Grace Ndiritu: PoriPostModern

In the autumn of 2026, Pori Art Museum will hold a major exhibition by British-Kenyan (Maasai Kikuyu) artist Grace Ndiritu, spreading into all exhibition spaces in the Hall and Wing of the art museum.

Ndiritu’s exhibition PoriPostModern will include the artist’s new moving image work The Rehearsal, co-produced by Pori Art Museum. Ndiritu’s practice examines the transformative possibilities of art on both social and spiritual level. The main Hall will be dedicated to Ndiritu’s work The Temple: a wooden installation that functions both as a display structure and a space for communal and spiritual practices. The version to be built in Pori Art Museum will include both Ndiritu’s own artworks as well as a selection of Postmodern works from the museum’s collection, resembling a kind of Pori Post Modern indoor sculpture park.

In addition, Ndiritu will assemble a new hanging of modernist art from the Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation collection. This new display within a room especially designed by Ndiritu for the exhibition, inspired by Aino and Alvar Aalto’s Villa Maire which was built in 1939 for Maire Gullichsen and her family.

Within the exhibition, Ndiritu will also curate a work by American artist Mike Kelley. This continues the interaction between the two artists’ works formulated initially by the joint exhibition organized at Pori Art School in the summer of 2024.

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Grace Ndiritu: The Twin Tapestries: Restitution (1973), Grace Ndiritu, 2022. © Grace Ndiritu. Photograph: Steven Pocock, Wellcome Collection.