Amos Rex’s 2024 exhibitions deal with empathy, trauma and atmospheric data
In 2024, Amos Rex will make room for feelings. Its first major collection exhibition puts the focus on individual experiences and emotions. Meanwhile, Josefina Nelimarkka explores the various forms taken by water, our ability to envisage unseen events in the atmosphere, and the human connection with clouds and the environment. Autumn sees the opening of an exhibition of Larissa Sansour’s installations and video works dealing with grief, memory, and transgenerational trauma.
![Keiken, 2024. In the exhibition I feel, for now, at Amos Rex 27 March–8 September 2024.](/data/images/public/65671777/70058664/0ff80a3f-fec2-4973-814c-1d96d4fabc1e-w_720.jpg)
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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![Keiken, 2024. In the exhibition I feel, for now, at Amos Rex 27 March–8 September 2024.](/data/images/public/65671777/70058664/0ff80a3f-fec2-4973-814c-1d96d4fabc1e-w_240.jpg)
![Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind: As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night, film, 2022. The exhibition is at Amos Rex 9 October 2024–2 March 2025.](/data/images/public/65671777/70058664/59f48e11-30ed-463e-9794-0bd6adc291f9-w_240.jpg)
![Josefina Nelimarkka: The Cloud of Unknowing, 2023. The exhibition is at Amos Rex 27 March–8 September.](/data/images/public/65671777/70058664/91038573-76fd-44bb-b8a7-e78287754d9e-w_240.jpg)
![Henni Alftan: Darling, 2014. In the exhibition I fell, for now at Amos Rex 27 March–8 September.](/data/images/public/65671777/70058664/a3764952-2d19-4cb0-8bb5-d0d62bc43c21-w_240.jpg)
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Amos Rex is an art museum where the past, present and future meet. Located within the functionalist landmark of Lasipalatsi, the newly built domed exhibition spaces lie under the distinctively undulating Lasipalatsi square. Amos Rex presents site-sensitive, experiential, and often technologically experimental exhibitions by contemporary artists and their Modernist predecessors. Amos Rex is owned by Föreningen Konstsamfundet.
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Harold Hejazi vald till ordförande för juryn för Generation 2026-utställningen23.5.2024 13:02:21 EEST | Tiedote
Kanadensiske konstnären och speldesignern Harold Hejazi har kallats till ordförande för juryn för grupputställningen Generation 2026. För den tvärkonstnärliga utställningen söks verk från många olika konstarter, och Hejazi berikar juryn med sin expertis inom deltagande performancekonst, spelkonst och samhälleligt engagemang med konstnärliga medel. Amos Rex Generation-utställning hålls vart tredje år och visar upp ett brett urval av verk från konstnärer i åldern 15–23 år. Verken väljs till utställningen av en jury utifrån en öppen ansökan. Utlysningen till grupputställningen öppnar den 1 oktober 2024.
Generation 2026 -näyttelyn juryn puheenjohtajaksi on valittu Harold Hejazi23.5.2024 13:02:21 EEST | Tiedote
Generation 2026 -juryn puheenjohtajaksi on kutsuttu kanadalainen taiteilija ja pelisuunnittelija Harold Hejazi. Näyttelyyn haetaan teoksia eri taiteen aloilta ja Hejazi tuo tuomaristoon monipuolista osaamista osallistavasta esitystaiteesta, pelitaiteesta sekä sosiaalisesta vaikuttamisesta taiteen keinoin. Generation-triennaali on joka kolmas vuosi pidettävä Amos Rexin näyttely, joka esittelee laajan kattauksen teoksia 15–23-vuotiailta taiteilijoilta. Näyttelyyn on avoin haku, ja näyttelyyn tulevat teokset valitsee jury. Näyttelyn teoshaku alkaa 1.10.2024.
Harold Hejazi to chair Generation 2026 exhibition jury23.5.2024 13:02:21 EEST | Press release
Canadian artist and game designer Harold Hejazi has been invited to chair the selection jury for the Generation 2026 exhibition. The multidisciplinary exhibition will feature works from various fields of art, with Hejazi bringing to the jury his diverse expertise in participatory performing arts, game art, and social impact through art. Amos Rex’ Generation is a triennially held group exhibition that features a broad selection of works by artists between the ages 15 and 23. The works are chosen by a jury from open-call submissions. The application period opens on 1 October 2024.
Enorma mossjättar väcker stort intresse på Amos Rex bakgård – Kim Simonssons utställning öppnar idag 29.4.202429.4.2024 11:46:04 EEST | Tiedote
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Valtavat sammaljätit herättävät kiinnostusta Amos Rexin takapihalla – Kim Simonssonin Sammaljätit -näyttely aukeaa tänään 29.4.202429.4.2024 11:46:04 EEST | Tiedote
Salaperäiset sammaljätit valtaavat Lasipalatsin aukion – Kim Simonssonin (s. 1974) näyttely aukeaa tänään maanantaina 29.4.2024 sopivasti vapuksi ja Lasipalatsin aukion uudelleenavajaisiin. Sammaljätit ovat herättäneet jo installoinnin aikana valtavasti kiinnostusta sekä kaupunkilaissa että turisteissa.
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