Finnish Art Agency held two group crit sessions with our guests Laura Robertson and Mike Pinnington and FAA founder, curator Laura Köönikkä. Altogether 12 artists were invited to participate. ” I have never had the opportunity to be part of something like this before and I found it so so helpful.” “The idea is smart and…
Finnish Art Agency is happy to announce the launch of Augmented Geology at KARST on June 9th 2017. The group exhibition deals with the thematics of representations, speculative entities, hybrids and the relationship between the physical and virtual reality. How does the man made technology affect the physical and social environment we live in. Augmented Geology…
Yesterday SHIFT mentoring program participants gathered around a big table and we talked about commercial galleries, art market and business with visual art professional Katja Räisänen. Katja has over 15 years of experience in art education and art business, and has worked closely with several Finnish and international young and established artists, as well as…
There’s nothing worse than feeling like you don’t belong. Art galleries can be intimidating; institutional spaces where jargon serves to promote not only a deficit in understanding but also alienation from the arts. Discontent about the kind of language we use to talk about artists, artwork and their attendant artistic movements can turn a visitor…
We are excited to announce that Wales based Jenny Cashmore is taking part in this year’s SHIFT mentoring program. She works across intervention, performance, lens based mediums, and sculptures. Her work is created in response to sites and place, exploring the relationship between the built environment and the people within it. Her recent research and development project “Like…
Finnish Art Agency had a great opportunity to visit all the artists’ studios who are taking part in this year’s SHIFT mentoring program. Our studio tour started with painter Anu Kauhaniemi‘s studio in Vallila, Helsinki, where she is currently working on her latest series of paintings. In the series Carousel she depicts the movement of…