Sami Havia (b. 1982) is a painter who works with spontaneous and intuitive painting combined with slow and detailed drawing. He describes his paintings as a “sum of coincidence and clumsy control“. After the painting process, when the canvas is dry, he lets his mind combine different schemes with each other, but without organizing assumed forms. Such…
New Narrative and Reader, a major exhibition of Finnish contemporary art launches in England already in three weeks. Finnish Art Agency wants to shortly introduce all of the artists one by one, starting with visual artist Erno Enkenberg. Erno Enkenberg (b. 1975) is an artist whose artistic process involves paper models, photography and painting. His works…
Saara Ekström will be one of the artists featured in Beloved Blossoms exhibition at Millesgården in the island of Lidingö, Sweden, from May 30th to August 30th. In this year’s summer exhibition at Millesgården, the garden moves into the Art Gallery. When the sculpture park is resplendent with flowers, the flourishing continues indoors where more…
Finnish Art Agency is eagerly looking forward to IC-98 newest exhibition in the Finnish Pavilion in Venice Biennale. On top of that we are thrilled to announce a guest appearance of rap artists Paperi T and Khid on 7th of May reception at 5–7 pm. The reception for IC-98 will include a DJ set by Paperi T and…
Few weeks ago Finnish Art Agency met a rising star, video and photography artist Bita Razavi and had a nice talk about her ongoing projects and future plans. Bita Razavi’s latest work “Some Critique from Our Parents” will have a premiere on Mother’s Day, 10th of May in Lapinlahti former mental hospital at 12-15. This work…
The Forest Has Come In, an exhibition by Helsinki based artist Liina Mäki-Patola, opens today at Galleria Huuto Uudenmaankatu, and we highly recommend checking it out! The exhibition features ink and watercolor paintings as well as a video piece. The video – influenced, for example, by the Japanese art of butoh dance – includes a Beat…