Past exhibitions

The Take a Peep exhibition focuses on children as camera users, who have a right to their own ways of expressing themselves and of making pictures. In the workshops the children have taken a peep through the camera's viewfinder - at themselves, at each other and at their surroundings - and taken…

Mindscapes 1960 - 2010 is a retrospective view of the 50-year oeuvre of photographic artist Professor Antero Takala (b.1939). The hundred-plus photographs now being shown together for the first time form a black-and-white landscape study; a paean to Finnish nature, to northern light, to lake landscapes, and to Lapland. The exhibition also includes a series of portrait studies of Finnish stage actors from the 1960s.

Atelieri O. Haapala's photography exhibition revives portrait traditions that are over a hundred years old. The show offers nostalgia and extravagant costumes, the charm of the bourgeoisie, but also opium-fumed, decadent vices. The touring photographic studio has immortalized its clients in 19th-century spirit. The result is a fine collection of modern cabinet portraits.

The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg houses an untold number of artworks, which are guarded by a large band of museum attendants. Russian/Dutch photographer Lucia Ganieva's (b.1968) exhibition Ermitazhniki - Museum Attendants is a tribute to these quiet workers of the Hermitage, and to their knowledge of art.

The exhibition From Misty Morning to Composition presents an unparalleled overview of Finnish post-war art photography, mainly from the 1950s. Most of the artworks are from the collections of the Finnish Museum of Photography. Lost key pieces have been recovered, and some of the destroyed works have been re-proofed. The overview is based on the research by Leena Saraste, the curator of this exhibition, and architect Kirsti Kasnio’s visual design.