Exhibition #74 – Bloom #6
6.5.–5.6.2021
Bloom is Lokal’s biannual youth exhibition; an established platform for young blossoming creatives to present and sell their work in a curated group exhibition context.
The 2021 Bloom, the sixth of its kind, will be held in Lokal 6.5.–5.6.2021. Central to Lokal’s mission is to support emerging makers, challenge boundaries, make new connections, and thus to promote the work of new visionaries. Bloom exhibits works of Finnish of Finland-based artists and designers under the age of 30. The works include art pieces in various mediums, unique design items, as well as handmade objects in small-scale production.
The participants selected for Bloom 2021 are: Minna Arponen, Oliver Barbier, Ella Boucht, Caracara Collective, Elisa Defossez, Ama Essel, Taisa Helena, Maija Järviniemi, Linnea Kilpi, Ulla Kokki, Lorenzo Marotti, Riikka Peltola, Julia Töyrylä and Risako Yamanoi.
Explore: Exhibitions
Exhibition #110 – Linda Linko: Not Just One
25.9.–24.10.2026
“For me, painting faces is a relaxing form of play; it allows me to depict a person in a kind of in-between state — listening, observing from the sidelines, surprised or bewildered, slightly hazy, or conflicted. Beyond control, out of the public gaze, not performing. I believe that in these undefined moments, a person reveals their most interesting self. For we are never just one.”
Exhibition #109 – Paula Pääkkönen: Karamelli
21.8.–19.9.2026
Karamelli is a journey into a world of sweetness and imagination, where glass sparkles in delicious colors and broken glass is temptingly reminiscent of sugar. On the border between beauty and danger, the familiar and the strange, every gate opens a door to a new world.
AT FIRST BLUSH | Billnäs Satellite
28.6.–23.8.2026
Lokal’s Summer Satellite in Billnäs
At First Blush is a celebration of the feeling that wells up in one’s being at the sight of a new love, with the awakening of a new season, or as an artist discovers a new expression. The theme of the exhibition is the blossoming of new life in late spring and early summer – that annual miracle.
AT FIRST BLUSH | Lokal Gallery
29.5.–15.8.2026
This summer, Lokal spreads its budding branches across a few different addresses. Following by the group exhibition A Prima Vista at 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, a homecoming exhibition, At First Blush, takes place in the Billnäs ironworks village at the peak of summer. Preceding it, we have a glimpse of it all at Lokal Gallery in Helsinki.