Kyllikki Salmenhaara 100 exhibition

The exhibition will be a comprehensive overview of Kyllikki Salmenhaara’s oeuvre with items e.g. from the collection of the Aalto University.

After the years of depression that followed the Second World War, Kyllikki Salmenhaara reached the top of Finnish ceramic art. She belonged to the generation whose strong, distinctive work made Finnish industrial design world famous in the international design exhibitions of the 1950s. The list of prizes she was awarded in the Milan Triennials indicates the success she achieved while working at the Art Department of the Arabia company in 1947–1961: silver medal in 1951, honorary mention in 1954, Grand Prix in 1957 and gold medal in 1960.

In summer 1963 she was invited to take charge of ceramic art teaching at the Institute of Industrial Art in Helsinki, and in 1970 she was nominated Finland’s first artist professor in design.

The exhibition will be a comprehensive overview of Kyllikki Salmenhaara’s oeuvre with items from the collections of the Design Museum, Collection Kakkonen and Aalto University. Works will also be borrowed from private collections.

The exhibition team members are industrial designers Barbro Kulvik and Antti Siltavuori, ceramicist Karin Widnäs, professor Tapio Yli-Viikari from Aalto University and Kari Selkälä, head of business real estate at the Fiskars company.

For more information: www.fiskarsvillage.fi