Exhibitions

Onoma summer exhibition – Arts & Crafts and Rabbit Holes
Copper Smithy's exhibition halls and outside areas
21.5.-10.9.2023
mon to sun 11am to 6pm

Onoma summer exhibition – displaying warped realities

Onoma, the Cooperative of Artists, Designers and Artisans in Fiskars is displaying the 29th summer exhibition Arts & Crafts and Rabbit Holes in Fiskars Village from 21 May to 10 Sep 2023. Exhibition and set of events will be a surrealistic, multisensory and multidisciplinary experience for all senses.

This bold exhibition gathered top names of arts and crafts both locally and nationally on display at Copper Smithy’s exhibition halls and its outside surroundings in Fiskars Village.

“Exhibition includes a wide array of themes concerning home and household items with a surreal twist. In this exhibition visitors can have experiences of frozen moments which will carry them between different moods. Art works in this exhibition will deal with concepts such as being a human in a sometimes-chaotic world and everyday life. Also, human interaction with nature and perishing side of it will be a theme inside of this exhibition. Art works that will be displayed in the outside areas as well as the performing art pieces will also deal with the same surrealistic theme that hopefully will get the visitor to examine their milieu in a new way.”

 Exhibition architecture forms a major part of the content and visual experience of the exhibition. Architecture plays with the dimensions of human in the space, experience of space and with contrasts. Art works are displayed in the exhibition halls and the outside areas. Also, a part of the exhibition and set of events will be an ensemble of performing art shows that will happen around Fiskars Village.

Curator of this exhibition is Kirsi Pitkänen who was called in to curate a bold exhibition with a wide array of top artists. Kirsi is a visual artist and art consultant living in Jyväskylä. Kirsi has been focusing on performance art and installation art in her own works and her pieces has been seen worldwide for example in Shanghai world fair, ANTI contemporary art festival, at the international SLUSH-event and at Mänttä art festival. Now she is focused on curating and coordinating projects concerning public art in built environments. These include large-scale artistic ensembles for example in the region of Kangas in the city of Jyväskylä and in the hospital project in Ahvenisto in the city of Hämeenlinna. When working as a regional artist for visual arts in 2014-2016, Kirsi arranged multidisciplinary art events, where she was the artistic director and the executive producer. Kirsi has a high level of professionality and knowledge when it comes to conseptualizing large- scale projects, which is a solid base for this year’s summer exhibition and its architecture.

Artists participating in the exhibition are:

Workgroup: Päivi Alajuntti & Leena Hurri, Daniel Enckell, Petri Eskelinen, Ilmari Gryta, Lulu Halme, Timo Heino, Kaisa Huotari, Pekka Juhani Ijäs, Marko Kaiponen, Leena Kangaskoski, Workgroup: Tinja Kari, Sara Moayed, Yaiza Hernandez, Olli Kari, Workgroup: Susanna Louneva, Anu Mykrä, Tiina Karimaa, Tiina Vaskivaara, Annamari Karjalainen, Riikka Latva-Somppi, Workgroup: Johanna Matruka & Anna Sevchenko, Workgroup: Laura Merz & Rudi Merz, Erica Mena, Risto Musta, Timo O. Nenonen, Ron Nordström, Stefan Nyström, Workgroup: Deepa Panchamia & Robin Brandt, Anssi Pulkkinen, Taneli Rautiainen, Antti-Ville Reinikainen, Workgroup: Aapo Repo & Anu-Anette Varho, Sami Ryhänen, Tatu Rönkkö, Annatuuli Saine, Taru Samola, Jukka Silokunnas, Jonna Suurhasko, Tommi Toija, Jarno Vesala, Workgroup: Karin Widnäs & Viivi Varesvuo, Katja Öhrnberg.

Workgroup for this year’s summer exhibition is Curator Kirsi Pitkänen, Exhibition Architect Lea Sarasjoki, Graphic Designer Lulu Halme and Exhibition Producer Jouni Virtanen.

More info:

Curator Kirsi Pitkänen   +358503387705

Exhibition Producer Jouni Virtanen +358440277606

 

Onoma’s Summer Exhibition

Arts & Crafts and Rabbit Holes

21 May trough -10 Sep 2023, open daily 11am to 6pm

In Fiskars Village at Copper Smithy’s exhibition halls and outside areas. Kuparivasarantie 5, 10470 Fiskars.

Tickets 6€/10€

Guided tours

Duration 1h
Price 80€/group

Booking
 / +358 50 440 3727

 

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CHAPTER 1 / LUKU 1
Kupru Gallery
2.9.-30.9.2023
Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 5pm

CHAPTER 1 / LUKU 1 is an exhibition produced by two collaborating organisations – MAKE Southwest in the UK and ONOMA Cooperative of Artists, Designers and Artisans in Fiskars. The exhibition is taking place in Kupru gallery and is open from the 3rd until the 30th of September 2023.

In early 2023 the representatives of MAKE Southwest, an organisation focusing on promoting locally created crafts in the Southwest of England, contacted the Executive Director of Onoma Matleena Kalajoki and the Exhibition Producer Jouni Virtanen. Laura Wasley the CEO of MAKE Southwest and Flora Pearson the Exhibition Manager had learned about our unique cooperative of creative people located in a similar historical surroundings to their own community in Bovey Tracey, by Dartmoor in Devon.

MAKE Southwest is an acclaimed exhibition space for contemporary craft and design as well as a leading charity for craft education. It was founded as Devon Guild of Craftsmen in 1955 by a small group of makers, led by Edward Baly, who were enthusiastic about the idea of promoting the best in regional craftwork. In 1986 they bought the historical Riverside Mill to start a unique exhibition and education centre, utilising and selling craft by their 250 plus local Maker Members.

Onoma the Cooperative of Artists, Designers and Artisans of Fiskars was registered in 1996 and has been producing exhibitions locally and internationally for nearly 30 years. Its 143 members work in wide range of different fields and with various materials. The cooperative has been running a member only art, craft and design store ONOMA Shop for 25 years and an international Artist in Residence program for more than 15 years in the historical ironmongery village of Fiskars. Fiskars village was founded in 1649, and it is also a home to the largest listed company in Finland, Fiskars Group (or Corporation, you know, the orange scissors?). Onoma was founded in a time when the industry was moving elsewhere from the village and it was in dire need of spark of life. It was time for the creative people to step in, and invited by then vice president of Fiskars Corporation Ingmar Lindberg they started settling in the village making it their home and place of various kind of creative work.

In early 2023 MAKE Southwest had been looking for creative partners to do exhibition exchange with and after the first online meeting between the parties in March 2023 it was clear that there is undeniable synergy and many exciting similarities between these two creative organisations. The idea to start producing joined exhibitions in alternating years was born.

The first edition – first of many to come we hope – is called CHAPTER 1 as it symbolises the beginning of our collaboration. We are showing works from eight artists and artisans:

Sally Baldwin, textile artist

Lulu Halme, visual artist, graphic designer

Barton Hargreaves, artist and printmaker

Tiina Karimaa, sculptor

Peter Lanyon, green wood furniture maker

Syann Van Nitfrik, jeweller

Riitta Talonpoika, ceramic artist

Imogen Taylor-Noble, ceramic artist

Olla vai ei – To be or not – Exhibition by Arto Vuohelainen
Kupru Gallery
1.8.-13.8.2023
Mon - Sun from 11am to 6pm

On 1 August at Kupru Gallery, Fiskars, my exhibition is called To be or not. The idea is privacy. Our faces are recognised and we can be part of a reality created by artificial intelligence, which does not really exist and in which we do not necessarily want to be part of.

Do we reveal too much about ourselves on social media while social media censors us. What can we show about ourselves? Do I cover everything up?

On the one hand, it’s a double standard that on Instagram, for example, you have to cover your nipples, pubic hair and erogenous areas in nudity, even in art, when you can freely browse porn online. Where is the line? In my photos, I have wanted to bring a pre-censorship and see it as part of reality.

-Arto Vuohelainen

KOSKETUKSISSA – IN TOUCH, exhibition by Outi Karikivi
Kupru Gallery
1.8.-13.8.2023
Mon - Sun, from 11am to 6pm

The photographic installation MOTHER´S SON deals with sound, photography and objects, the disappearing yet eternal moment when two people close to each other met. As a mother of four sons, I explore the theme of loss, intimacy, distance, warmth, coolness, trust, separation and abandonment. SOMETIMES SOMEBODY’S HOME also looks at loss, abandonment, but also at hope and hopefulness and building a life. As a photographer, I strive for a silent interaction between the subject and the photographer, which creates the very image that is frozen in the moment – an illuminated life.

KUPRU GALLERY FISKARS 1.8. – 13.8.2023
OPEN Mon- Sun 11am – 6pm

KUPARIVASARANTIE 5

C O N N E C T I O N -exhibition, by MINJA KOLEHMAINEN & MOBILE WORKSHOP
Kupru Gallery
19.7.-30.7.2023
Mon-Sun, from 11am to 6pm

Artist and Cabinetmaker Minja Kolehmainen’s solo exhibition C O N N E C T I O N -exhibition examines connection between self and nature. Consisting of wooden sculptures, installations, thoughts and above all; feelings. The Ocean, beaches and studying the mind has been the starting point for the artwork.

 

“Usually I find myself in and by the Ocean exploring forms and textures of water, sand and rocks. The presence of the water is the path for connection to myself and nature. It brings me peace, order and consolation. Time stops. These moments are precious and meditative. Those feelings and moments I carve on the surface of the wood and encourage the viewer to connect to self and to nature.”

 

You are warmly welcome to the CONNECTION -exhibition to experience the art of Minja Kolehmainen and also meet her in person. Kolehmainen opens doors into her mind and to her home/mobile workshop.

 

You can follow her journey here:

Instagram: @minjakolehmainen

www.minjakolehmainen.com

 

KUPRU GALLERY: Kuparivasarantie 5, Paja-aukio, Kuparipajan kivijalka, 10470 Fiskars

 

Don’t hesitate to call or text, if you have some questions for Minja

+358 40 723 5758

Tales from the Sea- Exhibition by Maaretta Krohn
Kupru Gallety
5.7.-16.7.2023
Mon-Sun noon to 6pm(Closed on Tuesday 11.7)

Tales from the Sea – Tales from the Sea

Maaretta Krohn

Installations and paintings in a soundscape

 

The Baltic Sea is one of the largest brackish water basins in the world, and as such a unique habitat for the organisms that inhabit it.

Visible debris, floating and sunken… micro-sized plastic balls used in the cosmetics industry and all other non-marine goods are creating a new, false habitat in the Baltic Sea. Marine micro-organisms, fish, seals and birds are eating plastic and other debris and getting caught in ghost nets.

The underwater sound is fascinating; we don’t normally hear it and yet it is there.

Crustaceans’ speech is lost in the roar of ships’ and boats’ engines. How do fish cope with alien sound waves?

 

Will we understand more today than yesterday, more tomorrow than today?

Do we understand, do we act in time? The Baltic Sea is busy.

Kupru Gallery

Kuparivasarantie 5 (map link)

Open  5 July to 16 July.

Mon-Sun, noon to 6pm (closed on Tuesday 11July)

Free Entry

Artists for Fiskars Summer Exhibition announced
Copper Smithys Exhibition Halls
21.5.-10.9.2023
Mon to Sun 11am to 6pm

Summer and exhibitions here at Fiskars Village are closing in soon and the time has come to announce the great artists participating this exhibition.

Onoma’s Summer Exhibition Arts & Crafts and Rabbit Holes 21 May to 10 Sep

This year’s summer exhibition by Onoma the Cooperative of Artists, Designers and Artisans in Fiskars is called Arts & Crafts and Rabbit Holes and it will display bold and candid artworks by 48 artists.

The theme of the exhibition will be around warped aspects of reality, where everyday life and objects will present themselves in a new and intriguing manner.

“In this exhibition we have a large number of artists on board and this exhibition will be very experiential and multisensory as well as multidisciplinary. In the Copper Smithys White Hall artworks are binded together with a sense space and there will be media & sound art, installations, paintings and graphics displayed. In the Black Hall there will be sculptures that interact with the space and with each other. Glass House will be the space for an artwork that breaks the line between indoors- and outdoors and the performing arts pieces will open new ways to experience this whole theme of warped realities.  The exhibition architecture will highlight opposite layouts of these different exhibition spaces, thus changing the experience of the spaces for the visitor”. This is how Kirsi Pitkänen the Curator of the exhibiton describes this theme and artworks.

Participating artists for Arts & Crafts and Rabbit Holes – exhibition:

  • Workgroup: Päivi Alajuntti & Leena Hurri
  • Daniel Enckell
  • Petri Eskelinen
  • Ilmari Gryta
  • Lulu Halme
  • Timo Heino
  • Kaisa Huotari
  • Pekka Juhani Ijäs
  • Marko Kaiponen
  • Leena Kangaskoski
  • Workgroup: Tinja Kari, Sara Moayed, Yaiza Hernandez, Olli Kari
  • Workgroup: Susanna Louneva, Anu Mykrä, Tiina Karimaa, Tiina Vaskivaara, Annamari Karjalainen
  • Riikka Latva-Somppi
  • Workgroup: Johanna Matruka & Anna Shevchenko
  • Laura Merz & Rudi Merz
  • Erica Mena
  • Risto Musta
  • Timo O. Nenonen
  • Ron Nordström
  • Stefan Nyström
  • Workgroup: Deepa Panchamia & Robin Brandt
  • Anssi Pulkkinen
  • Taneli Rautiainen
  • Antti-Ville Reinikainen
  • Workgroup: Aapo Repo & Anu-Anette Varho
  • Sami Ryhänen
  • Tatu Rönkkö
  • Annatuuli Saine
  • Taru Samola
  • Jukka Silokunnas
  • Jonna Suurhasko
  • Tommi Toija
  • Jarno Vesala
  • Workgroup: Karin Widnäs & Viivi Varesvuo
  • Katja Öhrnberg

 

For more information:

Curator Kirsi Pitkänen    or

exhibition producer Jouni Virtanen

MEADOW
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
18.6.-30.8.2020
Open daily 11am-6pm

The exhibition Meadow sets out to address the planetary ecological urgencies through a dialogue between contemporary art, craft, design and environmental research.

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FireLight 2019
Fiskars
2.11.2019-6.1.2020

FireLight theme period consists of light art. Its purpose is to bring joy to the darkest period of the year through art. Read more

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FACTORY exhibition
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
19.5.-15.9.2019
Mon-Sun 11-18

Onoma summer exhibition for 2019 is called FACTORY and it has been curated by Switzerland based design professional Anniina Koivu. FACTORY is part of the Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale which will open for the first time in May. Read more

FireLight 2018
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
27.10.-1.12.2018

FireLight is a five-week long theme period consisting of light art and sound installation. Its purpose is to bring joy to the darkest period of the year through art.

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Onoma at DesignWERCK
Copenhagen, Denmark
1.6.-31.8.2018
Wed-Sun 12-18

ONOMA pop up exhibition from June to August 2018 takes Finnish art, craft and design from Fiskars Village to Copenhagen. DesignWERCK is located in Christiania, one of the fastest developing areas in the Danish capital. The owners Birgitte Bjerregaard & Ib Schou believe that “good design should be experienced rather than just viewed” and consider their beautiful showroom as the embassy for Nordic design.

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125% exhibition
Fiskars village
1.7.-30.9.2018

The theme of the 125% exhibition is the artists’ relationships to their residence or work place, Fiskars. The participating artists have contemplated during their work processes on the significance of their work and the location in Ruukki as well as searched for meaningful places for themselves. For example, the corner of the house, the river, the park bench and the cover of the well are places where the pieces have been born.

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About Clay

13.5.-2.9.2018

ABOUT CLAY – Pearls of European Ceramic Art in Fiskars Read more

Smash.Hit. Repeat
Old Granary, Fiskars
30.7.-20.8.2017

International art in Fiskars

This summer the Artist-in-residence offers a surprising exhibition to all friends of art. The Smash.Hit.Repeat exhibition shows the works of around twenty artists from ten different countries. During the residency’s ten years of activity it has managed to build an interesting and diverse network of renowned international artists, never shown before in Finland.

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Dinner in Art
Kuparipaja, Fiskars
15.7.-16.9.2017

Dinner in Art -illalliset rakentuvat fiskarsilaisen ruuan, juoman ja taiteen ympärille. Ägräs Distilleryn, Ravintola Kuparipajan ja Greetings from Suomi -kesänäyttelyn yhteistyönä järjestetään kolme ainutlaatuista illallista kesällä 2017. Kolmen ruokalajin illallinen nautitaan taideteosten ympäröimänä näyttelysalissa.

Aistit ja kädentaidot ovat pääosassa illallisella: tuoksujen, makujen ja katseenvangitsevien teosten takana on huikeaa teknistä osaamista, viimeisteltyjä yksityiskohtia sekä yllättäviä kohtaamisia.
Varmista paikkasi ainutkertaiseen elämykseen!

Ilmoittautumiset: Hinta: 125€ (illallispaketti sis. tasting ja opastus) + 35€ juomapaketti. Max 35 paikkaa / illallinen.

Greetings from SUOMI
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
14.5.-24.9.2017
Mon-sun 11-18, tickets 5 / 8 €

The summer exhibition by ONOMA, the Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars is called Greetings from SUOMI. It is a unique combination of locality and internationality. The group exhibition opens discussions about the multicultural Finland and the current mood in our society.

Exhibition curators, artists Minna Suoniemi and Petri Ala-Maunus, encourage the exhibiting artists to bold commentary: how does Finland seem now as the cultures and identities are defined through multinational communities?

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With young eyes

2.12.-29.12.2016
Mon-Fri 12-18, Sat 12-16

With young eyes
Photographs from 1981-87

Exhibition of photographs by artist Eeva-Kaisa Ailus will be opening on the 2nd December 2016 at Gallery Zebra, Keskuskatu 90, 10300 Karis.

Another exhibition which opens simultaneously will be also photographs, by Liisa Väärikoski. Photos inspired by the female figure from sizes XS to XL.

Open 2.12 – 29.12 2016

Mon-Fri 12-18, Sat 12-16

www.gallerizebra.fi

ASENNE!¡
PRO PUU -GALLERY LAHTI
2.11.-1.12.2016

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Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future
Valkoinen sali, Kuparipaja, Fiskars
9.11.-7.12.2016
Aukioloajat tiistai - sunnuntai 11.00 - 17.00. Vapaa pääsy.

The Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future touring exhibition opens its doors for the first time in Fiskars, Finland, in November 2016. The exhibition takes place in the White Hall exhibition space in Copper Smithy, Fiskars, Finland.

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WE LOVE WOOD(s)!
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
24.5.-20.9.2015

Finnish wood is a local, ecological material that inspires the creation of remarkable innovations and export products. WE LOVE WOOD(s)! seeks new forms for wood, highlighting top Finnish handicraft skills – by means of internationally renowned design. The wood crafting skills come mainly from Fiskars and neighbouring villages, the designs from Finland, Sweden and Norway. Utility items have been made of e.g. ash, birch, aspen, pine and Lappish red-hearted pine.

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Blurred lines
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
18.5.-14.9.2014

The Creative Communities of Fiskars Village, Arabia Art Department and Nuutajärvi Glass Village

In BLURRED LINES, the Fiskars Village summer exhibition 2014, three leading Finnish independent creative communities come together to reflect on the boundaries between arts, crafts, design and commercialism. Artists, artisans and designers working with different materials and methods join their forces creating new collaborations and exciting encounters.

Howard Smith: Bridge
Kopparsmedjan, Fiskars
10.2.-28.4.2013

The American born artist Howard Smith, who resides and works at Fiskars in Raasepori, turns 85 this year. To celebrate his birthday the artist, together with his friends Hannele Grönlund, Barbro Kulvik and Antti Siltavuori, has mounted an exhibition that represents his wide ranging production of sculptures, paper cuts, assemblies of found objects and collages as wel as drawings and paintings. The greater part of these works are now exhibited publicly for the firs time; the earliest dating back to 1962, when Smith arrived in Finland and stayed – a gift to us. The accompanying music consists of compositions by Olli Kari, taking as his point of departure the sounds reverberating from Smith’s outdoor creations when gently tapped or struck with various implements.

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Visio
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
5.2.2012-6.1.2013

Visio presents a visual summary of the Fiskars ironworks village in the past, of its present inhabitants, activities and environment, and of all the things that it could be in the future. It is a collage of images, works of art and objects. This exhibition provides impulses for envisioning the future with the means of design and architecture.

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Joy
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
12.5.-15.9.2013

The joys of work and visual pleasures, the delights of achievement and giving.

The Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars stages two large exhibitions each year in the summer season at the Fiskars ironworks village in Raasepori. This year, one of the exhibitions commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Cooperative’s exhibitions with the theme of JOY, while the exhibition SPARK is curated by art critic Otso Kantokorpi featuring contemporary art and design that makes a statement.

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5×3 design visions
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
5.2.2012-6.1.2013

5×3 Design Visions is a series of five design exhibitions to be held at the Copper Smithy in Fiskars.

5×3 Design Visions continues the year-round exhibition activities of the Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars, which have launched alongside its established summer exhibitions. The series is one of the events produced by the Fiskars Cooperative as part of the programme of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.

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Spark
Old Granary, Fiskars
12.5.-15.9.2013

Critical Contemporary Art and Design

Art is often quiet contemplation. However, sometimes it is necessary to state your message loud and clear. When the sheer volume of injustice in the world seems overwhelming and so few seem to care about the necessity for change, artists need to take a stand and speak up – even by hyperbolic and provocative means.

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Oasis and Floating Gardens
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
13.5.-30.9.2012

Oasis considers the interplay between objects, the man and the environment through contemporary art and design. The boundaries of the interior and the exterior are a theme that has become increasingly topical because of climate change and the changing patterns of people in their use of time.

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Taste & form
Old Granary, Fiskars
13.5.-30.9.2012

With the objects and facilities of culinary culture in the main role.

Iron Ladies
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
1.10.2011-8.1.2012

When iron and light meet, metal begins to shine.

Our aim at the outset was to forge the groups’ various skills and disciplines into a series of collaborative works that would cross borders and explode boundaries. Iron Ladies, our collective name, also provides the title of the exhibition, defining the spirit in which these artworks were created. The direct use of scrap-metal in the exhibits demonstrates the Iron Ladies willingness to employ unusual materials in new and inventive ways.

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Tools
Old Granary, Fiskars
8.5.-25.9.2011

The Fiskars Cooperative will stage an exceptionally significant event next summer – the first major exhibition devoted to tools, their evolution and properties ever held in Finland. The world as shaped by humans emerged when man learned to use sticks and stones as tools and later to develop increasingly versatile special tools and implements from new materials. Our environment is full of different tools, but for some reason they have remained the means for making things that are more valuable or significant: food, clothes, means of transport, buildings, art objects etc.

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Säätö
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
28.11.2010-24.4.2011

“The views of young people regarding the significance of art are noteworthy, since the majority of young people maintain that art is a value unto itself and does not have to serve any practical purpose. Nor does this majority regard art to be a separate area. Instead, they feel it produces experiences, fosters self-awareness and can influence society.” Finnish Youth Barometer Survey, 2009

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Spatial places: The poetics of place
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
8.5.-25.9.2011

Spatial Places refers to the notion that all places have their history, and none are neutral. Whether a space is only space or can be approached in different ways depends on the context in which we experience it or the purpose/theme on which its design and special features are based. At present, the concept of space has become prismatic, suggesting a wide range of perspectives depending on our individual psychological-physical experiences and the social, cultural, ritual and other purposes of the space concerned. Space is one of the main concepts of visual art and its understanding and use are informed by the broader cultural framework and the traditions of art itself.

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Second Sight
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
29.11.2009-25.4.2010

Second Sight is part of the cross-border Nordic Delight project and the Commemorative Year 1809 events, celebrating the strong historic ties between Finland and Sweden. The exhibition is a meeting of the arts linking old areas of Finnish settlement in Sweden and Swedish-speaking regions in Finland, an encounter of almost 60 artists and artisans from both countries.

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Secret
Old Granary, Fiskars
9.5.-26.9.2010

Secrets and mysteries have fascinated mankind for thousands of years. They have been a source of inspiration for artists and scholars, who have also helped to create them. Creative people are often curious by nature and interested in all things unknown. Throughout history, artists and artisans have embedded hidden meanings and secrets in their works.

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Visiting — Design Village Fiskars
Taitokortteli, Joensuu
29.5.-14.8.2010

Design Village Fiskars on show in Joensuu: Arts and Crafts, Design and Visual Art from the Fiskars Ironworks

The Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars is a unique creative community whose members live or work at the former Fiskars Ironworks in the western part of the Uusimaa Region in South Finland. Founded in 1996 and currently having 119 members, the cooperative stages high-standard exhibitions of crafts, design and visual art throughout the year.

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Sparkling Eyes – Humour in Finnish Jewellery
Kulturhuset Ängeln, Katrineholm, Sweden
3.6.-8.8.2010

The exhibition Sparkling Eyes was organized in cooperation with Kulturhuset Ängeln in Katrineholm, Sweden and the Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars, Finland.

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Wood works!
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
9.5.-26.9.2010

WOOD WORKS!, the summer exhibition of 2010 of the Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars continues the cooperative’s tradition of material-based exhibitions by addressing a single body of material – wood and the forests in all their variety. The theme of the forthcoming exhibition begins with the forests and ends with the artworks and products derived from them. The cooperative has staged extensive exhibitions of high standard at Fiskars since 1994.

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Time and room
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
3.10.-21.11.2010

In the autumn exhibition, the Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars presents the works by Ariadna Donner, Mira Donner-Spitz and Mikael Spitz. The collective exhibition combines tapestry with Billnäs office furniture.

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Led by form – production in series
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
10.5.-27.9.2009

This exhibition focuses on new and classic objects and products that can be made in series. It also includes handcrafted artefacts that are intended for limited editions.

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Ruukki nimeltä Fiskars
Copper Smithy, Fiskars
4.10.-22.11.2009

Viewpoints on Fiskars Village as a living environment.

Concept and realization by the sculptor Sirpa Kolu

It is Beautiful Here
Old Granary, Fiskars
10.5.-27.9.2009

The history and past of a material are at all times inevitably present in it. In textiles the meanings of this past are often so human, close and accessible that one is drawn to consider the essence of artifacts and images almost unnoticeable, even naturally.

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Valaisin Antti Siltavuori & Barbro Kulvik

Exhibitions 1994-2008

18.6.1994-30.9.2008

* archived only in Finnish

CASE in point 31 Nov 2008−26 Apr 2009, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Howard Smith – Party 45 5.10.−23.11.2008, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Simple Life 11.5.-28.9.2008, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Tulessa syntynyt 11.5.-28.9.2008, Granary, Fiskars

Sparkling Eyes24.11. – 27.4.2008, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Motifs 7.10. – 18.11.2007, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Points of view 13.5. – 30.9.2007, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Transparent 13.5. – 30.9.2007, Granary, Fiskars

Knife and Sabre 4.2. – 29.4.2007, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Light & Sound & Vladimir Tarasov 25.11.2006 – 28.1.2007, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Homeward Bound 8.10. – 19.11.2006, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

REMIX 14.5. – 1.10.2006, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Harvest 14.5. – 1.10.2006, Granary, Fiskars

Jaakko Pakkala 19.3. – 30.4.2006, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

KONCEPTDESIGN 22.1. -12.3.2006, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

NAMED 28.11.2005 – 8.1.2006, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

CABINET MAKERS Rudi Merz and Kari Virtanen 16.10. – 20.11.2005, Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Labyrinth 8.5-2.10.2005 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Forces 8.5-2.10.2005 Granary, Fiskars

Rutsuko Sakata 25.3-24.4.2005 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Designer: no name 16.1-20.3.2005 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Kuusijuhla* 28.11.2004-9.1.2005 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

24 LUUKKUA* 1-24.12.2004 the environment, Fiskars

Ron Nordström PLAY 17.10.-19.11.2004 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Ceramics 2004 9.5.-3.10.2004 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

White 9.5.-3.10.2004 Granary, Fiskars

Curly Birch 21.3.-25.4.2004 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Q – Designing the Quietness* 1.2–14.3.2004 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

LIGHT 12.10-18.1.2004 Copper Smithy, Fiskars<

10. Exhibition* ‘Free hands’ 11.5-28.9.2003 Granary, Fiskars

Retro* 11.5-28.9.2003 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Unique 2002 12.5-29.9.2002 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

FinDesignNow-02 12.5-29.9.2002 Granary, Fiskars

Metals 2001 13.5-30.9.2001 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

7+1=8. Exhibition ‘Child’ 13.5-30.9.2001 Granary, Fiskars

Time for Wood 1997-2000 14.5-1.10.2000 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

7. Exhibition ’Hotels’ 14.5-1.10.2000 Granary, Fiskars

Nomad – Environmental arts Exhibition summer 1999 Fiskars village

6. Exhibition ‘Celebration’ 16.5-3.10.1999 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Savesta syntynyt – International Ceramic Exhibition 17.5-30.8.1998 Granary, Fiskars

5. Exhibition ‘Process’ 17.5-4.10.1998 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Valo reflecting Finnish Culture 16.11.1997-1.1.1998 Barbican Centre, London

Asko-Avonius Award 1997 19.5-5.6.1997 Design Forum, Helsingfors

Paper Exhibition ‘Fibre’ 18.5-31.8.1997 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

4. Exhibition ‘Dialogue and Team-work’ 18.5-31.8.1997 Granary, Fiskars

’97 Young Forum 19.2-6.4.1997 Design Forum, Helsinki

Fiskars Gallery at Artek 26.11-1.12.1996 Helsinki

Time for Wood 25.5-31.9.1996 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

3. Exhibition ‘Conservation and Storage’ 25.5-15.9.1996 Granary, Fiskars

Fiskars Bruksgalleri i Höganäs Museum 11.5-9.6.1996 Höganäs

2. Exhibition ’Natural Materials’ 7.5-1.10.1995 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

Design Finlandais, Musée d’art contemporain 21.4-19.6.1995 Nice

1. Exhibition ‘The Nature of Fiskars’ 18.6-25.9.1994 Copper Smithy, Fiskars

 

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