2003

In 2003 the Finnish National Gallery the Finnish society in general. The fact Photos from left to right: focused particularly on developing the that our Director General was involved The Museums for all handbook funded by the mental and physical accessibility of its in the 2015 project of the Nordic Council of Ministers was published in operations. Significant work was also Finnish National Fund for Research early summer. PHOTO: JOANNA MOORHOUSE done to develop modern art museum and Development (Sitra) provided The restoration paintwork and colour scheme practices. The new artwork and pho- a unique vantage point into the future of the won in a Nordic competition. tograph register Muus@, initiated in and success of our country. Com- PHOTO: SINEBRYCHOFF ART MUSEUM / ARNO DE LA CHAPELLE early summer, is not just an innovative posing a national creative strategy is Art Museum’s advertisement tool for collection and exhibition now included in the government “Pity about the hair” was among the top ten management but also a decisive aid to programme, and the Ministry of outdoor adverts in the Clear Channel Outdoor research in the field. Partially funded Education already has preparations Champions 2003 summer competition. by the Ministry of Education from under way. its Information Society allocation, Muus@ is currently being made into The Director General was also a mem- a product application that would serve ber in a working group preparing the all museums. guidelines for the next EU cultural to the Commission in June. The pro- programme which delivered its report posal is largely based on the potential The Finnish National Gallery also “Towards a New Cultural Framework created by national and international continued to take part in developing Programme of the European Union” networking. PHOTO: CENTRAL ART ARCHIVES / JOUKO KÖNÖNEN PHOTO: CENTRAL ART PHOTO: CENTRAL ART ARCHIVES / JANNE MÄKINEN PHOTO: CENTRAL ART : Rose Dance Magnus Enckell: Woman in her Petticoat (1899, Ateneum Art Museum) (1912, Ester and Jalo Sihtola Collection, Ville Vallgren exhibition Ateneum Art Museum) The Love of an Engineer exhibition

The total number of visitors to the featured furniture from Vallgren’s The New at Ateneum series continued three art museums was close to studio made by the artist himself, with the presentation of Woman at 425,000. Although the financial situa- as well as his tools and equipment. the Table (1919) by the Polish-French tion of the Finnish National Gallery in artist Moise Kisling. the year 2003 was adequate, its future The Love of an Engineer was the first continued to be shadowed by the fact exhibition showing the large donated Together with the Finnish Institute that maintenance costs were increas- collection of Ester and Jalo Sihtola. in St Petersburg and the State Russian ingly eating into the allocation for The foreign artists on view included Museum, an exhibition of paintings actual museum work. James Ensor, Massimo Campigli, Gino by Eero Järnefelt was produced for the Severini, Marc Chagall, Mihail Vrubel, Marble Palace in St Petersburg. It was and Maurice Vlaminck. Finnish talent among the main events of the Finland THE ATENEUM ART MUSEUM had was represented by such artists as Week arranged in connection with the a total of 168,580 visitors during the Magnus Enckell and Helene Schjerf- St Petersburg tercentenary celebrations. year. An exceptionally popular and beck, as well as the masters of the Responsibility for the project was quite unusual event at Ateneum was 1950s. The Beatrice Granberg Collec- shared between the Ateneum Art Mu- the presentation of the portrait of the tion, acquired by the museum in 2002, seum and the Eero Järnefelt Society. President of the Republic Tarja Halo- was also exhibited featuring several nen, painted by Rafael Wardi, shown paintings by the von Wright brothers. in co-operation with the Prime Minis- celebrated its fifth anniversary ter’s Office. The museum’s collections The life’s work of the printmaker in the spring with as many as 6,000 were increased more than usual, by Helmi Kuusi, spanning more than six guests, among them artists and other as many as 650 works of art. Most decades, was exhibited from March associates. The total number of visitors of these were donations. The number to early August. The series of Finnish at the Museum of Contemporary Art of art purchases was 25. woman printmakers was continued in during the year was almost 190,000. November with a showing of the Art collections were increased with The main exhibition of the year in- colour prints of Lea Ignatius that 168 works, of which 45 were donations. troduced the art of one of the Finnish closed in March 2004. The museum’s masters from the turn of the 20th cen- summer exhibition was Ripples of Kiasma’s exhibition programme illus- tury, the sculptor Ville Vallgren (1855– Colour, featuring works from the col- trated the connections and differences 1940), now for the first time from his lections of both the Ateneum and between Finnish and international art. early works to his late material experi- Kiasma. The works in the exhibition Its fifth collection displayNight Train – ments. This thematically and chrono- represented Finnish art of the 20th Surrealist Routes to Kiasma’s Collections logically arranged exhibition, on view century, sharing an interest in colour examined the legacy of surrealism from September to January 2004, also as a form of painterly expression. in contemporary art. The related PHOTO: CENTRAL ART ARCHIVES / PETRI VIRTANEN PHOTO: CENTRAL ART PHOTO: CENTRAL ART ARCHIVES / PIRJE MYKKÄNEN PHOTO: CENTRAL ART Yinka Shonibare: Xavier le Roy getting ready for his Leisure Lady (2001) Self-Unfinished performance. Double Dress exhibition Process – Encounters in Live Situations/ Shifting Spaces

virtual exhibition was accessible both Pitkänen-Walter’s doctoral disserta- Wilhelm de Hamilton (1668–1754). in the exhibition rooms and on the tion for the Academy of Fine Arts, as The museum interior was further internet. well as the installation German Shep- added to with acquisitions of furniture, herd by the Norwegian Erik Snedsbøl. lamps, and carpets. The works in the Double Dress exhibi- Kontti introduced Finnish media art. tion of the Nigerian-born, London- Hanna Haaslahti’s White Square inte- The opening exhibition of the reno- based artist Yinka Shonibare explored grated the viewer as part of the work. vated museum, The Etruscans, offered topical issues of individual, class, and The development of digital media a comprehensive view into Etruscan racial identity in a witty and playful art since the 1980s was traced in the everyday life and festivities, as well way. This international travelling exhi- Demoskene.katastro.fi exhibition. As as death. The exhibits were borrowed bition seen in Kiasma in the spring part of the Future Cinema exhibition, from Finnish collections and foreign was produced by the Israel Museum Kontti also featured Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s museums, such as those of Florence, in Jerusalem. House for the first time in Finland. Verucchio, Copenhagen, Basel, and Paris. The museum also had the pleas- Future Cinema examined the develop- The Mediatheque continued to show ure of showing the famous Cortona ment potential of media technology the nonTVTVstation Beeoff by the Bronze tablet. and art. The works of international Swedish group Splintermind, with artists forecast the cinematic expres- a new work of web art each month us- In addition to Paul and Fanny Sinebry- sion and technique of the future. The ing streaming media, made by different choff’s interior museum and the regu- exhibition was produced by the Zen- Scandinavian artists or groups. It also lar display, the year also offered two trum für Kunst- und Medientechno- showed Minna Långström’s Chinese exhibitions of the museum’s collec- logie in Karlsruhe, Germany. Room, a 3D animation in an interactive tions. The themes of the works in the installation, as well as the Hitchcock Se- Beauty never Fades – Works from the The main event of the autumn season, ries by the French researcher and artist Sinebrychoff Art Museum Collections Process - Encounters in Live Situations/ Laurent Fiévet. included merrymaking in 17th-century Shifting Spaces, offered a glimpse of Holland. There were also landscape the process-like aspects of contempo- paintings, still lifes, and mythological rary art. The event comprised 15 exhi- THE SINEBRYCHOFF ART MUSEUM themes from the 17th and 18th centu- bitions, 39 artists, interactive guided opened fully restored in February, and ries. In the Eye of the Collector – Old tours, meetings with artists, discussions, reached a record number of visitors Masters in the Sihtola Collection exhib- lunch dates, and curatorial meetings. during the year; a total of 66,609 peo- ited for the first time all the ten works ple. Its art collections were increased that the Sinebrychoff Art Museum ac- Studio K presented Painting is the with one acquisition, the oil painting quired from the significant donation to gleam of flesh in our eyes, a part of Tarja Forest Floor Still Life attributed to Carl the Finnish National Gallery in 2001. PHOTO: CENTRAL ART ARCHIVES / ANTTI KUIVALAINEN PHOTO: CENTRAL ART PHOTO: ANTIKEN MUSEUM BASEL UND SAMMLUNG LUDWIG, Horse Tamer, detail of a candelabrum Jürgen Ovens (1623–1678): (ca. 350 BC, Antiken Museum Basel Diana with her companions und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel) Beauty Never Fades exhibition The Etruscans exhibition

THE CENTRAL ART ARCHIVES finished Arts Foundation. The most notable The Finnish National Gallery Library the project of microfilming its press donations to the picture archive were again focused its acquisitions on ex- cuttings, as well as the national project likewise made by the heirs of the artist hibition publications. In addition to charting art historical document Eva Cederström, as well as the Depart- purchases and publication exchange, archives for information on private ment of Art History of the University its collections were increased with se- archives of the fine arts held by mu- of . The sound archive was lected donations. The largest of these seums, associations, foundations, and added to with new interviews of art- was made by President Mauno Koivisto private persons. The project resulted ists and people connected to the his- and Mrs. Tellervo Koivisto. The number in an archive database for the fine arts, tory of the Finnish National Gallery. of inquiries received by the informa- available for researchers through the tion service increased by 46 per cent Central Art Archives’ website. For photograph cataloguing, June compared to the previous year. brought along the new artwork and The national digitisation and content photograph register of the Finnish production project Images of Urban National Gallery, Muus@, for which JOINT ACTIVITIES Finland continued into its second by the end of the year had already The Art Museum Development year, jointly run by the Central Art been digitised some ten thousand Department received funding from Archives and the Art Museum Devel- photographs. New photographs were the Ministry of Education for a three- opment Department. The CAA was taken of contemporary art as well as year project to develop a national help- responsible for digitising the produc- significant retrospective exhibitions line system for cultural accessibility. tion, and for a related pilot project on and e.g. works at the Presidential The most extensive content produc- the Iconclass lexicon. The Kiasma me- Palace. tion project in the Finnish art museum dia archive project continued salvag- field so far, the Images of Urban Fin- ing Finnish video art by digitising old The CAA’s expertise was used in the land, received funding for its second tapes with a special allocation from working group Digitising the Cultural year from the Ministry of Education the Ministry of Education, and Heritage (Kuldi) of the Ministry of information society programme. This a grant from the Finnish Fine Arts Education, with a final report pub- three-year project is divided into Academy Foundation. lished in spring. The CAA was also a digitising and photographing involved in its follow-up working project, a dvd multimedia production, The collections of the art historical group (eKAM). In autumn the Cen- and a travelling exhibition. document archive were increased with tral Art Archives organised a national five donations, of which the largest seminar on documenting in art mu- Together with the regional art muse- were the artist Eva Cederström’s Ar- seums, which gathered some fifty mu- ums of Finland, a report was compiled chive and the Sihtola Archive donated seum representatives and researchers to chart the present operating envi- by the Ester and Jalo Sihtola Fine to the Ateneum Hall. ronment of the regional art museums, ORIGINAL NEGATIVE, PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN (CENTRAL ART ARCHIVES, EVA CEDERSTRÖM COLLECTION) ARCHIVES, EVA PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN (CENTRAL ART ORIGINAL NEGATIVE, PHOTO: FINNISH NATIONAL GALLERY CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT / ILKKA HEISKANEN DEPARTMENT CONSERVATION GALLERY PHOTO: FINNISH NATIONAL The young artist One of the works photographed Eva Cederström during the pilot project in in the 1930s. identification photography was Micali Gaetano’s Ezekiel’s vision (1874, Inventor Rafaello Sanzio). as well as their legislated tasks and the Urban Finland project, as well as of nine works suspected to be forger- their fulfilment. A vision for the regio- a preliminary charting of the non- ies was examined for the authorities. nal art museums was also presented visitors to art museums. concerning new areas of operation, Conservation expertise was provided new challenges and the central points The Conservation Department e.g. after a fire at the Hyvinkää Art of development, combined with focused its inventory work on a loca- Museum storage facility, regarding concrete proposals for solutions to tion and condition survey of the col- wallpaper problems at the Runeberg these issues. The first Theme days lection of prints and drawings moved residence in Porvoo, and for the – Teema03 – explored art museums from Ateneum to the Sinebrychoff Art EU Cost G8 research project. An as communities. The event arranged Museum, while also starting a pilot article was contributed to the Study of in February had close to 80 art mu- project of identification photography European Religious Painting publica- seum professionals participating from of those works, as well as photo- tion of the DiARTgnossis project, around Finland. graphic cataloguing. The year was sorting out the pigments used at the exceptionally favourable for collection icon studio of Valamo in 1858. Early in the year, the Text for Museums care, since the most extensive exhibi- writer training programme was initi- tions were all showing the museums’ ated together with the Department own collections. of Art History of the University of Helsinki. 15 art history students were Hiring a part-time photographic selected from the applicants. The conservator enabled a more intensive course will finish in spring 2004. treatment of photographic works than usual. Infrared, ultraviolet, and Two books were published during x-ray scanning of selected works from the year: the first volume of hand- the collections was also initiated. To books for museum professionals, chart the techniques and materials The Gift of Art: legal provisions apply- used in contemporary art, the works ing to bequests, donations and deposi- underwent the necessary pigment and tions of art, as well as the Museums binder analyses. for all handbook funded by the Nor- dic Council of Ministers. Visitor sur- The material research laboratory vey reports included a survey of the analysed works from both the Finnish evening for young people at the National Gallery collections and those Editor: Anne Nikula Kalervo Palsa exhibition in Kiasma, of other art museums and organisa- Layout: Hahmo Design Oy a user-oriented visitor survey of tions. Furthermore, the authenticity Translation: Minna Erwe Finnish National Gallery: ATENEUM ART MUSEUM Organisation and directors Museum Director Soili Sinisalo 31.12.2003 Director General´s Office

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART KIASMA Administrative Director THE MINISTRY DIRECTOR GENERAL Museum Director Jukka Wallin Tuula Karjalainen OF EDUCATION Tuula Arkio

Conservation Department SINEBRYCHOFF ART MUSEUM Head of Conservation Museum Director Outi Sievänen Ulla Huhtamäki BOARD

Art Museum Development Department Head of Development CENTRAL ART ARCHIVES Marjatta Levanto Director Ulla Vihanta

2001 143 390 542 012 244 108

453 829 471 964 2002 244 631 424 208 209 198 392 205

2003 168 580 189 019 66 609

Visitors per museum 2001–2003 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Ateneum Art Museum Visitors to the Finnish National Gallery Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma 1999–2003 Sinebrychoff Art Museum

Finnish National Gallery: Finnish National Gallery: costs for 2003, total 20,5 Meuro receipts for 2003, total 2,5 Meuro 40 % Wages and salaries 8,2 Meuro 52 % Admission fees 1,3 Meuro 16 % Purchases of services 3,2 Meuro 8 % Publication sales 0,2 Meuro 4 % Capital costs 0,9 Meuro 24 % Sales of other products 33 % Rents 6,7 Meuro and services 0,6 Meuro 7 % Other expenditure 1,5 Meuro 16 % Rental income 0,4 Meuro