Upcoming exhibitions

Rauma Triennale 2025: Lumoava vaiva / Enchanting Effort

7.6. – 21.9.2025 Rauma Art Museum & 7.6. – 3.8.2025 Art Space Muijala

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 third edition of the Rauma Triennial in the summer of 2025 will explore the struggle and effort at the heart of society as a natural feature of the human body. The forthcoming exhibition will present a wide range of artists and their artistic work around the themes of effort and toil (vaiva in Finnish).

Many things in and around us cause and require effort. Is our environment and social life organised so that we recognise the effort that, for example, different bodies make to be included? The exhibition outlines a broader understanding of the concept of effort. “Vaiva” is a practical issue to be resolved, related to the physical, but also a force that enriches the diversity of the human species, the rest of nature and the material world. Could we be enchanted by efforts and thus tempted to make an effort for each other and our environment?

Rauma Triennale 2025 curator Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen (FI) is a curator and doctoral researcher. She has been working as the head curator of the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki between 2010-2024. Karimäki-Nuutinen’s own experience adds an essential dimension to the exhibition: “As a mother of a daughter who has disabilities and uses a wheelchair, I am a person who needs an accessible environment. Struggling for my daughter’s participation in overcoming barriers is part of my daily life. Her wheelchair is part of my motherhood. In the exhibition, I want to reflect on disability from many intertwined perspectives and suggest that seeing disability as an enchanting thing can lead us to a more sustainable life”, says Karimäki-Nuutinen.

Part of the Rauma Triennial 2025 exhibition will be held at the Art Space Muijala in the village of Reila. The collaboration between Rauma Art Museum and Muijala highlights the importance of new creative and bold initiatives for the accessibility of the art scene and local culture. Roos Hermsen (NL) and Serhii Varlamov (UA), together with Sanna Karimäki-Nuutinen, curate the exhibition and the programme of events at Muijala. The collaboration highlights the importance of art in a rural environment, the effort and difficulty of an isolated location, and the unique environment that can be achieved with a little effort.

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Cia Rinne, Wasting my Grammar

4.10.2025 – 25.1.2026 Rauma Art Museum

The exhibition of Finnish-Swedish artist Cia Rinne is the first solo exhibition of the multi-award winning artist in a Finnish art museum. Wasting my Grammar is a multilingual exhibition combining media art and installations that explores interaction, community and language, and the deceptive, untranslatable realm of language in communication.

The minimalist and beautiful exhibition is based on Rinne’s solo show Vad angår meningar är jag förtvivlad (I’m very unhappy about sentences) at Marabouparken in Stockholm in spring 2024, and will be extended with new and old works by Rinne at Rauma Art Museum. The exhibition is also a new opening for Rauma Art Museum in the field of minimalist contemporary art exhibitions based on language games, where Rinne’s object and video installations are at the centre.

Rinne’s work has been exhibited in prestigious international institutions such as INCA (Seattle/Detroit), Haus am Waldsee (Berlin) and Centre Pompidou (Paris). She was awarded the State Prize for Literature in 2019.

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Old Town Hall

Old Town Hall 2026

The Old Town Hall will be closed to the public from 1.3.2024 due to a restoration project. The site will reopen in 2026.

The Old Town Hall is the home of exhibitions and a museum shop Kirstupuad. The Town Hall was completed in 1776. The police station was located on the ground floor and the city administration on the upper floor. The museum has been housed in the Old Town Hall since 1902. There are two town halls from the 17th century in Finland, one in Rauma and one in Porvoo, which have been preserved in their original state.