Urban encounters

Urban encounters. Finnish Art in the Twentieth Century

The main exhibition in winter 2018-2019 will be Urban Encounters - Finnish Art from the 20th Century. The diverse exhibition explores migration and urbanisation in Finland in the early decades of the 20th century - people's lives and daily existence. The exhibition will present a diverse selection of rarely shown works from the Finnish National Gallery's collection.

The multi-layered exhibition will offer an in-depth exploration of the interesting changes in Finnish society and daily life from the 1910s to the 1980s. The exhibited works feature, for example, fashion, cafes and restaurants, nightlife, films, and performing arts - and plain everyday life in the city.

The book will entail six articles and around 230 photos of artworks from more than 80 artists such as Marcus Collin, Marjatta Hanhijoki, Reino Harsti, Juho Karjalainen, Helmi Kuusi , Marjo Lahtinen, Tuulikki Pietilä, Helene Schjerfbeck and Elga Sesemann.

Writers of the book are the director of collections management at the Finnish National Gallery, Riitta Ojanperä; the writer Agneta Rahikainen PhD; the museum director, Susanna Pettersson; the chief curator, Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff; and the curator, Anu Utriainen. The book will be available in Finnish, Swedish and English.