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Janne Nabb (b. 1984) and Maria Teeri (b. 1985) are artists who examine in their often temporary works and projects the levels of artistic labour in the relationship with everyday society. They use methods of discovering, collecting and rediscovering, and experimenting with objects in their daily artistic practice. The physical matter they work with is…

Niina Mantsinen (b. 1986) is a textile artist who combines conventional craftsmen methods with urban city culture influences. Her hand-tufted rugs break the traditions of textile art and at the same time challenge the viewer to interpret the graffiti in a new way. Mantsinen’s works are made in collaboration with famous graffiti artists such as EGS…

Sampo Malin (b. 1977) is a sculptor who is interested in small gestures, storytelling and improbabilities. The materials are determined according to each idea, of which one can always detect a tad of playfulness and impossibility. Conveying Dreams, the work for New Narrative and Reader, is based on the idea of selling illusions to people. “Commercial and…

Teemu Korpela (b. 1980) is a painter who deals with the thematics of fulfillment, pleasure, solace, and pain. He has always been fascinated by the ability of the painting to be material and immaterial at the same time, how presenting a painting in an unconventional way one can alter the associations the painting evokes and the…

Laura Konttinen (b. 1987) is an artist who works mainly with photography. The core focus of her work is the materiality of the photograph. Her photographic collages and installations are created by craftsmen methods of cutting and gluing, reshaping and reconstructing the past. Instead of digital after effects Konttinen plays with analogue tricks on the camera through…