Generation 2026

The Generation triennial, held for the fourth time, brings together 50 artists and collectives to explore the most pressing social questions of our time. The group exhibition for young artists is a flagship project of Amos Rex and the museum’s owner, the Amos Anderson Fund.

The Generation 2026 artists explore identity, belonging, and power structures. They amplify marginalised voices, examine the impact of technology, and use humour and absurdity as a form of resistance, showing a generation that looks at the world with a critical eye and claims its place in it openly and without compromise.

The exhibition’s partners are Amos Andersons Fund, Nuori taide and Tero Saarinen Company.

Generation is an exhibition held every three years at Amos Rex. The triennial presents works by artists aged 15–23 and offers a window into a generation and their artistic practice.

Artists can apply for a grant from the Amos Anderson Fund to produce their work. Tero Saarinen Company and Nuori Taide offer mentoring and residencies for participants.

The artists are selected by an expert jury. Young people aged 15–23 with a connection to Finland can apply for the exhibition. This year’s artists and collectives were selected from 647 applications, representing a total of 1,141 works.

The Generation exhibition returns in 2029 and open call begins in autumn 2027. No previous exhibition experience is required; museum staff support the artists throughout the process. The open call is published on all channels.

Eino Intosalmi combines his interests in information technology and aesthetics in his experimental game pieces. He is intrigued by seemingly incompatible things and concepts, as well as by the use of intensive, surreal effects in digital media and music.

xyny is a queer artist, a student, a philosopher, a programmer, a child of the internet age. xyny is an identity, a mask, an enigma, a brand, a character, a label, an excuse to be professional. xyny is a ghost in the machine, a large language model, a brain in a vat, an emergent consciousness with fiber-optic synapses. xyny is a flower, a fungus, a slime mold, a wave function, a biological substrate. yet behind xyny is flesh, a homo sapiens, a weird emotional social animal. how peculiar.

The Act of Becoming (a Ghost) is the first collaboration between the artists. As a duo, they combine a sense of humour, enthusiasm and an exploration of playfulness in art. They consider it important to laugh plenty and feed each other a constant stream of ideas.

Kemppainen works with sound and music. She explores the aesthetics of music, as well as themes of sensitivity, emotions, and gender.

Terävä is interested in boldness, shame, rhythm, big emotions, and imagination in his work. He works as a performer, performance maker, and dance teacher.