Jaakko Niemelä: Nostalghia, 2019. Video animation. Still image.

10.1.–26.5.2024 Exhibition

Jaakko Niemelä: Praakk

Praakk, meaning wreck, is an exhibition about loss, longing for seafaring and the memory of the artist's sea captain father.

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Janne Räisänen: Broken Wing, 2002 , oil pastels on paper. Oulu Art Museum Collection. Photo: Mika Friman.

9.2.–25.8.2024 Exhibition

PAIN

This exhibition explores the vulnerability and fragility of life from the perspectives of insecurity, loneliness and exclusion – but also hope.

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