{"id":835,"date":"2025-03-20T15:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turunlinna.fi\/wamold\/?post_type=nayttely&p=835"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:08:22","slug":"hop-to-hope-afra-eisma","status":"publish","type":"nayttely","link":"https:\/\/turunlinna.fi\/wamold\/en\/exhibition\/hop-to-hope-afra-eisma\/","title":{"rendered":"Hop to Hope \u2013 Afra Eisma"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Afra Eisma brings Hop to Hope and WAMx to a close<\/h3>\n

Artist Afra Eisma will conclude the WAMx\u00a0exhibition programme with immersive installations of large tapestries and colourful ceramics, using the techniques of textile and ceramic arts in a whole new way.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through her pieces, Eisma tells personal stories. She combines sensuality with lightness, and her source of inspiration are imaginary friends. When dealing with gloomier moods and experiences, she relies on colour and playfulness, allowing space for ambiguity and reflection, and even difficult emotions such as anger. Alongside her work as an artist, Eisma is actively taking a stand on societal issues and problems.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Afra Eisma (b. 1993) lives and works in The Hague and Amsterdam. She has held several solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions around the world, at, for example, The Tetley, in Leeds, Great Britain (2023), the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, in Delhi, India (2023), the Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3, in Barcelona, Spain (2023) and The Kyushu Ceramic Museum, in Arita, Japan (2022).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Eisma\u2019s exhibition is the last in the exhibition series Hop to Hope, based on the theme of friendship and a belief in the future. The Turku Museum Centre has once a year invited an international expert to plan an exhibition series for the WAM<\/span>X <\/span>space. The 2023 exhibition series ending the WAM<\/span>X<\/span> programme was planned together with <\/span>Roos Gortzak,<\/span><\/b> director of the Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art in the Netherlands. The series featured artists working in the Netherlands and in Finland: Rory Pilgrim, Mounira Al Solh, Iona Roisin, the Home Alone Collective (Emma Sarpaniemi and Adele Hyry), as well as Afra Eisma.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo: Ville M\u00e4kil\u00e4, Museum Centre of Turku.<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n

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WAMx: Hop to Hope<\/h4>\n
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The theme of WAMx\u2019s exhibition series Hop to Hope is friendship and faith in the future. The 2023 series was planned together with Roos Gortzak, the director of the Vleeshal Centre for Contemporary Art in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

Other exhibitions<\/h5>\n
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