4.6.–27.6.2026. Two exhibitions bring together works of mysticism and studies of aesthetics. Halme's works have an enigmatic atmosphere: they are built around narrative clues, unspoken knowledge and inexplicable experiences. Häkli's paintings and drawings, made with pigment inks and pencil on the pages of the book of aesthetics, examine everyday aesthetics and classic themes from art history.

Seppä's Hall and Corner Room:

SANNA HALME'S exhibition and series Soulful Beings emerged from the painting The Foot Washer, a work that still remains an enigma to the artist. The same sense of mystery also permeates the other works in the series, which open the door for the viewer to the edge of wordless knowledge. The works have a strong narrative.

The artist says she likes the ambiguity of her works. Colour acts as a guide; she paints with colour leading the way. Rather than opposing binaries such as good and evil, the paintings inhabit a both–and space. They explore the relationship between humans and nature; the nature that surrounds us and of which we are composed. Social tensions also surface, as in Song of Kyiv.

Halme's works are oil and acrylic paintings on canvas, made between 2025 and 2026. Read more on the website sannahalmeart

Sirkka's Room:

SIRPA HÄKLI begins her exhibition Aesthetics and the Artist (III) with the following: ”Like other humans, artists can be classified in various ways [--]”. The American professor of art history Thomas Munro set out this line of thought in his essay collection Toward Science in Aesthetics (1956). Munro defined artists as either philosophically logical (“able to contribute to the theory of aesthetics”) or impulsive-emotional (“do not understand the theory of aesthetics”).

As a reaction to Munro’s way of valuing artists, the artist took apart the above-mentioned book she had received as a gift, separating its pages into spreads. In 2012, Häkli began drawing and painting images on them based on what she personally found aesthetic, beautiful, or interesting. Developed mainly during artist residencies, the series now comprises over 60 works. This exhibition features both new works and works that have been shown previously.

Häkli continues: "According to the Helsinki Term Bank for the Arts and Sciences, aesthetics can be defined as “the theory of beauty, aesthetic experience, and evaluation,” with art, objects, phenomena, and perceptions as its objects of study. The earliest works in my series were based on my own paintings in which I explored stylistic movements of modernism; the later works depict everyday structures, technical models, maps, and subject matter familiar from art history, such as scenes from the Bible and classical mythology. When viewing the images, one might reflect for example, on the extent to which art is based on what has already been created, what shapes individual perceptions of beauty, or how different subjects have been valued at different times.The technique of the works are graphite, coloured pencils and pigment inks. The sources and references for the images can be found along the right-hand vertical edge of each piece."

Read more on the website sirpahakli