DIALOGUE. Collection Presentation

Some affinities cannot be explained – they can only be recognised. Finland and East Asia are connected by more than the distance that separates them. A shared stillness. A fondness for reduction, for gesture, for material as a carrier of meaning. The understanding that what is essential is rarely loud. The Miettinen Collection, a Finnish private collection based in Berlin, has cultivated this attitude from the very beginning. Its affinity for East Asian art – for Japanese, Korean and Chinese positions – is not a curatorial programme but a conviction. A chosen kinship that has repeatedly been confirmed over decades and thousands of kilometres.After a move and a long renovation phase, the collection is opening its new premises. It was a deliberate decision not to mark this moment with a representative overview exhibition begeh