Antti Immonen: Current, 2005. Photo: HAM/Viljami Annanolli Current Artist Antti Immonen Olympic Stadium, Paavo Nurmen tie 1, 00250 Helsinki Indoor Sculpture Limited access: the work is available to view for the users of the premises only. Antti Immonen’s (b. 1973) sculpture Current draws inspiration from waves and dynamic flows. Its tapering, wave-like form and swirling contours create a striking sense of motion. The structure combines welded, white-painted steel bars with alder veneer shaped into flowing patterns that recall both waves and vine-like growth. The artist explains: “The idea behind the sculpture is movement. Although it is a static sculpture, it is packed with intricate visual events. In designing the sculpture, I thought about flows and waves, and how they exist in such things as water and electricity, but also in linguistic expressions related to consciousness, fashion, music, thoughts, and so on. This sculpture is inherently complex, but it is also airy, organic, alive, perhaps even in some way animalistically personified.” Standing six metres tall, Current was first created for the Hämeentie campus of the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. Following the university’s move in 2021, the sculpture was relocated in the spring of 2025 to the clubroom of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Commissioned under the City’s Per Cent for Art scheme, Current is part of the City of Helsinki’s art collection, which is managed and curated by HAM. At map
