Hight Tides & Quiet Pools
Anne Munnecke, Ásthildur Jónsdóttir, Camilla Vuorenmaa, Kiyoshi Yamamotos, Mikael Lind and Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir
2.-26.7.2026
The exhibition brings together works in a shared exploration of the ocean as material, memory, movement and imagination. Through printmaking, textiles, painting, sound, installation, embroidery and collaborative practices, the artists approach the sea not only as a geographical reality, but as a connective space that links people, histories and ecologies across the North. At the centre of the exhibition is a sense of wonder toward the ocean and its many forms of life.
Anne Munnecke’s prints, created from seaweed and marine plants, reveal delicate traces and impressions drawn directly from coastal environments. Her works invite viewers to consider the sea as both archive and living surface, where organic forms become visual narratives of fragility and resilience. Kiyoshi Yamamotos presents coloured silk works inspired by metals found across the Nordic countries, connecting landscapes and material histories through flowing textile forms. His works evoke currents, migration and exchange, suggesting how the ocean has long carried both resources and relationships between northern peoples.
Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir creates immersive worlds through drawing and painting, where human, animal and imagined forms merge in fluid and often unpredictable ways. Her works are dreamlike terrain shaped by transformation, vulnerability and wildness. Sound artist Mikael Lind contributes immersive soundscapes that surround the exhibition environment, creating sensory experiences of rhythm, that echo coastal bird life and atmospheres and with field recordings from around the Nordic Countries and the Baltic, mostly his own but also from the other participants of the exhibition.
Camilla Vuorenmaa’s installation explores the movement of water through painted wooden elements suspended and arranged in space. Shapes, creatures and symbolic forms appear to drift and circulate, creating an environment that is both playful and dreamlike. Together with Ásthildur Jónsdóttir, she also presents collaborative works developed from drawings and interviews with kindergarten and school groups focused on marine protection and sea creatures. These works foreground children’s perspectives, reminding us that imagination and care are essential to future ecological thinking. Ásthildur Jónsdóttir further presents textile work and a video installation intended to fuel the imagination of visitors. Her practice highlights storytelling and tactile knowledge.
Collectively, the exhibition reflects on how the ocean connects communities across the North through cultural memory, imagination and embodied experience. The artworks engage with playfulness, creativity and wonder as meaningful ways of relating to ecological questions. In doing so, the exhibition aligns with ideas from imagination and possibility studies, where speculative thinking, sensory engagement and artistic experimentation open new ways of understanding human and more-than-human relations.
