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Over 400 works on display – TaiKon students’ spring exhibition opens at the Main Library
Published: 25.4.2025
The spring exhibition Tulevaisuus (‘Future’), showcasing artwork by students from TaiKon – which provides basic education in the arts for children and young people – will be on display at the Vaasa Main Library from 8 to 21 May. The opening will take place on 8 May from 18 to 20.
The exhibition at the library features over 400 works by students of visual arts, crafts, and media arts. In addition, the Teema corridor on the library’s second floor is hosting an exhibition of final projects by visual arts and crafts students aged 16 to 19.
TaiKon’s overarching theme for the past year has been the future which also inspired the title of the spring exhibition.
Visual arts, crafts and media art
In their works, the students explore the future from a range of perspectives. What might the world, our environment and the animal kingdom look like in the distant future?
- Visual arts students worked with hexagonal sheets of paper, filling them with their own vision of the future. Crafts students created time capsules, which they then sealed shut. They will be able to open their capsules in 10 years, says Mirka Johansson, the coordinating teacher of visual arts.
The exhibition also features a soundscape created by the media art students, accessible via a QR code.
TaiKon students’ spring exhibition Tulevaisuus:
- From 8 to 21 May 2025
- Opening: Thursday, 8 May, from 18 to 20
- Vaasa Main Library (Kirjastonkatu 13)
- Opening hours: Mon-Thu 10–20, Fri 10–17, Sat 10–15