Kaisu Koivisto, Vineta Kaulača: Double Vision

Vineta Kaulača and Kaisu Koivisto: Double Vision

Galleriaia, Helsinki, August 21st – September 19th 2025

Double Vision is a joint exhibition by Vineta Kaulača and Kaisu Koivisto. The exhibition includes photographs, sculptures, paintings and a site specific spatial drawing.

Double Vision relates to the ambiguity of seeing. The surroundings affect our ways of seeing, and the works affect each other, taking also cues from colors, forms, associations of the exhibition space and its environs. Different points of view and approaches to image making create synergy, which the artists define playfully as double vision. Double does not mean a dichotomy for Kaulača and Koivisto - different media, two artists - but rather a shared process of searching for multiple combinations and possibilities, side by side. Double Vision connects time and space, memory, and spatial organization, thus inviting viewers to reflect on how these elements shape ways of seeing.

Vineta Kaulača, a painter based in Riga, Latvia, is interested in the interaction between painting, drawing, photography and installation. Her work is grounded in an exploration of perception, memory, time, and space. She investigates how reality is reconstructed from fleeting and fragmented visual impressions, highlighting the complex emotional and cognitive processes that shape how we see and remember. For this exhibition Kaulača has created a brand new series of work The Eyes of Time, Parallel Vision and a site specific work Spatial Drawing VII. Kaulača explores the ambiguity inherent in the visible and the perceived, in the image and the object. In a world of constant movement the perception of space is never fixed—it shifts depending on one’s point of view, personal experience, and a multitude of contextual factors.

Kaisu Koivisto, based in Helsinki, Finland, focuses on photographs and sculptures. She works in dialogue with environments, materials and objects: these generate the topics of her works. She regards materials and objects as documents which tell about the way human activity shapes and values, or neglects, environments. For her sculptures in Double Vision Koivisto used objects such as surveillance mirrors. Photography opens up further methods for Koivisto to explore materials and the way the passage of time is visible in them. For her latest works from the ongoing series Passages she photographed at Linnahall, an abandoned multi-purpose venue in Tallinn, Estonia. The regenerative processes of slow decay and growth are at the core of her photographs.

Vineta Kaulača’s participation has been generously supported by The State Culture Capital Foundation (SCCF), AKKA/LAA and the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia, Helsinki.