AUTOPSY features Finnish artists at Seventeen Gallery, London
The invited artists include Teo Ala-Ruona, Anna Mikkola, Benjamin Orlow, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, Joel Slotte and Ausgang Studio.
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AUTOPSY 10 July - 14 August 2026
AUTOPSY is a group exhibition presented at the Seventeen Gallery in East London exploring how beliefs, evidence, and reality are constructed in the digital age through the lens of UFOs and anomalous phenomena.
The show features Finnish artists and artist groups, as well as international names from the field of visual art, painting, sculpture, video and performance. The exhibition opens on 9th of July 2026, with a live performance by Finnish artist-choreographer Teo Ala-Ruona.
The exhibiting artists are John Humphreys, Mike Kelley, Chino Mayo, Zein Majali, Paul McCarthy, Anna Mikkola, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Anni Puolakka, Teo Ala-Ruona, Joel Slotte, Ausgang Studio, Viktor Timofeev.
ABOUT THE SHOW
The exhibition emerges at a moment when the relationship between evidence and belief has fundamentally collapsed. We live in a world where verifiable facts no longer determine what people accept as "true," where competing realities circulate with equal authority, and where the mechanisms that once separated truth from fiction have dissolved into contested narratives.
Conspiracy theories operate with the same epistemological weight as scientific consensus. Documentation proves everything and nothing simultaneously. Our collective stories have fragmented into incompatible narratives that cannot be reconciled; they only multiply endlessly.
AUTOPSY directly examines this moment by bringing together artists to consider not only the content of contemporary anomaly discourse, but also the mechanisms by which beliefs are constructed. Rather than attempting to verify or debunk specific claims, the exhibition presents the state of narrative chaos itself, creating a space where documentation, classification, and dissemination are visible as belief-generating mechanisms.
Through multimedia artworks that reflect, expand, and question the methodologies of anomaly research, AUTOPSY demonstrates that investigations no longer reveal truth but produce competing realities; that evidence accumulates without resolution; and that attempts to classify phenomena generate new unclassifiable categories.
The exhibition opens on 9th of July 2026, with a live performance Rea Matere by Finnish artist-choreographer Teo Ala-Ruona. The material is part of an ongoing development of body practice and stage work in dialogue with dancer Mina Tomic, culminating in a production called Damnat, premiering at Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Helsinki in May 2027.
Opening: 9th July 2026
Exhibition: 10th July- 14th August 2026
More information:
Seventeen Gallery
270-276 Kingsland Road, London, E8 4DG
Entrance on Acton Mews
www.seventeen.com
The exhibition is supported by The Finnish Institute in the UK, Zodiak Center for New Dance, Frame Finland, The Kordelin Foundation and Taike Arts Promotion Centre in Finland.
People behind the project
Teo Ala-Ruona
Teo Ala-Ruona on helsinkiläinen monialainen taiteilija, joka työskentelee performanssitaiteen, nykyteatterin ja koreografian parissa. Ala-Ruonan teoksia on esitetty muun muassa Performa Biennialissa New Yorkissa, Vilnius Biennial of Performance Artissa Vilnassa ja Institute of Contemporary Artsissa Lontoossa.