– Tell me about your background? How did you end up making art? I started doing photography in my fourteens or fifteens. I used to carry a camera with me wherever I went, and slowly started to develop my own way of creating pictures. I wanted to do made-up situations, pictures with mysteries and stories…
SHIFT mentoring program 2022 is here soon! Building the program has been exciting and we are so grateful for the amazing list of external international arts and culture professionals who will share their knowledge and experiences with the participating artists. Building a network during times like these can be challenging. How to reach institutions, how…
As a part of the #100artinhelsinki project for Finnish Art Agency Irene Suosalo will interview 6 interesting contemporary artists. The interviews will be published during spring 2018 on our website. Irene met the artist Maija Närhinen at the Gallery Sculptor where her exhibition More is More is currently on. Gallery Sculptor is a contemporary art…
“I did not feel qualified to even study art history because I was afraid all the other students would know a lot more about art than I did, so I started studying philosophy instead.” Swedish curator Ellen Klintenberg Gedda joined Finnish Art Agency’s director Laura Köönikkä, artist and researcher Jyrki Siukonen, curator Paula Hyvönen…
The highlight of the Finnish festival summer was celebrated last weekend as Flow Festival 2017 took place at Suvilahti in Helsinki. The festival was organised for the 14th time and was advertising itself as renewed and better than ever. Changes were indeed visible and despite 25 000 daily visitors the festival had become more spacious…
Essay (on Augmented Geology) by Lizzie Lloyd 0.0 This is the situation. Even now I imagine that I can feel all the particles of the universe nourishing my consciousness just as my consciousness informs all the particles of the universe. […] Consciousness is melting us all down together again – earth, air, fire and water,…