Taifun & Trinita

Maija Annikki Savolainen’s exhibition Taifun & Trinita delves into the history of women’s sailing culture. Seafaring and sailing have traditionally been a male-dominated world, where women’s participation has received little attention and has often gone undocumented. The exhibition takes as its starting point two Hai-class racing boats registered in women’s names in the 1930s named Taifun and Trinita. Through these boats the exhibition examines women’s agency in a maritime environment. 

The exhibition highlights the relatively unknown part of history of sailing culture through old archival photographs. Photos from the collections of Rauma Maritime Museum and the Tilt Flikat girls’ sea scout group engage in a dialogue with Savolainen’s photographs, video work, and installations. The works offer insights into women’s relations to the sea and explore what the future of sailing might look like as the environment changes. 

Maija Annikki Savolainen, a photographic artist and doctoral researcher born in Turku in 1980, combines themes of women’s sailing culture with concerns about the Baltic Sea’s blue-green algae problem in her work.

Her research-based, multimedia practice integrates biology, photography, and her personal passion for sailing. The exhibition will feature documentary photography, graphics, and object installations.

The exhibition is open at Rauma Art Museum 24.10.2026 – 4.4.2027.