A major contemporary art biennial in Tampere this summer – artists for Art Realm ’26 announced

9.3.2026 Art Realm is a joint initiative of three regional art museums that organizes a contemporary art biennial rotating between different cities. The next biennial, organized by Tampere Art Museum, will open on 13 June 2026. Through an open call, 39 works by nearly 80 artists were selected. The theme of the biennial, TOGETHER, extends from the content and visual language of the artworks to working methods and collaboration with partners.

6.2.2026 The collection exhibition Encore! offers audiences a unique opportunity to experience works by significant classical artists alongside compelling contemporary art. Spanning all three floors of the museum, the exhibition presents works from the collections of the Tampere Art Museum and the City of Tampere by nearly 90 artists, ranging from the 1810s to the 2020s. On display are paintings, sculptures, prints, photography, and media art.

23.1.2026 Visual artist Roope Itälinna has been selected as the Young Artist of the Year 2026. He will receive a €25,000 grant awarded by the City of Tampere, as well as the opportunity to present a solo exhibition at the Tampere Art Museum’s exhibition space in the Finlayson area in autumn 2026. Itälinna is the 42nd artist to receive the Young Artist of the Year award.

22.10.2025 In honor of the Moomin 80th anniversary, Tampere Art Museum’s collection artist Tove Jansson has been chosen as the Light Gallery artist of 2025. The light art installation, projected onto the facades of central Tampere buildings, is titled The Moomins’ Journey Home. The illustrations have been selected from Jansson’s very first Moomin story. Light Gallery is part of the Tampere Festival of Light, opening 24 October 2025.

13.10.2025 Tampere Festival of Light is back to brighten up the darkest time of the year with a variety of illuminations and events. The traditional opening ceremony will be held in Koskipuisto Park on Friday, 24 October at 7 pm, and admission to the event is free. This year, the festival will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Moomins with Moomin-themed lighting displays and the Light Gallery exhibition titled The Moomins’ Journey Home.

7.10.2025 A Lotta Svärd monument has been completed in Tampere as a tribute to the work and legacy of the Lotta women. The artwork called “Läpi harmaan kiven” by sculptor Anne Koskinen is located in the northern part of Tampere Cathedral Park. The monument will become part of the Tampere City Art Collection, administered by the Tampere Art Museum.

25.9.2025 On Saturday 27.9.2025, the Tampere Art Museum will open two exhibitions. The exhibition of the Young Artist of the Year 2025 Man Yau, will present works ranging from early prototypes to the most recent ensembles, including the Peep show series, which will be shown for the first time. Downstairs, a new immersive installation by media artist Hanna Haaslahti, Ancestors, will turn museum visitors into virtual doppelgangers and ancestors of a family.

5.9.2025 Young Artist of the Year 2025, Man Yau, is creating an exhibition in Tampere where gleaming surfaces carry silent violence – and suggest new ways of looking at…

28.5.2025 The installation of Akseli Leinosen’s artwork “The light that never goes out”, selected for the Satakunnankatu roundabout, is currently underway. The work will be installed during the night 26.5.–28.5. The entire composition formed by the artwork and the surface structures of the roundabout will be completed by the beginning of August.

21.5.2025 Viktor Jansson’s Knock out replaces Unto Hietanen’s Kalapoika sculpture, which was destroyed in Tampere in October 2023. Depicting two boys riding on fish, Knock out was installed in Viinikka’s Lampipuisto park, on the former site of Kalapoika, on May 21, 2025.

9.5.2025 Sculptor Maria Stereo’s work Dilemma has been selected as the 2025 summer sculpture at Tammerlampi. True to Stereo’s signature style, the piece is composed of broken ceramic dishes and tiles. Its influences include the ornate gilded gate of Louis XIV – the Sun King – at the Palace of Versailles, as well as the joyful, eye-catching aesthetics of circuses and carnivals.

23.11.2023 On 21 November 2023, the proposal to amend the local detailed plan for the Tampere Art Museum was approved for display in the municipal board. The change in the local detailed plan concerns the areas of the Tampere Art Museum and the Amuri Museum of Historic Housing and their surroundings. The supplementary construction proposed to the south of Pirkankatu and along Puutarhakatu has been abandoned.