Invitation for media: Press conference for Rock, Paper, Scissors exhibition on Thursday, 13 February

The press conference starts at 11:00 (in Finnish). Before that, media representatives have the opportunity to explore the exhibition from 10:00. The exhibition will be open for preview until 13:00.

Arrival: The doors of the museum open at 10:00. The address is Mannerheiminaukio 2, 00100 Helsinki.

Registration and more information: Communications Officer Kiira Koskela, kiira.koskela@kiasma.fi, +358 50 4786 861

Fundamental questions in contemporary art

Rock, Paper, Scissors exhibition delves into many of the fundamental questions in contemporary art: Why does contemporary art look the way it does? What do the choices of material tell us? What kind of material are sounds – or thoughts – for an artist? The exhibition also raises questions of authorship and contemplates modes of perception. 

The material choices made in contemporary art open up viewpoints on a variety of social phenomena. New technologies, such as 3D printing and advances in photographic technology, are changing our relationship with the world and with different materials. Environmental awareness has also changed the way many artists approach their materials – the material does not have to be dominated, art can be made on the material’s own terms.

The exhibition, put together from the Finnish National Gallery’s collections, features works by 52 artists. The exhibition has a room where visitors can find out more about the materials used in many of the works on display by touching them.

The exhibition is curated by Kiasma’s collections curators Saara Hacklin, Saara Karhunen and Satu Oksanen.

Rock, Paper, Scissors – Kiasma’s collection exhibition will be on display 14.2.2025–18.1.2026.

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Exhibition artists

Martti Aiha, Dylan Ray Arnold & Océane Bruel, Inka Bell, Sissel M Bergh, Joseph Beuys, Sara Bjarland, Marcel Broodthaers, Baran Caginli, Nina Canell, Jacob Dahlgren, A K Dolven, Maria Duncker, Wade Guyton, Teuri Haarla, Eeva-Mari Haikala, Terhi Heino, Helena Hietanen, Reijo Hukkanen, Ann Veronica Janssens, Ulla Jokisalo, Ona Juciūtė, Donald Judd, Lasse Juuti, Marja Kanervo, Eeva Karhu, Olli Keränen, Kihwa-Endale, Tarik Kiswanson, Mikko Kuorinki, The Monday Collective, J O Mallander, Esse McChesney, Golrokh Nafisi, Maurizio Nannucci, Robertas Narkus, Claes Oldenburg, Sini Pelkki, Ari Pelkonen, Pearla Pigao, Michelangelo Pistoletto, James Prevett, Tiina Raitanen, Taneli Rautiainen, Nina Roos, Jarkko Räsänen, Krišs Salmanis, Richard Serra & Carlota Fay Schoolman, Mika Taanila, Antoni Tàpies, Nora Tapper, Marianna Uutinen, Man Yau