The ECR FIN at the PQ 2027
The Finnish National Exhibition will be presented within PQ’s international curated exhibition programme, the Exhibition of Countries and Regions (ECR). The exhibition is created through a collaborative process involving the artists selected through an open call. Selected in spring 2026 to create the Finnish National Exhibition for PQ27 were set designer Antti Mattila with his series of kinetic set designs for the Helsinki City Theatre productions Fanny and Alexander, Sinun, Margot (When the Ideal Shatters) and Let’s Play Business, sound designer Heidi Soidinsalo and the art collective Wauhaus for their production of Pipsa Lonka’s play Neljän päivän läheisyys (Sky Every Day), and lighting designer Jere Suontausta together with the Trial & Theatre collective for their Nano Steps particle theatre performances.
The exhibition is coordinated by the Finnish OISTAT Centre and curated by the PQ27 curatorial team of the Finnish OISTAT Centre, consisting of performance designers Eeva Ijäs, Kimmo Karjunen, Raisa Kilpeläinen & Veera-Maija Murtola. The curatorial team of the Finnish exhibition highlights the significance of the stage in its selection. The stage is the unifying element connecting all the works chosen for Finland’s national exhibition. All selected artists and works strive towards a deliberately designed stage conceived as a holistic scenographic environment that highlights collaboration across the various disciplines of performance design. The spatial scale of the selected works is broad, ranging from the modular and stage machinery-driven transformations of a large theatre stage, to a multimedia stage expanded through video expression, and further to a minimal stage made visible through microscopic imaging. The theme Absences and Silences emerges in the selected works and productions through perspectives such as interspecies relationships, presence and absence, scale, time, movement, and convention.
(The text, the full info, and the name of the exhibition will be updated later.)