Note: No longer in repertoire!

The group exhibition of young visual artists, Pop up studio Pasila, is open in connection with the performances of God is Beauty 23.4 – 14.5.2022 for those who have purchased a theatre ticket. Read more about the exhibition

The play tells the story of a young artist’s struggle with himself and the world around him. The painter Vilho Lampi (1898–1936) from Liminka searches for his own expression in Ostrobothnia and Paris, gets excited and disappointed again and again, all the while striving towards the realm of beauty. Lampi seeks answers in politics, sinks into ecstasy in the Louvre and identifies with both Vincent van Gogh and aspen. He is an outsider everywhere, and there is no place for his integrity in this world. Lampi’s life is alternately one of joy and despair, but she never ceases to ask or seek beauty.

The play is not only a depiction of the artist, but also a play about experiencing beauty, the search for divinity and the difficulty of being human. It tells the story of a person who reaches towards eternity.

The performance is a continuation of the three-year collaboration between the Theatre Academy’s Degree Programme in Acting and the Helsinki City Theatre, which began in the spring of 2021, in which third-year students of acting come to Studio Pasila for the spring and prepare a performance as their bachelor’s project together with professionals from outside the school.

“The joint journey of twelve young actors into the shoes of visual artist Vilho Lampi will heat up the stage of Studio Pasila into quite a spring storm! Now we are conjuring up a powerful stage spell for freedom and life!”, says director Kristian Smeds.