Kerava Art Museum is situated in an old Nokia rub factory building called Klondyke-house.

The museum has exhibition spaces (1000m2), café and the museum shop. The Art Museum is showing national and international modern and contemporary art.

Address: Kerava Art Museum, Klondyke-house, Savio-station,
Kumitehtaankatu 5 F, 04260 Kerava, tel. +358-9-2948090
Open: tues-fri 12–6 pm., sat-sun 11-5 pm.

How to get there:
from the Helsinki main railwaystation train K to the Savio-station (30 minutes)

Contact:
director Arja Elovirta
arja.elovirta(at)keravantaidemuseo.fi
tel. +358 40 7456 509

EXHIBITIONS 2010

In 2010, Kerava Art Museum celebrates its 20th anniversary by focusing on its own collections and the work of artists working in the museum's studios. The main exhibition of the year is Silent Revolution, presenting paintings and photographs of the legendary New Leipzig School.

27 January – 7 March
BLACK RAINBOW AND FOG MOOSE
Works by Antero Kare, Juri Saarikoski and Soili Talja

Close cooperation with artists has been one of the distinguishing marks of Kerava Art Museum. When the Klondyke House in Kerava was refurbished to serve as a museum, the redesign included five studios that all have windows facing north for excellent light. The works by Antero Kare, Juri Saarikoski and Soili Talja were created in this environment. Through imageries of ancient peoples, viewers are led into a metaphysical landscape of colour.

26 March – 30 May
HOW TO BUILD A DISHWASHER
Art by robots for robots
Axel Straschnoy

The Argentinean artist Axel Straschnoy, who also studied in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, has lately been working in the United States in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Together with a team of artists, theatre directors, philosophers and neurobiologists, Straschnoy has designed two robots: an audience robot and a performer robot. The discussions of the team and the construction of the two robots were videoed and edited into a multi-channel installation that will accompany the robots in the exhibition. Straschnoy's exhibition and the associated seminar will form part of Pixelache, the largest festival of electronic art in the Nordic region.

26 March
CAMP PIXELACHE

In 2010, Kerava Art Museum will be one of the main venues of Pixelache, the electronic art festival that has been organised since 2002; the other venue is Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. In Camp Pixelache, the museum will be taken over by Finnish and international media art professionals who, in an atmosphere of playful experimentation, will lead the audience into the fascinating world of electronic circuits and information technology. The one-day programme will include workshops, discussions and seminars. Details will be published at the Kerava Art Museum website in January-February.

7 April – 30 May
THE PHILOSOPHER'S CHOICE

The exhibition will be the first showing of a significant art collection donated to Kerava Art Museum. In celebration of the museum's 20th anniversary, also Eino Ruutsalo's kinetic light works and Risto Vilhunen's striped man will step up from the shadows of collections to take centre stage, to be joined by moving image works and works that come alive with the motion of lights and shadows.

16 June – 29 August
PAIN
Jari Juvonen, Markku Hakuri, Timo Heino, Maija Helasvuo, Mikko Ijäs, Mika Karhu, Peter Maury, Teemu Mäki, Heli Ryhänen, Niina Räty, Ari Saarto, Juha Sääski, Antti Tanttu, Kari Vehosalo, Henry Wuorila-Stenberg and students of the Aalto University.

The experience of pain is private, but can it also have a collectively shareable form? The question is explored by a group of acclaimed artists, some of whom are personally familiar with the experience of pain. The exhibition also includes an educational and community art aspect that will be organised in collaboration with pain organisations. Among other things, visitors will have an opportunity to measure the intensity of their own pain.

15 September – 28 November
SILENT REVOLUTION
Painting and photography from Leipzig
Press release in English

The silent revolution in German painting began at the Art Academy in Leipzig around the time of the reunification of Germany. Among the teachers of the Academy, Neo Rauch in particular experienced a meteoric rise to international fame. The common denominator of the works in the exhibition is their figurative approach and the amalgamation of fact and fiction to create a mysterious whole that follows the secret logic of dreams. Silent Revolution is the first show of this magnitude in the Nordic region of work by the New Leipzig School.

14 December – 20 February 2011
TIMBER BRIDE AND FOREST WEDDING

As Christmas closes in, Kerava Art Museum will host a forest wedding. The masters of ceremony will be Tapani Kokko, a sculptor from Orimattila, and Jasmin Anoschkin from Kerava, as well as a group of ITE-artists, as contemporary folk artists are called in Finland. Extravagant timber sculpture and stories of the forest people will be accompanied by a programme of related events. Some of the works will go on a tour to the Finnish Institute in Paris.

EXHIBITIONS 2009