EMMA SARPANIEMI
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Paris Photo, Jarmuschek + Partner, Paris
Snake Lifter, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki
Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower, NEVVEN gallery, Gothenburg
Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower, Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin
2024
Honey Crunch, Finnish Museum of Photography K1, Helsinki
Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower, Miettinen Collection, Berlin
2023
Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki
Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower, Fotoforum, Dresden
Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower, Photographic Centre Peri, Turku
2022
When the Sun Goes Down We See Lemons, Galleria Rajatila, Tampere
When the Sun Goes Down We See Lemons, Galleria Uusi Kipinä, Lahti
When the Sun Goes Down We See Lemons, Museum. of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil
2021
When the Sun Goes Down We See Lemons, Gallery of Modern Art Space Place, NizhnyTagil, RU When the Sun Goes Down We See Lemons, Gallery Katariina, Helsinki
2020
When the Sun Goes Down We see Lemons, Finlandsinstitutet, Stockholm
2015
Taasseaikakuusta, OHO gallery, Helsinki
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2026
212 Photography Istanbul, Helsinki Contemporary, Istanbul (upcoming)
Foto Tallinn, Helsinki Contemporary, Tallin, EE (upcoming)
30th Anniversary: A Center of Photography, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (upcoming)
CHART (Collectors Circle), Helsinki Contemporary, Copenhagen (upcoming)
To be, Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin
Salong #3, Studio Tabac, Stockholm
Young Artists 2026, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki
Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze, The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF), Frankfurt
Art Brussels, Helsinki Contemporary
Miettinen Collection: Body Politics, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa
2025
POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin
sommer.frische.kunst: art:badgastein x POSITIONS, Jarmuschek + Partner, Bad Gastein
Crawling home, Pop-up Galerie (Imbergstr. 51), Salzburg
EXIT PARADISE. Die Miettinen Collection im Schloss Sacrow, Potsdam
Luxembourg Art Week, Jarmuschek + Partner, Luxembourg
Multitudes of Blue, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki
Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze, Photo Elysée, Lausanne
CHART Art Fair, Helsinki Contemporary, Copenhagen
Market Art Fair, Helsinki Contemporary, Stockholm
Maybe it was magic, Miettinen Collection I Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
2024
Me, Myself & Us, Arendt House, Luxembourg
Mikä Väri, Turku Art Museum, Turku
The Frames of Sopot Photography Festival, Sopot
Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona
Gegen den Strich (Against the Grain), Schloss Sacrow, Berlin
Athens Photo Festival, Athens
Wolf D. Hammer: TwoRealities, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen
2023
Søsterskap, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen
Nordic Light Festival of Photography, Kristiansund
Self On Stage, Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
Søsterskap, Les Rencontresd’ Arles festival, Arles
Rethinking Identity, Family, Community, CercleCité, Luxembourg
Lens Culture New Discoveries in Contemporary Photography, PhotoLondon, London
2023 PORTRAITS–Hellerau Photography Award, The Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Dresden
2022
The Next Great Fashion Image Makers, Photo Vogue festival, BASE MILANO, Milan
2021
Spektrum—Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Art, WAM Turku City Art 1 to 100, Street Gallery Mutteri, Helsinki
AtlaonPaper, Dzidra, Copenhagen
Un(seen): In the Dazzle of Infrastructure, Galleria Aarni, Espoo, FI Spring Salon, Kosminen, Helsinki
2019
Ripples, exhibition curated by Antonia Hamberg, Helsinki
Graduation festival, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, The Hague
PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam
Glass Cycle, Trixie Gallery, The Hague
2018
fin.land, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Generation, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä
NOUN presents Good Work, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague
New Year New Me (24 hour marathon), WORMS/ash Gallery, Rotterdam
2017
A Breath Of Fresh Air, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Generation 2017, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
2016
Kakadujaja Henkirikoksia, Galleria O Yoy, Lahti
Qershidhe Lavazh — Photographs from Albania, Jukka Male Museo, Helsinki
2015
BLOOM, Lokal, Helsinki
2014
#Phoneography, Lasipalatsi, Helsinki
2013
The Easy Way, Galleri Zebra, Karjaa