Winner of the AVEK Award 2018, visual artist Saara Ekström, has moved towards more and more cinematic art during her career. Her latest works are inspired by deteriorating buildings with heavy culture-historical heritage – but also moving in time and… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Mox Mäkelä
“We live in the era of indolence, and people want to transfer that spiritual laziness over to art. In this case, I’m on a completely different planet.” Challenging traditional forms of art has defined Mox Mäkelä’s (b. 1958) work throughout her… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Axel Straschnoy
Axel Straschnoy (born in 1978 in Buenos Aires) is a visual artist who lives and works in Helsinki. How he became an artist is a long and winding story, but his artistic career began at a film school in Buenos… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Marja Helander
With her stunning short film Birds in the Earth (Eatnanvuloš lottit, 2018), Marja Helander is the latest winner of the legendary Risto Jarva prize, awarded for the 40th time at Tampere Film Festival in March. Helander’s Sámi background contributes to… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Marja Viitahuhta
Marja Viitahuhta’s work moves from autobiographical elements to current environmental crises and political issues. However, she wants to focus on showing the glimmer of hope instead of sheer bleakness. Marja Viitahuhta (born 1979) is a Finnish media artist and filmmaker… Read more »
Meet the Artists: Minna Rainio & Mark Roberts
Recently awarded at the 8th Turku Biennial, Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts work on complex topics such as immigration, global capitalism, and climate change. In their installations and single channel works, they often look for new perspectives by drawing parallels… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Kalle Nio
“Meet the Artist” is AV-arkki’s new series of interviews with our artists. We start our monthly concept with an interview with Kalle Nio, a visual artist and a co-founder of WHS, a collective producing new circus and visual theatre. Kalle Nio… Read more »