I've been messing around with engraved ceramic tablets to quell my drawing needs for a few years now — the results are not always the best, but boy is it fun 🤣

Original plan for Cover-ups & teardowns was to do a little exhibition just with these little ceramic engravings of the skulls beneath my textiles, but I got into ceramic sculpting also, so they became a smaller portion of it.

Like this here "Unravel", based on my previous years piece also named "Unravel" (how original) , they sometines tend to come out of the kiln a bit warped, uneven and with cracks — but that is part of the learning process and the fun of it. I myself, as eell of my body of works, tend to be a bit wonky in general 😅

But I'll get better at it. I promise 🤞

5.10.-4.11.2025
Timo Höyssä
Cover-ups & teardowns

Konttorin Galleria
Kulttuurikonttori
Lukiokatu 16, Hämeenlinna

Open mon-sun 11-18

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We've passed the first week of Cover-ups & teardowns in Hämeenlinna and I've heard a lot of good feeback from visitors 🩷

So, let's talk a bit about some new and old pieces in the exhibition.

Fading and Faded were two of my favorite works from last year. I loved the fabric, the volume and sharp softness of them — so making a bare, coarse and stripped down version of them felt a bit uneasy.

Fading out, 2025
Glazed ceramics

They look so small and threatening between their older siblings. Despite being the runt of this litter, the (accidental) spotty coloring and (intentional) uneven glazing of the horns make them seem more threatening.

I need to make more horns in the future...

Konttorin Galleria
Kulttuurikonttori
Lukiokatu 16, Hämeenlinna

Open mon-sun 11-18

#taide #art #nykytaide
#contemporaryart #taidenäyttely #artexhibition #keramiikka #ceramics #tekstiilitaide #textileart #kallot #skulls #hämeenlinna #visithämeenlinna #kulttuurikonttori

The new incarnation of Cover-ups & teardowns is now open at Konttorin Galleria in Hämeenlinna!

Thank you everyone who visited the gallery for the opening and gave compliments on the exhibition 🥰

Hopefully you'll visit my little continuation exhibition of my ceramic experiments amongst my textile creations. 🙏

In the second picture we have the posterchild of the exhibition and the previous work that inspired it:

Melty, 2025
Glazed ceramics

Oh what a world. What a world. 2025
Deer skull, carpet weft, glue

5.10.-4.11.2025
Timo Höyssä
Cover-ups & teardowns

Konttorin Galleria
Kulttuurikonttori
Lukiokatu 16, Hämeenlinna

Open mon-sun 11-18

#taide #art #nykytaide
#contemporaryart #taidenäyttely #artexhibition #keramiikka #ceramics #tekstiilitaide #textileart #kallot #skulls #hämeenlinna #visithämeenlinna #kulttuurikonttori

Upcoming:

Cover-ups & teardowns
10.9.-28.9.2025
Taidekeskus Ahjo, Joensuu

Vernissage: 9.9. 18-20, welcome!

My previous exhibitions have mostly consisted of animal skulls covered with rich textiles, but along with the fabrics in Cover-ups and teardowns-exhibition, I'll attemp to also brings the pure forms of skulls to the fore for the first time with the help of ceramics. 

I'll bring some of my previous textile sculptures to the Kytö/Liekki-space in Taidekeskus Ahjo, where I've created works with colorful and organic-style patterns on top of animal skulls. Among these hanging, bursting and soft forms, newer, harder surfaces peek out — stripped-down ceramic works that remind both the viewers and myself of what is left under the layers.

I've tried to create some pairings with my older textiles works — covered in layers — and new shiny ceramics — stripped down forms of what once was — in hopes of creating a balanced combination.

In the pictures above I've featured "disfavor of he kiln gods" and some work in progress pieces that still need to be fired up in the kiln ❤️‍🔥

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Extrude/Exude has come to an end 🙏

Thank you all who visited and (hopefully) enjoyed this little exhibition 😊 The final number of visitors has not yet been calculated, but as far as I've understood, we had a huge number of you guys 😯!

Huge thanks to Kangasala's culture services, the library and especially Eljas for this opportunity and all the help with the exhibition 🙏

Now it's time to delve back into spring time chores around the house and then I'm gonna spend my summer toying with ceramics 👀 let's see what I can muster for my next exhibitions at fall 🤞

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One final week left of Extrude/Exude! We've already had a huge number ov visitors, so thank you all for visiting and all of you who are going to visist still! 🙏 I've heard nothing but good feedback thus far 😊


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Moody Denim Blues, 2025
Elk skull, denim, stuffing, glue

Behold: Tentacles! This time made from denim! What will I come up next?! 🤣 Yeah — this guy doesn't have much of an origin story: reaching tentacles were popular last year, I had some old jeans, I made this. I know, very deep.

We've still got two weeks of Extrude/Exude left! Come and say hi!


Extrude/Exude
13.3.-23.4.2025
Taidetila Terra
Kangasala

#taide #art #nykytaide
#contemporaryart #taidenäyttely #artexhibition #tekstiilitaide #textileart #kallot #skulls #denim #farkku #lonkero #tentacles #kangasala #visitkangasala #taidetilaterra #kangasalankirjasto #Extrude #exude

Fuzzy appendages, 2025
Deer horns, fabric, stuffing, glue

Extrude/Exude has been going along nicely - Thanks to everyone who has visited thus far 😊

Last year I received a pair of deer antlers that still had fuzzy, light brown fur on them. They looked so fun. I would've wanted to present them just as they were, but unfortunately they kept shedding and shedding constantly 🙈 So I was forced to strip and clean them completely. Saddened by this, I had the idea to re-fur them and even give them some extra appendages to fur up.

Boy, those long appendages took ages to stuff by hand 🤣

Timo Höyssä
Extrude/Exude
13.3.-23.4.2025
Taidetila Terra
Kangasala


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Oh, what a world. What a world, 2025
Deer skull, carpet weft, fabric, glue.

The exhibition is already a week old, so let's meet some newcomers to my repertoire.

I had fun with last years goopy "Muddle Puddle" and "I seem to have misplaced it" (both also available at Extrude/Exude 👀) so I had puddles of fabric in my mind. Then I found these lovely green fabrics — and bada-bing-bada-boom: "Oh, what a world. What a world".

The name is just a random reference. You know — melting in to a green puddle? Wicked was huge last year, or so I've been told. You get it.

Extrude/Exude
13.3.-23.4.2025
Taidetila Terra
Kangasala

#taide #art #nykytaide
#contemporaryart #taidenäyttely #artexhibition #tekstiilitaide #textileart #kallot #skulls #kangasala #visitkangasala #taidetilaterra #kangasalankirjasto #Extrude #exude

It's open!

Extrude/Exude
13.3.-23.4.2025
Taidetila Terra

Welcome all and come by to peruse my extruding and exuding skull and textile pieces🫠

Also, don't forget about the vernissage this evening, 13.3. from 18-19 in Kangasala!

This was a fun exhibition to work at and Kangasala culture services made it a super easy and chill to put together. Thank you Eljas for all the help 🙏


#taide #art #nykytaide
#contemporaryart #taidenäyttely #artexhibition #tekstiilitaide #textileart #kallot #skulls #kangasala #visitkangasala #taidetilaterra #kangasalankirjasto #Extrude #exude