Personal Structures – Confluences · 8th Edition
Katja Tukiainen
&
Maria Wolfram
9 May – 22 November 2026
Palazzo Mora · Venice
Confluences
Two generations of Finnish women painters arrive at Palazzo Mora with work shaped by the body, the gaze, and the charged space between feeling and form. Katja Tukiainen's lyrical figures — restless, funny, unafraid — meet Maria Wolfram's luminous portraits of interiority and will. Brought together under the theme of Confluences, their practices flow from different sources yet share a current: figuration as a vehicle for truth, vulnerability as strength, and painting as an act of radical presence.
The Paintings
Untitled
Maria Wolfram
Girl is a verb
Katja Tukiainen
Maria Wolfram
Born 1961, Helsinki. Painter and installation artist whose work explores identity, the human condition, and the female perspective — confronting structures of power with a gaze at once intimate and unflinching. Her canvases hold their subjects in a charged stillness, where colour becomes emotion and form becomes will.
Katja Tukiainen
Born 1969, Pori. Doctor of Fine Arts, painter and comics artist whose autofictional figures — playful, restless, pink — inhabit a world that is funny and fragile in equal measure. Tukiainen's paintings enact the female body as subject, object, and verb: always moving, always insisting on its own terms.
Visit
Venue
Palazzo Mora
Strada Nova 3659 · Venice, Italy
Second Floor — Rooms 201, 202, 203, 204 & 208
Dates
9 May – 22 November 2026
Hours
10:00 – 18:00 daily
Closed Tuesdays
Second Floor Plan
Personal Structures
Personal Structures – Confluences is an international contemporary art exhibition organised by the European Cultural Centre Italy, held concurrently with the Venice Art Biennale. Now in its 8th edition, the exhibition brings together artists from around the world in dialogue with the historic architecture of Palazzo Mora. The programme explores how individual perspectives — personal, cultural, temporal — converge into shared human experience.
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