Grace Ndiritu: PoriPostModern 

In the autumn of 2026, Pori Art Museum will hold a major exhibition by British-Kenyan (Maasai Kikuyu) artist Grace Ndiritu, spreading into all exhibition spaces in the Hall and Wing of the art museum.  Ndiritu’s practice examines the transformative possibilities of art on both social and spiritual level.

For Ndiritu’s exhibition PoriPostModern, the main Hall will be dedicated to Ndiritu’s work The Temple: a wooden installation that functions both as a display structure and a space for communal and spiritual practices. The version to be built in Pori Art Museum will include both Ndiritu’s own artworks as well as a selection of works from the museum’s collection that are from the postmodern era of the 1970’s and 80’s, resembling a kind of indoor sculpture park. 

In addition, Ndiritu will assemble a new hanging of modernist art from the Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation collection. This new display within a room especially designed by Ndiritu for the exhibition, is inspired by Aino and Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea which was built in 1939 for Maire Gullichsen and her family. 

Two moving image works are presented alongside the collection assemblages. The exhibition will include Ndiritu’s new film The Rehearsal, co-produced by Pori Art Museum. In addition, Ndiritu has curated a work The Judson Church Horse Dance (2010) by American artist Mike Kelley as a kind of artistic and thematic kinship. This continues the interaction between the two artists’ works formulated initially by the joint exhibition organized by Pori Art Museum at Pori Art School in the summer of 2024.