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Are you looking for someone to share your career concerns with? Online solution focused supervision career sessions with Laura Köönikkä, no matter where you are based!

ByLaura 18/02/202018/02/2020

Online solution focused supervision career sessions with Laura Köönikkä Finnish Art Agency’s one-on-one online career supervision sessions offer personal career coaching. The aim is to support the participant’s career by reflecting long-term goals, strengthen the participant’s self-confidence and self-image and trust towards the future in positive light. Finnish Art Agency has been actively developing mentoring…

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An opportunity in Denmark for Finnish curators!

ByLaura 16/02/202016/02/2020

Juxtapose Art Fair is a new gathering for artist-run, independent, and non-commercial art initiatives from Denmark and abroad. The fair aims to make the artist-run sector more accessible to the general public. Artist-run initiatives are often at the forefront of contemporary art, yet they are typically unknown outside of artistic circles. We will showcase 20-25…

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Professional career coaching? What is it?

ByLaura 12/11/201912/11/2019

For the past five years I have been working as a mentor for creatives. It all started out when I was asked practical questions about work and then developed to an annual mentoring program. In 2018 I started to work as a part-time Lecturer of Personal Growth and Working life skills at the University of…

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Laukkaa ja ravia. Postia Lauralta.

ByLaura 26/08/201926/08/2019

Mitä kuuluu Finnish Art Agency? Mitä kuuluu siis Laura Köönikkä? Syksy käynnistyi kuin salaman iskusta sateiden ja helteen saattelemana samalla kun työt ja niiden prosessimainen eteneminen astuivat näkökenttään. Näkökenttään yrittäjällä harvemmin “astuu” itsestään mitään, joten kaikista projekteista ja yhteistyöstä kiitollisena, käärin hihani ja aloitin töiden työstämisen. Finnish Art Agency, joka on ollut kotini jo 2013…

Strong and sensitive. Re-cover studies the limits of Finnish glass. Interview with Saara Renvall.

ByLaura 25/05/201925/05/2019

Saara Renvall, Tell a bit about your newest project? what inspired you to make it? Re-cover is a collection of glass objects that are placed within or hanging from one another. Each piece consists of an element that serves as a socket or a pod to other elements attached to it. Contrary to the conventional glass design, the…

Finnish photographer Kati Leinonen brings sweat and bruises to Vogue Italia

ByLaura 18/02/201918/02/2019

Photographer Kati Leinonen reveals the everyday beauty of horse stable in her photographs. In the interview she tells more about the project. Tell a bit about your project Äimärautio: The series is about a community of people who share a common passion for horses. It shows the atmosphere around the stables and projects the way of…