Kiasma Foundation and Kiasma

The Kiasma Foundation was established in 2008. Following examples from the international museum world, the purpose of the foundation is to support the collections and exhibitions of Kiasma.

The Kiasma Foundation has already promoted the museum in many ways. One example is the acquisition of Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s installation Where Is Where? which would not have been possible without the foundation.

The cooperation between the foundation and the museum is not limited to finances. The production of Cream, this autumn’s main exhibition, relied heavily on the foundation’s extensive contact network, which provided access to private collections that loaned many of the show’s headlining works.

A considerable number of works in the exhibition are on loan from Finnish art collectors. Important complementary works were also borrowed at short notice from two British collections; here, too, the contacts of the Kiasma Foundation played a vital role.

It is a privilege to present to the public works that have never been shown in Finland. The collaboration with the Kiasma Foundation is crucial, and we share the same goal: to make Kiasma an even more interesting forum of contemporary art, for ever larger audiences.

Pirkko Siitari