Heikki Marila's exhibition

The Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, opens a major retrospective of Finnish painter Heikki Marila on February 8, covering thirty years of his career. The exhibition features both new and previously unseen works, tracing Marila's evolution from early 1990s paintings critiquing power, Finnish national identity, and social structures—such as *Parliament house* (1996)—to later series inspired by the Isenheim Altarpiece, 17th-century Dutch flower paintings, and Baroque celestial imagery. Highlights include his Carnegie Art Award-winning flower paintings from 2011, the *Jacob’s Wrestling* triptych (2014), and recent works like *The Bolt series* (2024) that address contemporary violence.