Galerie Anhava

21/08/2026

CHART Art Fair | Booth 21 | Päivi Takala

PÄIVI TAKALA paints precise and luminous paintings that carry a quiet, serene quality, crystallizing questions of existing and co-existing in the world. The soft palette of sand, deep darks and vivid blues nods to the quiet precence of early Renaissance frescoes, as do the floating hands caressing the black swan or holding the iridescent feathers. During her extensive career, Takala has explored painting as medium through disintegration, modification and reparation by for example physically perforating, sawing, and patching the paintings back together with cement. In her latest works she has focused on our complicated relationship living with other beings – horses, birds or flora.

Päivi Takala (b. 1970, FI) graduated from Hochschule der Künste, Berlin in 1998, and University of Art and Design, Helsinki in 1996. She has works in major collections, both private and institutional. Apart from museums inf Finland, she has exhibited in past years also at Ulterior Gallery, New York (2026), Malmö Art Museum (2021–24), Art Museum Riga Bourse (2017) with solo exhibitions at i.a. Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm (2025); Galerie Anhava (2024), Turku Art Museum (2013), Galleri Lars Olsen (2013), and Gallery Bourouina, Berlin (2011). In addition to her artistic work, Takala has just been appointed as the Professor of Painting at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts after teaching there as a Lecturer since 2014.
CHART 2026 | Booth 21 | Essi Kuokkanen, Päivi Takala, Grönlund-Nisunen
27 Aug VIP Preview 11.00–19.00
28 Aug 11.00–19.00
29 Aug 11.00–18.00
30 Aug 11.00–17.00

Preview and inquiries:
Hanna Huitu
hanna.huitu(at)anhava.com

Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1
DK-1050 Copenhagen, Denmark
Images:
1) Päivi Takala at her studio
2) Päivi Takala, Soft Grip, 2026, oil on canvas, 43 x 38 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen

20/08/2026

Inka Bell's practice is a seamless movement between technique, material, and motif. The more two-dimensional works are created by combining screen printing with laser engraving. Rather than adding to the surface, the image emerges by removing some of the solid printed colour with the burning beam of a precision laser. The three-dimensional paper sculptures are created by layering thousands of precisely cut paper elements, one piece at a time, in different rhythms and combinations, until the right order falls into place and the mind finds peace.
On Saturday 22 August, at 13.00–15.00, Inka Bell will be at the gallery to talk about her artistic practise, answer questions and discuss her solo exhibition Edestakas | To and Fro, on view until 30 August.

Tervetuloa | Välkommen | Welcome!
Images:
1,3,5) Installation view. Photo: Jussi Tiainen
2) Lines, 2026, 14 x 29 x 4 cm, paper, stainless steel
4) Circle Transforming Across Paper, 2026, screen print and laser engraving on paper, 62 x 162 cm
6) detail, Elusive, 2026, paper, stainless steel, 40 x 42 cm

19/08/2026

Antti Laitinen's public art work 'You Are Here' is featured in Financial Times' article about art shows 'off the beaten track'.
Read the article behind the link:
https://www.ft.com/content/94fe0943-e309-47ac-8d78-2aedf41ea846?segmentId=2c1df321-36a4-1206-2c08-112c059dd69d

The work is part of Climate Clock, the public art trail included in the Oulu European Capital of Culture program. For the work Laitinen created six circular openings within the forest, formed by twisting branches to frame the view of the landscape.
Photo: Maija Toivanen

19/08/2026

Galerie Anhava is excited about the upcoming CHART Art Fair, taking place in Copenhagen, 27–30 August! At Booth 21 we are pleased to present works by Essi Kuokkanen, Päivi Takala and artist duo Grönlund-Nisunen, who all in their own very distinctive ways make us reflect on the ways we see and interact with our surrounding world. Their works often show us that which lies under the surface, be it unruly emotions, the need to be touched, or the pressure and physical phenomena of the natural world.

We look forward to see you at Booth 21!

Preview and inquiries: hanna.huitu(at)anhava.com

More about the artists: https://chartartfair.com/exhibitors/galerie-anhava
CHART Art Fair | Booth 21

27 Aug VIP Preview 11.00–19.00
28 Aug 11.00–19.00
29 Aug 11.00–18.00
30 Aug 11.00–17.00

Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1
DK-1050 Copenhagen, Denmark
Images:
1) Essi Kuokkanen, Abundance, 2025, oil on canvas, 30 x 37 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen
2) Päivi Takala, I Am Yours, 2026 oil on canvas 54 x 50 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen
3) Grönlund-Nisunen, Empty Inside 5, 2026, brushed stainless steel, 5 bar external pressure, starting measurements: 23,5 x 23,5 x 23,5 cm. Photo: Galerie Anhava

17/08/2026

Meet the Artist: INKA BELL

On Saturday 22 August, at 13.00–15.00, Inka Bell will be at the gallery to answer questions and discuss her current solo exhibition Edestakas | To and Fro.
Tervetuloa | Välkommen | Welcome!
Inka Bell’s artistic practice is a seamless movement between technique, material, and motif, exploring liminal spaces between two- and three-dimensionality. Her paper based works are subtle events of transition, repetition, and transformation where two surfaces come together again and again.

Bell (b. 1981, Espoo) graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Printmaking Department of the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2021. In recent years Bell has held numerous solo exhibitions, including at Turku Art Museum, Bricks Gallery in Copenhagen, and Forum Box in Helsinki. Her works have been acquired for several public collections in the United States, Denmark, Belgium, and Finland, including EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. In 2024, Bell received the William Thuring Grand Prize awarded by the Finnish Art Society.
Inka Bell: Edestakas / To and Fro
On view until 30 August
Photo: Paavo Lehtonen

16/08/2026

Taidekriitikko Timo Valjakka kirjoittaa HS – Helsingin Sanomat arviossaan Inka Bellin Edestakas-näyttelystä:

"Bellin työskentelyn lähtökohtana on hänen utelias ja totuttuja reittejä kaihtava suhteensa pääasialliseen materiaaliinsa. Olemme tottuneet mieltämään paperin valkoisena tasona tai pintana, johon kirjoitamme tai tulostamme kuvia ja tekstiä. Belliä kiinnostavat kuitenkin paperin vähemmälle huomiolle jäävät ominaisuudet, kuten väri, reunat ja paksuus.
(...)
Näyttelyn perusteella Bell on täysiverinen modernisti, joka avoimesti nostaa hattua 1960-luvun op-taiteen, minimalismin ja konkretismin suuntaan. Jäljittelystä tai kuluneiden teemojen kierrättämisestä hänen taiteessaan ei kuitenkaan ole kyse. Pikemminkin hän päivittää modernismin joskus niin tiukkaa kuvakieltä ehdottamalla sille uutta, leikillisempää ja aistillisempaa vaihtoehtoa."

Näyttely on avoinna 30.8. saakka, tervetuloa!

Inka Bell saa aikaan hämmästyttäviä veistoksia tuhansista ja taas tuhansista paperinpalasista.

14/08/2026

Inka Bell’s delicate and poetic, yet edgy and sharp works are subtle events of transition, repetition, and transformation where two surfaces come together again and again. Even with their echoes of minimalism and concretism, they are nevertheless unmistakably, playfully, insightfully Bell’s own.
Inka Bell: Edestakas / To and Fro
On view until 30 August
Opening hours: Tue–Fri 11–17, Sat–Sun 12–16

https://anhava.com/exhibitions/inka-bell-edestakas/
Images:

1) Blue, 2026, detail, paper, stainless steel, 28 x 14 x 4 cm
2) Nine Rotating Half Circles, 2026, screen print and laser engraving on paper, 123 x 123 cm
3) Taking Turns, 2026, paper, stainless steel, 14 x 29 x 4 cm
4) installation view
5) Opposites, 2026, screen print and laser engraving on paper, 162 x 112 cm

Photos: Jussi Tiainen

12/08/2026

6 exhibitions to catch before they close in August, featuring Galerie Anhava's artists🌼

Jorma Puranen: The Pond That Remembered All (solo)
Laukko Manor, Vesilahti
Until 16 August

Antti Laitinen: Chiming Forest (solo)
EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art
Until 23 August

Elina Merenmies: Night
Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki
Until 23 August

Karoliina Hellberg, Essi Kuokkanen: Freshly Painted
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere
Until 30 August

Kari Cavén: MInä Missä Milloin (solo)
Kunsthalle Meilahti, Helsinki
Until 30 August

Kari Cavén, Marko Vuokola: Mänttä Art Festival ###
Pekilo, Mänttä
Until 31 August
Images:
1) Antti Laitinen, EMMA. Photo: Ari Karttunen
2) Jorma Puranen, Laukko Manor. Photo: Jussi Tiainen
3) Kari Cavén, Meilahti Manor. Photo: Galerie Anhava
4) Essi Kuokkanen, Sara Hildén Art Museum. Photo: Jussi Koivunen

07/08/2026

Inka Bell's solo exhibition To and Fro is now up and running, warmly welcome!

The title of the exhibition, Edestakas / To and Fro, is like hint to the viewer: as one moves through the space, the works’ subtle insights, clever diversions, and optical events become activated; patterns and colours come to life, something happens before one's eyes, the brain gets a jolt. The elements in the works live in all sorts of directions, repeating, turning, rotating, stretching or falling into a rhythmic relation with what came before. Changes and transitions become visible in the relationship between the image and its outline.
The exhibiton runs until 30 August.
Tue–Fri 11–17
Sat–Sun 12–16
1,3) Installation view

2) Elusive, 2026
paper, stainless steel
40 x 42 cm

4) From Right and Left, 2026
screen print, paper, stainless steel
29 x 14 x 4 cm

Photo: Jussi Tiainen

07/08/2026

"Inka Bellin paperiveistokset ilahduttavat kaltaistani umpimielistä minimalistia. Ne näyttävät vähäeleisiltä, m***a kutsuvat lähempään tutkiskeluun – sekä näyttelyn nimen mukaisesti edestakaisin nitkuttamiseen, sillä liike herättää monet teoksista eloon."

Juuri avautunut Inka Bellin Edestakas-näyttely on mukana kulttuuritoimittaja Aino Frilanderin HS – Helsingin Sanomat viikonlopun näyttelyvinkeissä. Lämpimästi tervetuloa!

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