4–28.6.2026

(Closed on Midsummer’s Eve 19 June.)

When I paint, I want to play, have adventures and come up with hypotheses about the state of the world to soothe my mind. To create utopias, knowing they are not real, yet still choosing to play along. Because what could be more horrifying than a bleak reality that one can never escape?

Meri Hiironen’s works featured in the exhibition present fragile memories and an escape from reality. They are combinations of individual moments, some clearer than others. They are a mixture of games, dreams and drunken nights on the sticky dance floors of bars.

The exhibition explores the fleeting and hazy nature of memories. The works are a meeting point between the artist and her vague recollections, focusing on the spontaneity of the moment, instead of directly facing reality. They are evidence of moments that no one is witnessing anymore.

Meri Hiironen (b. 1995) is a visual artist based in Järvenpää. In 2024, Hiironen earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Hiironen works with printmaking, paper-based works, painting and sculpture. Her works examine landscapes, treasuring and memory traces.