Years that Repeat their Days, Taidekoti Kirpilä

In 2022, it will be 30 years since Taidekoti Kirpilä was founded. In honor of the thirty-year anniversary, a celebration exhibition called Years that repeat their days will be held in Kirpilä . The exhibition opened on Friday 3 June 2022 and is open to the public until Sunday 2 October 2022.

The exhibition focusing on contemporary art has been curated by Mariliis Rebane. The exhibition presents new works by Freja Bäckman, Shia Conlon, August Joensalo, Minjee Hwang Kim, Iona Roisin, Emmi Venna and Bogna Luiza Wiśniewska .

The exhibition's place-bound works - some of which are disguised as everyday objects - are placed in a close dialogue of different techniques with the home-like space of the museum. The surroundings of Taidekoti Kirpilä thus form the basis for questioning the linearity of time. The exhibition challenges the strict boundaries between past, present and future. Equally questionable is the straightforward development of the life cycle from dependent childhood to independent adulthood, an essential part of which is reproduction.

The starting point is the idea of ​​queer time . The pleasure-focused works in the exhibition refer to the rhythm of existence, which appears as a strong heartbeat rather than the steady ticking of a clock.

Minjee Hwang Kim's carpet In the Garden references time, metamorphosis, and reincarnation. Having experienced several deaths of close ones at perhaps an earlier age than others, Minjee has spent the past decade wondering about mortality and eternity. Reoccurring symbols such as snakes, butterflies, forget-me-nots, and clovers are motifs often used as her way of referencing the fragility of life in contrast to the everlasting power of memories. In the Garden has been acquired by the Kirpilä Art Collection after the show.