2026
COMPANY WORLD AFFAIR
Company solo exhibtion at piknic, Seoul
03.04.-06.09.2026
20 years of COMPANYs Secrets fill all four floors of the piknic building. It takes the visitor from 1st floor travel and drawing rooms through the manufacturing processes displayed on 2nd floor and into 3rd floor world market, and on to the top of the building beyond physical products. New collections Secrets of Pakistan, India, Peru and Korea premiered for the first time.
Design: COMPANY Aamu Song & Johan Olin
Exhibition design: Linda Bergroth
Planning/Curation: Choi Woojung, Sung Yujin, Lee Sunwoo.
Making and installing:
Yenaru, SangSang, Glint, Willem Heeffer, Lee Marable, Videos: Ville Vainio.
Thank you: Finnish Cultural Foundation, Svenska Kulturfonden.
Photos: COMPANY & piknic & Yun Ho Lee
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World Market on 3rd floor. Here new items from nine countries and tens of makers come together.
Photo:
Yun Ho Lee

4th floor. The World After. Ekeko characters becoming birds.
Photo:
Yun Ho Lee

Climbing to 4th floor under Mexican Papel Picado canopy.
Photo:
Yun Ho Lee

3
rd floor.World Market: Secrets from Peru, Japan, Mexico, and Pakistan. Russian Fruit & Vegetable market in front.
Photo:
Yun Ho Lee

World Market Street Vendors.Urdu Animals and Botanical chairs from Pakistan, Bamboo hats and HeatWave fans from Korea, Refrigerator Art from Mexico, Gourd Funny Faces from Mexico, Head Hat Stands from Russia and Vegetable Lanterns from India. Palm Hand Fans from Peru and Amish Caps from US.
Photo:
Yun Ho Lee

3rd floor. Street Vendors Mana and Hansuli with new hojalata tin works from Mexico. Behnd Vesa with imaginary fruits from Nagano, Japan. In the back Linsuli with gourds from Mexico. On right Amppa with new lanter collection from Yame, Japan.
Photo: piknic

2nd floor. Secrets of Finland: Dance SHoes in front, Lapuan Kankurit Story on left, Haapreppy in the back and Secrets of Korea with Moktak story on right.
Photo:
Yun Ho Lee

Secrets of Russia. Matryoshka line has some 250 matryoshka pieces on a 25 meters long table with masters showing each step of the matryoshka making.
Photo:
Yun Ho Lee

2nd floor. Secrets of Pakistan, Secrets of Russia and Secrets of Japan.
Photo:
Yun Ho Lee
Sillanwali Chair from Secrets of Pakistan with Secrets of Japan Lanter collection
in front.
Photo:
piknic

2df floor tells stories of the manufacturing. Here Secrets of Mexico and the Tree of Life story from Izucar de Matamoros.
Photo:
Yun Ho Lee
The Drawing Room. 300 original drawings and paintings fill the wall.
Photo:
Yun Ho Lee

The Drawing Room. Company at work. Original drawings and sketchbooks.
Photo:
Yun Ho Lee

1st floor Travel Room. Original works from our master friends from around the world.
Photo:
Yun Ho Lee

The World and The Map of the World -according to Company.
Photo: piknic.

COMPANY WORLD AFFAIR
piknic, Seoul 03.04.-12.09.2026.
Exhibition now open. Thank you so much! Woo Jung, Yujin, Sunwoo, Sungjo and Bomsang & Yuri and the wonderful team piknic. To the amazing Yusangil and team Yenaru. And dearest Linda Bergroth, the exhibition architect.

28.03.2026
Painting of the 3rd floor World Market.

26.03.2026
2nd floor. Matryoshka Masters painted and installed. Meet happy team Yenaru, our exhibition building team.

12.03.2026
Arriving to piknic, Seoul. COMPANY WORLD AFFAIR opening on 3rd of April.

03.03.2026
Delivery Day. Our upcoming exhibition items all packed and ready to travel. We will follow the boxes in a week. Yaya will stay guarding in Helsinki.

02.2026
Helsinki, Finland. World Affair coming to life. Meet Amppa, Wilson, Supo, Linsuli, Vesa and Hansuli. These are the Street Vendors who will be displaying new collections at our ’market’ section of the exhibition COMPANY WORLD AFFAIR, piknic, Seoul opening early April.
Craft Master Aamu painting the Globe.
It was made by glueing Korean Hanji paper (by Lee) on a veneer skeleton (by Willem).

01.2026
Johan drawing The Map of the World -according to Company.
On the foreground exhibition street vendors taking shape and getting coloured.

01.2026
Lallukka, Helsinki. Willem and Aamu learning to fly.

01.2026
Lallukka, Helsinki. Meet Lee Marable, our paper glue master who gave these characters their volume.

12.2025
Lallukka, Helsinki. Meet Willem Heeffer. Our master of Street Vendors.

11.2025
Damyang, Korea. With old and new generation of bamboo masters Noh Soon Geol and Son Min. We worked with master Noh Soon Geol on a project for the Gwanju Biennale back in 2011. It was like a family reunion to work with him again.

09.2025
Back in Helsinki Aamu and exhibition architect Linda Bergroth planning our World Market and Street Vendors.

08.2025
Patzcuaro, Mexico. This week travel in Michoacan style.
We are visiting makers whom we got to know when last time in Patzcuaro six years ago.

07.2025
Lima, Peru. We are so happy to be back in Peru! Meeting with old friends at craft fair.
After many years we are finally able to restart our journey into Peruvian Secrets.

01.2025
Lahore, Pakistan. Learning manufacturing secrets of colour manufacturing in Old town Lahore.
Our month-long journey into craft traditions of India and Pakistan comes to an end.

01.2025
India. Our
travels continue from east to west. We'll be heading from Andra Pradesh to Gujarat via Mumbai.

10.2024
Nagano, Japan. Aamu working with Master Sunohara for a new collection of imaginary fruits.

08.2024
Aamu and Esko at Lapuan Kankurit factory getting to know the secrets of Jaquard weaving.
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