17.1.-9.2.2025

The exhibition “Habitats” presents the artistic work of painting students from the Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition features 30 young artists, from second-year BFA students to fifth-year MFA students. The numerous works of the exhibition spread out in the Kuva/Tila-gallery on the first floor as well as in a space on the second floor of the Mylly building.

The exhibition brings together a plurality of voices and extends to various directions. The works are not forced under an overarching title, and instead, the exhibition allows and highlights each individual’s own way of painting and exploring painting. Exhibition = community. It takes its shape through various ways of thinking and living – through ways of being alone and separate as well as tolerantly together and alongside one another.

The individuals’ interest in painting is the shared core of the community. This core is surrounded by an open and lively space that invites others in. When viewing the works of the exhibition, one can feel touched by silence, noise, demands, passion, joy, pain and observations of life in the here and now. The paintings do not point in a certain direction but create an ever-evolving and unspecified place to be and to be affected in.

Artists

Malcom af Donner, Jonathan Ben-Ami, Heidi Forsman, Saara Halminen, Mikko-Pekka Hyvärinen, Sini Ilves, Mirja Inkinen, Anna Emilia Järvinen, Lal Karakas, Eero Kalervo, Lassi Kontiainen, Anna-Stiina Korhonen, Paavo Kärki, Anetta Lukjanova, Miisa Mäkeläinen, Joonas Mäntylä, Dud Nabel, nauthey, Julia Niiva, Lotta Pasila, Jaakko Pennanen, Jussi Pirttioja, Aino Raatikainen, Viljamaria Raittila, Mahmood Salim, Nóra Somos, Maria Sorjonen, Aino Tillonen, Jaakko Uljas, Minja Yletyinen