Visual arts|Ateneum Museum Director believes that Pekka Halonen’s nature relationship is of interest to European museum visitors.
Painter Pekka Halonen (1865-1933) The retrospective exhibition will be seen in Paris next fall. The exhibition at the Petit Palais Museum presents Halonen’s exceptional relationship and lifestyle surrounded by family and artist community.
Halonen, one of the most famous artists in Finnish art, is especially known for his landscape paintings depicting winter nature and snowy forests.
More than 100 Halonen works are seen in Paris. Included is one of his most famous works such as Kantele (1892), Oijustia (1892), On the open (1900) and Tomatoes (1913) and famous snowy winter landscapes.
Pekka Halonen’s work covered by ice and snow from 1911.
Halonen The Paris exhibition is produced by the Ateneum Art Museum. It is part of the Ateneum Classics for the World project, which takes domestic art abroad with the support of the Jane and Aatos Erko Foundation.
Halonen’s exhibition is a continuation of the Albert Edelfelt exhibition at the Petit Palais Museum in 2022, which was very popular. The idea for Halonen’s exhibition came from the new leader of the Paris Museum Annick Lemoinelta.
“Pekka Halonen is a magnificent Finnish artist who was able to depict Nordic nature, and especially snow, better than anyone else,” Lemoine says in the release.
Halonen’s nature relationship is of interest to European museum visitors, says Ateneum Museum Director Anna-Maria Bonsdorff.
“His lifestyle as a member of the Tuusulanjärvi artist community and the father of eight children was also exceptional. Halonen created a new, more spiritual way to live, creating art surrounded by her family, ”Bonsdorff says in the release.
Pekka Halonen – U Hymne à la Finlande, 4.11.2025 – 22.2.2026. Petit Palais, Paris.