9.1.–25.1.2026

Welcome to the exhibition opening on Thursday, January 8, 2026, from 5–7 pm!

emovere, seaweed your flowing floating sliminess, brown eyes, monthly bleeds, iron taste between your legs, emovere seaweed gutted mermaids spiderweb homes, in love within horse milk vodka hospitals, emovere, seaweed, in love with your knife handling deer gutting skills, in love with your trophy wolf paws in love with your mermaid catching skills in love with your insides spread out wide open and vulnerable.

Emovere, from the Latin meaning to move out or agitate, names the moment when motion becomes emotion, and emotion becomes trace. The exhibition brings together the practices of Miroslava Vecerova and Nastja Säde Rönkkö through video, drawing and sculptures.

Seaweed threads through the exhibition as both motif and connective structure. In Vecerova’s works, seaweed is held within copper frames, creating an encounter between organic movement and elemental metal. Copper, drawn from the earth, carries a memory of conductivity, transformation and flow. Responsive to touch, time and oxidation, it mirrors the shifting nature of emotion and the tidal rhythms that shape seaweed.

Rönkkö’s charcoal drawings extend this elemental dialogue. Charcoal, formed from fire and organic material, is a primordial drawing material that registers pressure, breath and gesture with immediacy. Its powdery instability echoes the vulnerability and impermanence of emotional states, while its deep blackness absorbs and holds bodily movement like sediment.

The exhibition also incorporates sculptures and video works in which the body appears in close relation to elemental forces such as water and the wind.

Rooted in an ecological imagination, and resonating with hydrofeminist thought, emovere, seaweed understands emotion as an elemental force circulating between body and environment, shaped by tides, heat and pressure, and drives such as love, loss and survival.

Nastja Säde Rönkkö is a a multidisciplinary artist working with moving image, installation, sculpture, drawing and text. She creates work that engages the most fundamental human experiences: love, hope, fear, solitude and togetherness. Her projects dream about the future and explore presence through the politics and poetics of emotion and corporality.

She has exhibited and performed internationally in places such as Somerset House, London, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, SXSW, Austin, TX, Royal Academy of Arts, London, FACT, Foundation for Art and Technology, Liverpool, Museum of Moving Image, New York, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, UCCA China and BMoCA Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado.

Recent solo exhibitions include HAM Helsinki, Serlachius Museum Mänttä, Turku Art Museum, Seinäjoki Kunsthall (2024) and Beaconsfield Gallery, London (2023). Recent group exhibitions include Enter Woodland Spirits, European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024, Estonia, Riga Photograhy Biennale (2024), The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Art Museum, Denmark (2024), Milk & Decay, Paradaise Tossed, IMAI Düsseldorf, Germany (2023) and LungA Bliss Festival, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland (2023).

She is currently showing work in Apocalypse: From Last Judgement to Climate Threat at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden, and She Sells Sea Shells at the Alice Austen House Museum, New York, USA. Upcoming exhibitions and performances include Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, USA, here with you, a performance for Astra, Turku, Finland, as well as the SIM Residency, Iceland.

Miroslava Vecerova , born in Prague, Czech Republic, and currently based on the southern coast of the UK, works fluidly across sculpture, drawing, painting, performance, installation, and film—balancing abstraction and figuration throughout her work. Her practice is rooted in an intuitive, process-led and research-informed approach, exploring themes of ecological imagination, temporal fluidity, human fragility and knowledge systems. Alongside this research, Vecerova also traces the emotional and relational currents that flow between family, friendship, community and more-than-human world. Attuned to cycles of transformation, she navigates the shifting boundaries between what is fossilized and what flows, moving between the ancient and the present, the static and the ephemeral, the mythic and the everyday. Through this attunement she reveals subtle layers of connection between the human body, the natural world and the unseen forces that animate both.

Her work maps emotional and ecological patterns, reflecting the entanglements between humans, places, and other species — from animals and plants to minerals. Her recent works focus on the porous meeting points of land, water, sky and beyond, exploring how forms overlap, blur or dissolve in these liminal environments. Elemental agents thread through her works as both physical and symbolic presence, illuminating edges, shifting perceptions and revealing interconnections.

She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Art from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, a Bachelor’s degree in Photography from Camberwell College of Arts in London and a Foundation in Dance Movement Psychotherapy from Goldsmiths University. She recently completed the Flatland Projects Early Career Studio Programme (2022/23) and was commissioned for a live performance at the De La Warr Pavilion (2025) in Bexhill-on-Sea. Her work is included in the permanent public collection of contemporary art at GHMP and has been exhibited at Art Basel Hong Kong (2023) and Every Woman Biennial, London (2021)