“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…
The application period for Finnish Art Agency’s SHIFT mentoring program for professional visual artists is about to begin. SHIFT mentoring program offers personal career coaching, and meetings and workshops with external experts. A maximum of six (6) coachees will be chosen upon the received applications. The aim of the program is to provide tailored support…
Visual artist Tiina Pyykkinen (b. 1983) has been chosen as the Young Artist of the Year 2017. The prize consist of 20 000 € stipendium and a solo exhibition in Tampere Art Museum and Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum in Turku, together with an accompanying publication. The exhibition in Tampere will open in June…
The SHIFT mentoring program vol. 2 is slowly coming to an end and we would like to introduce you to the rest of the participants. Did you already read artist Eeva Honkanen’s interview published in July? You can easily find it here. Over the program all the participants have received advice about their artistic practice…