Martta Tuomaala’s FinnCycling-Soumi-Perkele opens on Wednesday Dec 14th at 18 at Myymälä2, welcome! The exhibition is a spinning type exercise class that explores labour and Finnish austerity politics. By cycling on one of the spinning bikes available at the exhibition, the viewer can take part in the exercise program led by the artist herself. If you choose to…
Finnish Art Agency on taiteilija-agentuuri, joka on erikoistunut taiteilijoiden uraa ja työskentelyä tukevien tehtävien kehittämiseen, näyttelyjen kuratointiin ja tuottamiseen, teosmyyntiin, yleisösuhteisiin ja tapahtumajärjestämiseen. FAA toimii asiantuntijan roolissa erilaisissa yhteistyöhankkeissa ja pyrkii laajentamaan kuvataiteen toimintakenttää. Agentuurissa työskentelevät yrityksen perustaja, kuraattori Laura Köönikkä, kuraattori Darja Zaitsev ja luova tuottaja Tuomas Laulainen. Finnish Art Agency hakee joukkoonsa harjoittelijaa…
“I’ve always been fascinated by the English idiom: perfect stranger. When you meet a person on a street who is totally unknown to you and they ask what time it is, you’ve met a perfect stranger. There is no guarantee that you’ll ever meet this person again, and it makes the encounter even more fascinating….
Welcome to the opening of Eeva Peura‘s solo exhibition Black at HAM Gallery on Friday 11th of November, 5–7 pm! Oil paintings and works on paper, stories and words that don’t form series but tell a story of poetic restlessness and openness towards the process of painting. “I paint with thick oil paints and squirt the…
Visual artist Tiina Pyykkinen (b. 1983) has been chosen as the Young Artist of the Year 2017. The prize consist of 20 000 € stipendium and a solo exhibition in Tampere Art Museum and Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum in Turku, together with an accompanying publication. The exhibition in Tampere will open in June…
The SHIFT mentoring program vol. 2 is slowly coming to an end and we would like to introduce you to the rest of the participants. Did you already read artist Eeva Honkanen’s interview published in July? You can easily find it here. Over the program all the participants have received advice about their artistic practice…