Yesterday SHIFT mentoring program participants gathered around a big table and we talked about commercial galleries, art market and business with visual art professional Katja Räisänen. Katja has over 15 years of experience in art education and art business, and has worked closely with several Finnish and international young and established artists, as well as…
There’s nothing worse than feeling like you don’t belong. Art galleries can be intimidating; institutional spaces where jargon serves to promote not only a deficit in understanding but also alienation from the arts. Discontent about the kind of language we use to talk about artists, artwork and their attendant artistic movements can turn a visitor…
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…
Finnish Art Agency, founded in 2013 has established its status in the Finnish cultural field. Our activities have demonstrated the need and importance of such agency operators partnering with organizations as well as private individuals. Finnish Art Agency’s main focus has previously been in artist collaborations accompanied by consulting, artist mentoring and curating services. From…
As 2017 is upon us so let’s take a look back and see what the past year was all about for Finnish Art Agency. In 2016 FAA worked on various projects with its collaborative artists and pursued making new contacts both in Finland and internationally. Last year started off with the final days of New…