The inspiring gallery of the professor, artist Riitta Nelimarkka in the city of Loviisa, Finland, (1 hour drive east of Helsinki)
The tour gives a unique possibility to see the artist the atelier and gallery The visit takes 60 min. The Bonga Castle is open upon reservation around the year.
The Gallery and Studio tour: Rate 10 eur/person. min admission 200 eur/group (max 55 pax).
BY APPOINTMENT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
The tour gives a unique possibility to see the artist studio and works in progress. The visit takes 60 min. The Bonga Castle is open upon reservation around the year.
The Gallery and Studio tour: Rate 10 eur/person. min admission 200 eur/group (max 50 persons).
BY APPOINTMENT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
Bonga Castle is a 2000 m2 patrician castle from 1906 and has been renovated to the original 1920 classical style. The gallery takes up 1/3 of the castle and shows the most essential part of the artist production. The spacious gallery is filled with light and vibrating colours.
Finnish eroticism at the gate of climate change 2013
Ravissement culinaires & artistiques 2020
Bonga in Heritage in Motion and Europa Nostra
Woolen Flower girl
New Works 2017 – 2018 | Creations with the Magic of their own
At Bonga you will also see newly completed wild, small statues made of wool &wood, “Characters” alias “The Barbers of Seville”, also magic glass boxes, “Miniature glasales”, whose colour scales take their synaesthesia from real life, and the Post-Impressionist Les Faunes, Faunit with glass and photomontage.
Some of the techniques used in the works are new, and the message of the exhibition, if we want to look for one, is zest for life amid vulnerability and surviving a decline in mental powers. People are capable of being funny and good, even in an almost lost cause and, apart from the achievements of science, love conquers all: amor vincit omnia.
Bonga Castle is 112 years old this year and has been described as a Gesamtkunstwerk.
During the 30 years that we have been renovating it, the edifice has come to form a unique symphonic entity, whose pieces are gradually beginning to find their place. That entity does indeed produce a variant on itself each spring, but its fundamental mode of being remains a single, coherent whole.
Open for public: From saturday to sunday cl. 1pm–4pm, June, July and August.
By appointment throughout the year.
Contacts:
riitta@nelimarkka.com, +358 50 5900 650
www.bonga.fi | www.nelimarkka.com
Linnankuja, 07900 Loviisa, Finland. From church 50 meters to south.
Reservations +358 400 729 421, anne.sokkatuomala@gmail.com and Porvoo Tours +358 19 574 2200
Vanhan ja upea kivilinna Loviisassa (HS kuukausiliite 4.3.2017)
Riitta Nelimarkka rakastaa värejä (Taloustaito 2.3.2017)
"Kummituslinnasta kuoriutui taideteos" (Kotimaassa lehti 1/2017)
Words of wisdom (AEE article 21.3.2016 - www.aaltoee.com)