Current
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JACK KABANGU
Walk on Water (For a Moment) 16 Jan - 8 Feb 2026 HELSINKI A self-taught artist, Jack Kabangu works with acrylic, oil stick and oil pastels, using his fingers, spatulas and brushes. He builds up dynamically textured surfaces revealing a wide range of approaches to mark-making — scraping, scratching, scumbling — and then blocks out his figures with an opaque ground. Kabangu’s searching,... Read more -
NIINA VILLANUEVA
Farewell Belvedere 16 Jan - 8 Feb 2026 HELSINKI Niina Villanueva works through intuitive space and experience. Colour plays a central role: her works often begin with large fields of colour which she prepares herself from raw pigments. Through painting, she seeks rhythm, and the work develops on an abstract level toward its final expression. Villanueva approaches her work... Read more -
HARRI PURO
Blind Spot 16 Jan - 8 Feb 2026 HELSINKI Harri Puro’s expressive paintings constantly move around in the ground between figurative and abstract. The sense of figures in a landscape emerging from lived environments echo influences from art history and the visual language of impressionism, post-impressionism and genre painting. Puro’s imagery draws from the artist’s personal archives – moments... Read more
Past
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XAVIER BAXTER
Make Me 28 Nov 2025 - 11 Jan 2026 HELSINKI Xavier Baxter’s paintings are composed of interesting abstracted figures. The figures are larger than life, barely fitting in the confines of each canvas. Encased within the painted space, they command the focus of their own realms. The harmony of each composition gives the paint itself room to speak. Every stroke... Read more -
ROY AURINKO
Pushed gently down the stairs by a muse 28 Nov 2025 - 11 Jan 2026 HELSINKI In his vivid, dissonant paintings, Roy Aurinko translates the impulses and flows of the body – some chaotic, some subdued. In unspooling orchestrations of colour and gesture, forms evoke various engagements with speed, precision, and care. Some marks are fluid, others scratched, dripped, or scumbled. In places, meandering lines and... Read more -
EINARI HYVÖNEN
Mushroom Season 28 Nov 2025 - 11 Jan 2026 HELSINKI 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, such as the ending of a relationship, the loss of a loved one, or environmental catastrophe. “I present these subjects... Read more -
CINDY PHENIX
Bright Hues Stillness 31 Oct - 23 Nov 2025 HELSINKI Los Angeles–based artist Cindy Phenix paints vibrant, fractured compositions that suggest ambiguous narratives related to systems of power, social convention, and the environmental crisis. Each canvas is populated by chimerical figures, amoebic forms, and elements of architecture and landscape that intermix, dissolving and cohering in abstract gestures. The eye moves... Read more -
JORGE GALINDO
Recent Paintings 31 Oct - 23 Nov 2025 HELSINKI 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 his expressionistic style as “dirty pop.” In Galindo’s hands, this idiom brings together various chapters of twentieth-century painting—the collage of... Read more -
UNFOLDING
Group Exhibition 31 Oct - 23 Nov 2025 HELSINKI The group exhibition Unfolding takes over Studio I, offering a glimpse of Makasiini Contemporary's upcoming program as it expands to Helsinki. The show brings together a selection of artists, some of whom have previously exhibited at the gallery, alongside new international names—such as Larry Madrigal, Jordy Kerwick, Tapio Mömmö, Julius... Read more
