Rory Pilgrim opens WAMx's new exhibition series Hop to Hope

Rory Pilgrim’s show opens the next year’s exhibition series, Hop to Hope, at WAMx, in which togetherness, friendship, love and hope are explored. Rory Pilgrim’s show examines how the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic affect the support structures in our everyday lives.

Hop to Hope: Or, From Maximum Crisis to Maximum Calm

Rory Pilgrim’s show opens the next year’s exhibition series, Hop to Hope, at WAMx, in which togetherness, friendship, love and hope are explored. Rory Pilgrim’s show examines how the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic affect the support structures in our everyday lives.

Georg Jagunov: Ancylus and Dana

The fourth exhibition of the WAMx 2022 exhibition series Institute of Coexistence presents Georg Jagunov's project Ancylus and Dana, which reflects on how we can at present day reconnect with geological and biological domains that have been around for many millions of years.

Kim Laybourn: Silly – sorry for calling you an inanimate object

Kim Laybourn's Silly - sorry for calling you an inanimate object is the first version of a long-term project of his. The work comprises a multichannel video installation for the WAMX exhibition series Institute of Coexistence.

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.

Alia Farid: At the Time of the Ebb

Alia Farid’s essay film journeys through the traditions of celebration on an island where life flows according to its own unique rhythm.

Anu Pentik – In the beginning there was a seed 4 June – 19 September 2021

The summer exhibition, Anu Pentik – In the beginning there was a seed, showcases Pentik’s latest artistic works. In this narrative exhibition planned for the museum’s premises, ceramics skilfully transform into everything from floating seeds to charred trees according to themes related to the life cycle.

WAMx 2021: Cosmic Archeology

Cosmic archeology is a series of site specific acts that explore the transformative encounters between reality and current cultural theories that reconsider life’s sustainability. By reflecting on a specific narrative form, science fiction, it aims to engage and speculate on new systems of social relations and ecnomical structres.