MEDIA INVITATION: Introducing EMMA’s Yrjö Kukkapuro – Magic Room exhibition on Tuesday, February 28, at 10.00 am

We will present the Magic Room exhibition to the media on Tuesday, February 28 at 10.00 am. The press conference will be held simultaneously online and on-site at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art. The event is in Finnish. 

At the press conference, the exhibition’s Project Manager Martta Soveri will interview the curators, EMMA's Director Pilvi Kalhama, and EMMA's Curators Inka Laine and Tuomas Laulainen. Also attending will be Studio Kukkapuro’s Specialist Isa Kukkapuro-Enbom and the exhibition architect Jovana Lukić. Members of the media are welcome to independently visit the exhibition before the start of the press conference from 9.30 am onwards. 

Interviews can be arranged both online and on-site at EMMA. For further inquiries, interview requests and registrations, please contact EMMA's Marketing & Communications Designer Iris Suomi by Monday, February 27: iris.suomi@emmamuseum.fi, tel. +358 44 760 1930. 

You are welcome to participate in the spoken part of press conference also on Zoom via this link. 

Yrjö Kukkapuro – Magic Room, March 1, 2023–January 28, 2024  
EMMA is proud to present the colourful, imaginative and experimental oeuvre of an influential pioneer of Finnish design, Yrjö Kukkapuro (b. 1933). Yrjö Kukkapuro – Magic Room is an exhibition marking the occasion of the designer’s 90th birthday, presenting his iconic designs alongside his greatest long-term source of inspiration – art. 

Magic Room highlights parallels between Kukkapuro’s designs and modern and postmodern art. The designer's most enduring source inspiration was his spouse, the printmaker Irmeli Kukkapuro (1934–2022). The exhibition architecture is based on the Magic Room concept developed by Kukkapuro in the 1980s, which displays furniture in the form of an installation using various structures and lighting effects. 

Alongside Yrjö Kukkapuro’s designs, Magic Room also features works by his contemporaries and present-day artists: Timo Aalto, Jacob Dahlgren, Beryl Furman, Esa Laurema, Vladimir Kopteff, Kristian Krokfors, Irmeli Kukkapuro, Matti Kujasalo,Jussi Niva, Lars-Gunnar Nordström, Kristiina Nyrhinen, Tarja Pitkänen- Walter, Airi Snellman-Hänninen, Mari Sunna and Osmo Valtonen.