WAMx: Open Call

WAM Turku City Art Museum in Finland calls for artists based in Nordic countries to apply for an exhibition period within the framework of an upcoming project titled Temporary Institute for Artistic Research into the Ways of Coexistence, running from December 12, 2021, through to September 18, 2022.

Spectrum – Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Art

The exhibition boasts a wide-ranging offering of contemporary art, which depicts the diversity of gender and sexuality.

Mox Mäkelä – Strange

The experimental film Strange by Mox Mäkelä is a part of the idiot ibidem series, which was originally started by Mäkelä in 1995. In the series Mäkelä has traced the connections between her own Karelian ancestor and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot.

Artworks from the Artists of the Parrantie Ateliers WAM's cafe

A new exhibition opens in June in WAM’s cafe. In the exhibition Home of a Hundred Artists, there are works of eleven artists who have worked in the Parrantie atelier houses in Turku. The atelier houses have served as homes and workspaces for local artists for more than 50 years. However, this summer the houses will be demolished.

Inspiring concerts in autumn 2020

WAM’s autumn concert series of 2020 will be started at the beginning of September. The programme features 13 concerts as well as some of the top artists in our country.