I was honoured to receive an art award from Stina Krook Foundation 2024
The Stina Krook Foundation supports and promotes the visual and performing arts with annual grants, with special regard for the Swedish-language community in Finland. With the grants awarded, the Foundation supports the artistic activities of artists and groups. The grants are presented without an application process.
https://stinakrook.fi/fi/stina-krookin-saatio-jakaa-yhteensa-150-000-euroa-kuva-ja-nayttamotaiteen-tekijoille-suomessa-palkittujen-joukossa-lastenorkesteri-robin-rekku-jekkuorkesteri/… Read more
The exhibition presents for the first time Raimo and Maarit Huttunen’s art collection – assembled with passion and long-term vision – which they have donated to HAM. The works reflect on the complexities and contradictions of what it means to be human.
The artworks are painterly and expressive, conveying sadness and melancholy, but also hope and humour. They reflect on the complexities and contradictions of what it means to be human. The exhibition features Finnish… Read more
Vuoden 2023 Kauneimmat kirjat -kilpailun esiraati on valinnut kaikkien kilpailuun ilmoitettujen kirjojen joukosta seuraavat teokset ehdolle vuoden 2023 kauneimmaksi kirjaksi.
Kuten muinakin vuosina osa kilpailuun saapuneista kirjoista on sijoitettu toisiin kategorioihin kuin mihin ne oli ilmoitettu. Esimerkiksi kaikki kilpailuun saapuneet esseeteokset on sijoitettu kaunokirjojen kategoriaan. Erikoiskirjojen… Read more
Kuvataitelija Bo Haglund vastasi 60-vuotispäivänsä alla puhelimeen Liettuasta, Nidan taideresidenssistä. Hän on siellä vaihteeksi kumppaninsa, kuvanveistäjä Anni Laakson apulaisena.
”Täällä on upeat Unescon maailmanperintöhiekkaharjut, joista tulee hiekkaa myös sisälle kämppään. Meidän pitäisi saada valmiiksi Annin puuveistos ennen kotiinpaluuta”, Haglund sanoo. Avustaminen taiteenteossa toimii Haglundille hengähdystaukona.… Read more
NEW ART BOOK / ORDER NOW FROM THE ARTIST
Bo Haglund Piirustuksia, maalauksia ja sarjakuvia | Teckningar, målningar och serier | Drawings, Paintings and Comics 220 X 270 MM, HARD COVER► Bo Haglund (b. 1963) weaves together comics, graphic design and set design in his artistic practice. He… Read more
Fantasieggande målningar med avstamp i Italien/
Mystiska och mytologiska målningar/
Mångtydiga målningar med många tolkningsmöjligheter
Bo Haglund: Parco dei Mostri / Första akten. Galleri Gamla Kaplansgården, Mellangatan 13. Till den 30.4. Öppet tisdag-söndag 10-16. Fritt inträde.
En mystisk park full av prasslande kvistar, tassande steg och hemliga möten – det är vad konstnären Bo Haglund avbildar då han för första gången håller… Read more
New works in exhibition Parco dei Mostri / Second act ( 15.4.-14.5.2023 ) in Gallery Heino in Helsinki are now on display and for sale on Artsy
https://www.artsy.net/show/galleria-heino-bo-haglund-2?sort=partner_show_position
https://www.galleriaheino.fi/exhibition.php?aid=121537&k=120138
Artist Bo Haglund’s exhibition focuses on paintings from his latest series Parco dei Mostri (Park of the Monsters). After spending two months at a residency in Mazzano Romano, Italy, in spring 2022, he began painting works influenced by Renaissance art, in which he painted as if digging into Italian soil with Renaissance garden architecture and portraits in the museums of Florence… Read more
Bo Haglund
8– 30 April 2023
Parco dei Mostri / First act
Bo Haglund’s Parco dei Mostri series of paintings is exhibited in two parts. Parco dei Mostri / First act will be open in Gallery Vanha Kappalaisentalo from 8 to 30 April 2023 and Parco dei Mostri / Second act will be opened in Galleria Heino in Helsinki on 15 April (15 April – 14 May 2023).
Artist Bo Haglund’s exhibition focuses on paintings from his latest series Parco dei Mostri (Monsters’ Park).… Read more
Opening of exhibition Écoutons la fôret pousser, saison 2, at Institut finlandais, Paris France.
Vernissage 1. December 2022 18.30 – 20.30
I will be showing 9 paintings in the Institut’s gallery.
2.12.2022-1.4.2023
at Finnish Institute 60, rue des Écoles, 75005 Paris
The Journey of Bo Haglund
“Tyger Tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night, what immortal hand or eye, could frame thy
fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies,… Read more
Artists: Tero Annanolli, Antti Friman, Malena Granqvist, Bo Haglund, Åsa Hellman, Petri Hytönen, Suvi Härkönen, Kirsi Kaulanen, Tiina Kolehmainen, Irmeli Mäkilä, Reima Nevalainen, Nelli Nio, Kari Nuutinen, Kaisa Nykänen, Satu Salomaa, Anitta Ruotsalainen, Paula Salmela, Susanna Salama, Jenni Tuominen, Kalle Turakka Purhonen, Aino Ulmanen, Jarmo Vellonen, Sari Vuorenpää, Tiina Wallius
The Forest exhibition organized by the Porvoo Artists’ Association… Read more
My painting I Promised You a Rose Garden was installed in one of the new houses at Hellberginmäki in Porvoo.
The project was a percent art work commissioned by Porvoo City. The work was panted with enamel paint on metal board. Size: 90 x 90cm… Read more
Forest Studies, an exhibition by Terhi Ekebom and Bo Haglund at Gallery Comic Center in Helsinki. 11.11.-26.11.2021.
Bo Haglund showed paintings and Terhi Ekebom installed moving paper sculptures.
Suomen Sarjakuvakeskus blog https://sarjakuvakeskus.fi/blogi/1394-ekebom-haglund
LEHDISTÖTIEDOTE
Terhi Ekebomin ja Bo Haglundin näyttely Metsätutkielmia tutkii eri lähestymistapojen kautta metsää, metsään menemistä ja metsän siimeksessä… Read more
Summer group exhibition in Näsi Manor House in Porvoo, 4.7.-29.8. 2021
art curator Krista Mikkola,
My works from the exhibition It’s Your Turn Now in Gallery Heino / Helsinki are now on display on Artsy , the website for art. Check it out!
https://www.artsy.net/show/galleria-heino-bo-haglund-1… Read more
Bo Haglund: It’s Your Turn Now.
Galleria Heino. Nylandsgatan 16-20, Helsingfors. Till 12.4 2020.
Buskarna är hårt tuktade ner till stammarna och grenarna, som vore de abstrakta skulpturer eller något som liknar kemilektionernas molekylmodeller. Ibland är grenarna isvita som kristall – jag kan inte låta bli att tänka på J G Ballards sci-fi roman A Crystal World, där världen sakta kristalliseras. Allting dör sakta, samtidigt som det ändå växer och grenar… Read more
Due to the state of emergency caused by the COVID-19, Galleria Heino will be closed until April 13th.
Bo Haglund’s exhibition “It’s Your Turn Now” will reopen as soon as possible.
Updates and changes in exhibition programme can be found on our website and social media channels.
enquieries: info@galleriaheino.fi
Opening of my next private exhibition It’s Your Turn Now 13.3.2020 in Gallery Heino in Helsinki. www.galleriaheino.fi
It’s Your Turn Now
14 March–12 April 2020
Bo Haglund’s latest artworks are full of surprises, transporting the viewer to an entirely new and enchanting dimension. It’s Your Turn Now shows us the unexpected, lead us deep into the undergrowth. Fantasy and realism may co-exist here but remain distinct and separate throughout.
The artist… Read more
https://www.artsy.net/show/galleria-heino-bo-haglund… Read more
During the years I have been making some commissioned live drawings for different institutions and companies.
All projects have been a collaboration with photographer Ville Tanttu who also edited and produced the music.
I hope you have fun watching them.
Art work Presence – Absence was published in a Swedish speaking school, Svenska privata skolan i Uleåborg, in Oulu in April 2017. Ten portraits painted in oil on wooden board are displayed in different places in the school. Art foundation Pro Artibus was the commissioner for the work. Curator: Juha-Heikki Tihinen
Summer hymn. Growth period. Vacation, song birds, midnight sun. Lawn, dandelion, trampoline, grill, sausage, ies. Cottage, pier, boat, swimsuit. Strawberry, pea, detective novel. Grandma’s house, cousins. Sunscreen, air mattress, tan lines. Festival, tent, outhouse, camp re. Summer hit and summer car. Ice brick, summer bachelor. Beer. Summer night’s dream, irting, condom. Wedding. Midsummer dance, bon re, lake. Midsummer spell, meadow, butter ies, clover,… Read more
In Between, the title of Bo Haglund´s latest exhibition makes reference to a state of mind where people find themselves in an interstitial or in-between space.
Bo Haglund´s exhibition comprises a series of oil portraits and three-dimensional installations. The characters in the portraits observe the gallery space from their vantage point on the wall through a number of obstacles, including bubble wrap, chicken wire and tissue. In terms of their thought process, they … Read more
The Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars — Onoma hosts an exhibition for the entirety of the summer, based on the theme Kasvu / Tillväxt / Growth. The Cooperative was founded in 1996 and thus, the exhibition simultaneously celebrates it’s 20th year anniversary. One of the primary aims of the exhibition is to present all three disciplines — craftsman- ship, design and contemporary art — on equal footing. The exhibition theme, ”Growth”, is… Read more
The Heino Art Foundation has one of Finland’s foremost collections of contemporary art. The foundation was established to promote art and safeguard the collection built over several decades by Raimo and Raini Heino and their son, the gallerist Rauli Heino. The collection has 1416 works of art by 223 artists. They include paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and moving images. The works date from the 1950s to the present. All the artworks in the collection have … Read more
Check out my new drawing animation for Betoniteollisuus ry commissioned by Hill & Knowlton Oy
A drawing animation project commissioned by Finnish National Opera for “Kullervo” ballet: Choreography: Tero Saarinen Company and music by Jean Sibelius
Drawing animation commissioned for Kullervo ballet, 2015
The Kullervo tale drawn by Bo Haglund to promote Tero Saarinen’s ballet “Kullervo” at the Finnish National Opera. Premiere 13.2.2015.
Photographer and editor: Ville Tanttu. Dramaturgy: Juhani Koivisto, Duration: 2:51 min, 2015
Updating painting on Funky Bus and creating new roof stage look
I designed funk band Eternal Erection’s Funky Bus painting ten years ago. Now it was time to repaint the bus. We also redesigned the roof stage with new accessoars.
Photo: Bo Haglund… Read more
6.2.-1.3.2015: Welcome to my solo exhibition HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH in Gallery Jangva, Helsinki. Opening day 5.2. 6–8 p.m.
23.8. – 28.9.2014
Nature has always inspired and influenced artists and designers. The harvest season will this year come into being in the form of a handpicked “Lokal” selection at Gumbostrand Konst & Form. Surprising combinations in an experiential surrounding. Exhibition design and curation by Katja Hagelstam and Hanni Koroma.
Artists: Aksel Antas, Aino Favén, Bo Haglund, Sasha Huber, Jari Huhta, Renata Jakowleff, Jouko Kärkkäinen, Outi Martikainen,… Read more
10.05.–3.8.2014
In picture books and animations visual expressions are as important and meaningful as texts. Finnish illustrators create new pictures for children every day. The legacy of Tove Jansson is still alive, but at the same time today’s illustrators form a new generation of image creators. This exhibition, aiming at a playful dialogue with the visitor, highlights nine Finnish illustrators. In BY, the visitor may step into the world of Finnish illustration… Read more
20.09.–3.11.2013
Tässä näyttelyssä uudenlainen akvarelli kohtaa perinteisen monin yllättävin tavoin. Siitä huolehtivat 30 suomalaista nykytaiteilijaa, joiden teokset antavat kuvan alati uudistuvasta välineestä ja suomalaisesta taiteesta laajemminkin.
Taiteilijat ovat: Kaisu Aro, Ville Andersson, Gisela Beyer-Salminen, Saara Ekström, Carolus Enckell, Bo Haglund, Marjatta Hanhijoki, Outi Heiskanen ja Markus Jäntti, Petri Hytönen, Elina… Read more
05.01.–3.02.2013
New works by Bo Haglund and Markus Rissanen in Gallery Heino.
03.09.–31.12.2012
Helmikuusta asti Tiedekulman päätilassa asiakkaita tervehtinyt jättikäsi korvattiin kuvataiteilija Bo Haglundin uusimmalla taideteoksella, jonka nimi on vielä tekijälleenkin arvoitus. ”Mikä se on?” oli ensimmäinen kysymys monen asiakkaan huulilla, kun he huomasivat päätilan taideteoksen vaihtuneen. Vaikka Haglundin luomuksella ei ole vielä varsinaista nimeä, taiteilija itse puhuu majan rakentamisesta ja puumajasta,… Read more
09.06.–29.08.2012
Suomalaisen nykytaiteen näyttely tukeutuu antiikin filosofi Platonin kuuluun luolavertaukseen, joka on saanut erilaisia merkitykisä aina sen mukaan minkälaisessa historian kiertoliikkeen vaiheessa eletään. Tyko Sallisen ja kumppaneiden sadan vuoden taikainen murrosvaihe rinnastuu nyt Retretin luolaston uumenissa tämän päivän suomalaiseen taiteeseen. Näyttelyn taiteilijat kiinnittävät uusilla näkökulmillaan huomion… Read more
The Giant Hand will be shown in Think Corner ( Tiedekulma ) on Aleksanterikatu 7 during this spring. Open daily mon–fri 10–20 and sat 11–15 .
Exhibition project in the home of national poet J.L. Runeberg, Porvoo, 03.12.2011-29.01.2012
Some works from my painting series Stubbhuvu Arboretum (2011) and a video installation will be showed in the home museum. I´m interested in exploring how contemporary art will interfere and communicate with old art, furnitures and things in the museum. In a way my paintings look old, like botanical illustrations from the past. I will remake a video installation for the exhibition.… Read more
TELTTARETKI – Suomalaista nykysarjakuvaa. THE CAMPING TRIP – Finnish Contemporary Comic Art, 10.6.2011–28.8.2011
Suomalaisen sarjakuvan 100-vuotisjuhlavuonna järjestettävä näyttely esittelee uutta suomalaista nykysarjakuvaa tämän hetken mielenkiintoisimpien sarjakuvan tekijöiden tuotannon kautta.
Mukana näyttelyssä ovat Matti Hagelberg, Bo Haglund, Jyrki Heikkinen, Reijo Kärkkäinen, Jarno Latva-Nikkola, Jyrki Nissinen,… Read more
Solo exhibition in Gallery Orton, in Helsinki, 07.02.2011-07.03.2011.
New and some old Stumphead paintings and comics are exhibited. I was invited by curator Otso Kantokorpi to show my works in Gallery Orton, located in the Ortopedic hospital in Helsinki.
You can also read about the exhibition in Otso Kantokorpi´s blog “Alaston kriitikko”.
Domino Group exhibition in Gallery Rikhard, in Helsinki, Matti hagelberg, Bo Haglund, Tiina Malinen, Marja Söderlund, 04.02.2011-27.02.2011.
Teemanamme on ollut säähavainto-ajatus, jota jokainen meistä on voinut lähestyä omasta näkökulmastaan ja haluamallaan välineellä. Tietyllä tapaahan “säähavainto” voi olla mikä tahansa havainto, huomio tai tunnetila, ja näyttelyteosten mahdollinen kantaaottavuus onkin luettavissa ehkä vihjeinä… Read more
Solo Exhibition in Gallery Sculptor, in Helsinki, 28.9.2010-17.10.2010.
Das Album
On tarve luoda tarinoita, ymmärtää nykyisyyttä ja omaa historiaansa mutta samalla taipumus unohtaa menneisyyttään. Olen valinnut valokuvia perhealbumeista, mm. perheestäni, vanhemmistani sekä koululuokasta, ankkuroidakseni työt nykyhetkeen ja todellisuuteen joka ympäröi minua. Das Albumissa olen käyttänyt hyväkseni valokuvamateriaalia luodakseni monikerroksisia… Read more
A building project in our garden in Östersundom, Helsinki, august-september 2010
In august I started with my 8-year old son to build a tree house in our garden. The house became a dream job for me, because I never built tree houses as a child. We had really fun planning and building it. It wasn´t easy to find wooden shingles (transl. päreitä / pärtor), but finally I bought some from a man in Hämeenlinna. My friend photographer Yehia Eweis photographed the house.… Read more
20.08.-19.09.2010
Suomen Taiteilijaseura ja Näyttelyvaihtokeskus Frame tuottivat vuonna 2008 17 suomalaisen taiteilijan ja taiteilijaryhmän näyttelyn Arctic Hysteria New Yorkin MoMAn P.S.1-taidekeskukseen. Sen jälkeen näyttely on kiertänyt Budapestin Ludwig-museossa, Helsingin Taidehallissa sekä DA2 Domus Artium 2002-taidemuseossa Salamancassa, Espanjassa.… Read more
May 2010
Stumphead Collecting Wild Blueberries
Wall painting project in Söderkulla Library by Bo Haglund, commissioned by Sipoo County in may 2010. A new department for comic books and a gallery for comic art were established in the library and I painted Stumphead collecting blueberries on the wall in the stairway hall.… Read more
30.3.-20.6.2010
DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
Arctic hysteria resonates in the work of 17 Finnish artists or groups, and features sculptures, videos, paintings, photographs, installations, audio works and a documentary film. Arctic Hysteria is curated by Alanna Heiss (P.S.1 MoMA, New York) and Marketta Seppälä (FRAME – Finnish Fund for Art Exchange).
The artists are Bo Haglund, Veli Granö, Reijo Kela, Erkki Kurenniemi, Petri Sirviö/The Screaming Men,… Read more
