Amos Rex’s 2024 exhibitions deal with empathy, trauma and atmospheric data

In the I feel, for now collection exhibition opening at Amos Rex in March 2024, our personal experiences and emotions take over. The more than a hundred selected artworks from the 1960s up to the present take us from isolation to empathy, from euphoria to nostalgia. There is also a new addition to the collection by Hans Op de Beeck, whose solo show attracted long queues in spring 2023. The exhibition is curated by Katariina Timonen, Kai Kartio, Kaj Martin and Krista Mamia. 

The collection exhibition includes a commissioned work by the London and Berlin-based international artists collective Keiken. The visitor’s own experience is at the heart of this installation consisting of silicone wombs that engage our senses of touch and hearing, while reinforcing our connection with other species. This is the first in Amos Rex’s series of artworks that make innovative use of technology while subjecting it to critical reflection. 

Josefina Nelimarkka’s The Cloud of Un/knowing, to be shown at the same time, lifts our gaze to the heavens. In her exhibition Nelimarkka, who works in Helsinki and London, investigates the different states of water. It contains new works that change in an instant, materials that stimulate the senses, and atmospheric-data-driven technology. Local weather data and scientific measurements acquired from the Arctic regions in real time are transformed into light, sound, and digital water droplets forming a subtle unity. The exhibition is curated by Anastasia Isakova. 

In the autumn, Amos Rex will host an intensely emotional exhibition by Palestinian-Danish London-based Larissa Sansour, in which the past and possible futures converge. Her video works and installations interweave current topics with imagined worlds through the lens of futurism, archival footage and even opera. The works in the exhibition – most of them created in close collaboration with the Danish writer and director Søren Lind – transform our understanding and awaken our compassion. The exhibition is curated by Terhi Tuomi. 

Amos Rex exhibitions 2024  

I feel, for now: 27 March–8 September 
Josefina Nelimarkka: The Cloud of Un/knowing, 27 March–8 September 
Larissa Sansour, 9 October 2024–2 March 2025 

Collections 2024 

Sigurd Frosterus Collection, permanent exhibition. 

The Amos Anderson Collections are at the Amos Andersons Hem home museum and at Söderlångvik Museum on Kimito Island, open May–September 2024. 

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