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.

In February 2020 a piece by Young Artist of the Year 2019 Nastja Säde Rönkköcalled for those yet to be (2016–2018) will be on display. The work is one person’s demonstration and a series of video performances on ecological destruction. The project features Rönkkö visiting fragile parts of the globe that are threatened or destroyed by human actions and sending messages to future generations.

The exhibition program of 2020 is opened by visual artist Tacita Dean (b. 1965), currently one of the world’s most significant contemporary artists. Dean is known, in particular, for her 16mm films and working to protect photochemical film, as well as her arresting, large-sized chalk drawings on blackboards.

“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.