The exhibitions at Culture House Laikku explore the interplay between memory, place, and materials
In the Gallery: Jennifer Lipkin: Välimaa – Liminal Grounds – Mellanland
Liminal Grounds explores place as an embodied experience. Jennifer Lipkin's paintings and multisensory works emerge through slowly layered surfaces, where memory, imagination and lived experience converge. Rather than depicting a landscape, the works open a space in which place is encountered through perception, atmosphere and the senses.
The exhibition draws on a Karelian understanding of place as an ever-evolving relationship between people and their environment. Its myths and symbols are approached not only as narratives, but as ways of thinking about place, time and belonging.
Jennifer Lipkin (b. 1991, Vaasa, Finland) is a visual artist whose practice centres on painting, sensory perception and the experience of place. Liminal Grounds is the concluding chapter of the Searching for Land of Mother Pearl exhibition series. The trilogy explores how a place can inhabit a person, even if they have never physically experienced it.
In the Studio: Hanna Oinonen: Hush Little Leftover
"Leftover
Adjective
surplus
remaining
left over
Noun
4. remainder
5. remnant
6. leftovers
7. scraps
8. food waste
9. leftover pieces"
(Source: sanakirja.org)
The materials used in the works created for the Studio exhibition have been sourced from recycling centres, flea markets and unsold cut flowers from florists. The works also incorporate rescued houseplants that have withered away, as well as the stems left behind from eaten bunches of grapes.
The creation of these works may have been influenced by reflections on overconsumption, growing inequality and a lack of empathy.
Hanna Oinonen is an artist based in Tampere. She has studied at Kankaanpää Art School and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, among other institutions.
Gallery: Jennifer Lipkin: Välimaa – Liminal Grounds – Mellanland
Studio: Hanna Oinonen: Hush Little Leftover
The exhibitions will be on view from August 22 to September 27, 2026
Admission to the exhibitions is free.
Culture House Laikku
Keskustori 4, Tampere
Summer hours through August 31: Tue–Sat 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Starting September 1, 2026: Tue–Fri 9 a.m.–8 p.m., Sat–Sun 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
