PORI ART MUSEUM
Eteläranta, FI-28100 PORI, FINLAND
Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 6pm , Wednesdays 11am to 8pm, Closed on Mondays
ENTRANCE FEES: 4 / 2 EUR. Free admission on Wednesdays from 6 pm to 8 pm.
2 Day Pori City Museums Pass: 17 / 5 / 8,50 EUR.
Free of charge for under 18 year old children on weekends and national holidays.
Our largest exhibition spaces are currently closed due to upcoming renovations. The exhibition of Vajiko Chachkhiani is situated in the smaller spaces connected to the museum lobby.
PREVIOUS Exhibitions
CHORUS SINENSIS
[17.06.2022 - 25.09.2022]
Chorus sinensis is an audio-visual choral work dedicated to cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis). It was produced from 2019–2022 in the coastal areas of the Bothnian Sea where human and seabird territories overlap. The work asks: Is the cormorant worth a song sung by humans? Can there be poems about a bird that never sings, about a bird that some people regard as a nuisance? What could be the cormorant's tale told in the future?
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[17.06.2022 - 25.09.2022]
Chorus sinensis is an audio-visual choral work dedicated to cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis). It was produced from 2019–2022 in the coastal areas of the Bothnian Sea where human and seabird territories overlap. The work asks: Is the cormorant worth a song sung by humans? Can there be poems about a bird that never sings, about a bird that some people regard as a nuisance? What could be the cormorant's tale told in the future?
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MARI KATAYAMA
[21.01.2022 - 29.05.2022]
Image:
Mari Katayama, bystander#016
© Mari Katayama courtesy of Akio Nagasawa Gallery
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[21.01.2022 - 29.05.2022]
Image:
Mari Katayama, bystander#016
© Mari Katayama courtesy of Akio Nagasawa Gallery
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A WEEK'S NOTICE
Tomaso De Luca
[22.10.2021 - 02.01.2022]
PROJECT ROOM
A Week's Notice is a three-channel video and sound installation in which miniature models of houses borrowed from the cinema, history of architecture and the artist's private life, are seeing flying and collapsing before the viewer's eyes. It is an ode to the disintegration of architecture that seeks beauty in instability and turns trauma into a new territory of creation and rebirth.
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Tomaso De Luca
[22.10.2021 - 02.01.2022]
PROJECT ROOM
A Week's Notice is a three-channel video and sound installation in which miniature models of houses borrowed from the cinema, history of architecture and the artist's private life, are seeing flying and collapsing before the viewer's eyes. It is an ode to the disintegration of architecture that seeks beauty in instability and turns trauma into a new territory of creation and rebirth.
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MEET THE ARTIST: JUUSO LEPPÄLÄ
[22.10.2021 - 02.01.2022]
PROCESSwall
The Pori-based creator featured in this exhibition is graphic artist Juuso Leppälä. His works are dominated by black outlines and bear a resemblance to cartoons. In recent years he has mainly worked on continuing series that keep evolving all the time.
The exhibition features works from the Stalking and the Runner's Hallucinations series. Some of the works on show belong to the collections The City of Pori Art Collection. The most recent works are on loan from the artist.Art Collection
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[22.10.2021 - 02.01.2022]
PROCESSwall
The Pori-based creator featured in this exhibition is graphic artist Juuso Leppälä. His works are dominated by black outlines and bear a resemblance to cartoons. In recent years he has mainly worked on continuing series that keep evolving all the time.
The exhibition features works from the Stalking and the Runner's Hallucinations series. Some of the works on show belong to the collections The City of Pori Art Collection. The most recent works are on loan from the artist.Art Collection
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PRINTING AN ART EXPERIENCE – COLLABORATION WITH THE ROBOTICS ACADEMY
[01.06.2021 - 26.09.2021]
PROCESSwall
A collaboration between the Pori Art Museum, the Robotics Academy at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, and the Satakunnan näkövammaiset association for the visually impaired, the project explored the potential of 3D technology to enhance the accessibility of art. The result was touchable 3D print of Carl-Gustaf Lilius's bronze sculpture From Series Woman with Bird's Wings (1966). The sculpture is part of The Collection of Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation.
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[01.06.2021 - 26.09.2021]
PROCESSwall
A collaboration between the Pori Art Museum, the Robotics Academy at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, and the Satakunnan näkövammaiset association for the visually impaired, the project explored the potential of 3D technology to enhance the accessibility of art. The result was touchable 3D print of Carl-Gustaf Lilius's bronze sculpture From Series Woman with Bird's Wings (1966). The sculpture is part of The Collection of Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation.
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NOORMARKUN KäSITYöT - NORRMARK HANDICRAFT
[30.04.2021 - 26.09.2021]
Project Room
Maire Gullichsen (1907–1990) and Bertel Gardberg (1916–2007) founded the handicraft company Norrmark Handicraft in 1961. Maire Gullichsen was striving to preserve the handicraft tradition of her home region, as well as to promote the Finnish applied arts industry and the manufacturing of quality handicraft items in Finland.
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[30.04.2021 - 26.09.2021]
Project Room
Maire Gullichsen (1907–1990) and Bertel Gardberg (1916–2007) founded the handicraft company Norrmark Handicraft in 1961. Maire Gullichsen was striving to preserve the handicraft tradition of her home region, as well as to promote the Finnish applied arts industry and the manufacturing of quality handicraft items in Finland.
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PERFORMING THE FRINGE
Lara Almarcegui, Kipras Dubauskas, Valentina Karga, Flo Kasearu, Michèle Matyn, Andrej Polukord, Asbjørn Skou, Urban Fauna Lab, Jon Benjamin Tallerås, Ore.e Refineries
[30.04.2021 - 26.09.2021]
WING
Performing the Fringe evolved over the artists' and curators' collective hikes in three different contexts in the rural–urban fringe areas of the cities of Pori, Stockholm and Vilnius. Hiking unfolded as a common activity that combines walking, observation, talking and engaging with regional specificities while also serving as a tool for researching and understanding local contexts. Experiences in these environments and the artists' research processes that evolved from the hikes have materialised into artistic commissions.
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Lara Almarcegui, Kipras Dubauskas, Valentina Karga, Flo Kasearu, Michèle Matyn, Andrej Polukord, Asbjørn Skou, Urban Fauna Lab, Jon Benjamin Tallerås, Ore.e Refineries
[30.04.2021 - 26.09.2021]
WING
Performing the Fringe evolved over the artists' and curators' collective hikes in three different contexts in the rural–urban fringe areas of the cities of Pori, Stockholm and Vilnius. Hiking unfolded as a common activity that combines walking, observation, talking and engaging with regional specificities while also serving as a tool for researching and understanding local contexts. Experiences in these environments and the artists' research processes that evolved from the hikes have materialised into artistic commissions.
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WILL AND VISION - MAIRE GULLICHSEN ART FOUNDATION COLLECTION 50 YEARS
[30.04.2021 - 26.09.2021]
Hall
The year 2021 marks the passage of 50 years since the establishment of the Maire Gullichsen Foundation and 40 years since the inaugural exhibition of Pori Art Museum. The exhibition Will and Vision - Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation Collection 50 Years celebrates these landmark events by presenting a selection of Finnish and international art from the foundation's collection.
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[30.04.2021 - 26.09.2021]
Hall
The year 2021 marks the passage of 50 years since the establishment of the Maire Gullichsen Foundation and 40 years since the inaugural exhibition of Pori Art Museum. The exhibition Will and Vision - Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation Collection 50 Years celebrates these landmark events by presenting a selection of Finnish and international art from the foundation's collection.
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ART REACHES OUT!
[23.10.2020 - 30.05.2021]
Café MUUSA
Each year, our collection unit installs dozens of artworks on city premises, within public spaces and in offices. The approximately one thousand such works include paintings, prints and sculptures, and everything from traditional portraits to non-figurative contemporary art.
How can art contribute to a work environment? What ideas, feelings or discussions have artworks in the city's premises inspired? Can art provide inspiration or serve as a tool in a workaday setting? The exhibition features pictures of school children and city personnel from Pori, each with a work from our collection that they have chosen for their workplace or school.
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[23.10.2020 - 30.05.2021]
Café MUUSA
Each year, our collection unit installs dozens of artworks on city premises, within public spaces and in offices. The approximately one thousand such works include paintings, prints and sculptures, and everything from traditional portraits to non-figurative contemporary art.
How can art contribute to a work environment? What ideas, feelings or discussions have artworks in the city's premises inspired? Can art provide inspiration or serve as a tool in a workaday setting? The exhibition features pictures of school children and city personnel from Pori, each with a work from our collection that they have chosen for their workplace or school.
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MY PERVERSION IS THE BELIEF IN ART
Artists: Ellen Cantor, Miriam Cahn, Luciano Castelli, Alba S. Enström, Rainer Fetting, Andrea Éva Győri, Viljami Heinonen, Eeva Peura, Merzedes Sturm-Lie, Marianna Uutinen, Amalia Vekri, Alisa Yoffe
[23.10.2020 - 21.02.2021]
Hall, Wing and MEDIApoint
The exhibition title is a reference to a quote from the late artist Ellen Cantor (1961–2013): ”My perversion is the belief in true love”.
This exhibition brings together artists from different generations and backgrounds. Artists who are interested not in the latest theories but in underground culture, poets, punk, life, passion, fashion magazines such as Vogue, popular film references, pornographic magazines... All featured artists address the struggle of being human, of finding an orientation in the here and now. They all bring energy into their art, with few or no compromises. Their determination to embrace both life and art can be seen as a harbinger of a better future.
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Artists: Ellen Cantor, Miriam Cahn, Luciano Castelli, Alba S. Enström, Rainer Fetting, Andrea Éva Győri, Viljami Heinonen, Eeva Peura, Merzedes Sturm-Lie, Marianna Uutinen, Amalia Vekri, Alisa Yoffe
[23.10.2020 - 21.02.2021]
Hall, Wing and MEDIApoint
The exhibition title is a reference to a quote from the late artist Ellen Cantor (1961–2013): ”My perversion is the belief in true love”.
This exhibition brings together artists from different generations and backgrounds. Artists who are interested not in the latest theories but in underground culture, poets, punk, life, passion, fashion magazines such as Vogue, popular film references, pornographic magazines... All featured artists address the struggle of being human, of finding an orientation in the here and now. They all bring energy into their art, with few or no compromises. Their determination to embrace both life and art can be seen as a harbinger of a better future.
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CARL-GUSTAF LILIUS, LAU NAU & ANTTI TOLVI – POSING NEW QUESTIONS TO THE MG COLLECTION
[23.10.2020 - 21.02.2021]
PROJECT ROOM
In the 1960s Carl-Gustaf Lilius began creating a series of sculptures entitled Woman with Bird's Wings, which eventually came to comprise more than a dozen works. The 1966 bronze sculpture acquired for the Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation collection is one of the first in the series. In the exhibition, Lilius's bronze is accompanied by a new soundscape by Lau Nau and Antti Tolvi that interrogates the sculpture about freedom and wildness.
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[23.10.2020 - 21.02.2021]
PROJECT ROOM
In the 1960s Carl-Gustaf Lilius began creating a series of sculptures entitled Woman with Bird's Wings, which eventually came to comprise more than a dozen works. The 1966 bronze sculpture acquired for the Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation collection is one of the first in the series. In the exhibition, Lilius's bronze is accompanied by a new soundscape by Lau Nau and Antti Tolvi that interrogates the sculpture about freedom and wildness.
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MAIRE GULLICHSEN, ALVAR AALTO AND GALERIE ARTEK - EARLY FORMS OF ABSTRACTION IN THE COLLECTION OF MAIRE GULLICHSEN ART FOUNDATION
[20.03.2020 - 27.09.2020]
PROJECT ROOM
This research-based exhibition examines the Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation collection through the looking glass of exhibitions held at Galerie Artek in the 1950s. The exhibition also examines the dynamic between Alvar Aalto's abstract artworks and his architectural designs. The exhibition Maire Gullichsen, Alvar Aalto and Galerie Artek showcases a period of transition in Finnish fine art when abstraction in its various forms came to challenge the established norms of aesthetics.
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[20.03.2020 - 27.09.2020]
PROJECT ROOM
This research-based exhibition examines the Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation collection through the looking glass of exhibitions held at Galerie Artek in the 1950s. The exhibition also examines the dynamic between Alvar Aalto's abstract artworks and his architectural designs. The exhibition Maire Gullichsen, Alvar Aalto and Galerie Artek showcases a period of transition in Finnish fine art when abstraction in its various forms came to challenge the established norms of aesthetics.
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BUILD-UP
Jenni Yppärilä
[20.03.2020 - 27.09.2020]
MEDIApoint
Build-up is a work that explores agglomeration. Compared with Yppärilä's earlier work, it represents a new, more monumental and spatial approach. Instead of separate buildings, the work presents us with a number of façades joined together. Yppärilä creates her works by taking photographs of existing buildings, and over the years she has amassed thousands of these documentary pictures. Build-up features a selection from the archive.
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Jenni Yppärilä
[20.03.2020 - 27.09.2020]
MEDIApoint
Build-up is a work that explores agglomeration. Compared with Yppärilä's earlier work, it represents a new, more monumental and spatial approach. Instead of separate buildings, the work presents us with a number of façades joined together. Yppärilä creates her works by taking photographs of existing buildings, and over the years she has amassed thousands of these documentary pictures. Build-up features a selection from the archive.
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ADRIAN MELIS
[20.03.2020 - 27.09.2020]
WING
For artist Adrian Melis and many others living in Cuba in the early 1990 's reality existed between the long shadow cast by Fidel Castro 's glorious revolution and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Shaped by this paradoxical state of existence Adrian Melis 's practice can be described as a series of inconspicuous interventions, often poetic and surreal, which address, systemic political and corporate corruption, political apathy, labour markets, bureaucratic inefficiency, and their effect on the social fabric.
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ADRIAN MELIS
[20.03.2020 - 27.09.2020]
WING
For artist Adrian Melis and many others living in Cuba in the early 1990 's reality existed between the long shadow cast by Fidel Castro 's glorious revolution and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Shaped by this paradoxical state of existence Adrian Melis 's practice can be described as a series of inconspicuous interventions, often poetic and surreal, which address, systemic political and corporate corruption, political apathy, labour markets, bureaucratic inefficiency, and their effect on the social fabric.
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LONG FAREWELLS
OLA VASILJEVA
[20.03.2020 - 27.09.2020]
Hall
Ola Vasiljeva engages with the Pori Museum primarily through its architectural ancestry. Formerly a weigh house, the building in the town port had a transitive, measuring, evaluating function. It was a threshold space, made for the passage of goods, for their transition via a temporary halt, display and estimation.
As if subjected to a similar transition, Vasiljeva 's artworks are passersby in this liminal space.
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OLA VASILJEVA
[20.03.2020 - 27.09.2020]
Hall
Ola Vasiljeva engages with the Pori Museum primarily through its architectural ancestry. Formerly a weigh house, the building in the town port had a transitive, measuring, evaluating function. It was a threshold space, made for the passage of goods, for their transition via a temporary halt, display and estimation.
As if subjected to a similar transition, Vasiljeva 's artworks are passersby in this liminal space.
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THE LEANING AND BLIND (2017)
Sara Pathirane
[17.12.2019 - 16.02.2020]
STAIRCASE
By the Leaning tower of Pisa, an endless choreography goes on. Attempting to catch the iconic shot, people are posing as if holding the tower up. Hundreds of strangers fumble and probe at air, like the blind, finding their way. This creates a shared language of movement, a global game of chinese whispers.
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Sara Pathirane
[17.12.2019 - 16.02.2020]
STAIRCASE
By the Leaning tower of Pisa, an endless choreography goes on. Attempting to catch the iconic shot, people are posing as if holding the tower up. Hundreds of strangers fumble and probe at air, like the blind, finding their way. This creates a shared language of movement, a global game of chinese whispers.
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APEX (2019)
Davide Bertocchi
[22.10.2019 - 15.12.2019]
STAIRCASE
Digital video / drone Dji Inspire 2 – Zenmuse X7 camera | Loop
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Davide Bertocchi
[22.10.2019 - 15.12.2019]
STAIRCASE
Digital video / drone Dji Inspire 2 – Zenmuse X7 camera | Loop
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