HAM Helsinki Art Museum has opened the first exhibition devoted to Leena Luostarinen's large-scale paintings of the 1980s and 1990s. "Leena Luostarinen: Misfit" opened on 9 October 2026 and runs until 4 April 2027, drawing entirely on works from HAM's own collection. The museum presents the period as the painter's golden years, when she produced the monumental canvases for which she is best known. Bringing them together in a single display is a first, and the show is curated by Satu Metsola and Vilma Roine, with exhibition design by the Helsinki studio Aalto+Aalto. The display draws entirely on the museum's own holdings, so the exhibition doubles as a portrait of the collection's strengths in Finnish painting of the period. The neighbouring arched hall hosts a parallel solo presentation, "Emma Talbot: You Are Not the Centre", which runs from the same opening date until 25 April 2027, giving HAM two concurrent painting-focused exhibitions through the winter. The pairing of a historical Finnish survey with a contemporary international solo is typical of how HAM balances its collection responsibilities with new work. Collection-based surveys of this kind are central to HAM's programming: the museum holds the City of Helsinki's art collection and regularly mines it for focused exhibitions. A dedicated reassessment of Luostarinen's most ambitious decades puts a significant Finnish painter back in front of a broad public, and the show's long run into spring 2027 makes it one of the museum's anchor exhibitions for the season. It is the kind of collection-led project that gives HAM's winter programme its backbone.