Secrets and Wood Works! – the summer exhibitions in Fiskars Village
The charming Fiskars Village is situated in Pohja, the city of Raasepori nearly one hundred kilometres west of Helsinki. It can be reached by taking express train or bus to Karjaa (wherefrom ca 15-km ride by taxi or bus to Fiskars).
Fiskars Village has strong industrial traditions. Fiskars Ironworks was founded as early as in 1649. Today Fiskars is known as a centre of Finnish design with more than 100 creative professionals as permanent residents.
Since 1994 the Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars has arranged extensive, high standard exhibitions every summer. This year they are showing their secrets in the old Granary and a large wood show is displayed in the Copper Smithy.
In the exhibition SECRET the artisans, designers and artists in Fiskars, and their specially invited guest artist Outi Heiskanen with her collaboraters Janne Laine and Markus Jäntti, artist director Marita Liulia, and jewelry artist Sari Liimatta are interpreting the theme of secret through their individual expressive works. The architecture and mysterious atmosphere of the beautiful Granary has inspired many of the exhibitors to create pieces predicated on dialogue between the artwork and the very space itself.
The exhibition WOOD WORKS! continues the cooperative's tradition of material-based exhibitions by presenting wood and the forests in all their variety. The theme of the exhibition begins with the forests and ends with the artworks and products derived from them. Some forty architects, designers, artisans and visual artists have been invited to participate with new perspectives providing catalysts for new ways of thinking regarding wood.
The exhibitions are open every day from 11 am to 6 pm until September 26, 2010. (On June 25 open 11 am to 3 pm)
Entry fees: 5 € / ticket to one exhibition and 8 € / combination ticket to both exhibitions.
For more information about Fiskars Village and the exhibitions: tel: +358 (0)19 2777 500
