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Experiments in Concretism: Elina Autio
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Molten Glass, Fired Clay – documentation of artist Renata Schirm working
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Artist Renata Schirm creating her commission piece Myriad (the Stars I Cannot See). Combining Czech glass tubes and a slow, hand-knotted technique, the video offers a close look at her experimental and process-driven approach to glass.
Installing Raimo Saarinen’s A Cross-Section of an Imaginary Slope
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A Cross-Section of an Imaginary Slope took 2,5 weeks to install. Take a look behind the scenes of EMMA and watch how the piece was built!
Rut Bryk: Touch of a Butterfly
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In the intimate documentary, experts on the artist and her immediate circle convey an image of Rut Bryk as a person at home in both global metropolises as well as the middle of Lapland’s wilderness.
Documentary: Constructing a Forest
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How was artist Antti Laitinen's installation Chiming Forest created?
Emilia Tanner: Beneath the Surface of Paper
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Artist Emilia Tanner tells about her practice and the artwork displayed in the Dialogues exhibition.
Experiments in Concretism: Inka Bell
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EMMA Talks: Art and Artificial Intellegences
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How making and experiencing art is changing in light of new artificial intelligence technologies? Artists in discussion: Sougwen Chung, Holly Herndon & Jakob Kudsk Steensen.
Sinikka Kurkinen: A Colour Painter in the Grand Style
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Artist Sinikka Kurkinen tells about her practice and the artwork displayed in the Dialogues exhibition.
Sougwen Chung: Assembly Lines: Expanse [extending]
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Aura Saarikoski: Autobiographical Elements in Photography
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Artist Aura Saarikoski tells about her practice and the artwork displayed in the Dialogues exhibition.
Ulla Wiggen
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In the intimate video portrait, artist Ulla Wiggen reflects on her artistic journey from painting computer components in the 1960s to exploring the human body, brain, and eye. The video offers a personal look into her evolving practice and subjects.
Daniel Buren: Institutional critique
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EMMA's Executive Director Pilvi Kalhama interviewed the legendary Daniel Buren. Buren shares his thoughts on museums, his art – which he prefers not to call ‘art’ – and the future of globalization in our post-pandemic reality.
A Matter of the Heart – How Collection Kakkonen Came to EMMA
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The documentary takes a peek into Kyösti Kakkonen’s home, delving into his vast art storage room, and examines the museum’s work with unique art objects in the collection.
Priss Niinikoski: the interaction of body, space, and sound as the starting point of the work
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A performance documentation of Priss Niinikoski's work Sonic Mediations.
Molten Glass, Fired Clay – documentation of artist Heini Riitahuhta working
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Artist Heini Riitahuhta creating her commission piece The Song of the Rooster for the Collection Kakkonen exhibition.
Ultima Thule: Rhythm Carved into Plywood
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A video of one of the most seminal works by artist Tapio Wirkkala.
EMMA Talks: Whose safety?
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Experts address the way in which the security sector creates unsafe environments. What more can be done to make public space safer for all? The event is part of Pilvi Takala's Close Watch exhibition.
Pilvi Kalhama: Colour Seduction – The Otherness and Freedom of Colour
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In her essay, Pilvi Kalhama uses Mägi’s works as a lens through which to examine the meaning of colour as part of the purpose of a painting. Instead of traditional, psychological or aesthetic interpretations of colour, she argues for enchantment and more diverse, freer analysis of colour, both now and in the future.
Video portrait: Tschabalala Self
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Molten Glass, Fired Clay – documentation of artist Alma Jantunen working
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Artist Alma Jantunen creating her commission piece Lilliputti for the Collection Kakkonen exhibition.
Like a Dream – Rut Bryk’s Printed Fabrics
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The short documentary follows the reproduction of a lost printed fabric by Rut Bryk. Known mainly for her ceramics, the film highlights Bryk’s lesser-known work as a fabric designer.
Experiments in Concretism: Elina Juopperi
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Artist interview: Hannaleena Heiska & Minna Tervamäki
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Artist interview: Chiharu Shiota
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Artist Chiharu Shiota and EMMA's curator Arja Miller talk about the Tracing Boundaries exhibition.
Experiments in Concretism: Kyösti Pärkinen
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As a guest at Yrjö Kukkapuro
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A heartwarming video portrait about the iconic Finnish designer Yrjö Kukkapuro filmed in his studio in 2023.
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Installing Oiva Toikka’s Glass Forest
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Follow EMMA’s conservators as they spend seven days assembling Glass Forest (2003), the largest piece in the Collection Kakkonen exhibition. The video is a visual celebration of the precision and care behind the scenes.
Art On Fabric
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Collector Maria Jernkvist's article on printed fabrics.