Galerie Anhava

27/08/2026

All is set for CHART 2026, taking place this weekend at the beautiful Charlottenborg in Copenhagen! Welcome to Booth 21 for works by Essi Kuokkanen, Päivi Takala and artist duo Grönlund-Nisunen.☀️

Päivi Takala’s paintings carry a quiet, serene quality, crystallizing questions of existing and co-existing in the world. Essi Kuokkanen’s characters are like vessels for a variety of conflicting needs and wants, compassion and a dazzling, radiating energy. Grönlund–Nisunen’s work plays with the clean basic form of a square, as well as the balance of disorder and rational preciseness of the laws of physics.

��Preview and inquiries:
hanna.huitu(at)anhava.com
aleksandra.oilinki(at)anhava.com
27 Aug VIP Preview 11.00–19.00
28 Aug 11.00–19.00
29 Aug 11.00–18.00
30 Aug 11.00–17.00

CHART Art Fair | Booth 21
Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1�
DK-1050 Copenhagen, Denmark
Photos by Jan Søndergaard

25/08/2026

It's the final week and chance to see Inka Bell's exhibition To and Fro, warmly welcome!
The components in Inka Bell’s works can be arranged in countless ways, rhythms, and combinations. As she works, Bell herself navigates among the potentialities of the piece, returning to and drifting away from the original idea, and perhaps discovering something new along the way.
Inka Bell
Edestakas | To and Fro
On view until Sunday 30 August

Tue–Fri 11–17
Sat–Sun 12–16

Learn more about the exhibition behind the link: https://anhava.com/exhibitions/inka-bell-edestakas/
Images:
1) detail, Decelerate & Accelerate, 2026, paper, stainless steel, 2x 209 x 6,5 cm
2, 4) installation view
3) One loooong and three shorter bars, 2026, screen print and laser engraving on paper, 56 x 170 cm
5) detail, Lanes, 2026, paper, stainless steel, 4 x14 x 29 cm

Photo: Jussi Tiainen

24/08/2026

CHART Art Fair | Booth 21 | Essi Kuokkanen

ESSI KUOKKANEN’s works speak of sensitivity, introspection and sympathy, giving form to unspoken yet vivid thoughts and feelings. Kuokkanen is interested in the physicality of emotion – how events in the mind create a physical reaction in the body. The figures in her paintings and drawings are like reservoirs filled with feeling, occasionally spilling, oozing or overflowing uncontrollably. They are vessels for a variety of conflicting needs and wants, compassion and dazzling, radiating energy.

In 2025–26, Essi Kuokkanen’s (b. 1991, FI) works were showcased at an extensive solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, and during summer 2026, her works are shown as part of a group exhibition Freshly Painted at the Sara Hildén Museum in Tampere. She has recently also held a solo exhibition at Turku Art Museum (2023), and taken part in group exhibitions i.a. at La Felce gallery in Cologne, at EMMA Museum of Modern Arts, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary arts and Rovaniemi Art Museum. Kuokkanen has works in numerous major Finnish collections, and private collections in the Nordic.
During the fair, Kuokkanen is also featured in 'Start Collecting with CHART' exhibition at Festsalen.

Preview and inquiries:
Hanna Huitu
hanna.huitu(at)anhava.com

CHART 2026 | Booth 21 | Essi Kuokkanen, Päivi Takala, Grönlund-Nisunen
27 Aug VIP Preview 11.00–19.00
28 Aug 11.00–19.00
29 Aug 11.00–18.00
30 Aug 11.00–17.00

Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1
DK-1050 Copenhagen, Denmark
Images:
1) Essi Kuokkanen at her studio. Photo: Eetu Huhtala
2) Dazzling Joy, 2025, oil on canvas, 143 x 143 cm
3) Childhood friends that I carry like ghosts with me, 2025, pencil on paper, 26 x 19 cm. Part of Start Collecting with CHART

23/08/2026

CHART Art Fair | Booth 21 | Grönlund-Nisunen

TOMMI GRÖNLUND and PETTERI NISUNEN have been working together since the 80’s, creating their architectural and kinetic installations in both exhibition spaces, biennials and as public and private commissions. Using technology, sound and light as primary material in their works, their art addresses issues of space and physical phenomena through sophisticated installations often playing with physical laws of nature. The work 'Empty Inside' unveils the forces of nature, collapsing the cube made of stainless steel with pressure by sinking it to the depths of the sea.

Tommi Grönlund (b. 1967, FI) and Petteri Nisunen (b. 1962, FI) live and work in Helsinki. They have exhibited extensively around world, completed numerous public commissions in the Nordic countries, and have their works in several major public and private collections. In 2001, they curated Nordic Pavilion in 49th Venice Biennial. Besides their collaboration, Grönlund has run his label Sähkö Recordings since the early 90s, and Nisunen has done varying design projects, worked as a Professor of Contemporary Art in Aalto University and works currently as a Vice Dean in Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.
CHART 2026 | Booth 21 | Essi Kuokkanen, Päivi Takala, Grönlund-Nisunen
27 Aug VIP Preview 11.00–19.00
28 Aug 11.00–19.00
29 Aug 11.00–18.00
30 Aug 11.00–17.00

Preview and inquiries:
Hanna Huitu
hanna.huitu(at)anhava.com

Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1
DK-1050 Copenhagen, Denmark
Images:
1) Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen at their studio. Photo: Antti Viitala
2–5) Making of 'Empty Inside' near Kytö Island. Photo: Petteri Nisunen
6) Grönlund-Nisunen, Empty Inside 5, 2026, brushed stainless steel, 5 bar external pressure, starting measurements: 23,5 x 23,5 x 23,5 cm. Photo: Galerie Anhava

21/08/2026

CHART Art Fair | Booth 21 | Päivi Takala

PÄIVI TAKALA paints precise and luminous paintings that carry a quiet, serene quality, crystallizing questions of existing and co-existing in the world. The soft palette of sand, deep darks and vivid blues nods to the quiet precence of early Renaissance frescoes, as do the floating hands caressing the black swan or holding the iridescent feathers. During her extensive career, Takala has explored painting as medium through disintegration, modification and reparation by for example physically perforating, sawing, and patching the paintings back together with cement. In her latest works she has focused on our complicated relationship living with other beings – horses, birds or flora.

Päivi Takala (b. 1970, FI) graduated from Hochschule der Künste, Berlin in 1998, and University of Art and Design, Helsinki in 1996. She has works in major collections, both private and institutional. Apart from museums inf Finland, she has exhibited in past years also at Ulterior Gallery, New York (2026), Malmö Art Museum (2021–24), Art Museum Riga Bourse (2017) with solo exhibitions at i.a. Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm (2025); Galerie Anhava (2024), Turku Art Museum (2013), Galleri Lars Olsen (2013), and Gallery Bourouina, Berlin (2011). In addition to her artistic work, Takala has just been appointed as the Professor of Painting at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts after teaching there as a Lecturer since 2014.
CHART 2026 | Booth 21 | Essi Kuokkanen, Päivi Takala, Grönlund-Nisunen
27 Aug VIP Preview 11.00–19.00
28 Aug 11.00–19.00
29 Aug 11.00–18.00
30 Aug 11.00–17.00

Preview and inquiries:
Hanna Huitu
hanna.huitu(at)anhava.com

Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1
DK-1050 Copenhagen, Denmark
Images:
1) Päivi Takala at her studio
2) Päivi Takala, Soft Grip, 2026, oil on canvas, 43 x 38 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen

20/08/2026

Inka Bell's practice is a seamless movement between technique, material, and motif. The more two-dimensional works are created by combining screen printing with laser engraving. Rather than adding to the surface, the image emerges by removing some of the solid printed colour with the burning beam of a precision laser. The three-dimensional paper sculptures are created by layering thousands of precisely cut paper elements, one piece at a time, in different rhythms and combinations, until the right order falls into place and the mind finds peace.
On Saturday 22 August, at 13.00–15.00, Inka Bell will be at the gallery to talk about her artistic practise, answer questions and discuss her solo exhibition Edestakas | To and Fro, on view until 30 August.

Tervetuloa | Välkommen | Welcome!
Images:
1,3,5) Installation view. Photo: Jussi Tiainen
2) Lines, 2026, 14 x 29 x 4 cm, paper, stainless steel
4) Circle Transforming Across Paper, 2026, screen print and laser engraving on paper, 62 x 162 cm
6) detail, Elusive, 2026, paper, stainless steel, 40 x 42 cm

19/08/2026

Antti Laitinen's public art work 'You Are Here' is featured in Financial Times' article about art shows 'off the beaten track'.
Read the article behind the link:
https://www.ft.com/content/94fe0943-e309-47ac-8d78-2aedf41ea846?segmentId=2c1df321-36a4-1206-2c08-112c059dd69d

The work is part of Climate Clock, the public art trail included in the Oulu European Capital of Culture program. For the work Laitinen created six circular openings within the forest, formed by twisting branches to frame the view of the landscape.
Photo: Maija Toivanen

19/08/2026

Galerie Anhava is excited about the upcoming CHART Art Fair, taking place in Copenhagen, 27–30 August! At Booth 21 we are pleased to present works by Essi Kuokkanen, Päivi Takala and artist duo Grönlund-Nisunen, who all in their own very distinctive ways make us reflect on the ways we see and interact with our surrounding world. Their works often show us that which lies under the surface, be it unruly emotions, the need to be touched, or the pressure and physical phenomena of the natural world.

We look forward to see you at Booth 21!

Preview and inquiries: hanna.huitu(at)anhava.com

More about the artists: https://chartartfair.com/exhibitors/galerie-anhava
CHART Art Fair | Booth 21

27 Aug VIP Preview 11.00–19.00
28 Aug 11.00–19.00
29 Aug 11.00–18.00
30 Aug 11.00–17.00

Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1
DK-1050 Copenhagen, Denmark
Images:
1) Essi Kuokkanen, Abundance, 2025, oil on canvas, 30 x 37 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen
2) Päivi Takala, I Am Yours, 2026 oil on canvas 54 x 50 cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen
3) Grönlund-Nisunen, Empty Inside 5, 2026, brushed stainless steel, 5 bar external pressure, starting measurements: 23,5 x 23,5 x 23,5 cm. Photo: Galerie Anhava

17/08/2026

Meet the Artist: INKA BELL

On Saturday 22 August, at 13.00–15.00, Inka Bell will be at the gallery to answer questions and discuss her current solo exhibition Edestakas | To and Fro.
Tervetuloa | Välkommen | Welcome!
Inka Bell’s artistic practice is a seamless movement between technique, material, and motif, exploring liminal spaces between two- and three-dimensionality. Her paper based works are subtle events of transition, repetition, and transformation where two surfaces come together again and again.

Bell (b. 1981, Espoo) graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Printmaking Department of the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2021. In recent years Bell has held numerous solo exhibitions, including at Turku Art Museum, Bricks Gallery in Copenhagen, and Forum Box in Helsinki. Her works have been acquired for several public collections in the United States, Denmark, Belgium, and Finland, including EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. In 2024, Bell received the William Thuring Grand Prize awarded by the Finnish Art Society.
Inka Bell: Edestakas / To and Fro
On view until 30 August
Photo: Paavo Lehtonen

16/08/2026

Taidekriitikko Timo Valjakka kirjoittaa HS – Helsingin Sanomat arviossaan Inka Bellin Edestakas-näyttelystä:

"Bellin työskentelyn lähtökohtana on hänen utelias ja totuttuja reittejä kaihtava suhteensa pääasialliseen materiaaliinsa. Olemme tottuneet mieltämään paperin valkoisena tasona tai pintana, johon kirjoitamme tai tulostamme kuvia ja tekstiä. Belliä kiinnostavat kuitenkin paperin vähemmälle huomiolle jäävät ominaisuudet, kuten väri, reunat ja paksuus.
(...)
Näyttelyn perusteella Bell on täysiverinen modernisti, joka avoimesti nostaa hattua 1960-luvun op-taiteen, minimalismin ja konkretismin suuntaan. Jäljittelystä tai kuluneiden teemojen kierrättämisestä hänen taiteessaan ei kuitenkaan ole kyse. Pikemminkin hän päivittää modernismin joskus niin tiukkaa kuvakieltä ehdottamalla sille uutta, leikillisempää ja aistillisempaa vaihtoehtoa."

Näyttely on avoinna 30.8. saakka, tervetuloa!

Inka Bell saa aikaan hämmästyttäviä veistoksia tuhansista ja taas tuhansista paperinpalasista.