Experimental contemporary art exhibition in Imatra

Välillä väärässä (Sometimes wrong) is an eventful and experimental contemporary art exhibition at Väärätalo, Koskenparta, City of Imatra. The exhibition is a collaboration between the City of Imatra and the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. The works are connected to Imatra either through their location, subject matter, or other conceptual links.

"Väärätalo has been vacant for three years, and it's great to have this exhibition there. This kind of collaboration breathes new life into the building and gives people the opportunity to say goodbye to it", says Panu Kärri, Tourism and Events Manager for the City of Imatra.

The exhibition consists of media installations, spatial works, performances, sound works, photographs, drawings, murals, and a radio program. Many of the works are based on interaction between the viewer and the work. As a building, Väärätalo frames the works with its history, recent past, and present.

"The future of Väärätalo after the exhibition is still open. The change of the city planning has become legally binding, and the next steps for the development of the property will be outlined in the coming months", says Kärri.

As a building, Väärätalo is in a state between the past and the future, as its maintenance has been neglected. The works in the exhibition are built around this situation and are encounters between the past and the future.

The working process has taken the creators into unknown territory in many ways and challenged them to tolerate uncertainty and face unpredictable situations, which has opened up new ways of seeing and doing things.

In addition to students and staff from Aalto University, the exhibition also features students and staff from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki, as well as artists from Imatra.

Contemporary art exhibition Sometimes Wrong
Väärätalo, Koskenparras, Imatra
August 24–31. Open 12–6 p.m., free admission.

Exhibition participants:

Ricardo Atienza, Laura Beloff & Jurgis Peters, Chynthia Blanchette, Lily Díaz-Kommonen, Euro & Kiiveri, Henrik Frondelius, Lina Hermans, Viljami Hyvärinen, Eleni Kavouki, Markku Laskujärvi & Oliver Kalleinen, Totti Korpua, Heya Kwon, Harri Laakso, Markku Laskujärvi & Voth000 /12mb RAM Studios, Emilia Liimatainen & Jaakko Kuikka, Vertti Luostarinen, Mikael Malin & Zina Marpegan & Jonna Eloranta, Aala Nyman, Suthasinee Naktnasukanjn, Mari Nurmesniemi, Daniel Palpa, Gabriella Presnal, Gregoire Rousseau, Joel Rännäri, Markus Skraba, Minna Suoniemi, featuring Valto Ala-Maunus and Juuso Tervo, Sini Vihma, Vastiala – Ylipieti, Müge Yildiz, Denise Ziegler

Thanks to:

Kone Foundation, City of Imatra, Aalto University, Forest Therapy Center / Ukonlinna Hostel, Työtaito ry

Further information:

Tourism and Events Manager Panu Kärri, City of Imatra, panu.karri@imatra.fi, +358 40 195 7693

Lecturer Pia Euro, Aalto University, pia.euro@aalto.fi, +358 50 421 0986