Past exhibitions

Uwa Iduozee is a photographer and documentarist who strives to tell stories that are often neglected in mainstream media. Iduozee focuses particularly on structural racism and its impacts in both crisis situations and in day-to-day life.

The exhibition Our natures – Interpretations of National Romanticism by the Finnish Museum of Photography's young adults' group Photofuss draws reflection on "Finnishness" today. The word nature in the title refers to human nature and natural environments—this duality is studied both together and…

In her work, Maria Kapajeva explores the stereotypes, expectations and roles that women continue to face.

Vivian Maier returns to Helsinki with a new exhibition focusing on street photography

Mitä on hyvä elämä silloin kun uusi ja tuntematon muuttaa tutun toiseksi? Vuosaarelaisten valokuvanäyttely levittäytyy Vuosaaren kauppakeskus Columbukseen. Näyttely on osa Vuosaari 21 -hanketta.

The museums collection exhibition asks if a camera can be racist.

The photographic series Atlas of Emotions by Jari Silomäki (b. 1975) is a record of 21st century events: the rapid rise in prosperity and inequality in developing countries, the shared server-run home country that is the Internet, the public presentation of personal histories and privacy protection…

The Finnish Museum of Photography's new exhibition space, named K1, will be opened with an inaugural showcase, featuring two exhibitions in one — Coco Chanel and An Evening with Marilyn — from Canadian photographer Douglas Kirkland (b. 1934). The photographs depict two iconic women who developed a…

Media artist Liisa Vääriskoski's Munalissu is a feminist alter ego and art project that blurs the line between reality and fiction. The main platform used for the project is Instagram.

Clare Gallagher's exhibition The Second Shift is an attempt to recognise the complexity and value of the invisible housework and childcare primarily carried out by women on top of their paid employment.

AdeY’s images are driven by a particular focus and attention on people’s right to differences, primarily with regard to differences in physical appearance, gender, race and sexuality.

Still life has a curious force that makes us see everyday things anew, to observe the overlooked.

In summer 2020 the Finnish Museum of Photography will exhibit the works of photographer Sanna Kannisto (b. 1974), spanning a period of 20 years. This will be Kannisto’s largest exhibition to date. Sense of Wonder is a cross-section of the artist’s career, including her long-term photographic work…

In January 1968, a US Air Force bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed onto ice along the coast of Greenland. In South Korea, a group of scientists is attempting to clone a mammoth using DNA preserved in permafrost. In the Illgraben valley in Switzerland, scientists use an electronic alarm system…

Humanity has now left behind the Holocene, a geological era in which the globe has been since the last ice age, and entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. In the Anthropocene, the human influence on the Earth is so great that the change is irreversible; in a sense, it is a point of no return.  …

Class 9D of the Vuoniitty Comprehensive School has been the friendship class of the Finnish Museum of Photography from 2017 to 2020. The exhibition #teenmirror displays new photographs inspired by Vivian Maier's self-portraits and older photographs from previous exhibitions by Vuoniitty friendship class. Selected parts of the exhibition are on display at the Columbus shopping mall in Vuosaari 14.5 - 1.6.2020.

The passport can fulfill its function of opening doors only if the human body is linked to it in a reliable way. As identification methods have evolved and control increased, the body's relationship to the passport has been in a constant state of flux. In the 19th century, the holder's name was…

Vivian Maier (1926–2009) was an American photographer whose extensive body of work has stormed into the public eye since her death with numerous exhibitions and a documentary film. Maier remained a keen photographer throughout her adult life but never sought to showcase her work. Instead, she…

The Unfold exhibition introduces a group of photographic artists from the master's degree program in photography at Aalto University. The exhibition showcases the multi-device nature and conceptualism of modern photography. The exhibition, which was created as a result of close collaboration…

“We are the last generation that can stop climate change.” The Last Generation exhibition by Photofuss group contemplates current environmental issues.

The classic series of photographs Finnish Everyday Life (1971) by Caj Bremer (b. 1929), who reinvented photojournalism in Finland, was brought to life after Bremer gave up his daily newspaper work to tour the country, supported by a grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. Bremer wanted to…

Some Observations on the Political System of Finland (2015–2019) is a documentary trilogy by photographer Sakari Piippo.

Photographer Rasoul Khorram (b. 1980) recorded the life of his elderly mother Halima Khanomilla in a series of photographs over a period of three years in Oshnavieh, Kurdistan, Iran, on the border of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. The photographs show his mother going about her daily chores, tending to…

The Finnish Museum of Photography collection also includes photographs by artists that publish mainly on Instagram.

In One Picture Manifesto, photographers Marja Pirilä (b. 1957), Harri Pälviranta (b. 1971), Maija Annikki Savolainen (b. 1980) and Maija Tammi (b. 1985) challenge their own ways of creating art as well as photographic practices in general. In the exhibition, each artist presents one independent…

This is Violet Sea. Here, works by artist Hertta Kiiski (b. 1973) from the last ten years are brought together with new works and a new exhibition space. Their energies are ready to meet your energy. Girls, animals of other species, rocks and time take the center stage.   Hertta Kiiski…

The exhibition hovers between reality and fiction and uses the techniques of contemporary photographic art to examine the way in which we cling to one another and the world, dream, create utopias, and imagine the future.

The exhibition asks who is unseen, particularly in the West, and considers how difference is confronted through forms of visual representation.

P. O. Jansson (1920–2019) was a professional photographer and photography enthusiast who took photos throughout his life. He particularly enjoyed taking photos of nature in the archipelago and of those closest to him, such as his family and his sister Tove Jansson.

Fluvial is a meditation on the beaches and villages of inland Portugal.

In this exhibition, Photofuss, the youth group of Finnish Museum of Photography, presents thoughts on things that are undergoing change.

The 2019 Festival of Political Photography explores the capacity for collective imagination and the potential for action. The festival highlights photography projects that deal with smaller and larger changes, as well as alternative mindsets and lifestyles.