Institut finlandais: Roots (Racines)

Lokal x Roots (Racines) at Institut finlandais in Paris 7.11.2025 – 21.2.2026 New collection of Finnish handmade contemporary artwork and collectible design.

 In dialogue with the exhibition Pekka Halonen, an Ode to Finland presented at the Petit Palais Museum, Institut finlandais has invited artists and creatives from different fields to create together an ambitious programme, for an exceptional season exploring the themes of the emblematic painter’s work. Roots, an exhibition by renowned Finnish visual artist Kustaa Saksi, is runs in the main gallery at Institut finlandais, Lokal having curated the adjacent exhibition in the boutique space.

All pieces are for sale via Institut finlandais.

Institut finlandais: Roots (Racines)

Lokal x Roots (Racines) at Institut finlandais in Paris 7.11.2025 – 21.2.2026 New collection of Finnish handmade contemporary artwork and collectible design.

 In dialogue with the exhibition Pekka Halonen, an Ode to Finland presented at the Petit Palais Museum, Institut finlandais has invited artists and creatives from different fields to create together an ambitious programme, for an exceptional season exploring the themes of the emblematic painter’s work. Roots, an exhibition by renowned Finnish visual artist Kustaa Saksi, is runs in the main gallery at Institut finlandais, Lokal having curated the adjacent exhibition in the boutique space.

All pieces are for sale via Institut finlandais.

Featuring:

Pasi Karjula
Inka Kivalo
Eija Koski
Didi NG Wing Yin
Henna Nuutinen
Waltter Mahlberg
Santtu Mustonen
Carlo Raymann
Kati Ruohomäki
Kim Simonsson
Janna Syvänoja
Sini Villi

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.

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 at Institut finlandais 12.4.–2.8.2025.