Finnish artists Camilla Vuorenmaa’s (b. 1979) and Saara Ekström’s (b. 1965) solo exhibitions have both been a big success these last past months. Shows have stirred feelings in newspapers and blogs, and for example Helsingin Sanomat, Hufvudstadsbladet, Åbo Underrättelse and Turun Sanomat have written several critiques. “The tight timeframe that was given to Vuorenmaa for…
The first SHIFT mentoring programme has come to an end and Finnish Art Agency would like to introduce you to the three last participants of the curriculum. Here’s what they have to say. “The most concrete help from the programme was all the interesting lectures in the SHIFT seminar and one-to-one meetings with FAA” Painter…
Like Kristiina Uusitalo and Mia Damberg, whom we introduced in the previous SHIFT mentoring programme post, artist Tiina Kivinen and photographer Julia Weckman are not novices to the field either. Both of them are internationally known and they took part in the first mentoring programme in autumn 2015. Here’s what they have to say. Sparring…
Artist Sami Havia (b.1982) is taking part in a group exhibition together with Ilari Hautamäki (b. 1983), Kati Lehtonen (b. 1979) and Kim Somervuori (b. 1975) at Hämeenlinna Art Museum from the 26th of February to the 8th of May 2016. Havia, Hautamäki and Somervuori studied together at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki….
Painter Kristiina Uusitalo and photographer Mia Damberg have both been making art for over 20 years. They took part in the first SHIFT mentoring programme in autumn 2015 and are the most experienced ones in the group. Now FAA would like to shortly introduce them for those who haven’t been following Finnish art scene so…
Multidisciplinary artist Martta Tuomaala (b. 1983) is now working on a script for her new project Finn-Spinning-Soumi-Perkele! in Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence until the end of February. Common themes for her artworks are struggles of different individuals and communities. Her latest work Cleaner’s Voice was part of Mänttä art festival last summer 2015. The upcoming…