Personal Structures – Confluences · 8th Edition

Katja Tukiainen
&
Maria Wolfram

9 May – 22 November 2026

Palazzo Mora · Venice

Confluences

Two generations of Finnish women painters arrive at Palazzo Mora with work shaped by the body, the gaze, and the charged space between feeling and form. Katja Tukiainen's lyrical figures — restless, funny, unafraid — meet Maria Wolfram's luminous portraits of interiority and will. Brought together under the theme of Confluences, their practices flow from different sources yet share a current: figuration as a vehicle for truth, vulnerability as strength, and painting as an act of radical presence.

The Paintings

Maria Wolfram

Born 1961, Helsinki. Painter and installation artist whose work explores identity, the human condition, and the female perspective — confronting structures of power with a gaze at once intimate and unflinching. Her canvases hold their subjects in a charged stillness, where colour becomes emotion and form becomes will.

mariawolfram.com @maria.wolfram

Katja Tukiainen

Born 1969, Pori. Doctor of Fine Arts, painter and comics artist whose autofictional figures — playful, restless, pink — inhabit a world that is funny and fragile in equal measure. Tukiainen's paintings enact the female body as subject, object, and verb: always moving, always insisting on its own terms.

katjat.net @katjatukiainen

Visit

Venue

Palazzo Mora

Strada Nova 3659 · Venice, Italy
Second Floor — Rooms 201, 202, 203, 204 & 208

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Dates

9 May – 22 November 2026

Hours

10:00 – 18:00 daily
Closed Tuesdays

Plate I — Visitor Itinerary

Palazzo Mora — Secondo Piano. Editorial visitor itinerary 208 → 201 → 202 → 203 → 204.

Personal Structures

Personal Structures – Confluences is an international contemporary art exhibition organised by the European Cultural Centre Italy, held concurrently with the Venice Art Biennale. Now in its 8th edition, the exhibition brings together artists from around the world in dialogue with the historic architecture of Palazzo Mora. The programme explores how individual perspectives — personal, cultural, temporal — converge into shared human experience.

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