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Eri Shimatsuka
Eri Shimatsuka is Helsinki-based Japanese textile designer, writer and illustrator.
Maisa Majakka
Maisa Majakka is a Helsinki-based visual artist and sculptor. Majakka is inspired by mundane experiences of freedom, the frantically transformative nature of life, emotional ambivalence and the female point-of-view.
Marika Maijala
Marika Maijala works as a freelance artist in Taiteilijatalo on Harakka Island and studies art painting at the Vapaa Taidekoulu.
Emmi Tavela
Emmi Tavela is a painter working mainly with tempera and oil colour. She lives on a small island in the outer archipelago of Porvoo.
Saija Starr
Saija Starr’s paintings can be described as expressive, and colours play an important role in her work.
Art in Homes: The Gifts that Keep on Giving
The artwork and handcrafted design in our homes are the things that remain most valuable, most cherished, most sentimental, and that develop the best patina over the course of years and changing seasons.
Lokal Creators / Fanny Tavastila
Fanny Tavastila is a painter who lives and works in Helsinki. We visited her studio at the Cable Factory one dark November afternoon to get a closer look at her works, which posess an innate and lyrical sense of colour, rhythm, texture and composition.
Exhibition #93 – Renata Schirm (Jakowleff) / Monotone
24.11.2023–13.1.2024
Renata Schirm’s (Jakowleff) Monotone exhibition is a look at the gaps, the relationships and rhythms between pieces of a whole, their ability to reveal the essential despite the insignificance of the parts.Armi Teva
Armi Teva (b. 1992) operates in various fields, including sculpture, illustration and public art pieces.
Laura Pehkonen
Laura Pehkonen is a ceramics and visual artist living in Helsinki.
Exhibition #92 – Kompott
6.10.–18.11.2023
It’s that time of year. Reflect, preserve and savor. It’s time to make jam, to bottle the summer harvest in a precious compote.HABITARE 2023
Lokal’s ensemble, as part of the Yhdessä / Together exhibition, consists of some of the best pieces by very skilled makers, offering unique works and design editions from local contemporary artists and designers.