Leevi Haapala, director of the Kiasma museum will talk about the approach of shaping the permanent collection of one of the leading world museums of contemporary art.
A museum's collection is one way of telling our story as a nation. What kind of story do we want to tell? Contemporary art is created and displayed in a context that is characterized by interaction between local and global culture. Finnish contemporary art has become an important part of the international scene with its biennales, topical museum exhibitions, and art fairs. Kiasma’s collections—as an important part of Finnish National Gallery's collections— are currently developed by acquiring important works of contemporary art of outstanding quality, regardless of national or geographic boundaries, with an underlying focus on art from nearby regions.
