Exhibitions | The Blue Verve

11.12 – 21.12

Hearty group exhibition

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“Through the facets of m/y eyes I have no unitary vision of your body”

We warmly invite you to join us for the opening of Liisa Mudist's exhibition on Thursday, 27th November.

The exhibition presents a series of recent painted self-portraits. Each work originates from a photograph: images from family albums, snapshots from the artist’s phone, or found photographs circulating online. The series focuses on the act of seeing and the unstable relationship between the one who looks and the one who is looked at, especially when both positions belong to the same person.

"i choose a photo that shows me how i see myself. how i perceive my soul to be. i choose the photo and copy that which was a moment i will never get back. but through painting it, i re-live this impossibility. re-live this little piece of a second, the moment gone forever."

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27.11 – 7.12

Fleeting group exhibition

We warmly invite you to join us for the opening of the Fleeting group exhibition. Discover what our artists have to reveal about what never fully became.

There are moments that arrive without warning,

subtle and elusive.

Not dramatic, not grand -

just a shift in the air, a glance too long,

the stillness after someone leaves.

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6.11 – 16.11

Horsegirl exhibition by Eeva Paavela

We warmly invite you to join us for the opening of Horsegirl, a solo exhibition by Eeva Paavela, exploring the experience of being driven beyond oneself.

The title Horsegirl is a term commonly used as a dismissive description of preteen girls; it is a rather awkward phase, a site of tension between the innocence of childhood, growing self-awareness, and social conditioning.

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23.11 – 2.11

Exhale exhibition

We are delighted to present “Exhale,” an exhibition featuring the paintings of The Blue Verve co-founders, Ekaterina Myllykoski and Veronika Gramotina.

Do you remember to exhale something you no longer need? Some memories stay long after their purpose has ended. They settle behind the ribs, rewiring how we move, speak, and understand ourselves. "Exhale" describes the moment the body stops carrying what memory has pressed into it.

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9.10 – 19.10

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Faces group exhibition

What do faces think when we are not looking? The exhibition explores faces as shifting surfaces. Coded, layered, and never fully available to the eye.

The face is both mask and mirror: a surface shaped to conceal and a surface that inevitably reflects. It carries the traces of being watched, the burden of expectation, the pressure of recognition. When attention drifts away, does the face remain still, or does it slip into another truth unseen?

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18.09 – 5.10

Insomnia group exhibition

The Blue Verve joins a beloved Helsinki tradition, the Night of the Arts @taiteidenyo, by presenting Insomnia, a curated group exhibition opening on 14th August.

Join us at Neitsytpolku 8 from 17 to 22 o'clock to discover what waits in the dark while the city sleeps.

The exhibition explores a state of drifting consciousness during insomnia periods. Visitors are invited into the strangeness of sleepless nights: wandering thoughts, dream-like places, odd sensations, flickering images, and the unraveling of time. Dreams, daydreams, fantasies, and moments of disconnection - these are the threads the exhibition gathers.

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14.08 – 31.08

Lucid group exhibition

We are delighted to invite you to the Lucid group exhibition at The Blue Verve on Thursday, 17 July. Join us at Neitsytpolku 8 for an evening of enigmatic art!

Inspired by the dusk and still of July nights, Lucid is an exhibition about perception in transition - the way light, memory, and inner vision sharpen in these gentle hours between sunset and dark. The title refers not only to the clarity of vision but also to lucid dreaming, a state where the border between conscious control and subconscious drift is momentarily blurred.

This group show gathers artists whose work captures this twilight state of mind: where the visible becomes suggestive, and the internal world becomes luminous. The works in Lucid invite a deeper attentiveness, one tuned to the slowness and stillness of July nights.

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17.07 – 03.08

Softshell by Eeva Paavela

We are proud to present Softshell - a Solo Exhibition by Eeva Paavela, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki. The title Softshell can refer to a material that offers its wearer warmth and comfort in addition to protection from harsh elements, or to a creature having a fragile shell, sometimes due to recent shedding.

In Softshell, Paavela explores the tension between vulnerability and protection through naturalistic, figurative oil paintings on linen. Shells evoke dreams of protected space. “The shell is a refuge for the ugliest and most unlovable form of oneself. But I am not only advocating for shell life here. The shell is not merely a tomb; its inhabitant must emerge sooner or later,” Paavela writes.

Paavela’s artworks question what we reveal, what we conceal, and whether gentleness might make emergence possible. Or must every shell open?

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