Finnish visual artist and award winner Saara Ekström’s (b. 1965) new exhibition Alchemy will open on Thursday the 4th at Wäinö Aaltosen Museum in Turku. The exhibition will be open for the public from the 5th of February to the 24th of April 2016. The themes and materials in Ekström’s work appear to be in a constant state…
Finnish Art Agency is happy to announce great news: IC-98’s Abendland has been chosen for Sundance Film Festival 2016. The film will be screened in the New Frontiers Short Film -category. Sundance Institute announced yesterday (08.12.2015) its full lineup of 72 short films that will leave a lasting impact on audiences long after the lights go…
Tiina Pyykkinen is participating in a group exhibition Journey to the Heartlands Contemporary art in Central Finland 2015 at Jyväskylä Art Museum. The exhibition will end on the 10th of January 2016. Pyykkinen’s new installation Silence has long shadows, 2015 is a white box-type of a room with bright lights and black furniture and decorative objects inside, it…
Finnish Art Agency’s new SHIFT mentoring programme’s application period is now closed. Thanks for everyone who applied for the programme! “It was great to see that many artists from without the capital area of Finland applied. We also got applications from the UK and Sweden which shows that artists from many countries are struggling with…
Invited as the first resident of the Young Skills Residency, hosted by YOSK, Young Skills Osuuskunta/ Cooperative, Camilla Vuorenmaa is working with new woodcuts in a new residency program at Jurva, located in the province of Western Finland/Southern Ostrobothnia region. At the residency Vuorenmaa can experiment with different wood materials and research techniques with woodcraft expert Kaj Lindgård….
Elena Näsänen will participate the new Feature Expanded program together with international artists such as Yael Bartana. The chosen 12 artists who participate the program will have workshops, lectures and case studies with leading producers, curators and artistic directors, along with Omar Kholeif (Whitechapel Gallery, Arab UK Film Fest, author of You Are Here: Art After…