Ateneum will be opened to the public again on April 14, 2023.
The museum was closed in March 2022 due to ventilation renovation. Other changes include the renovation of the Ateneum museum shop, toilets, atrium (between the old museum store and the restaurant) and the entrance to Ateneumkuja. The premises will be made more accessible and inviting, as the museum wants to continue to serve as a meeting place for choice and a building where visitors want to spend time.
Three exhibitions will be opened next year. The first, which will open together with the museum in April and will be open for several years, is a new collection exhibition A matter of time. The content of the exhibition will be updated and the works of the exhibition will be changed as necessary over time.
One exhibition, four topical themes
A matter of time looks at the Ateneum’s art collection, which consists of four centuries, focusing on the recent, especially the collection’s form over time. How have power structures and the developing history of ideas, individuals such as museum staff and collectors, or pure chance influenced the formation of the collection? Why were certain acquisitions made and others not?
“The value of a memory institution like ours is maintaining continuity and understanding why and how we got to where we are today,” says Marja Sakari, museum director of the Ateneum Art Museum. “The works selected for the new collection exhibition communicate and create information and meanings, although the way to interpret the works depends on the viewer and the time.”
The exhibition’s four themes – Time of nature, human images, modern life and art and power – penetrate society’s current topics of public debate.
Edelfelt comes home after visiting France and Sweden
In addition to the new collection exhibition, two changing exhibitions will open in Ateneum in 2023, both of which will feature works never seen before in Finland.
The first of these, Albert Edelfelt (1854โ1905), a retrospective opening in May, which examines the life work of one of Finland’s best-known and most popular artists from an international perspective. While living and working in France, he met several leading names in the fields of art, culture and science, as well as art collectors and dealers.
Before reaching Athenaeum, Edelfelt’s retrospective toured the Petit Palais in Paris and the Gothenburg Museum of Art. The popular exhibitions have produced further research and new information about Edelfelt’s life and career.
The exhibition is open from 5 May to 17 September 2023.
The Impressionism exhibition features works never seen before in Finland
Opening in October, Color and light โ impressionism in Finland and in the world presents impressionist and neo-impressionist art from 1860โ1916. The exhibition draws parallels between the great masters of international art and the short but flourishing period of Finnish art from 1906 to 1916. International artists participating in the exhibition include, for example, Claude Monet, August Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Alfred William Finch, Paul Signac and Theo van Rysselberghe. The Finnish artists participating in the exhibition are Alvar Cawรฉn, Antti Favรฉn, Magnus Enckell, Pekka Halonen, Ellen Thesleff, Werner Thรณme, Yrjรถ Ollila, Tyko Sallinen and Wilho Sjรถstrรถmamong others.
The exhibition is open from 20 October 2023 to 25 February 2024.
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Source: Ateneum Art Museum
Source: The Nordic Page