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…
Tiina Pyykkinen’s Painted Place in tm•galleria is on display for the last week. Finnish Art Agency truly recommends to go and see the exhibition before it’s too late. “Pyykkinen’s fascinating exhibition highlights issues that are often taken for granted when one thinks of how to look at art. Paintings must always be seen live, with…
Now there is no need to travel to Helsinki to experience the latest in Finnish Contemporary Art. Finland has a varied and exciting contemporary arts community, with international status emerging artists celebrated on the world stage. Continuing its long association with Finnish art, this summer Bury’s world famous Art Museum hosts the must-see exhibition of…
Artist Bita Razavi will participate in the group exhibition with her piece “How to do things with words (a legal performance)” at KARST in Plymouth UK. The exhibition takes inspiration from the Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade’s statement: “Only cannibalism unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.” In his 1928 text Cannibal Manifesto, Andrade theorises that Brazil could free itself of…
There are lots of exhibition openings happening in Helsinki before Easter but if you have time for only two, Finnish Art Agency truly recommends to check out painter Tiina Pyykkinen’s Painted Place and sculptor Pauliina Kaasalainen’s Any definable group. Tiina Pyykkinen’s ever-changing situational works live by the different conditions of light and shadow, places and…
On Saturday March 14th at 2pm hi-fi expert and businessman Erling Neby and curator Hanna Mamia-Walther from “Colour, line and square – Erling Neby Collection” exhibition are having a talk about Erling Neby art collection and the art of collecting. Finnish Art Agency recommends this event for everyone who is interested in the collecting process…