Aino Eeronheimo, Heli Tuhkanen, Maria Mughal, Sari Tenni -group exhibition
Welcome to the opening ceremonies on Tuesday, August 8th from 17:00 to 19:00
FLY! exhibition brings together the stories of four narrators from parallel worlds.
Reality and play, dreams and fantasy intertwine. Inner images take concrete form in paintings and sculptures. Surprising twists and turns can be revealed beneath the colorful and bright surface.
The exhibition has received a local culture grant from the City of Espoo, which will be used to organize a workshop on August 31, 2025.
Aino Eeronheimo is a sculptor, ceramic artist, and visual art teacher (MA in 1997, University of Lapland). She worked as a visual art teacher in Rovaniemi for 18 years until she became a full-time visual artist in 2019. Since then, her exhibition activity has been lively. Her works are part of the collections of Rovaniemi and Aine Art Museums, Arctic Ceramic Center, and KWUM Studio Ceramics Museum.
“In my sculptures, the taxonomy of plants, animals and people becomes blurred. The details I find in nature merge with imaginary creatures and animal figures, with the help of which I deal with emotions and life phenomena. My goal is to work tranquilly, allowing the innermost part of the figure to move into the visible world.
I am fascinated by studying domestic wild clays. I have dug clay on my great-grandfatherʻs land in Järvenpää and Kainuu kaolin in Puolanka. I test the properties of clay bodies and develop suitable glazes for them. Passionately learning new crafts brings joy and expands the range of means of expression. Nowadays, I also make sculptures in wood and bronze.”
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Instagram: @ainoniaceramics Facebook: @ainoniaceramics
www.finnishdesigners.fi/portfolio/aino-eeronheimo/
Maria Mughal is a visual artist based in Helsinki and holds a Master of Arts degree (2004, Aalto University). She has held numerous exhibitions in Finland and abroad, and has created four public artworks in Finland.
Her work explores the sensitivity of childhood and the profound need to be seen. The quiet moments in her paintings also reflect an adultʻs wistfulness and awareness of the passage of time. In her latest exhibition, Lentoon! (“Fly!”), a child’s imagination takes wing — she dreams and dares to hope.
www.mughal.fi
Instagram: @mariamughal_art
Facebook: @MariaMughalArt
www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/EN/artist/maria-mughal
Maria Mughal CV
Sari Tenni (born 1974 in Ruotsinpyhtää) lives and works in Helsinki. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2010 and from the University of Art and Design in 2000. Her works are included in the collections of the State of Finland, the Paulo Foundation, the Salo Art Museum, and HUS. In 2005, Tenni was named Young Artist of the Summer at the Salmela Art Center.
“My latest works were inspired by the natural landscape of the Alicante region in Spain. Palm trees, in particular, inspired the ‘Palm of the Day’ sketches, which eventually led to this exhibition. In my previous work, the focus was on human beings.”
Instagram: @saritenni
Facebook: @sari.tenni
www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/EN/artist/sari-tenni
Heli Tuhkanen originally became known as a colorist painter, but around 2000 she expanded her expression to sculptures. Her themes are the joys and pain points of humanity, especially the lives and feelings of women and girls. She has participated in exhibitions since 1973 and has held solo exhibitions in Finland and abroad. Her sculptures on the theme of girls have been accepted twice to the Portrait Now biennale in Copenhagen. Heli is working on a retrospective exhibition at the Kemi Art Museum in spring 2026.
“I have brought sculptures on display. In my works I deal with the emotions of women and girls; joy, sadness, anger and freedom. The material of the works is my own sculpture paste made from recycled materials. It is durable and lightweight. That is why some of the works float in the air at Galleria Aarni.”
www.helituhkanen.com
Instagram: @arthelituhkanen
www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/en/artist/heli-tuhkanen
Heli Tuhkanen CV
Sari Tenni, Purppurataivas, 80x109cm, oil on canvas 2025
Heli Tuhkanen, Tyttö ja Perhoset, 120x60x60cm, mixed media 2025
Maria Mughal, Lentoon!, 131x100cm, acrylic 2025
