“Apostles” by Jenny Grönholm

On July 2 at 18.00, Jenny Grönholm’s solo exhibition Apostles will open at Hobusepea gallery. The exhibition will remain open until July 28, 2025.

The starting point for the exhibition is a single family photo album, or more precisely, its absence, at a time when it seemed every household was expected to have a personal archive of memories. This one album contains only eleven photographs. No others remain – few were ever taken. From these rare images, the paintings for this exhibition have taken shape.

The photographs depict twelve of my thirteen aunts: all captured on their confirmation day, flowers in hand, their gazes turned toward the future.The thirteenth aunt is missing, as there is always someone of whom no trace remains.

The family did not own a camera. There is only one photograph of each child: a confirmation portrait at age fifteen, with flowers. A silent image, marking the only official moment in their young lives.

They emerge before us, not as biographies, but as memories. Silent apostles, bearers, young women caught in the most fleeting bloom of life. They are held together by a single moment in time – one photograph, one flower, one story.

Jenny Grönholm

Jenny Grönholm (1988, Finland) is an artist living and working in Tallinn. She holds a BA in Printmaking and an MA in Sculpture and Installation from the Estonian Academy of Arts. Grönholm has presented solo exhibitions in both Tallinn and Helsinki, and has participated in group exhibitions in Estonia and Finland. In recent years, she has turned her focus to painting, delving into themes of memory and motifs associated to it. Alongside her studio work, she remains actively engaged in public art projects.
The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Exhibitions at Hobusepea gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Estonian Ministry of Culture, and Liviko AS.

Additional information:
Hobusepea Gallery
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Wed‒Mon 12.00‒18.00