Thesmallest Vallilan viimeisen aukiolopäivän kunniaksi ravintola Pikku-Vallila venyttää aukioloaikaansa kahdeksaan. Teoksen numeron seitsemän, Pasi Rauhalan Diskopaavin, voi siis nähdä myös tänään - kunhan kiiruhtaa paikalle festivaalin ensimmäisen aukiolotunnin 19-20 aikana!

In honor of the last day of Thesmallest Vallila, restaurant Pikku-Vallila is extending its opening hours to eight. This means that you can also see work number seven, Pasi Rauhala’s Diskopaavi, today - as long as you hurry there during the festival’s first opening hour of 7-8 pm!

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Viimeiset pienimmät päivät ovat käsillä!

Thesmallest Vallila päättyy sunnuntaina 12.10. Käy nyt, ettei sitten myöhemmin kaduta!

Viikonloppuna on myös erityisohjelmaa eli peräti kaksi kuraattorikierrosta.
Lauantain 11.10. kierros alkaa 20:15 teokselta 1, Virtaintie 14. Kierros toteutetaan yhteistyössä Suomen valotaiteen seura FLASHin kanssa.
Sunnuntain 12.10. kierros on suunnattu erityisesti valoalan ihmisille ja toteutetaan yhdessä Suomen Valoteknillisen seuran kanssa. Se alkaa ravintola Pikku-Vallilan edestä jo 18:45.
Kierrokset ovat ilmaisia, ne pidetään suomeksi eikä niille tarvitse ilmoittautua etukäteen.

Tervetuloa!


The last smallest days of are here!

Thesmallest Vallila ends on Sunday, October 12. Go now, so you won't regret missing the festival later!

There is also special program over the weekend, namely two curatorial tours.
The tour on Saturday, October 11 starts at 8:15 PM at artwork 1, Virtaintie 14
The tour on Sunday, October 12 is aimed specifically at professionals of light and is carried out in collaboration with the Suomen valoteknillinen seura. It starts in front of the Pikku-Vallila restaurant at 6:45 PM.
The tours are free, they are held in Finnish, and you don't need to register in advance.

Welcome!

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KURAATTORIKIERROS THESMALLEST VALLILASSA!

Tervetuloa Thesmallest Vallilan kuraattoreiden seuraan festivaalikierrokselle 11.10. klo 20:15 alkaen. Kierroksella saat lisätietoja festivaalista ja sen kuratoinnista sekä taideteoksista. Kerromme myös melko tosia tarinoita kulissien takaa ja valotaidefestivaalin järjestämisen realiteeteista.

Kierros alkaa ensimmäiseltä taideteokselta osoitteesta Virtaintie 14, kestää noin tunnin ja on ilmainen. Kierros pidetään suomeksi.

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Pasi Rauhala's Disco Pope is the most colourful artwork of Thesmallest Vallila, and at the same time the most spiritual, I'd say. I mean, it has a pope in it! The artwork was inspired by the nominating Francis as the pope, and the traditions pertaining it. In time, more characters, like beggars, were added and the message turned more political. The artwork is placed on the counter of restaurant Pikku-Vallila, a fitting place if I may say so myself.

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The second part of Anne Roininen's Geopolitical Burger is found at somewhat less pristine environment than the first one: the window grill of Pub Magneetti at Mäkelänkatu 20.

More in: https://www.thesmallest.art/art-taide/195-2/

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Anne Roininen's artwork Geopolitical Burger is in two parts. The first one is found at the prepared food section of Alepa store, and the second in the window grill of Pub Magneetti, a local bar with all-year-round Christmas lights decorations, and a lovely place in other scales as well.

More in: https://www.thesmallest.art/art-taide/195-2/

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A House to Inhabit (2002) by Terike Haapoja is one of my very favourite artworks ever, and I was so happy to have a version of it in Thesmallest Vallila festival. In a model scale, of course: A Doll House to Inhabit.

It was a memory lane in another way as well, since I did some soldering for the lamps. It's been a while!

More info in: https://www.thesmallest.art/art-taide/terike-haapoja-doll-house-to-inhabit-nukketalo-jota-asutat/

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Salla Salin's Rift is a subtle yet powerful intervention in a cliff crack between houses. It brings forward the beauty of details we usually miss, making a wall of stones a canvas.

As seen in the ongoing Thesmallest Vallila festival in Helsinki, Finland, curated by Thesmallest Collective, which is me and Stefan Jovanovski.

More info in: https://www.thesmallest.art/art-taide/salla-salin-rift/

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Merijn Bolink's Artificial Truth is placed in yours truly window, and sometimes we can hear people chattering outside while watching it. Luckily / unfortunately we cannot hear the exact words, but the tone is mostly quite cheerful.

More info in: https://www.thesmallest.art/art-taide/merijn-bolink-artificial-truth/

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Originally, the artworks of Thesmallest Vallila light art festival were all supposed to be in windows, for practicality and safety. As it happens, artists and curators started have other ideas. Jere Suontausta's Pölyhiukkasen tähtihetki (Starring Dust) is placed in a basement ventilation window, for example.

More info in: https://www.thesmallest.art/art-taide/jere-suontausta-polyhiukkasen-tahtihetki-starring-dust/

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Thesmallest Vallila light art festival opened yesterday. Seven artists, eight artworks of the smallest size, five blocks and two very happy curators.

Here's Alexander Salvesens's piece Primordial Sea. More info here: https://www.thesmallest.art/art-taide/alexander-salvesen-alkumeri/

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Last but not least: Merijn Bolink. Before The Artificial Truth, seen at Thesmallest Vallila light art festival, Bolink hasn't used much light in his artworks, but that's ok, he's still a marvellous artist. Here's an example of his sense of humor, The Fountain in Amsterdam. Photo supposedly by mr. Bolink himself.

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Jere Suontausta's Bloom exhibition in 2025 was aptly placed in a flower shop. In Thesmallest Vallila festival Jere's subject matter is, well, the smallest: a dust particle.

https://www.thesmallest.art/art-taide/jere-suontausta-polyhiukkasen-tahtihetki-starring-dust/

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Terike Haapoja is possibly the most known artist of Thesmallest Vallila festival. Here's a rare non-light art photo posting from her summer 2025 exhibition Labor Movement for All Animals.

https://www.stoa.fi/en/events/event/51999951939B1FEAA1FEDD07F37AF6CB/Terike_Haapoja_Labor_Movement_for_All_Animals

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The next Thesmallest Vallila artist is Salla Salin, with whom I had the pleasure of creating a piece in the Christmas Lights Calendar series in 2015. The series consisted of 24 artworks in the very centre of Helsinki, changing daily during the Christmas countdown. White Light Moment consisted of ever changing squares and stripes of different hues of white light, forming a variety of combinations.

In Salla's words: "Presenting subtle light changes and bringing forth both the specificity of the architectural structure and the myriad of colour hues of white light, the intervention inhabited Espa stage from 4pm till 23pm."

Photo is also by Salla, and more is found at
https://www.sallasalin.com/#/white-light-moment/

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Not the biggest. Not the loudest.
Just the smallest. 🟡 And maybe the brightest.

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📍Puu-Valilla, Helsinki
🗓️4. - 12. 10. 2025

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Here's Pasi Rauhala's Kudos, a public space light / video art in Espoo, Finland, in a Venturo, a prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen. Pasi's somewhat smaller piece Disco Pope will be seen in the Thesmallest Vallila festival in Puu-Vallila area, Helsinki, 4.-12.10.2026.

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Alexander Salvesen is another artist of Thesmallest Vallila. Here's his piece Solastalgia from muutos.art exhibition in Tampere 2024. The theme is forest, in Thesmallest Vallila it will be sea.

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