I Love Malmö
11.9.2009–17.1.2010 (5th floor)
An exhibition of modern Nordic art from the collections of the Malmö Art Museum.
Museums in Motion
HARRO! A Classic of Finnish Pop Art
2.10.2009–28.03.2010 (4th floor)
The painter Harro Koskinen (b. 1945 in Turku) has become famous for his socio-critical world of paintings, inspired by Pop Art, particularly for his pink and yellow pigs living their lives in pig reality. Harro’s breakthrough occurred in 1969, when he had to start fighting for artistic freedom of expression at quite a young age. The controversy of his almost four-meter-long painting, titled The Messiah of Pigs, completed in 1969, made it into the newpapers, as it was considered to be a mockery of God. After that he was prosecuted for profanation of the national coat of arms (Coat of Arms of Pigs, 1969). The court found him guilty of a mockery of God. Over time, criticism of Harro’s works has mellowed and his pig has become a character much loved by the public.
The exhibition is a cooperation project with Turku Art Museum.
The exhibition is supported by Finnish Fund for Art Exchange (FRAME).
Painting in Normandy
16.10.2009–10.01.2010 (3rd floor)
The exhibition has been compiled on the basis of French art collections from Alain Tapié, Director of the Lille Art Museum, and displays 60 works of art by painters whose lives and work were closely connected with the romantic region of Normandy. The picturesque sea and beach of Normandy and the life of locals attracted several 19th-century artists, such as open-air painters and impressionists, for whom a life-like quality and closeness to nature had become the mottos of art. The display includes works by the world-famous artists Gustave Courbet, Eugène Boudin, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Charles Daubigny, Claude Monet, Albert Marquet and others. The painters, who visited Normandy or lived there, bring to the audience the aspirations of one epoch of art and the charm of a picturesque corner of the country.
POPkunst Forever!
27.11.2009 – 11.04.2010 (Great Hall)
An overview exhibition of the trends and different ideologies of Estonian Pop Art since the late 1960s. The exhibition focuses on the powerful coming of Pop Art into the Soviet cultural sphere and its continual mutations through several generations of artists until the present day.
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