August 2026 Helsinki has changed a great deal since I got my first taste of the city. That was in the 1990s, which – when I think of that period – calls up two key experiences. The first is of ARS95. That survey filled the Finnish National Gallery’s Ateneum Museum (Ateneum) with works by Anish Kapoor, Portia Munson, Anthony Gormley, Alfredo Jaar, Yayoi Kusama, Helen Chadwick, Bruce Nauman and many other well-known artists. The second memory, on the other hand, centres on what appeared to… Read More »




