BO HAGLUNDAIR 18.4.2026 – 17.5.2026

Vibration in the air

When words fail and silence falls,
Morning light and neon sunsets,
Nocturnal flares of light against the black sky,
Undulating currents of air push forward,
Fleeting landscapes on a cool morning,

We travel towards the unknown,
All unfulfilled dreams,
A bridge, an imaginary symbol of freedom,
Our eyes look up at the sky,
Do we still have hope?

Perhaps these paintings are about transitions,
Travel in time and space,
About the desire to leave,
To start from scratch,
A flyover to childhood meadows.

How would I describe painting?
The pleasure that painting gives or the meditative process?
I fill the paper with dots of different colours.
Can these even be called paintings?
Perhaps they are maps of time lost.

What does a misty landscape matter, or
A sky glowing with colours, when the world is on fire?
What does a trafficless bridge at dawn mean
When the future is uncertain?
Fortunately, an expert will soon explain it all to us,
Wrapping our fears in a neat package
So that we can keep believing in tomorrow.

Bo Haglund

Artist Bo Haglund graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of Art and Design Helsinki in 2000. He held his first solo exhibition in 1995 and has been represented in numerous group exhibitions. His works feature in various collections, including the Pro Artibus Foundation and Tampere Art Museum collections as well as the Finnish State Art Deposit Collection. Haglund has also worked as a set and costume designer, illustrator and graphic designer, as well having designed industrial textiles and products. He has also published numerous comic books.

The exhibition will be accompanied by the publication of his comic book MOLNSYMFONIN (Boklund Publishing), which Haglund describes as a surreal autobiography, the events of which take place in the landscapes of his childhood and youth in Porvoo.