• Juha-Pekka Laakio

    Juha-Pekka Laakio is a photographer and photo artist from Helsinki. In recent years, he has focused on food photography, photographing commissions as well as his own artistic projects.

    February 10, 2025
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  • Lokal Creators / Armi Teva

    Armi Teva is a visual artist and designer living in Helsinki. Teva operates in various fields, including sculpture, illustration and public art pieces. The works are united by a playful style, bold use of colours and a passion for drawing. Ceramics is one material close to Teva. She held an exhibition of ceramic reliefs on Lokal’s White Wall at the end of 2024, and we visited her studio as she was wrapping up the year.

    January 30, 2025
    Creators

  • Santtu Mustonen

    Santtu Mustonen, a multimedia artist, explores emotions like excitement, distortion, and the surreal through sculptures, installations, paintings, and movement.

    January 24, 2025
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  • Exhibition #101 – Ilari Hautamäki & Santtu Mustonen / Once in a Hyper Moon

    25.1.–22.2.2025
    This unexpected exhibition presents a collection of works that explore three-dimensional textures, color combinations, and various techniques used to create texture-filled surfaces. The materials used by the artists, such as glass and paper, serve as the foundation for the pieces. The artworks blend the organic and industrial, as well as the controlled and spontaneous, in ways that reflect each artist’s unique approach.

    January 16, 2025
    Exhibitions

  • Lokal Creators / Réka Király

    Réka Király is a visual storyteller. Born in Budapest, Hungary, and she currently lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Kiraly’s works capture the delicate individualism and uniqueness of people in the form of plants. These portraits are dialogues showing the emerging repetitive elements in nature. We visited her home studio in connection to her Lokal White Wall exhibition Seedling. 

    January 14, 2025
    Creators

  • Factory 2: Correspondences

    28.11.–31.12.2024, Seoul
    The works of five Korean and Finnish artists, who work by hand using different natural materials, correspond as if they are exchanging handwritten letters. It creates a temporary “commune” where diverse elements such as people and objects from here and there, light and colour of time and space converge and leave a lasting impression.

    December 14, 2024
    Events

  • Lokal Bazar: Works on Paper

    For three consecutive weekends we will host an event that we hope will spark your festive spirit and thoughtful gift-giving. Lokal Bazar: Works on Paper brings together a curated selection of artists’ drawings, paintings and prints on paper.

    December 4, 2024
    Events

  • Exhibition #100 – Niidome & Lautenbacher / Hiver – Fuyu

    7.12.2024 – 18.1.2025
    In the wintertime exhibition, wood and ceramics complement each other. The pitch black and glossy white wooden surfaces and the tones of red clay brick alongside porcelain are windows to other worlds – they bring play, warmth and comfort to the middle of this season.

    November 27, 2024
    Exhibitions

  • Institut finlandais: Between Earth and Sky

    Curated by Katja Hagelstam of Lokal Gallery, the collection Between Earth and Sky showcases the work of eleven contemporary designers through ceramic, wood and glass pieces, as well as sustainable household linen by Lapuan Kankurit.

    November 10, 2024
    Events