ONOMA summer exhibition 2025 – UTOPIA
Onoma summer exhibition 2025 – UTOPIA
Utopia exhibition: 15.6.-31.8.2025, Copper Smithy and surroundings.
Open: Mon-Sun 11-18
Tickets: 12€ / 8€ / Museum card / Smartum / ePassi
Work group: Anna Ruth, curator / Antti Yli-Tepsa, architect / Lulu Halme, graphic artist / Matleena Kalajoki, Risto Musta & Kati Sointukangas, production.
The theme of the Fiskars based Onoma Cooperative’s summer exhibition for 2025 is Utopia. Visual artist and curator Anna Ruth (b. 1975, Canada) from Jyväskylä has been invited to be the curator of the exhibition. Ruth has been working in the art field in Finland for more than 20 years, realizing works and events often in unusual spaces. She curated The Mänttä Art festival in 2020.
My understanding of utopia is that of a daydream for a new social order. A system with specific parameters existing only as an intangible vision, glowing on the horizon.
The artists of the exhibition will be published during the spring of 2025. Media Day is celebrated on June 12th 2025. The realization of the exhibition has been supported by e.g. Fiskars Oyj Abp, Sophie von Julin Foundation, New Classics foundation, Taike (Arts Promotion Centre Finland) and The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland.
Contact: ruthanna@gmail.com / matleena@onoma.fi / onoma.fi/yhteydet/
Artists
Päivi Alajuntti / Upi Anttila / Laura Dahlberg / Wally Dion / Kirsti Doukas / Eero Haikala / Laura Hallantie / Heidi Hankaniemi / Claire Hurley / Pekka Ijäs / Mari Isopahkala / Jarno Kantanen & Reetta Ranta / Olli Kari & Laura Katila / Outi Karikivi & Tiina Vaskivaara / Saara Mahbouba / Laura Mattila & Mikko Merz / Rudi Merz / Jenni Mikkonen / Timo Mikkonen & Kari Virtanen / Ron Nordström / Piitu Nykopp / Stefan Nyström / Jaakko Pakkala / Deepa Panchamia & Viivi Varesvuo / Piia Maria Pekkanen / Elham Rahmati / Sami Ryhänen & Sami Järvi / Sasha Rotts / Pavel Rotts / Rutsuko Sakata & Kari Virtanen / Taru Samola / Meri Helmi Särkkä / Anna Ulff / Man Yau / Zine Kone/Zine Machine
Events at the exhibition
Thursday 17.7. at 13 and 15 Chinese Tea Serving Peng Lu will talk about Chinese tea and offer various types of tea as well as Chinese pastries and sweets made by Cong Yang.
The performance by Päivi Alajuntti is based on “Changing Songs”, composed by Rauno Lehtinen and lyrics by Tuula Valkama, recorded by Georg Ots in 1969.
The song has touched me for decades in many different ways. In today’s tense world situation,
is it utopian to hope that “For tomorrow’s song, now create the chords, understand each other”?
Changing songs
Performances
23.7.2025 & 3.8.2025 at 14:00
Place: Black Hall, Kuparivasarantie 5 C, 10470 Fiskars
Thursday 25.7. at 14 and 15 Japanese tea ceremony
Rutsuko Sakata and Kari Virtanen’s Tea Room comes to life with a traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Tea master Yumi Sugano comes to talk about tea, traditions and history.
Both events can accommodate 5 participants.
Participation fee 15€/person includes tea and a small sweet treat.
Entrance fee to exhibition to be paid separately.
Registrations: Rutsuko Sakata rutsukos@mac.com
+358 50 364 7197
Kuparipajan näyttelysalit
Kuparivarasantie 5, 10470 Fiskars. Pysäköinti: torin pysäköintialue tai Lukaalin pysäköintialue.
Kuparipajan näyttelytila on esteetön.
About Onoma
Founded in the historical ironworks village in Raseborg in 1996, Onoma the Cooperative of Artists, Designers and Artisans in Fiskars is one of the oldest operating cooperative of artists in Finland. Onoma’s 145 members represent dozens of different fields of design, arts and crafts, and each of them either lives or works in Fiskars village.
Onoma’s most visible form of activity is organizing high quality summer exhibitions every year. Curated and often international exhibitions are the most prominent annual events in Fiskars village. Members also have their own space with galleries and ONOMA Shop, located in the heart of the village in the New Work Tenements. Fiskars AiR is an international artist residency that has operated under Onoma for 15 years.
