Pola Laamanen – The Karelian Thread 5.6.–29.8.2027

Textile artist Pola Laamanen uses historical patterns, techniques and museum collections as material for exploring how cultural heritage can be transformed into contemporary artistic expression. Her works move between craft, visual art and research, offering new perspectives on tradition and its meanings today.

Laamanen's contemporary works are placed in dialogue with Karelian textiles from the collections of the Craft Museum of Finland. The past is presented not as a fixed model but as a living, interpretable resource from which new visual and artistic meanings emerge. The exhibition highlights the continual transformation of tradition and the ability of contemporary art to build connections between cultural memory and the present day.