Now when the new SHIFT mentoring programme is about to start, Finnish Art Agency would like to go a bit back and share few experiences from the participants of the previous programme. The purpose of SHIFT is to provide tailored support for developing professional artists’ careers. In August 2015 nine participants were chosen to take…
Even though it’s almost April, Finnish Art Agency wants to look back to our amazing collaborations and projects of the past year 2015. Finnish Art Agency started the year 2015 by welcoming the new assistant curator Darja Zaitsev to the team. In February Hanna Haaslahti won the HISTORIC category of Sculpture Shock 2015 award resulting…
Finnish artists Camilla Vuorenmaa’s (b. 1979) and Saara Ekström’s (b. 1965) solo exhibitions have both been a big success these last past months. Shows have stirred feelings in newspapers and blogs, and for example Helsingin Sanomat, Hufvudstadsbladet, Åbo Underrättelse and Turun Sanomat have written several critiques. “The tight timeframe that was given to Vuorenmaa for…
The first SHIFT mentoring programme has come to an end and Finnish Art Agency would like to introduce you to the three last participants of the curriculum. Here’s what they have to say. “The most concrete help from the programme was all the interesting lectures in the SHIFT seminar and one-to-one meetings with FAA” Painter…
Like Kristiina Uusitalo and Mia Damberg, whom we introduced in the previous SHIFT mentoring programme post, artist Tiina Kivinen and photographer Julia Weckman are not novices to the field either. Both of them are internationally known and they took part in the first mentoring programme in autumn 2015. Here’s what they have to say. Sparring…
Artist Sami Havia (b.1982) is taking part in a group exhibition together with Ilari Hautamäki (b. 1983), Kati Lehtonen (b. 1979) and Kim Somervuori (b. 1975) at Hämeenlinna Art Museum from the 26th of February to the 8th of May 2016. Havia, Hautamäki and Somervuori studied together at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki….