Past exhibitions

2023–2024
Pentti Sammallahti's photography focuses on shared, transient moments between two living beings. Sammallahti's photographs speak of devotion, tenderness, and emotional bonds — of coexisting with all other life forms together in this world.
2023–2024
The exhibition invites us to contemplate how our societal norms construct and affect the way in which we see and ignore not only certain people, but the actions directed at them. 
2023–2024
The exhibition explores the power structures that define humanity, the concepts of active and anonymous citizenship and the consequences of the colonial movement.
2023–2024
The Autumn 2023 collection exhibition presents an unprecedented exhibition of the work of the pioneering and multi-talented photographer Hilja Raviniemi.
2023
Most acts of intimate partner violence take place within the four walls of the home. Continuous culture of silence around this topic makes the experiences of a large part of our population - those who live or have lived in a violent relationship - invisible. Patricia Rodas (b.1972) explores in…
2023
The exhibition draws a picture of the lives of the world’s northernmost indigenous people, the Inughuit* of northwestern Greenland; their families, communities and landscapes. A landscape threatened by climate change.
2023
Your Body Changes Everything, presenting works from three artists, Roza Ahmad, Coyote Park, and Iida Valmé, is an exhibition about the relationship between contemporary photography and trans and queer identities.
2023
This exhibition explores why emotions should be listened to and understood but should not be trusted completely.
2023
Real is an exhibition that dives deeper than the surface of reality, plays with the boundaries of photography, unearths utopias, and looks for convergences of realities in reflections. The works in the exhibition are united by the effort to conceptualise our experience of reality. Realistic,…
2022–2023
What photographs and messages would you like to see in the urban space? Picture Path is an outdoor photography exhibition created by the pupils of Jätkäsaari Comprehensive School.
2023
Malimania is a Helsinki-based fashion and lifestyle brand established by Nadir Mohamud and Salma Jama. Having grown up in Finland, Nadir and Salma were often puzzled by how they did not see billboards or commercials around them showing people who looked like them. This led them to think that the…
2023
Duane Michals – The Portraitist presents the first comprehensive overview of portraits by Duane Michals, a pioneering photographer who in the 1960s broke away from established traditions of documentary photography. He is well known for staging photographs that tell stories like a progression of…
2023
This exhibition showcases nineteen artists who are new Aalto University Master of Arts graduates from the Art and Media department's Photography program. The photographs in the exhibition are part of the graduates' final thesis works. Each graduating year represents an image of unique voices and…
2022–2023
Penelope Umbrico (b. 1957) is an American artist who works with photographs found on the Internet. Her installations present a clever and playful way to examine the enormous production and consumption of photographs in the 2020s. Umbrico ventures into the virtual world of online marketplaces…
2022–2023
The exhibition takes us to the United States of the 1960s, to a particular moment and place in history, and reminds us of the role of photography as an intermediary between memories and collective remembrance. The exhibition has been curated by the artist Rein Jelle Terpstra.
2022–2023
Rom is a photography project by Jonne Heinonen, created over seven years amongst Roma communities in Finland. The exhibition addresses the culture and everyday life of Finnish Roma from the perspective of an artist outside the community.
2022
Filled with kitsch, golden frames, fur, and glitter, Veera Konsti's exhibition carnivalizes and parodies the traditions of both painting and nature photography.
2022
Katja Eydel reflects on how identity is shaped through the functioning of social structures, such as state-run institutions and other organizations.
2022
Forests of the North Wind is the final part of a forest trilogy based on research through photographic art by Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo, culminating their three decades of work on forest themes
2022
So Sweet Ukraine is an online exhibition featuring contemporary Ukrainian photographers.
2022
Film director Agnès Varda's (1928–2019) first creative life was as a photographer. Varda's first photography exhibition from 1954 will now be presented in Finland.
2022
Art collective Photofuss approaches the various undersides of everyday life, pondering both darkness and illumination in this versatile group exhibition. 
2022
The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the expectations and concepts related to photography. The exhibition is a selection of research-based projects that challenge the idea of “the photographic”.
2022
Zanele Muholi is a South African LGBTQIA+ activist and among the most influential international photographers working today.
2019–2022
Cartes-de-visite were the biggest photographic craze of the 19th century and early 20th century. The exhibition Cartes-de-visite from the Finnish Museum of Photography showcases cards from 1894 to 1920 at Länsilinkki in Ruoholahti.
2022
The historical exhibition presents unprecedented gems from the early stages of Finnish photographic art from the beginning of the 20th century.
2022
The main exhibition of Helsinki Darkroom Festival – organized for the first time – celebrates current darkroom art and the creative possibilities of analogic photography.
2021–2022
Poetry and political resistance are inextricably intertwined in the artistic work of Cecilia Vicuña. The Chilean artist's works are on display for the first time in Finland.
2021–2022
The retrospective exhibition of the work of Susanna Majuri (1978–2020), titled Love, gathers together photographs from her entire career: her most well-known pieces are shown side by side with less common early works.
2021–2022
What if a crow could take photographs? What kinds of photos would it take? What would the world look like through the eyes of a bird? Opening in October 2021, the title of the fifth Festival of Political Photography is ‘Bird’s-Eye View’. The festival reflects, through photography, on the capacity of humans to imagine the perspective of birds and to understand the world in an alternate way through that lens.
2021
The exhibition brings photographs by Vuosaari based photographers to Vuosaari House gallery.
2021
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.
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Kämp Galleria
Mikonkatu 1, 00100 Helsinki
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Museokortti
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