“In Supermarket Art Fair Camilla Vuorenmaa’s raw wood reliefs gave me the greatest pleasure!” Art critic Jacob Anckarsvärd (Stockholm 2012) Fine Arts Academy of Finland founded a new prize in the beginning of January 2014 to promote Finnish art. The winning artist will be awarded with 25 000 euros and the prize is given every…
Artist Saara Ekström (b. 17.3.1965) will celebrate her exhibition closing on Tuesday 17.3.2015. The photography exhibition was made site specifically for beautiful office spaces of an independent publishing house Teos in Helsinki. The starting point for the exhibition was to bring photos to a new environment in which the works could be part of the…
ArtSlant nominated Finnish Art Agency’s Laura Köönikkä as one of the 15 curators to watch in 2015. YLE also covered the story on last Friday’s news. You can watch the full news story here, starting from 19:18.
Karoliina Paappa’s ‘Nuori tyttö olohuoneessa (Young girl in a living room)’ made it to the front cover of French contemporary photography magazine CHEAP. Magazine’s 9th number is featuring photography artists Karoliina Paappa, Laurent Grino and Swen Renault. Karoliina Paappa is one of the 15 Finnish artists of the upcoming New Narrative and Reader exhibition held…
Laura Konttinen (1987) is among the six winning artists in a stamp design contest carried out by Itella Posti and the Artists’ Association of Finland to celebrate Association’s 150th anniversary. Posti selected works that represent the broad area of visual arts, including traditional paintings and photography. Laura Konttinen’s Lento stamp can now be purchased from…
A view from the Other Side (2011) shows the transformations across the centuries of the life and terrace of P.J. Gylich’s Doric colonnade building in Turku, Finland, built in 1836. The film is a lyrical and historical narrative about the interconnections between architecture and politics, dealing with the questions of ownership of public space, immigration…