Past exhibitions
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MIKKO PAAKKONEN
Maps, Fields and Fences 9 May - 1 Jun 2025 Mikko Paakkonen is an abstract and informalist painter whose work revolves around the theme of form. His art draws inspiration from asemic writing, mark-making, and traditional abstract expressionism, intertwined with... Read more -
HARRI PURO
The Island 9 May - 1 Jun 2025 Harri Puro’s expressive paintings constantly move around in the middle ground between figurative and abstract. Mirroring the artist’s production of recent years, the new works on display lean more to... Read more -
JASON CRAIGHEAD
The Map-less Journey 11 Apr - 4 May 2025 Jason Craighead’s new exhibition ”The Map-less Journey” presents a versatile group of new abstract works by the artist based in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the mixed-media works of Craighead, drawing,... Read more -
JOHANNA SAIKKONEN
Black Hole 11 Apr - 4 May 2025 Johanna Saikkonen’s paintings depict tightly cropped faces and body parts. She paints skin expressively, emphasizing veins, pores and hair. She speaks on the subject: “I intentionally exaggerate the fleshiness of... Read more
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JONNI CHEATWOOD
Wrong Time, Right Silence 14 Mar - 6 Apr 2025 ”Wrong Time, Right Silence” by Los Angeles-based painter Jonni Cheatwood marks his fifth solo exhibition with Makasiini Contemporary, featuring nine evocative works that navigate the intersections of personal memory, collective... Read more -
NIINA VILLANUEVA
An Intricate Maze 14 Mar - 6 Apr 2025 In the paintings and ceramics of Helsinki–based artist Niina Villanueva, everything appears to be in a state of transformation. Enigmatic arrangements of abstracted human and animal figures intermingle with voluptuous... Read more -
EARTH - AIR
7 Feb - 9 Mar 2025 Earth - Air explores the dynamic tension between the tangible and the intangible, between grounding and lifting. This group exhibition brings together both emerging and established artists, inviting visitors to... Read more -
ROOPE ITÄLINNA
Acid Wash 10 Jan - 2 Feb 2025 Roope Itälinna’s oil and acrylic paintings deceive the eye of the viewer with their acute attention to detail. Itälinna’s third solo exhibition at Makasiini Contemporary deals with escapism, for instance,... Read more
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ROY AURINKO
In the Air Tonight 10 Jan - 2 Feb 2025 In his vivid, dissonant paintings, Roy Aurinko (b. 1972) translates the impulses and flows of the body—some chaotic, some subdued. In unspooling orchestrations of color and gesture, forms evoke various... Read more -
RIIKO SAKKINEN
Business Class War 21 Nov 2024 - 5 Jan 2025 Riiko Sakkinen is known for his drawings and paintings highlighting the world’s economic and social problems. Sakkinen uses characters and products from popular culture, turning the product’s message on its... Read more -
LUIS VIDAL
THIS IS A 21 Nov 2024 - 5 Jan 2025 Spanish artist Luis Vidal takes on issues of corruption and exploitation in his sculptures, paintings, and installations. For three decades, his work has employed irony, humor, and provocation to explore... Read more -
INA GERKEN
Alluvion 11 Oct - 17 Nov 2024 It’s an intuitive and seasonal association, perhaps slightly mundane, certainly spurred by the coastal region I find myself in as I begin putting ideas on Ina Gerken’s work into words.... Read more
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PETRI ALA-MAUNUS
Parallel Universes 11 Oct - 17 Nov 2024 Visual artist Petri Ala-Maunus (b. 1970 in Kuortane) has in recent years explored apocalyptic paradise landscapes in his paintings, portraying a kind of supernatural realm—an idea of a landscape composed... Read more -
WILLIAM BRADLEY
It's Layered 13 Sep - 6 Oct 2024 William Bradley’s work explores contemporary and historical notions of abstraction. Composition is developed through collage and layering, growing in scale and depth into expressive canvases, providing a stage for three-dimensional... Read more -
RAISA RAEKALLIO & MISHA DEL VAL
The Rings of Saturn 13 Sep - 6 Oct 2024 Lapland-based artist couple Raisa Raekallio (b.1978, Kittilä, Finland) and Misha del Val (b. 1979, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain) have been working together for over a decade now on paintings, drawings,... Read more -
LUIS OLASO
El pájaro blanco 16 Aug - 8 Sep 2024 An expressive power that springs from within forms is the starting point for Luis Olaso’s oil and acrylic works, in which an expressionism that manifests feelings is mingled with symbolism... Read more
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ERNO PENNANEN
Passing The Water Birds 16 Aug - 8 Sep 2024 Erno Pennanen is a Helsinki-based artist, who in his expressive paintings addresses what it means to be human in our time. For Pennanen painting consists of a combination of lines... Read more -
Shelter From The Storm
28 Jun - 10 Aug 2024 Summer exhibition ”Shelter From The Storm” presents works from selected gallery artists. The show is an overview of our recent program and shows a small glimpse of the upcoming. ARTISTS:... Read more -
JORGE GALINDO
CAMBISTA TESTA 9 May - 20 Jun 2024 The lush, bravura paintings of Spanish artist Jorge Galindo move between gestural abstraction and figuration, incorporating elements of collage. The painter, who lives and works in Porto, Portugal, has described... Read more -
NELSON MAKAMO
A Journey Through Guidance 12 Apr - 5 May 2024 Henry James once wrote of Paris as a jewel, a city where what “seemed all surface one moment seemed all depth the next.” The same might be said for the... Read more
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EINARI HYVÖNEN
Penultimate Lap 12 Apr - 5 May 2024 Einari Hyvönen’s post-digital artworks are marked by the contrast between their light, happy visual motifs and gloomy content. But tragicomic humour makes it easier to cope with even difficult issues,... Read more -
VILJAMI HEINONEN
Ascend Above The Heights 15 Mar - 7 Apr 2024 Viljami Heinonen’s new exhibition Ascend Above The Heights continues the bird-themed series which Heinonen started earlier, and thus links to the range of nature-themed works of recent years. The starting... Read more -
KYUNGSEO LEE
Demian 16 Feb - 10 Mar 2024 Kyungseo Lee’s (b. 1995) spontaneous and loose painterly style allows color and form to flow by themselves on her canvases. Lee’s works lean towards abstract with hazy configurations and only... Read more -
EEMIL KARILA
Harvesting Light 16 Feb - 10 Mar 2024 Eemil Karila’s works depict the energy, movement, light and power of nature, devoid of human presence. Karila’s paintings are born out of his experiences in nature and the memories formed... Read more
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SAMPO APAJALAHTI
Heart, Heart, Heart 13 Jan - 11 Feb 2024 Sampo Apajalahti's solo exhibition Heart, Heart, Heart comprises oil and acrylic paintings from 2022–2023. The paintings start from small details, often overlooked by the surrounding reality, which Apajalahti offers for... Read more -
TIINA PYYKKINEN
IMAGINED FUTURE MEMORY 13 Jan - 11 Feb 2024 Tiina Pyykkinen’s recent artistic work centres on the themes of the embodied mind, bodily memory, and time. She is interested in how the mutual interaction between the body and its... Read more -
JIN MEYERSON
PYROKINESIS 17 Nov 2023 - 7 Jan 2024 Jin Meyerson (b. 1972 Korea) is recognized for his contributions to the revival of figurative painting in the late 90’s and as an early pioneer of “Frontier Optics”; the usage... Read more -
HARRI PURO
THE ESCAPIST GETS CAUGHT 17 Nov 2023 - 7 Jan 2024 Harri Puro’s expressive paintings constantly move around in the middle ground between figurative and abstract. Sometimes, the figures fragment into unrecognizable shapes, sometimes, they are easier to recognize, when the... Read more
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EMMA STONE-JOHNSON
FLEXED SKY, GLITTERED EARTH 13 Oct - 12 Nov 2023 The buoyant canvases of British painter Emma Stone-Johnson feature surprising, lyrical gestures in vivid hues. Her forms erupt and recede, recalling at once sunspots, confetti, protozoa, and Monet’s water lilies.... Read more -
KATJA TUKIAINEN
THE SECRET SOCIETY 13 Oct - 12 Nov 2023 Katja Tukiainen’s new exhibition deals with the theme of secret society. For some a secret society is very real and for others an exciting game. In the language of painting... Read more -
KIMMO SCHRODERUS
SCULPTURES 15 Sep - 8 Oct 2023 Kimmo Schroderus creates figures out of shiny, acid-resistant steel; figures that warp, fracture and fold. These ill-defined bodies, or parts of them, shown stooped under the weight of some unimaginable... Read more -
ERNO PENNANEN
LAST HEATWAVE OF SUMMER 15 Sep - 8 Oct 2023 Erno Pennanen is a Helsinki-based artist who in his expressive paintings addresses what it means to be human in our time. For Pennanen painting consists of a combination of lines... Read more
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RAISA RAEKALLIO & MISHA DEL VAL
TWO FOOLS TO EUDAIMONIA 18 Aug - 10 Sep 2023 Lapland-based artist couple Raisa Raekallio (b.1978, Kittilä, Finland) and Misha del Val (b.1979, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain) have been making paintings, drawings, performance art pieces, curatorial projects, and podcasts in... Read more -
ABOUT ART 2023
30 Jun - 20 Aug 2023 Logomo (Junakatu 9, 20100 Turku) Makasiini Contemporaryn ja kulttuurikeskus Logomon vuonna 2016 alkanut yhteistyö saa vihdoin jatkoa, kun Logomoon rakentuu kesäksi 2023 laaja kansainvälinen ryhmänäyttely ABOUT ART 2023. Kattava kesänäyttely... Read more -
JACOB HASHIMOTO
SILENCE IN FRAGMENTS 9 Jun - 5 Aug 2023 The exhibition showcases a new body of work from the artist known for his intricate and immersive works made from hundreds of handmade kites. Hashimoto's works are mesmerizing environments full... Read more -
TIINA PYYKKINEN
THE ROOM THAT LOST ITS SHAPE 29 Apr - 4 Jun 2023 Tiina Pyykkinen (b. 1983) paints with light to explore how it stimulates vision and enables the showing and hiding of things. She experiments with various combinations of light and material,... Read more
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MUSTAFA MALUKA
DIRECTIONAL CONTINUITY 29 Apr - 4 Jun 2023 Mustafa Maluka’s (b. 1976) exhibition shows a series of powerful new portraits made using the means of contemporary painting. In Maluka’s works the intent gazes of the anonymous figures are... Read more -
JASON CRAIGHEAD
PRECIPICE 24 Mar - 23 Apr 2023 Jason Craighead’s (b.1971) new exhibition presents a versatile group of new abstract works by the artist based in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the mixed-media works of Craighead, drawing, painting and... Read more -
RAPHAEL ADJETEY ADJEI MAYNE
WE US I 17 Feb - 19 Mar 2023 Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne collects unique fabrics that contain intricately woven patterns and sews them onto his mixed-media works. Mayne then paints detailed colorful elements on top of the sewn... Read more -
FLORENCE HUTCHINGS
SILHOUETTED ROOMS 17 Feb - 19 Mar 2023 Born 1996 I Lives and works in Margate, United Kingdom Florence Hutchings’ raw and boldly coloured paintings depict the quotidian by studying various interior scenes with their everyday elements and... Read more
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HARRI PURO
UNINVITED GUESTS 20 Jan - 12 Feb 2023 Harri Puro’s expressive paintings constantly move around in the middle ground between figurative and abstract. Sometimes, the figures fragment into unrecognizable shapes, sometimes, they are easier to recognize, when the... Read more -
ROOPE ITÄLINNA
SLOW RELEASE 20 Jan - 12 Feb 2023 Roope Itälinna’s deceptively precisely executed oil and acrylic paintings show moments from the lives of young adults. The meticulous mode of depiction borrowed from photorealism, in which even the minutest... Read more -
VILJAMI HEINONEN
ELYSIAN FIELDS 18 Nov 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 Viljami Heinonen is a painter of dystopias. His strikingly dramatic works are filled with explicit violence or the threat of it, with edginess, and with conflict situations. When faced with... Read more -
JONNI CHEATWOOD
AN UNLIKELY HERO 18 Nov 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 A creative user of wide variety of materials, Jonni Cheatwood (b. 1986) is a Los-Angeles based painter who mixes oil, oil sticks, acrylics and textile in his works. The canvases... Read more
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PETRI ALA-MAUNUS
MONDO BIZARRO 14 Oct - 13 Nov 2022 Petri Ala-Maunus paints dazzlingly detailed surreal landscape paintings that invite the viewer into another time or world. Terrains covered in overgrown vegetation, washed by tropical rain while storms howl, and,... Read more -
IIU SUSIRAJA
Object 16 Sep - 9 Oct 2022 Iiu Susiraja’s new exhibition makes a close-up examination of various everyday and imaginary objects in photographic and video works and sculptures. In the photographs in The laconic product demonstrator series... Read more -
YUICHIRO SATO
The Depth of Silence 16 Sep - 9 Oct 2022 Japanese artist Yuichiro Sato draws amazingly detailed depictions of Finnish nature in Kuhankoski, Laukaa. Sato’s drawings, made with pencil, capture the beauty of the Finnish landscape. Sato walks and takes... Read more -
EEMIL KARILA
LANDINGS 19 Aug - 11 Sep 2022 The paintings by Eemil Karila are guided by his posthumanist manifesto, according to which humanity is not above other forms of nature. In the works by Karila, wastelands, forgotten backyards... Read more
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NELSON MAKAMO
MOTHO, BOTHO, BATHO II 19 Aug - 11 Sep 2022 Henry James once wrote of Paris as a jewel, a city where what “seemed all surface one moment seemed all depth the next.” The same might be said for the... Read more -
HEIKKI MARILA
PAINTINGS 9 Jun - 13 Aug 2022 Heikki Marila returns to Turku for the summer 2022 with a solo exhibition 7 years after his last museum-exhibition at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum in 2015. Marila (born 1966, lives... Read more -
CAROLINE ABSHER
EARTHBOUND 13 May - 5 Jun 2022 The movement between figuration and abstraction is in the center of Caroline Absher’s oil paintings. Her large-scale portraits include self-images as well as paintings of groups of people close to... Read more -
LUIS OLASO
INSIGHT 13 May - 5 Jun 2022 LUIS OLASO An expressive power that springs from within forms is the starting point for Luis Olaso’s oil and acrylic works, in which an expressionism that manifests feelings is mingled... Read more
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JORDI ALCARAZ
NEW WORKS 14 Apr - 8 May 2022 Jordi Alcaraz works mainly in the areas of sculpture and painting, but it would be limiting to place his works in either category. The works bend the traditional conceptions of... Read more -
RAISA RAEKALLIO & MISHA DEL VAL
ENCOUNTERS OF BROKEN FOLK 14 Apr - 8 May 2022 Raisa Raekallio and Misha del Val are a Lapland-based artist couple working in collaboration in painting, drawing, printmaking and performance art since 2013. Recently, the field of their artistic collaboration... Read more -
TIINA ITKONEN
PINIARTOQ 18 Mar - 10 Apr 2022 Tiina Itkonen’s Piniartoq (Hunter) exhibition takes a close look at the everyday lives of Greenland’s Inuit hunters and their families and the way they acquire nourishment – which in the... Read more -
ERIKA ADAMSSON
FACES AND FACADES 18 Mar - 10 Apr 2022 The common factor in Erika Adamsson’s works is various types of captured moment. She depicts atmospheres, nostalgia and stasis. Regardless of the subject, a child’s face or the ragged harmonies... Read more
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OSMO RAUHALA
FORM OF SILENCES 11 Feb - 13 Mar 2022 Read more -
HARRI PURO
AN ATTEMPT TO SMILE AT A STRANGER 13 Jan - 6 Feb 2022 Read more -
JONNI CHEATWOOD
IT MIGHT BE ME 25 Nov 2021 - 9 Jan 2022 Read more -
JASON CRAIGHEAD
PERPETUAL ADAPTATION 14 Oct - 21 Nov 2021 Read more
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JUSSI HARO
HAS A POSSE 14 Oct - 21 Nov 2021 Read more -
DAISY PARRIS
ROCKS ARE HEAVY 17 Sep - 10 Oct 2021 Read more -
KIMMO SCHRODERUS
SCULPTURES 20 Aug - 12 Sep 2021 Read more -
JACOB HASHIMOTO
WORKS 4 Jun - 14 Aug 2021 Read more
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NELSON MAKAMO
FORTITUDE 29 Apr - 30 May 2021 Read more -
EEMIL KARILA
WASTELAND 29 Apr - 30 May 2021 Read more -
ALEJANDRO PIÑEIRO BELLO
FIELDS 19 Mar - 25 Apr 2021 Read more -
JIRI GELLER
JIRI GELLER AT THE STUDIO II 19 Mar - 25 Apr 2021 Read more
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VILJAMI HEINONEN
HALCYON DAYS 12 Feb - 14 Mar 2021 Read more -
RAISA RAEKALLIO & MISHA DEL VAL
THE CLOWN, THE PILOT AND THE SAMURAI 12 Feb - 14 Mar 2021 Read more -
HARRI PURO
FELL OUT OF BED AND NEVER LANDED 15 Jan - 7 Feb 2021 Read more -
MARKUS KONTTINEN
EXPEDITIONS OF COLOR 27 Nov 2020 - 10 Jan 2021 Read more
