Upcoming exhibitions

Permanent exhibition of Rauma Art Collections

Rauma Art Museum

At the end of 2024, a permanent exhibition of Rauma art will open on the entire upper floor of Pinnala. The exhibition will feature gems from the City of Rauma’s art collections, such as Eino Valtonen’s collection, but also changing collections from Rauma and Rauma-related artists from different decades. The special history of Pinnala as a home for artists will also be highlighted, as well as the tradition of artists’ associations in Rauma.

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Antti Laitinen ja Hanna Saarikoski: Sula / Molten

7.2. – 18.5.2025 Rauma Art Museum

The joint exhibition Sula / Molten by Antti Laitinen and Hanna Saarikoski brings together two award-winning, long-standing artists around a common theme. The exhibition focuses on ice as a material, a disappearing natural resource and a sensual memory.

The exhibition asks what will happen if there is no ice in the future? How will the great generation gap emerge as the everyday and sensual world is transformed by climate change? These are questions that deeply affect our identity in the north.

Antti Laitinen and Hanna Saarikoski made their first joint work in 2024 for the Art II Biennial. The exhibition Sula / Molten at Rauma Art Museum continues the collaboration of the Somero-based artist couple with new artworks. The exhibition mainly consists of independent works by both artists.

Antti Laitinen is an internationally renowned contemporary and environmental artist known for his works and installations that combine photography, video and performance. Hanna Saarikoski is a visual artist whose work combines painting, drawing, video art, installations and performative elements.

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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 Trienniale 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.

Many things in and around us cause and require effort, but is our environment and social life organised in such a way that we really recognise and see effort? The exhibition outlines a broader understanding of the concept of effort. Effort is a practical issue to be resolved, an issue related to the physical, but also a force that enriches the diversity of the human species, the rest of nature and the material world. We are fascinated by suffering and tempted to make an effort for each other and for 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 Seinäjoki Art Hall since 2010. Karimäki-Nuutinen’s own experience adds an important dimension to the exhibition: “As a mother of a daughter with disabilities and a wheelchair, I am a person who needs an accessible environment. Fighting 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 a glamorous 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 aims to highlight 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, but also 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.