Due to holiday-caused postponements and by applicants’ proposals we decided to extend the application period for our SHIFT mentoring programme. We want to make sure everybody who is interested in applying can take his time to get know the details and contents of the program without claiming too much of their leisure time. We will…
Finnish Art Agency will launch a mentoring programme for professional visual artists in autumn 2015. SHIFT programme offers personal career coaching and a seminar with international professionals from the arts sector (SHIFT seminar 29.–30.10.2015, more information coming up soon). The purpose of the mentoring programme is to provide tailored support for developing artist’s careers. We are…
“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…