Past exhibitions

Valtteri Kleemola (b. 1989) is an artist who creates self-portraits using social media tools and aesthetics. Kleemola's first images appeared unexpectedly and unsolicited in 2018. Since then, thousands of works and templates have been created, with no end in sight.  Kleemola creates his images on…

In portraits constructed together and alone, Sarpaniemi explores the aesthetic and social norms of femininity and femininity through empathy and humour.

Jonne Sippola's exhibition is a comprehensive photographic work that tells the shared coming of age story of the artist and his parents during Sippola's trans process*. The images document the development, the pains and the healing experiences of the relationship over a period of sixteen years –…

Freedom is a goal to reach for. Regardless of the definition, it is an ideal against which we can look at physical, psychological and social limitations. With the process, also the opportunities hidden behind the obstacles open up in front of us.

In the summer of 2024 science and ancient beliefs take over at The Cable Factory. The exhibition by Niina Vatanen (b.1977) combines the artist's interest in plants, natural sciences, art history, myths, rites and beliefs.

Japan's greatest photographer for the first time in Finland.

In the exhibition Would I See the Colors Differently, artists Naomi Holopainen, Wanda Holopainen, and Priscilla Osei investigate the act of balancing between privacy and publicness, and the spaces where visibility and invisibility converge. They weave together stories from two continents,…

Festival of Political Photography 2024 is about the diagnoses that society imposes on individuals and the collective resistance to them.

Phan Nguyen's exhibition is about the experiences of queer people living in the diaspora. It dives into questions of dual identities, integration, belonging and ethno-cultural roots,  with a particular focus on what it is like to experience connection across borders of countries and peoples, and…

Pentti Sammallahti's photography focuses on shared, transient moments between two living beings. Sammallahti's photographs speak of devotion, tenderness, and emotional bonds — of coexisting with all other life forms together in this world.

The exhibition invites us to contemplate how our societal norms construct and affect the way in which we see and ignore not only certain people, but the actions directed at them. 

The Autumn 2023 collection exhibition presents an unprecedented exhibition of the work of the pioneering and multi-talented photographer Hilja Raviniemi.

The exhibition explores the power structures that define humanity, the concepts of active and anonymous citizenship and the consequences of the colonial movement.

Most acts of intimate partner violence take place within the four walls of the home. Continuous culture of silence around this topic makes the experiences of a large part of our population - those who live or have lived in a violent relationship - invisible.Patricia Rodas (b.1972) explores in her…

The exhibition draws a picture of the lives of the world’s northernmost indigenous people, the Inughuit* of northwestern Greenland; their families, communities and landscapes. A landscape threatened by climate change.

Your Body Changes Everything, presenting works from three artists, Roza Ahmad, Coyote Park, and Iida Valmé, is an exhibition about the relationship between contemporary photography and trans and queer identities.

Real is an exhibition that dives deeper than the surface of reality, plays with the boundaries of photography, unearths utopias, and looks for convergences of realities in reflections. The works in the exhibition are united by the effort to conceptualise our experience of reality. Realistic,…

This exhibition explores why emotions should be listened to and understood but should not be trusted completely.

What photographs and messages would you like to see in the urban space? Picture Path is an outdoor photography exhibition created by the pupils of Jätkäsaari Comprehensive School.

Malimania is a Helsinki-based fashion and lifestyle brand established by Nadir Mohamud and Salma Jama. Having grown up in Finland, Nadir and Salma were often puzzled by how they did not see billboards or commercials around them showing people who looked like them. This led them to think that the…

Duane Michals – The Portraitist presents the first comprehensive overview of portraits by Duane Michals, a pioneering photographer who in the 1960s broke away from established traditions of documentary photography. He is well known for staging photographs that tell stories like a progression of…

This exhibition showcases nineteen artists who are new Aalto University Master of Arts graduates from the Art and Media department's Photography program. The photographs in the exhibition are part of the graduates' final thesis works. Each graduating year represents an image of unique voices and…

Penelope Umbrico (b. 1957) is an American artist who works with photographs found on the Internet. Her installations present a clever and playful way to examine the enormous production and consumption of photographs in the 2020s. Umbrico ventures into the virtual world of online marketplaces…

The exhibition takes us to the United States of the 1960s, to a particular moment and place in history, and reminds us of the role of photography as an intermediary between memories and collective remembrance. The exhibition has been curated by the artist Rein Jelle Terpstra.

Rom is a photography project by Jonne Heinonen, created over seven years amongst Roma communities in Finland. The exhibition addresses the culture and everyday life of Finnish Roma from the perspective of an artist outside the community.

Filled with kitsch, golden frames, fur, and glitter, Veera Konsti's exhibition carnivalizes and parodies the traditions of both painting and nature photography.

Katja Eydel reflects on how identity is shaped through the functioning of social structures, such as state-run institutions and other organizations.

Forests of the North Wind is the final part of a forest trilogy based on research through photographic art by Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo, culminating their three decades of work on forest themes

So Sweet Ukraine is an online exhibition featuring contemporary Ukrainian photographers.

Film director Agnès Varda's (1928–2019) first creative life was as a photographer. Varda's first photography exhibition from 1954 will now be presented in Finland.

Art collective Photofuss approaches the various undersides of everyday life, pondering both darkness and illumination in this versatile group exhibition. 

The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the expectations and concepts related to photography. The exhibition is a selection of research-based projects that challenge the idea of “the photographic”.