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Iso Galleria: Mari Kämäräinen & Hannu Seppälä – Durations

  1. 03.07.2025 kl. 18.00—20.00
  2. 04.07.2025 kl. 12.00—18.00
  3. 05.07.2025–06.07.2025 kl. 12.00—16.00
  4. 09.07.2025–11.07.2025 kl. 12.00—18.00
  5. 12.07.2025–13.07.2025 kl. 12.00—16.00
  6. 16.07.2025–18.07.2025 kl. 12.00—18.00
  7. 19.07.2025–20.07.2025 kl. 12.00—16.00
  8. 23.07.2025–25.07.2025 kl. 12.00—18.00
  9. 26.07.2025–27.07.2025 kl. 12.00—16.00
  10. 30.07.2025–01.08.2025 kl. 12.00—18.00
  11. 02.08.2025–03.08.2025 kl. 12.00—16.00
  12. 06.08.2025–08.08.2025 kl. 12.00—18.00
  13. 09.08.2025–10.08.2025 kl. 12.00—16.00
  14. 13.08.2025–15.08.2025 kl. 12.00—18.00
  15. 16.08.2025–17.08.2025 kl. 12.00—16.00
  16. 20.08.2025–22.08.2025 kl. 12.00—18.00
  17. 23.08.2025–24.08.2025 kl. 12.00—16.00

Kunsthalle Turku, Old Great Square

Organiser: Turun Taidehalli

Mari Kämäräinen & Hannu Seppälä: Durations
Kunsthalle Turku, Iso Galleria 4.7.–24.8.2025

Welcome to the exhibition opening on Thursday, July 3rd, 6-8 pm. Free admission!

Durations is a multimedia body of work, consisting of two-sided ink drawings on paper; a soundscape filling the space; elements containing light, programming and electronics; and performances.

Images and sounds are created simultaneously and in interaction. Mari Kämäräinen uses different papers, inks, and brushes as her media. Hannu Seppälä’s instrument is a self-built analogical modular synthetizator that creates sounds directly from electric voltage. Sound is thus created simultaneously with the drawings. Both sound and drawing start from the scratch once the artists’ work begins. The line is both a recording of the session and an expression of duration. Shapes and rhythms remind us of structures that are characteristic to untamed nature, but do not portray any of these. The shapes in nature are characterized both by free expression and conforming to the boundaries set by the surrounding circumstances – they just are. Time is at the heart of these artists’ work: expanding and modifying the event of seeing, sensitizing it and returning to the basic sensory experiences. 

Kämäräinen and Sepplälä have been collaborating since 2018 having exhibitions and performances. Mari Kämäräinen (1987, Vaala, Finland), is a Turku-based artist who uses performance, spatial and earth art, drawing and storytelling as here media. Her work is often site and situation specific. Hannu Seppälä (1980, Oulu, Finland) is a sound artist, working both with musical and performative solo projects and collaborative projects in the field of fine arts and theatre. 

Program:
Thu July 3rd: Performance 6:30 pm–7 pm.
Sun August 3rd: Performance 2 pm–2:45 pm, artist meeting 2:45 pm–4 pm
Thu August 14th Turku Night of the Arts: Performance and discussion 7 pm–8 pm

More information: https://turuntaidehalli.fi/en/kamarainen-seppala-kestoja-iso-galleria-4-7-24-8-2025