On the 6th of January 2017 Camilla Vuorenmaa opened her solo show Arena for which she has studied and documented circus artists and workers in their everyday chores. The portrait paintings are snapshot-like glimpses of the nomadic life in the circus world and the symbiotic relationship of animals and humans in the surreal surroundings of the…
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….
Application period 01.11.–11.12.2016 Apply to Finnish Art Agency’s SHIFT mentoring program now! SHIFT mentoring program offers personal career coaching, and meetings and workshops with external experts. The mentoring program was organised for the first time in 2015. Based on the two-year experience the program is substantially richer and wider. A maximum of six (6) coachees will be…
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…