COLLECTION PRESENTATION Donkey
16 January 2026 – 01 May 2026
Visits and guided tours are possible every Saturday between 12 and 6 pm.
Donkey is a collection presentation shaped by attentiveness to bodies, forms, and quiet encounters. The works move between photography, painting, and sculpture — between intimacy and distance, observation and structure. They resist spectacle, focusing instead on presence, texture, and restraint.
MARKUS JÄNTTI Once upon a time
16 January 2026 – 18 April 2026
Visits and guided tours are possible every Saturday between 12 and 6 pm.
The nature of time, of completion, and of commodification – which seeks to reduce the former, and strives towards the latter in order to more expeditiously arrive at one’s payday – are concerns common to both artistic production, and the horsey society depicted in Markus Jäntti’s works.
ARTHUR PALHANO THE LIGHT AND THE EYE
16 January 2026 – 07 February 2026
Visits and guided tours are possible every Saturday between 12 and 6 pm.
The study of light unfolds into two fundamental domains: geometric optics, which describes the path of rays, and physical optics, which investigates their nature and material properties. Perception is only possible because light is bound to matter. Seeing thus emerges as a mediated process: from the origin of the light source, through its reflection on surfaces, to its reception by the eye, it is within this network of relations that what we call the visible takes shape.
Within the tradition of painting, the invention of perspective became intertwined with the representation of light and shadow, which shaped the volume of things on the picture plane. The sun itself largely remained a symbolic abstraction, its rays suggested through simplified graphic means. Only with Impressionism did the perception of light become a central concern of painting. Monet, for instance, condensed fleeting luminous phenomena into short, vibrating brushstrokes that fixed the moment of seeing within the image.
I Will Look Into the Earth – Miettinen Collection at Kunsthalle Helsinki
1. November 2025 – 11. Januar 2026
Veränderte Öffnungszeiten im November:
1.11. geöffnet 11–16 Uhr
8.11. geöffnet 12–17 Uhr
9.11. geöffnet 12–17 Uhr
19.11. geschlossen
Besichtigungen und Führungen sind jeden Samstag zwischen 12:00 und 18:00 Uhr möglich.
Von finnischen Klassikern bis hin zu führenden Persönlichkeiten der internationalen zeitgenössischen Kunst präsentiert „I Will Look Into The Earth“ Höhepunkte aus der privaten Miettinen-Sammlung.
Mit über 100 Werken von mehr als 50 Künstlern befasst sich die Ausstellung mit den Kernthemen der Sammlung. Themen wie Landschaft, Natur und Intimität sind sowohl in historischen Gemälden als auch in zeitgenössischen Kunstwerken präsent. Die Ausstellung wird von Linda Peitz und Florian Peters-Messer kuratiert.
Press: Article by Felix Müller | Alles ist vernetzt | published in Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung
Felix Müller | Alles ist vernetzt: Das Wochenend-Magazin der Berliner Morgenpost, Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung | Samstag 27. April 2024
Press: Article about Timo Miettinen und die Liebe zur Kunst published in Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung
Felix Müller| Timo Miettinen und die Liebe zur Kunst| Report: Das Wochenend-Magazin der Berliner Morgenpost, Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung | Sunday 13 November 2022