Visio

Visio invites visitors to engage with the shifting boundaries of perception, experience, and reality. The exhibition features works from Malva’s poster and art collections from the late 1960s and early 1970s, alongside textiles from the same period from the collections of the Lahti Museums. Visio highlights the defining characteristics of the era’s art: bold expression, the pursuit of expanded perception, and a fearless challenge to prevailing norms.

Approaching psychedelic culture from a contemporary perspective, Visio brings the collection works into a multilayered dialogue with site-specific installations created by artists Inka Bell and Hemmo Siponen.

The exhibition foregrounds the connections between psychedelic, kinetic, and pop art. Through both collection works and newly commissioned pieces, Visio examines questions of perception, experience, and cultural critique, reflecting on how contemporary culture continues to be shaped by the artistic movements and psychedelic currents of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The exhibition features both Finnish and American graphic artists and visual artists. Works by pioneering psychedelic poster artists – most notably Wes Wilson and Victor Moscoso – are presented in dialogue with pieces by Kimmo Kaivanto, Tuomo Lukkari, and Jorma Kardén. Many of the works originate from the collection of Lahden Taiteet ry, which was entrusted to the museum last autumn.