Finnish culture person, author and Oscar statue claimant Jörn Donner’s (1933-2020) private art collection items will be on display in Private to Public exhibition in Helsinki, Finland, in a new art & design space accompanied with Finnish international jewelry art 12 May to 11 July 2023.

Jörn Donner, a noteworthy culture person in Finland and Sweden, author of around 70 books, film director and producer as well as politician, collected art for around half a Century. His private art collection boasts works from significant Finnish artists. During his work tenure as Finland’s chief Consul in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s Donner was raising the profile of Finnish culture in the well-known cinema city.

The beginning of Donner’s art collecting coincided with the era when Finnish art and design started to gain international recognition and acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s. One of the highlights was the presentation of the Finnish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1956. The pavilion was designed by Alvar Aalto and received great attention and praise from the international audience. The exhibition gave Finnish artists and designers the opportunity to showcase their art and design skills internationally. → Read more

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