Artist Bita Razavi‘s solo exhibition Three Acts for Brighter Future opens tomorrow in Finlandsinstitutet’s gallery in Stockholm. The show focuses on the questions about identity in the world in change. Razavi observes traditions and self-evident customs as well as influences and changes in the globalized world. With her art, she reflects questions such as how…
Artist Anssi Kasitonni’s short films have rarely been shown to the public, but now you can see them all at WHS Teatteri Union on Saturday June 18th at 13–16. Anssi Kasitonni Film Festival consists of short films and an artist discussion lead by a writer and a critic Jean Ramsay. The event is the first…
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 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…
In her new installation, the winner of the Historic category of Sculpture Shock 2015, Hanna Haaslahti will develop a site-specific sculptural intervention for the Ionic Temple in the Gardens of Chiswick House. Haaslahti wants to question the fabric of history and to create strong contrasts between the solidity of the old and the instability of material…