My time spent hosting group crits (group critique, crit, or art crit) at the Finnish Art Agency (FAA) in April remains one of my favourite memories of Helsinki, for a few different reasons. Yes, I met a broad range of wonderful artists from different areas across Finland, and this gave me an insight into current…
KARST‘s summer exhibition Augmented Geology presents six international artists whose works study the immaterial and physical possibilities of build environments and rocks. The exhibition brings together installations, video works and sculptures through the thematics of representations, speculative entities and hybrids. Augmented Geology explores the possibilities of recreating natural and solid materials. It questions how does…
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 on kansainvälinen luova agentuuri, joka on erikoistunut taiteilijoiden uraa tukevien palvelujen kehittämiseen, näyttelyjen kuratointiin ja tuottamiseen, teosmyyntiin, tapahtumien järjestämiseen ja konsultointitehtäviin. FAA toimii asiantuntijan roolissa erilaisissa yhteistyöhankkeissa ja pyrkii laajentamaan kuvataiteen toimintakenttää. Agentuurissa työskentelevät yrityksen perustaja, kuraattori Laura Köönikkä, kuraattori Darja Zaitsev sekä assistentti Emma Haikonen. Finnish Art Agency hakee joukkoonsa kahta…
Finnish Art Agency held two group crit sessions with our guests Laura Robertson and Mike Pinnington and FAA founder, curator Laura Köönikkä. Altogether 12 artists were invited to participate. ” I have never had the opportunity to be part of something like this before and I found it so so helpful.” “The idea is smart and…
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…