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.

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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/

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.