Media invitation: Welcome to the preview of Edith Karlson’s Dawn till Dawn exhibition on 16 April 2026

Members of the media are welcome to visit the exhibition between 10:00 and 12:00. The artist and the curator will be present from 11:00 onwards.

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

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

About the exhibition

Edith Karlson’s exhibition confronts visitors with four-metre giants, a skeleton arching across the hall, and an entire army riding toward its inevitable fate – while birds watch on silently. By a well, mermaids rise from the water to witness the consequences of human destruction on sea and land.

Mythical characters, for Karlson, are a vehicle for exploring questions that reason alone cannot answer. Humans and animals are united by instinct, a tenacious will to survive, and the ability to adapt – themes she consistently examines in her practice.

Karlson (b. 1983) lives and works in Tallinn. She has exhibited widely in Estonia and internationally, most recently at the Sapieha Palace Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius (2025), the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (2021), the Estonian Art Museum KUMU (2019–2020), and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (2018). She represented Estonia at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

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