NEWS

LIVE PERFORMANCE // Hannu Karjalainen & Heli Hartikainen: If A Tree Falls (audiovisual live performance) at Odysseus Festival, 19th July 2025
The Forest Is Wired For Wisdom, a feature length experimental documentary film by Hannu Karjalainen enters Avek Kehittämö mentorship program!
LIVE // Audiovisual live performance as Sketches of North – with Hannu Karjalainen (guitar, bass, electronics, video), Nadja Pärssinen (dance), Heli Hartikainen (saxophone), Heikki Lindgren (jouhikko). 10th May 2024 at WHS Theatre, Helsinki
SOLO EXHIBITION // Muu Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Helsinki/Finland – from 28th October to 12th November 2023
SOLO EXHIBITION // K.H. Renlund Museum, Kokkola, Finland – from 21st September 2023 to 14th February 2024
LIVE // Audiovisual Live set at Space Textures, Riga, Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, 9th September 2023
Group Exhibition // Mutig Wandeln at Kunsthalle Görlitz, until 30th September 2023
LIVE // Downtown Calling Festival, Helsinki Finland, 15th July 2023
GROUP EXHIBITION // Aavistus Festival at Helsinki City Museum 7th to 9th October 2022
GROUP EXHIBITION // Kuoriaisefekti at Finnish Natural History Museum from 16th September to 20th November 2022
LUXE Live performance // Berlin 27th March 2022 I am happy to announce the premiere of the live edition of LUXE at Momentum Gallery in Kustquartier Bethanien, Berlin on Sunday 27th March 2022 at 7 pm!
LUXE album / visual album on Karaoke Kalk (DE) out now! (Watch the visual album above)
“Karjalainen’s output (…) surprises again with unobtrusive quality, the unexpected level of inspiration and his craftmanship” -Groove.de

Tageszeitung reviews LUXE 22nd December 2021
I made a new Christmas -themed ambient mix for LOVI Ambientklubi’s new mix series!
GROUP EXHIBITION // States Of Emergency // Momentum Berlin, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITION // IMAGE TO IMAGE // 25 YEARS OF HELSINKI SCHOOL // Persons Projects, Berlin, Germany from 17th September to 4th November 2021
GROUP EXHIBITION Mythos Wald // Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie, Molsberg, Germany from 12. September to 31. October 2021
SOLO ALBUM RAILO 19TH MARCH 2021
UPDATE! VINYL LP available now! Railo – a suite of seven electroacoustic ambient tracks – will be released on Helsinki-based label Signature Dark in digital and vinyl versions (vinyl arriving a few months later). The project also includes visual counterparts for two tracks “Railo” and “Sula”. Get digital or vinyl on Bandcamp.
GROUP EXHIBITION Art From Elsewhere // Selected Works from the MOMENTUM Collection at Kulturforum Ansbach, Ansbach, Germany from 11 June to 25 July
Solo Exhibition Kylmää valoa / Cold Light at Hippolyte Korjaamo, Helsinki 9th September – 1st November 2020
More information at https://hippolyte.fi/nayttely-korjaamo/hannu-karjalainen/
SOLO EXHIBITION A Strange luminescence at Porvoo Kunsthalle / Gallery Fikka, 4th September to 27th September 2020
More information at https://www.taidetehdas.fi/hannu-karjalainen-a-strange-luminescence
MUSIC / REMIXES FOR SAARET OUT NOW
SOLO EXHIBITION Hannu Karjalainen: Daemon at Kunsthalle Turku 17.1.-16.2.2020
More information at https://turuntaidehalli.fi/hannu-karjalainen-daemon-17-1-16-2-2020/