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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!
Documentary: Constructing a Forest
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How was artist Antti Laitinen's installation Chiming Forest created? Watch the documentary!
Molten Glass, Fired Clay – documentation of artist Renata Schirm working
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Watch a video of artist Renata Schirm creating the 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.
Rut Bryk: Touch of a Butterfly
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Experiments in Concretism: Elina Autio
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Sougwen Chung: Assembly Lines: Expanse [extending]
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Emilia Tanner: Beneath the Surface of Paper
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Watch artist interview below and learn about artist Emilia Tanner’s practice and her work displayed in the Dialogues exhibition.
Sinikka Kurkinen: A Colour Painter in the Grand Style
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Learn about artist Sinikka Kurkinen's practice and her work displayed in the Dialogues exhibition.
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.
Experiments in Concretism: Inka Bell
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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.
Priss Niinikoski: the interaction of body, space, and sound as the starting point of the work
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Watch a performance documentation of Priss Niinikoski's Sonic Mediations!
A Matter of the Heart – How Collection Kakkonen Came to EMMA
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Aura Saarikoski: Autobiographical Elements in Photography
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Learn about artist Aura Saarikoski's practice and her work displayed in the Dialogues exhibition.
Ulla Wiggen
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In this 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.
Video portrait: Tschabalala Self
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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.
Molten Glass, Fired Clay – documentation of artist Heini Riitahuhta working
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Watch a video of artist Heini Riitahuhta making The Song of the Rooster commission piece on view at the Collection Kakkonen exhibition.
Ultima Thule: Rhythm Carved into Plywood
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Watch a video exploring one of the most seminal works by artist Tapio Wirkkala (1915–1985).
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.
Artist interview: Chiharu Shiota
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Find out more about Chiharu Shiota's way of working! Artist Chiharu Shiota and EMMA's curator Arja Miller talk about the Tracing Boundaries exhibition.
Artist interview: Hannaleena Heiska & Minna Tervamäki
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Learn more about the Metamorphosis exhibition!
Molten Glass, Fired Clay – documentation of artist Alma Jantunen working
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Watch a video of artist Alma Jantunen making the Lilliputti sculpture on view at the Collection Kakkonen exhibition.
Like a Dream – Rut Bryk’s Printed Fabrics
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This short documentary follows the reproduction of a lost printed fabric by Rut Bryk (1913–1999). 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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Art On Fabric
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Read collector Maria Jernkvist's article about printed fabrics!
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.
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 (1933–2025) filmed in his studio in 2023.