Primeval Forest – In the footsteps of Pentti Linkola, 13.9.2025–1.2.2026
The exhibition, curated by photographic artist Taneli Eskola, celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation. The exhibition highlights old forests and endangered habitats that were important living environments and destinations for eco-philosopher and fisherman Pentti Linkola (1932–2020).
Gallen-Kallela Museum
Seeing Silence, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5.12.2025–5.4.2026
Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck is the first exhibition to showcase the work of the artist in a major United States museum. Featuring nearly 60 works—including generous loans from the Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum, other Finnish museums, and private collections in Finland and Sweden—Seeing Silence illuminates Schjerfbeck as a valuable voice of modernism.
The Met
Pekka Halonen, Un hymne à la Finlande,5.12.2025–5.4.2026
The Petit Palais is paying tribute, for the first time in France, to Pekka Halonen (1865–1933), one of the major figures of the golden age of Finnish painting. With this unprecedented retrospective, the museum continues its exploration of the great foreign artists for whom Paris, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, was a fundamental catalyst.
Petit Palais