Kuulumisia (sanaleikki, englanniksi ‘Tidings’ tai ‘Ways of belonging’) esittelee kuuden kansainvälisesti tunnetun australialaisen ja suomalaisen nykytaiteilijan koruja, esineitä ja maalauksia. Mukanaolevista tekijöistä jokainen käyttää ja käsittelee erilaisia materiaaleja (esimerkiksi muovia, luonnosta ja kaupungin kadulta kerättyjä aineksia sekä kuparilla sähköisesti peitttyjä tekstiilejä) omaperäisesti, mutta kaikkia yhdistää henkilökohtaisen ympäristönsä ja kodin tai kotimaan tuntua pohtiva, herkkä havainnointi.

Idea näyttelyyn syntyi Naarm/Melbournessa asuvan siirtolaisen ja kuraattori Inari Kiurun kesän 2024 Lappeenrannan vierailun myötä. Kotikaupunkiin paluu 40 vuoden jälkeen oli syvä elämys joka uudisti Kiurun yhteyden suomalaisuuteen, lapsuuden maisemaan (niin ulkoiseen kuin sisäiseenkin) ja eläväiseen eteläkarjalaiseen yhteisöön. Kipinä pysyvästä kulttuurivaihdosta Lappeenrannan ja Australian välillä syttyi, ja Kuulumisia on yksi sen ensimmäisistä askelista. 

Lue lisää näyttelystä ja taiteilijoiden taustoista: http://inarikiuru.blogspot.com/2025/07/kuulumisia-tidings-ways-of-belonging.html

Kuulumisia (a Finnish word play translating to ‘Tidings’ and ‘Ways of belonging’) exhibition introduces six internationally renowned Australian and Finnish contemporary artists, contemplating their personal relationship with place and time through objects, jewellery and painting. The artists involved work in diverse media and techniques, each with an innovative formal language, yet are connected through a sensitive ongoing observation and interpretation of their environment.

The idea for Kuulumisia stems from the curator Inari Kiuru’s 2024 visit to her childhood hometown Lappeenranta. Returning after 40 years, and having migrated to Australia in 1996, Inari experienced a deep reconnection with her childhood landscape (external, as well as internal) and the South Karelian community. This joyful encounter sparked a desire to establish a wider, ongoing creative exchange and dialogue between Lappeenranta and Naarm/Melbourne – starting with this exhibition.

More about the exhibition and the artists: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/preview/9210536858841768842/3618168880243389295

Taiteilijoista / About the artists:

MARCOS GUZMAN // I am drawn to the challenge of finding a way to distil the emotional and social matter of our lives to a visual form. The group of necklaces I present are stills from a bigger picture, of minor narratives that go unnoticed in my experience of daily life, in the surrounds of my home city Naarm/Melbourne where I create, work, socialise, observe and live. @guzman_artist

COURTNEY JACKSON // Snow Country Studies is a continuation of a project where artists were assigned discarded objects to be reimagined as functional or wearable artworks. I was given a retro plastic light, destroying and rebuilding it into a trio of brooches over a period of three months whilst living in a small ski resort in Japan. These pieces were shaped by the magical, icy landscapes surrounding me and preserved as wearable artificial landscapes. @courtneyjacksonjewellery

CARA JOHNSON // The materials I work with help me to narrate ideas around the ways land is lived upon, and used, while trying to comprehend my own relationship to place. I see making as a sort of reprocessing, and mending, using just my hands or very basic tools, reworking until I make the material my own. I like the honesty of simple ancient processes like making string and carving wood. www.carajohnson.com.au

INARI KIURU // I’ve lived in Australia for 25 years, but the core of my creative practice remains deeply Finnish: longing for a connection with nature. Collecting and processing discarded matter from city streets feels akin to picking berries, mushrooms or plants in the forest, providing a deep sense of belonging by connecting me with my ancestral heritage and seasonal ways of living. @ordinari_observer

MICHAELA PEGUM // These works explore the idea that being is a process of intimate responsiveness with the lives and entities around us we often consider to be ‘other’. They embody relationship and transformation, in the growth of their material and their intuitively evolved form. Created by electroforming copper into textiles, a hybrid substance emerges that hovers between the known and the unknown. www.michaelapegum.com

SHAUN TAN // I’ve been painting small landscapes, both as a routine studio practice – learning about light, shadow and colour – and as a way of connecting emotionally to my immediate surroundings, usually Australian suburban streets. These loose and unfussy paintings help me think about the particular experience of each time and place in a very intuitive way, as if constructing lasting memory from otherwise forgotten experiences. https://www.shauntan.net

Täky Galleria on avoinna ma-pe 11-17, la-su 11-16 (16.8. alkaen ma-pe 11-17, la-su 11-15). Vapaa ja esteetön pääsy, tervetuloa!