Touch is the title of the new Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection Exhibition. The display comprises three sections with the overarching theme of humanity at its core. The exhibition will be updated for example with new acquisitions.

“I’m not building for ourselves, but for the next 500 years,” said Akseli Gallen-Kallela to his daughter Kirsti while building the studio castle of Tarvaspää.

The exhibition focuses on the architecture and the lived life of Tarvaspää.

Anni Puolakka's work is on display in the media space of Touch exhibition. Staged as a conversation with an artificial intelligence chatbot, Diamond Belly explores love and companionship between a human artist, the bot and mosquitoes. The human offers their body as a nourishing 'baguette' to the diamond-bellied mosquitoes, envisioning the flies' bio-chemistry in complementary with their own haematic cycle.