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The Sara Hildén Art Museum's summer exhibition explores space in art

8.6.2023
Art in Space, Space in Art explores how artists have dealt with space, spatiality and architecture. On display are paintings, drawings, sculptures and spatial i…

Sara Hildén Art Museum's summer exhibition explores phenomena in Finnish visual art

10.4.2025 Opening on 12 June, the exhibition From the Beginning sheds light on the development, artists and themes of Finnish art from the early 20th century to the present day through the Sara Hildén Foundation's collection.

Heikki Marila's major retrospective at the Sara Hildén Art Museum

7.2.2025 The exhibition, which opens at the Sara Hildén Art Museum on 8 February, presents important stages and turning points in Heikki Marila's oeuvre over the past thirty years. It includes new and previously unseen works.

Maaria Wirkkala's major exhibition at the Sara Hildén Art Museum

11.10.2024 Maaria Wirkkala's exhibition, which opens on 12 October, is an overview of the artist's career spanning more than 40 years. The exhibition includes variations of old works as well as new works made especially for the exhibition.

Jean-Michel Othoniel's major solo exhibition at the Sara Hildén Art Museum

16.5.2024 Jean-Michel Othoniel (b. 1964, Saint-Étienne) is one of France's best-known contemporary artists. This summer, the Sara Hildén Art Museum will host his solo exhibition for the first time in the Scandinavia.

International art from the early 20th century to the present day

16.2.2024 The exhibition Red Birds on Green Tree - Works from the international collection of the Sara Hildén Foundation celebrates the Sara Hildén Art museum's 45th anniversary by presenting key artists and works from the Sara Hildén Foundation's international collection from the early 20th century to the present day.

Sara Hildén Art Museum will not move to the Finlayson area

17.1.2024 The construction of a new building for the Sara Hildén Art Museum in the Finlayson area has been abandoned. The City of Tampere, the Sara Hildén Foundation and Mutual Pension Insurance Company Varma have jointly stated that the proposed building site in the centre of Tampere does not serve the museum's needs for development. The museum will continue to operate in its current premises.

Jean-Michel Othoniel exhibition at Sara Hildén Art Museum

4.12.2023 From June 8 2024, the Sara Hildén Art Museum will be presenting the latest work by French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel, including glass artworks, metal artworks and paintings.

Sara Hildén Art Museum's spring exhibition of key artists from the Foundation's international collection

1.12.2023 The exhibition The Red Birds of the Green Tree - Works from the Sara Hildén Foundation Collection, which opens on 17 February 2024, presents key artists and works from the Foundation's foreign collection from the early 20th century to the present day: paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints.

Sara Hildén Art Museum to host major Lee Bul exhibition

21.8.2023 Lee Bul is one of South Korea’s most internationally acclaimed artists. Her forthcoming exhibition at the Sara Hilden Art Museum will be the first extensive showing of her work ever seen in Finland.

Jukka Mäkelä retrospective

10.2.2023 The retrospective exhibition offers a presentation of Jukka Mäkelä’s work from the 1970s on.

Thomas Houseago – WE with Nick Cave & Brad Pitt Exhibition opens an interesting cultural autumn in Tampere Finland

19.9.2022 Sara Hildén Art Museum is proud to present Thomas Houseago’s first exhibition in the Nordic countries. Thomas Houseago is a world-renowned artist, known for sculptures in plaster, rebar, bronze and wood. For this exhibition, the British-born artist is also presenting new paintings and sculptures in redwood and plaster including responding to work in the collection of the Sara Hildén Foundation, Alberto Giacometti's (1901–1966) sculpture Woman on a Chariot (1943, 1962).