Noora Nio-Juss
”I’ll stop by you”, she said
2026 10 13–11 12
Vilnius Academy of Arts gallery ”5 Malūnai“
Exhibition opening October 13, 5 PM
”I’ll stop by you”, she said exhibition at the Gallery ”5 Malūnai” presents the recent woodcuts of artist Noora Nio-Juss. The main theme of the exhibition is a suspended moment of presence, delicate encounters and shared warmth. People are depicted as seen through a window or a curtain. The curtain frames and is a veil between the viewer and the subject.
All works in the exhibition are unique oil-color woodcuts, carved on birch plywood and hand-printed by rubbing onto japanese gampi paper.
For the past ten years I’ve been working intensively with woodcut printmaking. I have been searching for my own expression, my way of making woodcuts and testing scale and modes of presentation. To me my woodcuts move in the borderland of painting and printmaking. The process of creating a woodcut print is linear. The technique and material set limitations and challenges. Carving birch plywood is slow and physical. The image is done in mirror and colors are added at the proofing stage. I often roll all the colors on the same printing matrix and usually make only one unique print.
Noora Nio-Juss (b. 1976 in Helsinki) completed her Master of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, majoring in painting, in 2017. She graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2000 as a BA in painting. Noora Nio-Juss has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Finland and abroad. Her most recent solo exhibitions were in 2026 at Porvoo Art Hall (Porvoo, Finland), tm·gallery (Helsinki, Finland) and in 2023 at Forum Box (Helsinki, Finland). In 2021 she was awarded the Willian Thuring Prize and in 2020 she was a nominee for the Queen Sonja Print Award of Norway. Noora is a member of the Finnish Painters' Association and the Finnish Woodcarvers' Society. Her works are in the collections of the Finnish National Gallery, the Helsinki City Art Museum, the Paulo Foundation, the City of Mänttä, Tampere Art Museum, HUS Art Collection and private collections.
More about the artist:
Svetainė: nooraniojuss.com
Instagram: @nooraniojuss
The artist’s visit is funded by the Erasmus+ mobility programme.
The exhibition is supported by the Vilnius Academy of Arts and VF Graphic Art department.
Graphic design: Ieva Daščioraitė
Installation support: Jokūbas Griška
Exhibition initiator: Marija Marcelionytė-Paliukė
