Image: M-Cult, Tani Simberg 2025 The Finnish Arts and Culture Agency awarded €70,000 in funding to the Finnish Media Art Networks collaboration project. The project will be carried out by AV-arkki, M-Cult, and the Finnish Light Art Society FLASH in… Read more »
New publication: Artist’s Guide for Festival Distribution
We have published Artist’s Guide for Festival Distribution! The guide includes basic information and advanced insight for artist’s moving image distribution in the film festival circulation – and beyond. The guide advices: The guide was produced with the NextGenerationEU project… Read more »
Open call: A customized festival distribution plan for your new film
AV-arkki will implement a project on the international distribution, sales and renewal of international networks of Finnish media art in the years 2022–2024. AV-arkki’s collaborations partners in the project are Raina Film Festival Distribution Oy and Oy Poike Productio Ab…. Read more »
Visiting curator showcase: Dmitry Frolov & Machinima / September 8 2023
AV-arkki is hosting a visiting curator showcase on September 8 2023 to honor Dmitry Frolov’s visit to Helsinki. Frolov stays in Helsinki from September 6–10 2023 in occasion of a special screening Ukraine Experimental: Desirous Bodies, Malign War in Kino… Read more »
We have launched our new website!
We are happy to launch our new website, executed by the Kairo Design Agency. AV-arkki.fi is an online archive and database for Finnish media art. Our new website is more mobile responsive and user-friendly than before! Explore Finnish media art… Read more »
‘New Media & Art Fairs’ Amanda Schmitt in conversation with Anna Mustonen on Friday, June 7, at Helsinki Contemporary
‘New Media & Art Fairs’ Amanda Schmitt in conversation with Anna Mustonen Friday 7th June 2019 / Helsinki Contemporary 4pm–5.30pm The conversation will concentrate on digital art, video in particular, in the context of UNTITLED, ART fair and other international art… 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 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 »
Sami van Ingen’s live cinema & Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki’s short films at Image Forum Festival
Held from 29.4.–7.5. in Tokyo, this year’s edition of Image Forum Festival features Finnish experimental cinema. The first weekend of the festival includes a live cinema performance by Sami van Ingen on Sunday, April 30 at 18:45 in the Image Forum… Read more »