The Alvar Aalto Museum’s main exhibition this year, The Cultivated Landscape of Alvar Aalto, showcases Alvar Aalto’s design with the emphasis on the connection between architecture and the surrounding landscape and nature. The affinity between Aalto’s production and nature is an oft-repeated theme, but analysis of buildings with regard to landscape architecture is still an under-researched topic.
Kati Laakso, Director of the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux in Brussels, talks to TLmag about the Institute’s unique initiative, Together Alone, created after the spread of Covid-19 to support Finnish artists during the pandemic, and how she sees the artistic community changing in this new environment.
What truths do maps truly convey about our place in the world? Continuing her methodological focus on sustainability and temporality, the newest series of works by British-Taiwanese artist Rain Wu allows us to re-imagine our relationship with these cultural artefacts.
Institut finlandais’ current presentation, Djuddot, is curated by Katja Hagelstam (gallery Lokal, Helsinki) and is produced in collaboration with Sámi Duodji Association. The exhibition is part of the official program of the Paris Design Week.
TLmag talks to Kustaa Saksi about craftsmanship and the inspiration behind ‘Archipelago’, a 26-metre long tapestry commissioned by the Finnish Government for the European Council in Brussels.
TLmag caught up with Reetta Kalajo whom curated the exhibition Interwoven. A show that investigates textile and its significance to contemporary culture.
The experimental, labour-intensive and nature-informed practice of Finnish visual artist Antti Laitinen takes over Brussels with exhibitions in Tournay-Solvay Park and La Patinoire Royale/Galerie Valérie Bach.
This new art & design Biennal in Fiskars -located in the south of Finland- engages local and international artists, designers, and creatives.
In exactly one year, Helsinki will open up Vallisaari, an archipelago located just off the shore of the Finnish capital as the home for its new Biennial. TLmag takes a look at the exciting things to come for this new event and offers a preview of it’s mesmerising location.
Fashion illustrator Laura Laine talks to TLmag about her surreal drawings and her new venture into the world of glass blown sculptures
Subverting the negative connotations surrounding migraines, Kustaa Saksi turns his chronic suffering into colourful tapestries in his series ‘First Symptoms’
We talk with Finnish artist Man Yau about her 6 week residency at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park and subsequent exhibition, ‘Shiga-Love and Magic Carpets’
