Timeout / Gallery K, Tikkurila

Timeout in Gallery K, Tikkurila
9 March-29 May 2022 

The works at the exhibition deal with sport, motion and movement. The themes of the Timeout exhibition are explored both from a contemporary perspective and through older works. Visual arts and sport, the systems, institutions and social structures around them, are based on the ideals of modern Western culture. These structures have gained their common form only a couple of hundred years ago. Their birth stories are similar in many respects. Still, sport is a rare, even surprising, theme in visual arts.

Art and sport are often perceived as remote from each other, or as each other’s opposites. Ample points of converge can however be found, historically and in present time. While in Ancient Greece the purpose of the sculptures of young athletes was to depict the perfect dimensions of a human body, as a theme in contemporary art sport can be a way to deal with, for example politics, as in Martta Tuomaala’s video installation FinnCycling-Soumi-Perkele! Vol. 2.

In the works of both Alina Sinivaara and Martta Tuomaala the artist herself is very strongly present. In Sinivaara’s works through the dynamic and riveting brush strokes, the depiction of movement and the expressive colors. In Tuomaala’s video installation the viewers can attend a spinning class coached by the artist herself. In these works the artist and thereby also the viewer are not just observers at a sporting event but an important of part of the formation of the works themselves.

Works from the following artists come from the collection of the Vantaa Art Museum: Eero Eirto, Juhana Blomstedt, Kari Piippo, Laila Pullinen, Risto Vilhunen and Sven-Olof Westerlund. In addition to the works from the collection, the exhibition features a video installation by Martta Tuomaala and paintings by Alina Sinivaara.

Laila Pullinen has combined art and sport in her works by drawing a parallel between heroes of the Antiquity and successful Finnish athletes. The exhibition includes three works where she associates the Finnish shot putter Arsi Harju and the mythological Heracles. The exhibition entity includes Laila Pullinen’s bronze sculpture Harju / Heracles, which is located in the lobby of the Vantaa City Hall, next to Galleria K. The work can be seen during the opening hours of the City Hall.

Gallery K, Tikkurila

Gallery K is Vantaa Art Museum Artsi´s and Vantaa Artists' Associations shared exhibition space next to the Vantaa City Hall in Tikkurila.

Half of Gallery K's exhibitions are produced by the artists' association and half by the art museum. The building has previously served as Vantaa's main library. Vantaa Artists 'Association also runs an art rental studio in connection with Gallery K, which displays a changing collection of works by member artists.

 You can find more information about Gallery K's exhibitions and opening hours on the Vantaa Artists' Association's website (in Finnish)

Address and opening hours

Gallery K
Asematie 7, 01300 Vantaa

Opening hours: Wed 12–18, Thu, Fri 11–17, Sat-Sun 12–16.

Warmly welcome – free entrance!