Visit to Tapiola Art Gallery: The Espoo Museum of Art

To predict the progression of a nation, you first need to examine how it acknowledges the concepts of art, culture, design, and the elements of Architecture, painting, and other forms of creativity. The world only progresses through the expression of the ideas entwined in the beautiful minds of artists, creatives, sculptors, designers, and visionaries.


An artist who engages the concept holds the future of a nation in his hands, should he choose to explore and share his knowledge. In any nation, country, or society, it is pivotal never to undermine the role of the artists and art, the creative who is actively involved in broadening their knowledge of architecture, intentional investments in these roles would certainly help development and growth.

Reading Sleeping Moss Girl (Kim Simonsson, 2022)

More details about the above sculpture


Therefore, the creation and intentional indulgence of art promise rapid growth, and its collaboration with Science and Technology would propel immediate transformation.


It's apparent how the creative minds of forward-thinking geniuses such as the Finnish sculptor and designer Tapio Wirkkala and his wife, Rut Bryk, a textile designer, printmaking specialist, and ceramics artist, influenced modern art in Finland, among several other notable countries in Europe. 

The legacy of Rut Bryk and Tapio Wirkkala


Interestingly, Rut Bryk successfully blurred the lines between Art, craft, and design. She is considered the key reformer of modern Finnish ceramic art.


As earlier stated, artists shed light upon a nation through their creative minds and various forms of art.

Bryk & Wirkkala


Understanding EMMA: Espoo Museum of Modern Art


On Boxing Day, Friday, December 26, I was at Finland's largest art museum with modern and contemporary art, design, and changing exhibitions. It's located in the WeeGee Exhibition Center in Tapiola (named after Tapio Wirkkala).

Art meets human anatomy


EMMA's galleries combine permanent collections and rotating exhibitions of international and Finnish contemporary art, plus design and modernist classics.


Currently, the exhibition shows are The Genealogy of Violence (film-based work by Mohamed Bourouissa), Antti Laitinen's Chiming Forest, which will be on display until August 23, 2026.

The Genealogy of Violence (by Mohamed Bourouissa, 2026)


Specifically, Chiming Forest is a large-scale installation about people's relationship with nature. 

Karin Hellman's exhibition will go on until February 1


Others are Ante Poreva's A New Chapter and Karim Hellman's Exhibition, which are also going to be on display until February 2026. 


See more photos taken at the art museum below: 

The genealogy of artwork in Finland
Sculpture of Moss girl and Shadow girl



Art study


Art by Liisi Beckmann

Sculpture


Nordic design principles (function, simplicity, human-centered)

Ceramic designs

For All My Dogs




Sculpture


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