Mikko Luostarinen: Decoration 5.0
Mar 14 – Apr 6, 2025
Ruoholahdenranta 3 a, 00180 Helsinki
“The exhibition series titled Decoration is a multifaceted concept that branches out in different directions, combining not only visual art but also influences from fields such as interior design and set design.
Through my works, I explore the blurred boundary between the traditional divisions of “decoration” and “art,” and how an image is interpreted in different ways depending on its purpose, materiality, and presentation.
What happens when an image is printed on a lightbox or hung from the ceiling like a set piece? Does the image distance itself from the viewer when presented digitally printed on a lightbox, or does it come closer to the viewer, acting as an easily approachable and active piece in relation to the exhibition space? Large works, which follow the dimensions of the exhibition space, partly communicate with the architecture of the space itself.
The themes of ornament and decoration serve as the central structure of the works. The pieces are a kind of hybrid, where visual influences from popular culture and other non-Western cultures mix and parallel each other, making aesthetics and decoration the very subject of the images.
Various working methods interact with each other, so that image themes continue from one technique and material to another.”
Forum Box
14.3.-6.4.2025
Tue-Sun 11.00-17.00
Free entry
