Next year’s program at Rauma Art Museum features Antti Laitinen, Hanna Saarikoski, Cia Rinne, and the international group exhibition Rauma Triennale 2025
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The 2025 exhibition program at Rauma Art Museum focuses on slowing down and cherishing shared environments and language. The exhibitions explore the permanence of ice, the notion of effort, and the multisensory minimalism of language.
In February, the exhibition Sula / Molten by visual artists Antti Laitinen and Hanna Saarikoski opens, inspired by the material and experiential dimensions of ice. In the summer, the international art event Rauma Triennale 2025: Lumoava vaiva / Enchanting Effort examines the theme of effort and is created in collaboration with the international artist residency, Taidetila Muijala. In October, internationally renowned artist Cia Rinne presents her solo exhibition Wasting my Grammar, which combines multilingualism with light, soundscapes, object installations, and video art.
Sula / Molten: Ice as Material and Memory
Opening in early spring 2025, Sula / Molten marks the first joint exhibition of Antti Laitinen and Hanna Saarikoski, two acclaimed artists with long-standing careers. The exhibition contemplates ice as a material, a vanishing natural resource, and a sensory memory.
– The exhibition raises questions about what happens if, in the future, ice ceases to exist. How does this disrupt our daily and sensory world and create a generational gap? These are deeply identity-shaping questions for us in the North, explains curator Heta Kaisto.
While the exhibition includes collaborative works, it is primarily built around the artists’ individual pieces. Antti Laitinen is internationally recognized for his contemporary and environmental art combining photography, video, and performance. Hanna Saarikoski’s work spans painting, drawing, video art, installations, and performative elements. The exhibition runs from February 7 to May 18, 2025, at Rauma Art Museum.
Rauma Triennale 2025: Lumoava vaiva / Enchanting Effort
The third edition of the Rauma Triennale, opening in summer 2025, delves into the concept of effort as a fundamental aspect of the human body and society.
– Many things around and within us require effort, but is our environment arranged in a way that we truly recognize and value effort? The exhibition seeks to broaden our understanding of the concept, positioning effort as both a practical necessity and a force enriching the diversity of life, says Kaisto.
Curated by Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen, an experienced curator and PhD researcher, the exhibition reflects on intertwined perspectives on effort, including her personal experience as a mother of a child who uses a wheelchair. Karimäki-Nuutinen suggests that viewing effort as enchanting can guide us toward a more sustainable life.
– As the mother of a developmentally disabled daughter who uses a wheelchair, I am someone who requires an accessible environment. Making an effort to overcome the barriers to my daughter’s participation is a daily part of my life. Her wheelchair is an extension of my maternal body. In the exhibition, I want to explore effort from many intertwined perspectives and propose that viewing effort as something enchanting can guide us toward more sustainable living, Karimäki-Nuutinen states.
Part of Rauma Triennale 2025 will be held at Taidetila Muijala, located in the village of Reila. The collaboration between Rauma Art Museum and Muijala aims to emphasize the importance of innovative and bold initiatives for accessibility in the art field and local culture. Roos Hermsen (NL) and Serhii Varlamov (UA) will curate the exhibition and event program at Muijala alongside Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen. The collaboration highlights the challenges and opportunities of creating art in rural areas, where isolation can be a hindrance but also where unique environments can be reached by making an effort.
Rauma Triennale 2025 presents a diverse group of artists and their work around the themes of effort and exertion. Participating artists include Minna Bengs (FI), Alan Bulfin (IR), Matthew Cowan (NZ), Ida Sofia Fleming (FI), Laura Hetemäki (FI), Isa Hukka (FI), Hele Okkonen (FI), Minjee Hwang Kim (KR), Christoph & Sebastian Mügge (SE), Laura Põld (EE) & Gary Markle (CA), and Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen (FI). The exhibition will be on view from June 7 to September 21, 2025, at Rauma Art Museum and from June 7 to August 3, 2025, at Taidetila Muijala.
Wasting my Grammar: Cia Rinne’s Solo Exhibition
In autumn 2025, Cia Rinne presents her first solo exhibition in a Finnish art museum. The multilingual and interdisciplinary exhibition explores language, interaction, and the untranslatable aspects of communication.
– The minimalist beauty of the exhibition is based on Rinne’s solo show Vad angår meningar är jag förtvivlad (I am very miserable about sentences), presented at Marabouparken Art Hall in Stockholm in spring 2024, and expanded with new and older works for Rauma Art Museum. The exhibition also marks a new direction for Rauma Art Museum in exploring minimalist, language-based contemporary art exhibitions, where Rinne’s object and video installations take center stage, Kaisto explains.
Rinne’s works have been displayed in prestigious international institutions, including INCA (Seattle/Detroit), Haus am Waldsee (Berlin), and the Centre Pompidou (Paris). She received the Finnish State Prize for Literature in 2019. The exhibition will be on view from October 4, 2025, to January 25, 2026, at Rauma Art Museum. The exhibition is curated by museum curator Heta Kaisto.
