Mikkeli Art Museum Exhibition: Artist Couple Aino and Yrjö Muukka

Artists Aino Vihervä-Muukka and Yrjö S. Muukka held a significant place in Mikkeli’s art scene. They persistently worked to enrich the local scene as artists, art teachers as well as founding members of Mikkelin Taideyhdistys, Mikkeli’s art society. Even though they actively took part in exhibitions nationwide, they’ve received little recognition in the Finnish art field. However, their art and careers as artists cannot be omitted in the story of art in Mikkeli and Southern Savonia. The exhibition at Mikkeli Art Museum 7.6.-21.9.2025 is the first extensive look into Aino and Yrjö’s artistic production. The exhibition is curated by the Mikkeli City Museums curator Paula Hyvönen, with the couple’s work in the municipality’s own art collection as the starting point. Most of the exhibited works have been loaned from private collections. The exhibition includes nearly a hundred works. In addition to their day jobs, Aino and Yrjö Muukka were profilic painters whose central motifs included country and forest landscapes, the rocky shores of their summer home in Haaparanta, the fells of Lapland as well as the city views of Paris.