Finnish Art Agency’s is happy to announce new participants for the SHIFT mentoring program vol. 3! We received several high quality applications from Finland and abroad, that made the decision once again really hard. The aim of the mentoring program is to provide tailored support for developing artists’ careers. SHIFT vol. 3 started today with a…
Eeva Peura’s amazing exhibition Black is ending on this Sunday the 8th of January. The exhibition is open between 11-7pm during weekend, don’t miss it! In Eeva Peura’s exhibition, Black, visitors will be able to see oil paintings and works on paper, stories and words, but the works do not form a series. Instead the works tell…
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….