Tampere Art Museum

The impressive exhibition year of 2025 will begin with the immersive and striking Surrealism – Collective Dream, celebrating the one-hundred-year history of international surrealist art. This full-house exhibition explores surrealist art’s vision of reality, highlighting encounters between the movement’s pioneers and notable contemporary artists. As part of the Surrealism exhibition, media art by Marco Brambilla, an Italian-born artist based in London, will be shown in the Nordic countries for the first time.

The Young Artist of the Year 2024, Suvi Sysi (b. 1990 Nilsiä) works intuitively with paper, wood and clay as her materials. Her abstract works are based on colour, touch and handwork. How and from what something is made is a central part of the works.

Joel Slotte’s "Mosse and Tattooed Friends" juxtaposes mythical creatures and medieval medicinal herbs with symbols of death metal music and pop surrealism. The Light Gallery artworks will be projected onto the walls of buildings in Tampere city centre starting from 24 October. The Light Gallery is part of the Tampere Festival of Light programme.