Exhibitions

At Taitokortteli you can explore our diverse displays all year round. In our café area and all around the main building, you may find alternating exhibitions that display art and photography pieces as well as portray out North Karelian artisanal heritage. You may find out more by browsing below.

Viivana Collective's Group Exhibition Moninainen

September 8 – October 24, 2025

Moninainen is a group exhibition by the Viivana Collective, in which five artists from different parts of Finland explore womanhood both as a personal experience and as a cultural and historical phenomenon. The exhibition highlights each artist’s individual relationship with making art.

For the artists, art appears as a voyage of discovery – a medium for joy, technical experimentation, and curiosity. Yet beyond joy, art also teaches, supports, and reveals the deepest needs of its maker. One artist lets art speak on behalf of emotions, another expresses inner worlds of experience, while a third listens to the direction of the work itself and discovers something essential in slowness.

Moninainen invites the viewer to encounter, through art, the diversity of womanhood and the power of personal experience.

The exhibition is on display at Taitokortteli’s Galleria Mustonen until October 24, 2025. Some works are available for purchase. Please contact the artists directly.

Artists of the exhibition Moninainen:
Eeva Aitta, eevaaitta@gmail.com
Anne Melakari, anne.melakari@gmail.com
Kirsi Ryynänen, kirsi@piitta.fi
Kirsi Sudenmänty, jokirsi@hotmail.com
Pirjo Tuovila, pirjotuovilan@gmail.com

You are warmly welcome!

Tale of Anna Bamford in Anna's Chamber (24.3.2022-)

In our café Kauppaneuvoksen kahvila, Anna's Chamber, we have pictures of the family Mustonen. The display celebrates a book made about Anna Bamford, the daughter of kauppaneuvos Mustonen, released on 24 March 2022.

Annan Albumi - Kauppaneuvos Mustosen tyttären tarina tells the story of the family Mustonen from Anna's perspective. Author Sirpa Salopuisto from Joensuu has translated Anna's original memoirs written in english and swedish into finnish and completed it with photos from Anna's life.