Summer exhibitions at the Finnish Glass Museum

Laura Laine - Nature Morte
18.5.-29.9.2024

The exhibition offers a diverse overview of the career of one of Finland's most famous fashion illustrators, Laura Laine (b. 1983), using various media.

As a glass artist, Laine has achieved fame both internationally and nationally. Laine's art illustrates a young and trendy style trend in international glass art.
Laine has worked for Vogue Japan and numerous other well-known fashion publications and cosmetics brands, among others. As an artist, she has been exhibited in Tokyo, New York,
In London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Helsinki.

The theme of the new glass sculptures and paintings in the exhibition at the Finnish Glass Museum is the vanitas motif in painting and Dutch and Flemish still life painting of the 1500th and 1600th centuries.
golden age. Vanitas appears in the works, sometimes hinting and challenging interpretation, sometimes strongly demanding attention.

Idylli - Inkeri Toika's art
25.5.-29.9.2024

Inkeri Toikka (1931–2009), originally from Iissalo, is known as a glass artist, especially for her delicate and decorative motifs, but also for her bold and colorful practical glassware. Finnish
The Glass Museum last presented Toikka's work in 1988. The new summer exhibition brings together a diverse overview of the artist's career.

Toikka studied at the Institute of Art and Design in the ceramic art department and worked in the applied arts department of Arabia Oy from 1955 to 1958. He was a summer intern at the Nuutajärvi glass factory.
1956 and married designer Oiva Toikka in 1957. Family was important to Inkeri Toikka and she wanted to take primary responsibility for the family home and children.

Inkeri Toikka began working as a teacher in Nuutajärvi in ​​1963 and in the 1970s he began working at a glass factory. Toikka designed art objects, mass-produced consumer goods and
souvenir animals. In addition to the iconic decanters, the best-known series of glassware are probably the Nautica, Viapori and Mamselli glassware.

In the exhibition Idyll – Inkeri Toikka's art plays with the idylls of pastoral art together with a strong expression of color.

 

Further information: Exhibition curator, amanuensis Hanna Kivelä, hanna.kivela(at)riihimaki.fi, 040 330 4104