Kiasma Support Foundation

Kiasma Support Foundation is an independent body whose mission is to provide financial support to Kiasma’s exhibition and publishing activities and to broaden the museum’s art collection through donations and other funding. Kiasma Support Foundation was founded in 2008.

Choose your method of support

You can support our activities by participating in fundraising events or campaigns or by making monetary donations or bequests. Together we can create extraordinary moments in contemporary art. Donations made by corporate bodies are tax deductible.

Fundraising

Kiasma Support Foundation’s fundraising events are organised with the assistance of volunteers and corporate sponsors. Gala dinners, visits to private collectors’ homes and other similar events signal the importance of supporting the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. Kiasma Support Foundation is grateful to all private individuals and businesses who have supported our mission.

Art donations

Kiasma Support Foundation has donated major works by Finnish and international artists that the museum of contemporary art has sought for its collections but has not had the funds to acquire. The Foundation has also supported the production of art publications and exhibition and programming projects.

Kiasma Support Foundation has supported Kiasma’s operations and acquisitions as follows:

Donated artworks

2019 nabbteeri: Ethnographies of a homespun spinelessness cult and other neighbourly relations, 2019

2018 Torbjørn Rødland: Between Fork and Ladder, 2018

2011 Sebastian Errazuriz: Opera d’Inferno, 2011

2010 Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Marian ilmestys, 2010

2009 Matti Kujasalo: Maalaus, 2009

2008 Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Missä on missä?, 2008

Other support

2018 Late Fridays in August – support for late-night programming in Kiasma.

Donation to the Finnish National Gallery fundraising campaign.

2012 Support for the production of the exhibition book of the Camouflage exhibition.

2009 Support for the production of Composition with David and Goliath by Ola Kolehmainen

Board of Directors

The foundation is governed by the Board of Directors whose members serve a term of three years.

Board Members

  • Pekka Lehtinen (puheenjohtaja)
  • Kyösti Kakkonen
  • Juhani Lemmetti
  • Max Mickelsson (varapuheenjohtaja)
  • Riitta Nelimarkka
  • Salla Pöyry
  • Jyri Sarpaniemi
  • Ari Tolppanen
  • Petri Tuomi-Nikula
  • Iiris Ulin
  • Poju Zabludowicz

More information and enquiries

Pekka Lehtinen, Chair
pekkalehtinen2016@gmail.com

Elina Pekkilä, Assistant
info@kiasmatukisaatio.fi