Press Releases

Press release 28.5.2025   Anu Tuominen: Knitosis in Herbarium 13.6.–21.9.2025 Ars Nova, 2nd floor     Anu Tuominen’s artworks and installations are composed of found objects and handicrafts. For more than three decades, she has methodically collected everyday items from flea markets and natural materials…

Press release 28.5.2025   Sari Soininen: The Trees Are Not What They Seem 13.6.–21.9.2025 Ars Nova, 1st floor     What is the difference between looking and seeing? Soininen’s photographs are dreamlike landscapes, self-portraits and still lifes. They are based on scenes she has encountered:…

Press release 27.1.2025   Grönlund–Nisunen: Interferences 7.2.—25.5.2025 Ars Nova, 1st floor   Artist duo Grönlund-Nisunen return to Turku after 30 years! Aboa Vetus Ars Nova's solo exhibition Häiriötiloja / Interferences brings together a contrapuntal mix of works, where curious experimentation meets analytical reflection. Artist duo…

Press release 24.1.2025   Raisa Raekallio & Misha del Val: Milieu 7.2.–25.5.2025 Ars Nova, 2nd floor     Milieu brings together works created by the artist couple Raisa Raekallio and Misha del Val over the past ten years. The story begins with Ticket to Finland…

Press release 19.9.2024   Us And Them – from near and far 4.10.2024—19.1.2025 Ars Nova, 2nd floor   Let’s talk about the shared project of art! All artists have their own unique traits and aspirations. That is how it should be. We all share the…

Press release 19.9.2024   Mikko Paakkola: RED 4.10.2024—19.1.2025 Ars Nova, 1st floor   RED traces Mikko Paakkola’s streamlined production, which has always had a blazing red core. The key elements of his paintings, the rich pigments and a horizon line, have carried his work through…

Press release 23.5.2024     Irene Suosalo: REMIX 8.6.-15.9.2024 Ars Nova, 1st floor   Artist Irene Suosalo works in between established art forms. She has an original approach to animation and illustration that is more reminiscent of experimental video art or, more broadly, aspirations to an abstract…

Press release 23.5.2024   Marko Vuokola: Sense and Sensibility 8.6.-15.9.2024 Ars Nova, 2nd floor   Marko Vuokola's poetic conceptual art explores perception and experience. Our way of being here is about understanding the world from a human perspective. The viewer and the object cannot be…

Press release 27.11.2023     Alvar Gullichsen: COSMOS 8.12.2023–19.5.2024 Ars Nova, floors 1 and 2   Alvar Gullichsen (b. 1961, Helsinki) is an established artist, musician and producer. For the past ten years, he has focused on painting geometric spatial paintings. Gullichsen's art gradually started…

Press release 23.11.2023   Gallery Into Viljo Pertola: Bandura 8.12-2023–14.1.2024 Ars Nova, 2nd floor.   In his subjects, Viljo Pertola (b. 1997, Turku) dives into history, different cultures and the diverse imagery of our time. At the same time, he reaches out to the present.…