Collection exhibitions also serve a research purpose, which is to update and complete information on the works and the artists featured in the exhibitions and document it digitally in the museum’s database system. Information is collected through artist interviews and from written sources. The exhibitions can be thematic or focus on the work of a single artist, or a group or school of artists.
The art museum’s collection exhibitions may also be the product of long-term art history or cultural studies research projects, the stages and results of which are presented through exhibitions, and often also in the form of a written publication.
Päivi Pussila, Song to the Spruce, 2020 (detail), Charcoal drawing on paper, Oulu City Collection. Photograph: Mika Friman.
From this Neck of the Woods
The exhibition reflects on contemporary human relationships with the forest and ways of connecting with nature through art.
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Janne Räisänen: Broken Wing, 2002 , oil pastels on paper. Oulu Art Museum Collection. Photo: Mika Friman.
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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Vilho Lampi, Dance on the Bridge, 1930, Oulu Art Museum collection. Photo: Mika Friman.
Vilho Lampi: The Great Expanse
Revisit the popular exhibition of the painter of the lowlands.
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