In the beginning of April SHIFT mentoring program was pleased to receive two international arts critics from the UK to lead a workshop about arts writing. Freelance arts critic Laura Robertson and Tate Liverpool‘s content editor Mike Pinnington founded The Double Negative magazine in 2011. As a respected art journal it offers a platform for contemporary arts criticism…
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…
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…
Camilla Vuorenmaa has been shortlisted as one of the candidates for the next Ars Fennica art prize in 2017. The Ars Fennica Award presented by the Henna and Pertti Niemistö Ars Fennica Art Foundation is the biggest Finnish art award that has been awarded since 1991. Chaired by the Leena Niemistö, the award committee consists of…
Finnish Art Agency’s is happy to announce new participants for the SHIFT mentoring program vol. 3! We received several high quality applications from Finland and abroad, that made the decision once again really hard. The aim of the mentoring program is to provide tailored support for developing artists’ careers. SHIFT vol. 3 started today with a…