Institut finlandais: Almost All the Flowers in My Mother’s Garden
Lokal x Almost All the Flowers in My Mother’s Garden marks the return of a collaboration between Lokal Gallery and Institut Finlandais. Discover a new selection of handmade art and design pieces curated in dialogue with Hilla Kurki’s photography exhibition Almost All the Flowers in My Mother’s Garden at Institut finlandais from 12 April to 2 August 2025.
Institut finlandais: Almost All the Flowers in My Mother’s Garden
Lokal x Almost All the Flowers in My Mother’s Garden marks the return of a collaboration between Lokal Gallery and Institut Finlandais. Discover a new selection of handmade art and design pieces curated in dialogue with Hilla Kurki’s photography exhibition Almost All the Flowers in My Mother’s Garden at Institut finlandais from 12 April to 2 August 2025.
This new collection dialogues with Hilla Kurki’s photography exhibition, presenting memories from her mother’s garden. Curated by Lokal Gallery’s founder Katja Hagelstam, the collection presents seven contemporary designers who showcase handcrafted vases that can be imagined paired with beautiful spring and summer flowers freshly picked from the garden.
Located in the Punavuori district in the heart of Helsinki, Lokal Gallery merges art, craft and sustainability. Each piece reflects the harmony of nature in its essence, material and design. Katja Hagelstam, the curator of this collection, is a photographer and founder of Lokal Gallery.
Presenting the following creators:
Saija Halko
Antrei Hartikainen
Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen
Jatta Lavi
Katz Studio
Maija Puoskari
Eveliina Saarentaus
Explore: Lokal Events
Lokal Gallery at USVA House
08–09/2025, Kontiolahti
Lokal’s curator Katja and interior architect Hanni were commissioned by Ulla-Maari Koivula in the spring of this year to conjure up even more harmony, beauty and art in the Usva house in Kontiolahti | Arni Aromaa, Jaea Chang, Sasha Huber, Pasi Eerik Karjula, Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen, Linda Linko, Outi Martikainen, Henna Nuutinen, Carlo Raymann, Anna Rikkinen & Milla Vaahtera.
Factory 2: Correspondences, Helsinki
2.–20.7.2025, Lokal
In this iteration of Correspondences at Lokal, the artists engage with nature through the work of their hands, allowing different experiences of time and place to overlap and intertwine within a shared space. As they quietly respond to one another—through gazes, gestures, and unspoken dialogue—the exhibition becomes a momentary commune, where enduring relationships from distant places gather briefly and tenderly.
SOMMARSTILLEBEN
15.6.–24.8.2025
This summer, Lokal makes an all-summer-long expedition to Billnäs, an old ironworks village to the West of Helsinki. Bringing beauty in the form of artwork, crafts and handmade homeware into a space which still starkly echoes its unique history, the Sommarstilleben exhibition is a celebration of Lokal’s core values. The still lifes are an ode to the magical, fleeting nature of the Nordic summer. The abundance consists of works in various mediums and materials, in varying scale and subject, by a number of Finnish and Finland-based contemporary artists and artisans.
Bloom 2025 / Open Call
We are delighted to be having our eighth Bloom exhibition, Lokal’s biannual young artists’ exhibition. Bloom has become an established platform for young blossoming creatives to present their works in a curated group exhibition context.