BUTTERFLY | 16 JAN - 15 FEB 2026

Detailed and skillful woodwork is characteristic of Tapani Kokko's artistry. His sculptures combine humor and imagination with playful interpretations of art history and human idiosyncrasies. With rough-hewn surfaces, rich ornamentation and a clear joy in creation, the figures take on a lively and slightly mischievous character.

Kokko draws inspiration from Baroque and Rococo, but gives the historical styles a raw, folk touch – sometimes described as “folk baroque” or “outsider rococo”. Wood is often combined with textiles, gold paint, glitter and older objects, which gives the works a fairy-tale expression. Kokko was born in 1969, educated at the Academy of Fine Arts and works in Orimattila, Finland. His works are in several important Finnish museum collections.

Susanne Gottberg's new paintings move on multiple human frequencies and balance between proximity and something elusive. They seem to have their own gaze and create encounters where the painting functions as a boundary or mediating surface between the physical and the beyond the visible.

Her artistry revolves around spatiality and painting as an object – built of material, touch and layers of actions. Gottberg paints paintings about painting, where each work creates its own space and interacts with the viewer’s surroundings. Through sanded or polished surfaces, often with a waxy character, the painting appears as a skin between inner and outer worlds. Even the wood in her work is active and co-creative. Gottberg, born in 1964, was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts and is represented in several significant museum collections.