The Tikanoja Art Museum
Hovioikeudenpuistikko 4
65100 Vaasa Finland
Phone +358 6 325 3916
Fax +358 6 325 3918
Closed on Mondays
Tuesday—Saturday:
11 AM to 4 PM
Sunday: 12 AM — 5 PM
Welcome!
Tikanoja Art Museum is the previous home of Mr. Frithjof Tikanoja (1877-1964), a well known businessman in Vaasa. Mr. Tikanoja had fallen in love with fine arts in the late 1910s and immediately started collecting paintings and drawings. The art museum was founded when Mr. Tikanoja donated his art collection to the city in 1951.
The Tikanoja collection is especially famous for its international section containing works e.g. by Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. The collection also includes Finnish art from the 19th and 20th centuries. Traditional masters, such as Albert Edelfelt, Axel Gallen-Kallela, Maria Wiik and Tyko Sallinen are included in the collection as well as younger artists.
Mr. Tikanoja also acted as a patron for the painter Eemu Myntti. His art in the 1920s was against the traditional and widely accepted Finnish art policy because he enjoyed working in the French expressionistic style.
The Tikanoja Art Museum arranges several exhibitions annually, based on both national and international themes of interest. The Art Museum is also the location for chamber concerts.
Upcoming exhibitions 2010:
Commedia dell'Arte - Couture Edition
Haute Couture in Porcelain
February 14 - April 11 2010
To celebrate its 260th anniversary (2008), Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg launched a limited edition of the world-famous Commedia dell'Arte figures by the rococo sculptor, Franz Anton Bustelli. Sixteen fashion designers of the highest acclaim were invited to design "new clothes" as a new décor for the figure of their choice.
Adeline André, Damiano Biella, Igor Chapurin, Esteban Cortazar, Maurizio Galante, Christian Lacroix, Gustavo Lins, Pascal Millet, Gareth Pugh, Ralph Rucci, Elie Saab, Dominique Sirop, Franck Sorbier, Naoki Takizawa, Viktor & Rolf, Vivienne Westwood.
Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg will be presenting many prototypes and objects from Nymphenburg's master workshops, the designers' initial creations and the original white porcelain figurines bring the process of developing the Couture Edition to life. The photographs by Florian Böhm, who portrayed the couturiers in their studios, constitute an additional highlight. The exhibition was conceived and laid out by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram.
Ecstacy
April 14 - June 1 2010
What does infatuation with the visual arts do to the viewer? According to the author Stendhal, acute visual arts ecstasy resembles both musical ecstasy and love at first sight.
Floromania
June 12 - August 29 2010
Tikanoja Art Museum breaks out in bloom when the museum is taken over by floral and botanical artworks from Estonian art collections. Floromania explores thematically the flower fever of artists from the Baroque to the present. The mysteries of flowers are unveiled through artworks and craft objects.