Jacob Dahlgren, Installation view, Yrjö Kukkapuro – Magic Room, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, 2023, Courtesy of the Artist and Andréhn-Schiptjenko
EMMA is proud to present the colourful, imaginative and experimental oeuvre of an influential pioneer of Finnish design, Yrjö Kukkapuro (b. 1933). Yrjö Kukkapuro – Magic Room is an exhibition marking the occasion of the designer’s 90th birthday, presenting his iconic designs alongside his greatest long-term source of inspiration – art.
Magic Room highlights parallels between Kukkapuro’s designs and modern and postmodern art. The designer's most enduring source inspiration was his spouse, the printmaker Irmeli Kukkapuro (1934–2022). The exhibition architecture is based on the Magic Room concept developed by Kukkapuro in the 1980s, which displays furniture in the form of an installation using various structures and lighting effects.
