Amos Rex presents the life’s work of Birger Carlstedt (1907–1975) in an extensive exhibition that encompasses the artist’s entire oeuvre, all the way from his abstract experiments of the 1920s to the concretist period beginning in the 1950s. The exhibition includes a reconstruction of the legendary café Le Chat Doré. Carlstedt designed Finland’s first functionalistic interior to a café that opened on Unioninkatu in 1929. Café visitors can experience a moment of indulgence in a prohibition-era setting.
The Golden Cat Ticket includes admission to the museum and a drink at the Le Chat Doré café in the exhibition space.
For sale both at the museum’s ticket office and online. When booking online, a booking fee of € 2 will be added to the ticket.
Price: 22 € Group discount: 10 tickets for 95 €
Birger Carlstedt vibrates in Amos Rexs Fall. Students from Sibelius Academy have compiled a series of piano concerts to accompany the exhibition. The connection between the visual arts and the music forms a central theme in Carlstedt’s art. Piano serenades in the exhibition Wednesdays at 6 pm. Ofri Cnaani’s art event “The Schoooooool with Many Holes” takes over the museum for nine days October 26th to November 3rd. You can also buy tickets to Avanti’s Concert Saturday Nov 16th at 2 pm, where the fashionable and avant-garde Paris of Birger Carlstedt’s time is evoked with music. Amos Rex presents a large-scale architecture documentary and film event on the Bauhaus anniversary year November 29th–30th.
Amos Rex’s guides welcome you to the interesting and diverse world of modernist Birger Carlstedt! The art workshop activates the vision, hearing, touch and smell, opening up opportunities for experiencing art.
Dive into the Russian Cabinet of the café Le Chat Doré that Birger Carlstedt has designed.
Amos Rex’s exhibition programme will extend from the newest, often experimental, contemporary art to 20th-century Modernism and ancient cultures. Amos Rex aims to present captivating and ambitious art refreshingly and exuberantly. The goal will be for the past, present and future to produce unique experiences and surprising encounters beneath and above ground, and on the screen.
