Before your visit
We recommend purchasing your museum tickets in advance online—even with a Museum Card!
If you have purchased a ticket online, please enter the museum from the Kamppi side, using the accessible entrance at Lasipalatsi Square. Show your e-ticket at the ticket counter upon arrival. Welcome to the museum!
If you require accessible entry either way, you can use the accessible doors at Lasipalatsi Square without an e-ticket. This entrance is also used for guided group visits.
Currently, Amos Rex’s main exhibition halls feature Anna Estarriola’s Staged Circumstances and Piles of Things. Studio Rex hosts Enni-Kukka Tuomala’s Expanding Empathies.
For visitors sensitive to sensory stimuli, we recommend visiting Amos Rex on a day when you don’t have many other activities planned. Art exhibitions might not be ideal as the last stop on a long, experience-filled day.
Amos Rex’s exhibitions are suitable for all ages. Only one artwork in Enni-Kukka Tuomala’s exhibition is recommended for adults. For those visiting with children, we suggest exploring Children’s Amos Rex page for tips on experiencing the exhibitions:
The museum tends to be quieter on weekday afternoons and after 6 PM on weekdays. Mornings, particularly between April 14 and May 28, 2025, are busier due to school group visits.
General Information About the Exhibitions
In the exhibition hall, you’ll find discussion guides who are happy to talk with you about the artworks and any thoughts they may inspire. You can recognise them by their lavender-coloured work coats. You can also ask them for more information about Amos Rex’s services.
The exhibition halls are accessible for wheelchairs, electric wheelchairs, rollators, prams, and pushchairs. Breastfeeding and bottle-feeding are allowed in all exhibition spaces.
Photography without flash is permitted. Please be mindful of the staff and other visitors.
In the Staged Circumstances and Piles of Things exhibition, you will find benches where you can sit and relax. On the benches, you will also find question cards and a comic book. Feel free to browse the book and use the cards during your visit! Please remember to return them to their place when you’re done. Thank you!
Anna Estarriola:
Staged Circumstances and Piles of Things
2 April – 31 August 2025
An acrobat stands on their hair, fireworks sparkle in someone’s eyes, and whispers emerge from a giant woolly hat. Anna Estarriola’s exhibition at Amos Rex invites us to explore reality from multiple perspectives. Staged Circumstances and Piles of Things is the most extensive solo exhibition to date by the Catalonia-born, Helsinki-based artist.
The exhibition features 17 works created between 2015 and 2025. These works are installations—compositions made up of various elements such as sculptures, sounds, objects, and moving images. The scale of the pieces varies from tiny, microscopic moving images to sculptures reaching up to five metres in height.
Some of the materials used may come as a surprise: glitter, boulders, wool, or even human hair. As the materials are delicate, please do not touch the artworks or their pedestals. Some areas of the exhibition are also slightly narrow and may not be suitable for large groups. Thank you for moving carefully and, if visiting with children, for keeping them close—perhaps by holding hands.
This exhibition is suitable for all ages. If you are visiting with children, we recommend looking for tips from our museum resident, Ou, to enhance their experience. Ou’s tips can be found near three works: Performance for a Rock, Emerging Thoughts, and Piles of Things. Ou isn’t very tall, so be sure to look down to find the tips!
Find out more about Ou on our children’s pages:
Exhibition Flow and Conditions
There is no set route to follow at the Staged Circumstances and Piles of Things exhibition.
You will find descriptions of each artwork in the exhibition space. These descriptions, along with any additional information and guidance on experiencing the works, are displayed on the walls near the artworks.
If you would like to explore the artist’s process and learn more about the exhibition’s themes, we recommend the exhibition booklet. It is free and available in Finnish, Swedish, and English from the museum’s main lobby. You can also find it online:
Explore the exhibition booklet
The sensory load of Anna Estarriola’s exhibition is fairly moderate. The exhibition space features one bright orange wall and a few electric blue ones, while the remaining walls are in various shades of grey or silver. Some of the artworks have very bright colours and many different textures. Many artworks include sound, which is played through speakers. Artwork sounds do overlap a bit in the exhibition space. The space is well-lit, though there is no natural light.
Further down this page, you will find artwork-specific content and sensory notes for Estarriola’s exhibition.
Enni-Kukka Tuomala:
Expanding Empathies
2 April – 31 August 2025
Studio Rex features Expanding Empathies, an exhibition by empathy artist Enni-Kukka Tuomala. The exhibition is based on the London-based artist’s long-term exploration of the relationships between empathy, power, space, and systems.
The exhibition space presents Expansions, a collection of three different artworks suitable for all ages. There are signs indicating which artworks can be sat on and how many people can sit at a time. Two of the three artworks in the series have seating areas that can accommodate up to three people at a time. You can also ask our discussion guides for assistance—they will be happy to help.
In addition to the Expansions artworks, the exhibition includes an interactive installation called Empathy Echo Chamber, which is recommended for adults. This piece involves a guided experience where two strangers participate in a 20-minute session together. While there is no unsuitable content for children, the artwork includes a longer written instruction, which may be difficult for a child to follow. Additionally, the piece is primarily designed to be experienced with a stranger. For these reasons, we recommend it for adults only.
The exhibition space has white walls and is relatively dimly lit, with no natural light. The artworks feature metallic tones and reflective silver surfaces, and some pieces include moving text projected onto metallic mesh.
Empathy Echo Chamber is based on a guided 15-minute conversation with a stranger. However, participation in this experience is voluntary—there are other artworks in the exhibition that you can explore independently, with no restrictions on access.
Soft, calming sounds play through speakers in the space. Below, you will find artwork-specific content and sensory notes.
Artwork Content and Sensory Notes
This section provides details about artworks that may have notable content or sensory elements, as well as those you can touch or interact with in some way.
Anna Estarriola: Piles of Things, 2025
This artwork includes materials and colours that may be overwhelming for people with sensory sensitivities, such as bright pink and textile textures.
Anna Estarriola: Transition – Assisted Breathing. 2019.
This installation consists of a human-like sculpture resting on a pedestal, connected to a breathing machine. The machine inside the sculpture blows air out. You can feel the airflow by standing in front of the artwork.
Anna Estarriola: An Instrument to See Things That Are Too Small for the Naked Eye. 2016.
This installation features a telescope-like object placed on a table. When you look through it, you will see a short video. You may look closely, but please be careful not to touch the artwork.
The video includes nudity.
The duration of the piece is 13 minutes.
Anna Estarriola: Reproduced. 2017.
This installation is located in a large, dimly lit room that you can enter. The space contains a table and a sculpture, which includes a small digital screen displaying moving images. Additionally, a projection appears on the wall behind the table. You’ll find seating in the room.
The artwork includes spoken dialogue in English.
Subtitles are available in English, Finnish, and Swedish. Finnish and Swedish subtitles alternate with each screening. The subtitles are displayed on a separate screen placed on the floor.
The duration of the piece is 10 minutes 14 seconds.
Anna Estarriola: The System. 2017.
This installation is set in a space enclosed by curtains. The lighting is dim. The artwork features a long table where sculptures are seated. It also includes projections and small screens that occasionally display moving images. Opposite the installation, there is a seating area where visitors can sit and listen to a conversation between the sculptures.
The front row of seats is reserved for visitors who require accessible seating.
The artwork includes spoken dialogue and other sounds played through speakers.
The spoken language is English.
Subtitles are available in English, Finnish, and Swedish. Finnish and Swedish subtitles alternate with each screening. The subtitles are displayed on two separate screens placed on the floor.
The duration of the piece is 12 minutes.
Enni Kukka Tuomala: Empathy Echo Chamber. 2020–2021.
This artwork is an interactive installation. It consists of a silver-coloured, cube-shaped chamber that can be entered from both ends. The hollow chamber sits on the exhibition space floor and is made of reflective, silver-toned material.
Two strangers at a time can enter the chamber to take part in a guided experience—the artwork itself. During the experience, participants sit on stools inside the chamber, facing each other and following the written instructions provided. The artwork starts with eye contact between participants. This aspect may pose a barrier for individuals whose social interaction diverges from neurotypical norms. The stools are 40 cm high and have no backrest or armrests.
The experience lasts 20 minutes from start to finish and is recommended for adults only. The installation is accessible for wheelchair users, electric wheelchair users, and those using rollators. However, pushchairs and prams are not permitted inside.
Exhibition guides are present to assist you if needed and are happy to answer any questions!
Entry & Booking Information
On Fridays, you can pre-book your entry and purchase a ticket. At other times, participation is based on a queueing system.
How to Participate in Empathy Echo Chamber:
- Take a seat on a free stool in the exhibition hall while waiting for your turn. There are two separate queues, one on either side of the installation. Depending on your place in the queue, your waiting time will be 20, 40, or 60 minutes. If you change your mind, you are free to leave the queue—just let the exhibition guide know.
- When it’s your turn, a discussion guide will direct you inside the artwork and provide you with written instructions on how to experience it. The instructions are available in Finnish, Swedish, and English. The chamber entrances are equipped with zippers, which can be operated from both inside and outside. Please remove your shoes before entering.
- Step inside and take a seat on a stool. Another museum visitor will be seated opposite you. Follow the instructions you received from the discussion guide. When the light on your stool changes color, it’s time to move on to the next part of the experience. The experience ends when the stool lights dim. Our discussion guides remain outside during the experience. If you wish to leave before the experience ends, simply inform them.
- At the end of the experience, the stool lights dim. The discussion guide will then let you out of the chamber.
Thank You for Participating!
At Amos Rex, we follow safer space principles, and discrimination of any kind is not tolerated. Our staff remain outside the installation at all times, and you are welcome to report any issues to them.
Key Information at a Glance:
Duration: 20 minutes
Recommended Age: Adults
Written instructions for the artwork are available in Finnish, Swedish and English.
Accessibility: The installation is accessible for wheelchair users, electric wheelchair users, and those using rollators. Pushchairs and prams are not permitted inside.
