Aalto Design – Shapes of Wellbeing

The exhibition invites visitors to explore Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto’s architecture and design from the perspective of wellbeing. The exhibition highlights wellbeing as the Aaltos’ major contribution to Western architectural modernism and examines how their work and philosophy approach it as a balance between people, nature, the built environment, and materials. It connects the Aaltos’ idea of holistic wellbeing with contemporary thinking and the growing desire to understand wellbeing as extending beyond the individual to concern the whole planet. The exhibition brings together a diverse dialogue of presentation methods and materials, including drawings and scale models, furniture, glass objects and material experiments, as well as artworks. The exhibition also features rarely displayed items from the museum’s collections. Among other works, the exhibition includes the multi-channel video installation Other Actors (2025) by London-based artist and researcher  Ilona Sagar. The Aalto Lounge offers a calm space for rest and reflection and invites visitors to explore how being in a space affects their body and mind in the presence of authentic Aalto objects. Architecture and Design Museum 5.6.2026-3.1.2027 Admission fee 0-23€ Further information about the exhibition and public program  will be announced at a later date.