Come with a friend or family member and join one of Kiasma’s nonstop art workshops!

26.10.2024 at 13–16
9.11.2024 at 13–16
16.11.2024 at 13–16
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Kiasma Workshop space, 5th floor.
Tickets: with a museum ticket
Under 18-year-olds free entry.
Suitable for children

Visit the Feels Like Home collection exhibition on Kiasma’s 2nd and 3rd floor. Our art workshops are suitable for everyone over three years of age. Children under ten must be accompanied by an adult. No previous experience required. 

The themes of our drop-in workshops change every week. You are welcome to take part in as many workshops as you like.

October 26, 1:00–4:00 pm Words in pictures

Assemble your own artwork using the provided words, proverbs, requests and instructions. You can create art by adding more text, illustrating, framing or connecting the words with drawings or each other.

Technique: Mixed media

Be inspired by artworks in the Feels Like Home exhibition:

Emma Peura: Pool: Peurala, 2009, 2nd floor
Niina Lehtonen-Braun: Mother Said, 2009–2014, 3rd floor

November 9, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Create a character!

Create your own character out of sculpted wire. What position is your character in: standing straight in front of you, stretching out, or curling up to sleep?

Technique: wire sculpting, mixed media

Be inspired by artworks in the Feels Like Home exhibition:

• Veli Granö: photographs from the series A Trip to Paradise, 1986–1987, 3rd floor
• Marjatta Hanhijoki: Bedtime Story, 1979, Elena and Kukka, 1983, Margarita, 1898, 3rd floor
• Maarit Hohteri: Paula and Miro, Kuopio, 1999, Pekka sleeping over at Lennart’s place, 2003, Mikko, sleep markings, Helsinki, 2000, 2nd floor

November 16, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm A guest from afar

What does your imaginary guest look like? Like you, or perhaps bigger—or is your visitor totally tiny? Do they look like a person, an insect, or some other creature? Or are they perhaps more like a plant or an object? Draw and paint your imaginary guest.

Technique: watercolour and wax pastels

Be inspired by artworks in the Feels Like Home exhibition:

Olof Marsja: Oracle 1, The Bearer of Ill Tidings, Frozen, 3rd floor

Anneli Nygren: A Visit, 2007, 2nd floor