale 2008 is going to be a World Fair. We have secretly built pavillions and all that shit in the cellar of Design Museum Helsinki. The World Fair will take place 25.10.2008–25.1.2009. It will be noisy, magnificent, and über gigantic. More than 50 most interesting artists from Finland and over 100 of our favorite [...]
Finnish Pavillion 1900
The Finnish Pavillion at the 1900 Paris World Fair has been recreated digitally by the Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK). The building was drawn by architects Eliel Saarinen, Herman Gesellius, and Armas Lindgren. Wearing circular polarization glasses and using a mouse the visitor is able to access a space [...]
Finnish Architecture 0607
Every two years the Museum of Finnish Architecture (MFA) puts on an exhibition of the best 25 buildings by Finnish Architects over the previous two years. 0607 Started last week in Helsinki and is shortly opening in Paris in their Architecture centre also, but I have assembled a guide to each building in the exhibition [...]
Frontiers of Architecture 1 – Cecil Balmond
Some weeks ago our office went to Copenhagen on an Architecture excursion and I’ve been sitting on a few posts about my time there because of lots of other things were taking priority, but I have a little time now so first post up is about a wonderful exhibition about the most influential man in [...]
Arctic Cities
I wrote a review of the Arctic Cities exhibition currently on at the Finnish Museum of Architecture in Helsinki over at the Ovi. The exhibition is about three cities in the North, Tromsø in Norway, Kiruna in Sweden which I’ve written about before, and Oulu in Finland. Also I took some photos.
Alvar Aalto through the eyes of Shigeru Ban
(photo by georg) The Architect Shigeru Ban has developed an exhibition of some 14 Alvar Aalto projects which will be showing at the Barbican in London (22 Feb ’07 – 13 May ’07). I hope this exhibition can be brought to Finland too so I can see it. I’ll have to make do with the [...]
Eero Saarinen
A New Eero Saarinen Exhibition has launched in Helsinki (07.10-06.12) at the Kunsthalle here is the press release. That this is the first retrospective of the Architect is quite staggering given his body of work which, along with the Eames perhaps sums up U.S.A’s post war expansion best in the field of design. His list [...]
Open House Helsinki 2010