Once We See It

The summer 2025 exhibition at Gallery Bässen brings together a group of artists who explore material, texture and form, balancing structure and fluidity, rawness and precision. Through surprising and at times uncanny approaches to familiar elements, the works create a powerful dialogue between the organic and the constructed, lightness and weight, presence and absence. Each of the four artists - Riikka Anttonen, Taru Happonen, Ida Koitila and Eetu Sihvonen - brings a distinct approach to materiality, yet in the roughness of the space, the elements in each work begin to move through and toward each other. What feels heavy begins to float; the immaterial takes shape. The line between real and imagined, fantasy and history, begins to blur, opening up new ways to explore and inhabit space. The exhibition engages with and against the gallery space and the surrounding nature that’s constantly trying to creep in through the windows and cracks in the ceiling. It reflects on our human impulse to control nature, confine the flowing, contain the ephemeral, through a lens that is playful, but tinged with melancholy.