“When Laura Köönikkä, curator of ‘New Narrative and Reader’, first visited Bury Museum and Art Gallery, she noticed how reluctant some local visitors were to enter the contemporary art space, formerly part of Bury Public Library. Instead, she observed, they preferred to stay inside the rooms housing the gallery’s permanent collection of art from the…
Invited as the first resident of the Young Skills Residency, hosted by YOSK, Young Skills Osuuskunta/ Cooperative, Camilla Vuorenmaa is working with new woodcuts in a new residency program at Jurva, located in the province of Western Finland/Southern Ostrobothnia region. At the residency Vuorenmaa can experiment with different wood materials and research techniques with woodcraft expert Kaj Lindgård….
Elena Näsänen will participate the new Feature Expanded program together with international artists such as Yael Bartana. The chosen 12 artists who participate the program will have workshops, lectures and case studies with leading producers, curators and artistic directors, along with Omar Kholeif (Whitechapel Gallery, Arab UK Film Fest, author of You Are Here: Art After…
Jarno Vesala is participating in this year’s 7th Turku Biennial (10.6.–30.8.2015) with his and Krister Gråhn’s joint video installation Työn alla (Under Construction). The biennial offered the artists the opportunity to intervene in the museum architecture and arrange their works in the museum’s premises questioning the traditional understanding of corridors, walls and museum space in…
Some photos from New Narrative and Reader exhibition, curated by Laura Köönikkä for Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre. The exhibition features Finnish contemporary art in many forms. You can get to know the artists and read more about the exhibition from here. New Narrative and Reader 6.6.–29.8.2015 Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre Moss…
Need help in finding focus for your future career? Creating international connections? New international artist mentoring program by Finnish Art Agency begins this autumn! Enrollment starts 1.7.2015. …