BROWSE GAP CREATIVES DATABASE

BROWSE GAP CREATIVES DATABASE

CREATIVES DATABASE

 

Are you in need of professional creatives with diverse backgrounds? Get in touch!

Our database consists of curated profiles of professional artists, cultural producers, educators, writers, performers, musicians, and other professionals with diverse backgrounds who live and work in Finland.

We can help you to find the most suitable diverse creatives for your project.

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CREATIVES

Leda Vaneva

"Reality - conceived as the sum of the imaginable rather than as the sum of what exists physically - is a universe composed of a...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Robin DeWan

Robin DeWan has been playing didgeridoo for over 25 years. A native of Colorado, USA, he has appeared at numerous international events both in ensembles...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Tanya Tynjälä

Tanya Tynjälä is a science fiction and fantasy writer, specialised in children and young adults. She was born in Peru and has a Master Degree...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • French • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Other culture •

Ceyda Berk-Söderblom

Ceyda Berk-Söderblom is a Turkish born independent art manager, curator, festival programmer and entrepreneur specialising in change management; and has 20 years of background experience...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Music •

Clément Beraud

In my work and my artistic process, I’m using two different mediums; Photography & Video. Photography has been my first activity as I’m working as...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • French •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Other culture •

Ana Gutieszca

Ana Gutieszca (1984) is a visual and sound artist born in the dry lands of the northern Mexican plateau. Drawing is the core of her...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Music • Special groups •

Samra Šabanović

Samra Šabanović (b. Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a visual artist, photographer and filmmaker based in Helsinki. Her interests oscillate between philosophy in photography and politics:...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • German • Finnish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts •

Paola Jalili

Paola Jalili (b. 1991, Mexico City) is a publisher, visual artist, and cultural worker currently based in Helsinki. She works with a variety of visual...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Music • Other culture •

Tatiana Solovieva

Tatiana is a humanist, an art manager, event producer and diversity agent actively involved in multicultural actions, migrant inclusion and cultural equity. Former flamenco performer,...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups •

Saša Nemec

Saša Nemec was born in Nova Gorica, Slovenia in 1986. She received her MSc in Fashion and Textile Design from the University of Ljubljana in...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Other culture •

Océane Bruel

Océane Bruel, (*1991, Montpellier, France) lives in Helsinki, Finland. Océane’s practice comes from the affective ecology of everyday life. Pursuing a solo practice and long-term...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • French •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Kemê pellicer

Kemê (She/Her/Kemê) is a neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist, poet and parent based in Helsinki who works with photography, performance, illustration, installation and text. While her curiosity...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Diego Ginartes

Diego Ginartes is Spanish born independent producer, project manager and film programmer based in Helsinki. He holds a MA in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies,...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups •

Luis Sartori do Vale

Luis Sartori do Vale is a versatile and multifaceted performing artist, stage director and visual artist. In 2023 he became the first circus artist in...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • French • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

David Kozma

David Kozma is Romania-Hungarian actor and theatre director. He graduated in 2001 from Babes-Bolyai drama department. In Romania, he worked as a permanent actor in...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts •

Marie-Andrée Godin

Marie-Andrée Godin was born in Canada and works between Canada and Finland, where she now lives. She completed an M.F.A. at Laval University, in Québec,...

Region

Helsinki • Pohjois-Pohjanmaa ja Kainuu •

Communication language

English • French •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Other culture •

Hassan Alkhateb

Hassan Asad Alkhateb is a Syrian artist born in 1965. He graduated from the University of Damascus Department of Fine Art in 1988. Hassan currently...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Ulyana Smakova

Art for me is a way of rethinking my journey through countries, cultures and languages. My parents were from Russia, I was born and lived...

Region

Pohjanmaa •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups •

Mehdi Ghasemi

Mehdi Ghasemi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku and the University of Tampere. He is a fiction writer, writing his fiction books...

Region

Helsinki • Pirkanmaa • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Special groups • Other culture •

Mark Maher

I'm an American-born visual artist and curator who has lived and worked in Helsinki for the past 25 years. I have had one-person exhibitions of...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Cristian Medel

Cristian Medel is a Cinematographer and a visual artist living in Helsinki, Finland since 2014. Cristian works with different audiovisuals platforms in Photography and cinema....

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Majella Clarke

Majella Clarke is an Australian Conductor, Multi-instrumentalist, Artist and Artificial Intelligence Strategist based in Helsinki, Finland. She completed a Bachelor of Music (Performance) at the...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Music • Other culture •

Gaia Mazzola

I am a foreign-born artist and art educator living and working in Finland. My goal is to reconnect people to the art language, in the...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups •

Kira O'Reilly

I am an Irish Helsinki based artist; I make, write, teach, mentor and collaborate with humans of various types, situations, materials, technologies and non-humans of...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Lappi •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Other culture •

Katia Skylar

Katia Skylar is an actor (FIA), butoh dancer, and performance artist, she is also a co-founder of a podcast Besedka s akcentom where together with...

Region

Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts •

Romeo Kodra

I have a Master degree in "Theory, Technique and Management of Arts and Entertainment" (Category: Entertainment and Multimedia Productions, Faculty of Human Sciences) and a...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • French • Spanish • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

TÁMARA AALTO

Támara Aalto (Spain, 1983) is a filmmaker based in Helsinki. First she studied Environmental Sciences and afterwards decided to make a change getting into the...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Wai Nyunt

Originally from Myanmar(Burma) from South East Asia. I married to a Finnish man and moved to Finland in 2019. I have bachelar degree in Fine...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts •

Uko Williams

Being a self-trained visual artist from Nigeria living in Finland has been quite fascinating. I saw my first snow in March 2018 when my plane...

Region

Other capital city area •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Laura Cemin

I am a Helsinki based Italian artist active in the fields of visual and performance arts: although my works always originate from a performative action,...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Italian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Paola Nieto Paredes

Paola Nieto is a cultural manager and performing artist from Mexico City, based in Helsinki. She is experienced on artist management and event production in...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts • Music • Special groups •

Anastasia Trizna

Anastasia Trizna is a multilingual theatre and film actor, multidisciplinary performer, singer and fight-performer. She works as a freelancer in a diverse range of genres,...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Other culture •

Gabriela Ariana

She is a dance artist, singer, field-artist, eco-somatic practitioner and a ancestral traditio's holder. "As an ecological artist I reflect on many questions as by...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Other culture •

Gesa Piper

Gesa Piper is a German dance-artist and -pedagogue. Her interests lie within the field of the multiplicity of the human existence in its social and...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • German •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Trevor Baylis

I have been a Senior Maya Technical Director for the film Iron Sky 2012 in Finland. I have also worked on numerous other film and...

Region

Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Shia Conlon

Shia Conlon is an Irish transgender artist and writer currently based in Helsinki. Conlon works with photo, film, sculpture and writing. Much of his work...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Maikki Palm

I am a choreographer who finds inspiration from contrasts, outdoor activities, dogs and choreology. Internationally and locally loving to meet individuals.

Region

Helsinki • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala • Pirkanmaa • Pohjois-Karjala • Pohjois-Savo • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Casková Michaela

Michaela Casková is an artist, art educator, nomadic gardener and forager who keeps an eye on atmospheric events. Walking, observing, asking, being in silence, listening,...

Region

Helsinki • Pohjois-Pohjanmaa ja Kainuu •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Yvapurü Samaniego Bonnin

Yvapurü is a visual artist working in a range of mixed media. He has been trained between Asunción, Barcelona, New York & Helsinki, exhibiting since...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Zeynep Kaynar

Zeynep Kaynar is an independent visual artist. Currently, she is living and working in Finland. Zeynep Kaynar (b.1992, Samsun) received her MA (Hons) Degree in...

Region

Helsinki • Pirkanmaa • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Mohammed Moe Mustafa

Mohammed (Moe) Mustafa was born in Kuwait in 1985 to Palestinian parents, brought up in Jordan, and is currently based in Finland. He is very...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Einat Amir

Einat Amir is an artist and a researcher who works in the media of video installations and live performances synthesized with scientific experiments in social...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

David Flood

I am an image-maker, researcher and educator working between Finland and Ireland. My photographic work centres around the role of images in relationships of power...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Yovan Nagwetch

Yovan Nagwetch (Naag) "Little Sun" is a Canadian singer, flutist, percussionist, songwriter and producer who has been creating music since he was a child growing...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • French •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Music • Special groups •

Barbora Kachlíková

I am a Czech artist living and working in Finland. My studio is placed in the Finnish countryside and surrounded by forests. I express myself...

Region

Helsinki • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Other culture •

Vivita Kaupere

The interest in cultures and arts has interwoven with the passion of crafting and working with others. This interplay has guided me to my artistic...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Saara Mahbouba

Saara Mahbouba (b. San Jose, California) is a visual artist, writer, and artistic researcher currently based in Helsinki. She received her B.A. from New York...

Region

Helsinki • Pohjois-Savo •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Riku-Pekka Kellokoski

Riku-Pekka Kellokoski is sound designer, composer and collaborator based in Helsinki. He mainly works in the field of performing arts and is interested in questions...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Etelä-Savo • Pohjois-Karjala • Pohjois-Savo • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • Swedish • English •

Specialized in

Performing arts • Music •

Bekim Hasaj

Born in northern Albania in 1990 I started my approach to art at a very young age through drawing and painting courses during my childhood...

Region

Pohjanmaa •

Communication language

English • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Valentina Gelain

Visual artist born in Feltre, in 1992, and currently based in the city of Vaasa. After completing my master's degree at Brera Academy of Fine...

Region

Pohjanmaa •

Communication language

English • Italian •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Georgie Goater

Georgie is a white, non-disabled dance artist, improviser, facilitator and pedagogue from Aotearoa NZ based in Helsinki. Her movement, choreographic and collaborative practices are inspired...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups •

Evgeniia Utochkina

My artistic path started in 2014 when I focused on contemporary art and began to express my feelings and emotions on canvas. It did not...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Stephen Webb

United States native Stephen Webb is a composer and artist currently based in Helsinki, Finland. He has been active in both the concert and gallery...

Region

Helsinki • Pohjois-Pohjanmaa ja Kainuu • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Yunjia Liu

– Guitarist, Composer, Singer – With deep love and strong passion in music, Yunjia Liu (stage name: J. Hermit) enjoys every moment being an independent...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • German •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts • Music • Special groups •

Tania Crossingham

I am a heraldic artist, medieval illuminator, calligrapher, visionary artist and teacher. I began in Australia, then moved to Finland in 2018. For over 30...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Wena Ho

Wena aspires to be an empathetic museum educator. Her interests revolve around participation and human connection among the versatile contemporary art practices. Having worked as...

Region

Keski-Suomi •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Other culture •

Hussain Kazemian

I am an artist freelance photographer and independent film-maker. Unfortunately, I work in a kitchen instead of art places in Finland. But I feed and...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts •

Arlene Tucker

Arlene Tucker (1980, Taiwan, USA, & Finland). Tucker’s socially engaged work utilises Translation Studies, Semiotics, and Feminist Practices. “As an artist, educator, and diversity agent,...

Region

Helsinki • Etelä-Savo • Keski-Suomi • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Anne Delgoulet

I am a French event producer. I have both B2C and B2B experience: producing and developing audience for a festival or a music hall and...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • French • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general •

Gerry Stewart

Gerry Stewart is a poet, editor and creative writing teacher in Helsinki. Her first collection 'Post-Holiday Blues' was published by Flambard Press. A new collection...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Other culture •

Joachim Beens

Joachim J. Beens is a visual artist from the Northern Dutch countryside. He received his MFA in 2014 in Antwerp, Belgium. His work has been...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Helena Aleksandrova

Helena Aleksandrova (b.1992 ) is a Helsinki-based artist and director from St.Petersburg. She works with the moving image, digital performance, genre cinema and site-specificity. She...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Thane van Niekerk

Thane is a South African artist from the Eastern Cape. He has a passion for creativity, imparting knowledge and the process of art making. Thane...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups •

Markwith Alex

Blending painting and sculpture, I create abstract mixed media assemblages combining traditional and unconventional materials. The work begins outside the studio, as I collect objects...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Pohjanmaa • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Hanan Mahbouba

Hanan Mahbouba (b. 1990 San Jose, CA) is a writer and filmmaker. Her work focuses on storytelling that explores the space between belonging and otherness....

Region

Helsinki • Pohjois-Savo •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Other culture •

Dace Strausa

This is about horses and art. After graduating from secondary school and finding myself in a situation, when the only road leads eastwards (I lived...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Pedro Aibéo

I am an architect (MSc) and civil engineer (MSc) with an extensive experience and training in music and drawing. I am the founder and chairman...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • German • French • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups •

Laura Hasanen

I am a visual artist and educator who is passionate about art education as a tool for change, criticality, and compassion. I am interested in...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups •

Anna-Sofia Nylund

Anna-Sofia Nylund is born in a small Finnish-Swedish town at the Finnish west coast. She has a background in documentary and media art (Arcada 2011)...

Region

Helsinki • Pohjanmaa •

Communication language

Swedish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Other culture •

Csilla Csépke

Csilla Csépke is a Helsinki based writer from Hungary. She was born in the stern winter of 1986 in Budapest, raised by a single mother...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Other culture •

Tal Riva Theodorou

I am a freelancer viola player. I have extensive experience on stage as an orchestra musician and as a chamber music musician. I am an...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • German • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Music • Special groups •

Mercedes Balarezo

Mercedes Balarezo is an Ecuadorian dance artist and pedagogue based in Helsinki. For her, dance and education are tools that can bring us closer to...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Performing arts • Special groups •

Marloes van Son

Marloes van Son develops and builds sound-objects, electronic instruments and installations. She uses these as tools to explore everyday appliances and natural phenomena. By repurposing...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Music •

Christopher X. Ryan

My primary mission is to tell stories that challenge the reader—realist, grounded, everyday stories that discomfit and unnerve while refraining from merely causing offense. I...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Specialized in

Other culture •

Polina Laamanen

My main focus is hand embroidery with modified textiles. I transform old craft into modern art and research all the possibilities of fibers and fabrics....

Region

Other capital city area •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Nathalie Sallegren

Nathalie Sallegren (Gnattie) is an Australian spoken word artist based in Raseborg, Finland. British born/ French origin/ Papua New Guinean raised, writing and performing in...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Swedish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Reynolds Kevin

My company KRMB Management was formed in 1998 As a session musician I have worked with Phil Collin’s, Mary J Blige, Usher, Take That, Boyz...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Music •

Riband Kurd

Riband Ahmed from Kurdista, Iraq. I do street photography and outdoor model photography .

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Jaime Belmonte

Jaime Belmonte Caparrós is a Spanish-Finnish composer, conductor and researcher based in Helsinki. He works as an independent composer and collaborates with different artists exploring...

Region

Helsinki • Keski-Suomi • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English • French • Spanish •

Specialized in

Music •

Valentina Bravo

Valentina Bravo, Santiago de Chile 1988. Fine Arts Degree with a major in Plastic Arts (2017) Lives and works in Lahti, Finland. Her artistic research...

Region

Helsinki • Häme •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Stephen Bathurst

A scion of Her Majesty’s Kingdom of Britannia, Stephen Bathurst is an actor, writer and director. A veteran of the British and European stage, he’s...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Etelä-Savo • Häme • Keski-Suomi • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala • Lappi • Pirkanmaa • Pohjanmaa • Pohjois-Karjala • Pohjois-Pohjanmaa ja Kainuu • Pohjois-Savo • Satakunta • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Chih-Tung Lin

Chih-Tung Lin is a curator and artist, originally from Taiwan, and based in Helsinki since 2019. Lin works multidisciplinarily, between curation, performance art and illustration....

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Phuong Dao

Dao Phuong, or Betty Fvck as his artist name, is an award-wining drag burlesque artist based in Helsinki. They have performed in over 12 different...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts • Special groups •

Meri Helmi Särkkä

Mariam Haji is a Bahraini multi disciplinary fine artist who currently lives and works in Helsinki. She represented the Kingdom of Bahrain in the 55th...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Suvadeep Das

My academic and artistic activities started from my Masters degree in visual Arts completed in the year 2004 from India at Delhi College of Arts...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Alex Kollerová

Alex Kollerová (born 1991 in Bratislava, Slovakia) is a cultural producer and curator currently based in Helsinki, Finland. In 2018, Alex completed their higher education...

Region

Other capital city area •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups •

Daniel Daiu

Daniel Daiu is an Italian/Albanian classical guitarist who graduated with honors at the Conservatorio di Parma Arrigo Boito under the guidance of M° Massimo Felici....

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Italian •

Specialized in

Music •

Mariko Yoshida

I am a workshop designer and researcher who is focusing on how art and the multisensorial element apply to corporate training programs. My interests are...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups •

Spartak Khachanov

Spartak Khachanov was born in 1984 in the city of Baku, Azerbaijan. In 2011 he began studying at the Kharkiv Art School, where he specialized...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Anastasia Anikina

I'm a Helsinki based artist of Russian-Jewish origin. I live and work in Helsinki since 2015. In 2021 I graduated from an Art School MAA...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Ines Montalvao

I am a professional creative with long and demonstrated experience in the museum and science centres field. Based in Helsinki since 2017, I worked for...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English • French • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Kamila Śladowska

Kamila Śladowska- (born in 1996 in Warsaw, based in Helsinki) multidisciplinary visual artist, who works with various media such as installation, painting or performance and...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Russian • French • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups •

Ondiso Madete

I'm a Kenyan artist based in Pori, Finland. I love to explore the rich tapestry of human experience through music, poetry, short stories, film, photography...

Region

Satakunta •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Mirza Adnan

Adnan Mirza was born in Lahore and currently resides and works in Helsinki, Finland. After graduating in Painting from National College of Arts, Pakistan, he...

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Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Mendoza Adán

Helsinki based filmmaker, photographer and musician. Born in Tenerife (Spain), graduated in Barcelona's "Bande à Part" film school in the Screenwriting and Directing degree. He...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Lisa Roberts

I am a British, multi-disciplinary artist and creative producer based in Finland. I use ubiquitous technology to create socially-engaged, site-specific initiatives in public spaces. I...

Region

Helsinki • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Lindon Shimizu

Lindon Shimizu, a japanese brazilian born in Porto Alegre, Brazil and raised in Japan, currently based in Joensuu, Finland. He works as a dance artist...

Region

Helsinki • Pohjois-Karjala • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Performing arts • Special groups •

Miguel Diaz

Miguel Diaz is a visual artist who works in a variety of mixed works. He has trained between Valencia, Barcelona, and Helsinki, exhibiting since 2007....

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Music •

Camilo Gladys

Gladys Camilo (b. Compton, CA) is a visual artist, cultural worker, curator and DJ. She is interested in the intersections of identity and trauma, collective...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Ivonne Carlos

Ivonne Carlos (1980-) is a specialist in literature and feminist studies, cultural activist, workshop facilitator and writer. She was born in the largest state of...

Region

Pohjanmaa •

Communication language

English • Spanish • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Special groups • Other culture •

Alena Tereshko

My art practice is quite diverse, as I work with performance art, video, and graphics. Often, in my artistic research I focus on a body...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Other culture •

Anastasia Artemeva

I am a visual and socially-engaged artist based in Helsinki. My practice is focused on spaces: how we inhabit spaces, how we co-exist in the...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Ina Fiebig

INA FIEBIG (1977, Beijing, China) is a German Illustrator, Visual Designer and Art Director with more than 15 years of experience, working in Berlin, Barcelona...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • German • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Alex van Giersbergen

Alex van Giersbergen (b. 1988) is a Helsinki based new-media artist focused on creating digital experiences. His works includes interactive installations, visuals for live performances...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Onur Tayranoğlu

I am an artist who mostly performs but also researches, writes, plays, installs, facilitates and curates. I am currently interested in the future making potential...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Lisa Kalkowski

Lisa Kalkowski is a producer, theatre teacher, and diversity agent. Her key interests are anti-racist practices, intersectional feminism, performative teaching, and art&culture production. Lisa's expertise...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • German • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts •

Tina Jeranko

In my artistic practice, I research the translation between language and the physical body in a given social, cultural, and political space. My work consists...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Other culture •

Anastasia Stankevich

Anastasia (Anna) Stankevich is a Russian-born, internationally raised illustrator and fine artist, previously working in London and now living in Helsinki. She is a member...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Jack Faber

Jack Faber creates immersive art experiences that act as new meeting points between surveillance economy, scientific innovations, public spaces and multi-species relations. His interdisciplinary art...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Aryan Vandi

Aryan Vandi was born in 1992 in Tehran. He received his BA in industrial design from Tehran Art & Architecture University, and at the moment,...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups •

Doğa Çal

Doğa studied philosophy at Middle East Technical University and is a master's student at the University of Arts Helsinki, Time and Space Studies. Since 2015,...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Maja Kalafatić

Maja Kalafatić (1984, Celje) is a dancer, choreographer, pedagogue, and yoga teacher who lives and works between Ljubljana (Slovenia), Belgrade (Serbia) and Helsinki. In 2006,...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Ieva Laube

Ieva Laube is a writer, researcher, and curator of education projects, interested in critical pedagogies and collective, participatory practices in learning. Her professional background has...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Jordy Valderrama

Formed as a mime, actor, dancer, and puppeteer. Jordy Valderrama produces directs and writes adaptations for theatre, dance, circus, and puppets shows. Professor Valderrama is...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Ali Akbar Mehta

Ali Akbar Mehta (b.1983, Mumbai) is a Transmedia artist, curator, and researcher, currently invited at Documenta(15) as part of the Party Office collective to develop...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Nei Zigma

n e I z I g m a is a multi-artist who translates the rhythmic cadences of Brazil into poetic and melodic images, embracing his...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Music • Special groups •

Bomash Elizaveta

Elizaveta (Lisa) Bomash, MA, is an aspiring cultural entrepreneur with experience in the fields of theatre, film exhibition, and event management. Among her professional interests...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general •

Tianna Valta

Tianna Valta dancer and performing artist. Interested in multi artistic encounters and physical expression of the body. Sound and use of the spoken word inspires...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music •

Aizhan Sultanova

AIJAN SULTAN is a professional singer, music composer, and educator. At the very young age of 7 started her love, passion, and the pursuit of...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Performing arts • Music • Special groups •

Rita Vargas

Born in Portugal (Évora, 1981), Rita Vargas is a professional visual artist, visual arts teacher and a doctor of philosophy in Art History, with expertise...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • French • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Semchenko Pavel

Semchenko Pavel Olegovich (15/06/1967) changed many locations in his childhood. His school years were spent in Leningrad, Kirishi, Prague, Baku, in the village Kadui, Cherepovets...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Pete Santos

Pete Santos is an American singer, rapper, and song-writer whose music is a blend of hip-hop, pop, rnb, afro-fusion, and soul music. Growing up on...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Etelä-Savo • Häme • Keski-Suomi • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala • Lappi • Pirkanmaa • Pohjanmaa • Pohjois-Karjala • Pohjois-Pohjanmaa ja Kainuu • Pohjois-Savo • Satakunta • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Music •

Terese Kühl

Terese Kühl is visual artist, curator and producer. Kühl's art often discusses human and sexual rights, feminist sensualism, the freedom and censorship of art. Lately...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • Swedish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Other culture •

Vera Lapitskaya

I work as performer, dance maker, art educator and curator. 
In my artistic practices I am fascinated to reimagine the traditional art forms by pushing...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Performing arts • Special groups •

Wooguru Kw

I'm a dancing writer - currently finishing my first book titled, "THE DANCING BODY TO BE FREE FOR ITSELF: the biomechanics of a dancer with...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala • Pirkanmaa • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Palomaa Catalá Parga

Half Valencian and half Galician, she is a versatile flutist with a soul, who has played in different countries: Argentina, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Finland...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Etelä-Savo • Häme • Keski-Suomi • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala • Lappi • Pirkanmaa • Pohjanmaa • Pohjois-Karjala • Pohjois-Pohjanmaa ja Kainuu • Pohjois-Savo • Satakunta • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Iago Castro Pérez

Iago Castro Pérez is a galician cellist and teacher. He studied at High Conservatory of Music in A Coruña, and finished his academic chelistic training...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Etelä-Savo • Häme • Keski-Suomi • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala • Lappi • Pirkanmaa • Pohjanmaa • Pohjois-Karjala • Pohjois-Pohjanmaa ja Kainuu • Pohjois-Savo • Satakunta • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Music • Special groups •

Linda Söderholm

Linda “Superflinda” Söderholm is a multidisciplinary visual artist, graphic designer and an illustrator. She holds a Master of Arts in New Media but recently her...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • Swedish • English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

EDUARDO SOLORZANO TEJEDA

Hybrid designer with a wide experience in Product design (UX/UI), Visual Branding, Graphic design, illustration, textile design, and prints. My focus is on Visual Design....

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Music • Special groups •

Beniamino Borghi

Beniamino Borghi, choreographer, director, dancer, performer, teacher, has founded tanssiARTesaani in 2017. The aim of tanssiARTesaani dance group is to bring contemporary dance and performative...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Veera Vartiainen

Veera Vartiainen (VV-Machine) is a digital designer and an artist, who has been travelling and working around the world for the past decade. Having had...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Clara Petrozzi

Clara Petrozz was born in Lima, Peru and lives in Finland since 1990. Clara is a viola and violin player and pedagogue working in various...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts • Music •

Alex Mantidakis

Everything is energy and in constant vibration. Music is a powerful tool that when it is combined harmoniously and sophisticated with the right blend of...

Region

Helsinki • Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Music •

Selina Oakes

Selina Oakes (she/her, b. England) is an artist curator, researcher and writer with an interest in the potential of bodily attunements and hydrofeminist discourses in...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

English • French •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Other culture •

Chen Nadler

My name is Chen Nadler, I’m a dancer, performer and choreographer, currently based in Helsinki, Finland, originally from Israel, Morocco and Romania. In my works,...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Other culture •

Macoumba Ndiaye

Macoumba is a Senegalese artist based in Finland. Born in Dakar city capital in the neighborhood Ndiaye’s Thioker, he used to hang out with the...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • French •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Alena Starostina

Alena Starostina Actress, director, performer, curator, costume designer Since 2010 she works as artist, director, performer, curator, costume designer, co-author of the independent theatre post...

Region

Helsinki • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts •

Ivan Nikolaev

Ivan Nikolaev Actor, video artist Since 2010 he works as artist, performer, co-author and technical director of the independent theatre post (Saint-Petersburg). He took part...

Region

Helsinki • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts •

Aleksandra Lemke

A professional photographer, Aleksandra Lemke is a free spirit at heart. Born in Poland in 1989, residing in Finland. Her specialization revolves around portrait and...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups •

Svenja Fassbender

Svenja Fassbender has a degree in Dutch Studies, Scandinavian Studies and Intercultural Communication. Her Master’s thesis focused on gender and family constructions in Swedish Children’s...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Swedish • English • German •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts • Special groups •

Zahrah Ehsan

I am a visual artist; painter, art instructor and an aspiring filmmaker from Lahore, Pakistan, currently based in Finland. After completing a degree of Master...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Agnese Gemetto

Born in Chivasso she lived in Turin, Italy until 2018. Now based in Helsinki, Finland. Visual artist, Vj (live video projections), video-maker, clay sculptor, digital...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • French • Spanish • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Francis Maskens

Francis Maskens is a contemporary dancer, improviser and physical theatre performer/teacher originally from London now based In Helsinki. He studied his Ba at The Place...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Performing arts •

Christian Flores (Mexico)

Born in Mexico city i have studied cinema and media. I work with images from charcoal to video. I like to program films and make...

Region

Helsinki • Lappi •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups •

Eija Mäkivuoti

I am a Helsinki-based photographic artist/visual artist, an artist-researcher and a visual communication professional. Born and raised in Swedish Lapland, I am a bilingual Tornedalian...

Region

Helsinki • Lappi •

Communication language

Finnish • Swedish • English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Katariina Fortuna

I`m Katariina - a graphic artist currently based in Kotka, Finland. Primarily working with pencils and traditional printmaking to show life aspects through the beauty...

Region

Helsinki • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Diana Soria Hernandez

Short Bio Diana Soria Hernández is a visual and performance artist working mainly with performance art, ceramics and drawing. Her practice is an assembly of...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Sukhi Raghunath

Sukhi is originally from Bangalore, India, and moved to Helsinki in 2017. She holds a master's degree in communication management, and a bachelor's degree in...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Uljas Suvanen

Art as a range of creativity in its most general form of visual, auditory or performative way or through design of everyday products, advertising, as...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Ana Jaumandreu Poncela

Ana Jaumandreu Poncela A.K.A Bananana de Barcelona is a multidisciplinary artist born in Barcelona in 1991 in a lower working-class neighborhood, in the middle of...

Region

Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Other culture •

Mor Halperin

Hi I'm an artist! my young self would be so happy about thos statement. I am a painter, mixed-media artist, and 2D animator and Illustrator....

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Anna Ruth

In her practice as a visual artist, Anna Ruth is intrigued by physical borders and social impasses. She uses sets of strict rules to control...

Region

Helsinki • Keski-Suomi • Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

Finnish • English • French •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Other culture •

Jacqueline Aylward

I am a dance artist from Naarm (Melbourne) Australia who is currently based in Helsinki, Finland. I am currently completing a Masters in Dance and...

Region

Helsinki • Pohjois-Karjala • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Performing arts • Special groups •

Godwin Otieno

I was Born in Kenya, my professional performing arts career started in 2009 with the Youth Accosted With Arts program (YAWA) in Kisumu, Kenya. I...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Performing arts •

Igor Baranov

Born in Leningrad in 1983. Since 2020 based in Finland. Graduated from St. Petersburg Fine Arts Academy . Participant of more than 50 exhibitions, 20...

Region

Helsinki • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Tashi Iwaoka

Tashi Iwaoka, a Turku based performance artist/mover/Butoh practitioner practiced Butoh based bodywork for over 10 years after his first Butoh experiences in 1997 with Kazuo...

Region

Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Tomasz Szrama

Tomasz Szrama graduated in 1998 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. He has practiced Action Art since 1995, and contributed actively to...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Kateryna Harahulia

I am a versatile artist and designer from Ukraine. My name is Kateryna Harahulia and I work in a unique direction under the creative pseudonym...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Eoin O'Dowd

Eoin O’Dowd (he/him/they) is an artist and curator from Dublin Ireland, living and working in Helsinki Finland. Eoin is a multimedia artist, utilizing collage of...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups •

Moncayo Paula

In my work I explore the coalition between artistic practice and the practices traditionally assigned to women in domestic spaces. I see labour rooted in...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups •

Andres Felipe Romero

Felipe was born in Colombia and moved to Italy at the age of 11. He started his music career at 18 when he autoproduced his...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish • Italian •

Specialized in

Music • Special groups •

Rogério Nuno Costa

Portuguese performance artist, theatre director, writer, researcher, teacher and curator based in Helsinki. His cross-disciplinary projects explore the fields of theatre, dance, visual arts, literature...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • French • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Kuralay Meirbekova

My name is Kuralay. I am a contemporary artist from Kazakhstan, based in Helsinki.The focus of my interest in painting is people, their emotions as...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Edwina Goldstone

Edwina Goldstone is a British multi disciplinary fine artist who currently lives and works between Riihimäki and Helsinki. Through her work she explores the relationships...

Region

Helsinki • Häme •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Yemi Butterman

I visualize things in my mind and allow the words to flow to me for expression. I can sing the song of the ancestral sun...

Region

Other capital city area •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Ira Derviz

Born in Leningrad in 1982. Since 2020 lives and work in Finland. Graduated from Sain-Petersbusg Fine Arts Academy in 2007. Artist and curator. Since 2020...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Tianjun Li

Tianjun Li (Timjune) b.1999, China, is an interdisciplinary visual artist and photographer. currently pursuing a master’s degree in Visual Cultures, Curating, and Contemporary Art at...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups •

Deniz Satır

Deniz Satır is a Turkish-Kurdish, USA-born visual artist based in Jyväskylä. She is a bachelor of Law and currently majoring in Visual Communication Design. Deniz...

Region

Keski-Suomi •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Rosamaría Bolom

She is convinced that art is the best tool to positively influence our society. As a multidisciplinary artist she is working mostly with masks and...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Daniel Motola

Daniel Motola (1988) is a Finnish-Israeli photographer, video artist and musician, currently based in Helsinki. His work is inspired from his surrounding world, nature and...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • French •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music •

Mila iloria

Mila iloria is an experienced artist based in Finland whose paintings have been exhibited nationally and in Sweden. Through my striking abstractions, she conveys distress...

Region

Helsinki •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Mehrnoosh Zolfaghari

Mehrnoosh Zolfaghari is a professional musician, Composer,Santoor player and performer based in Finland. Although she is a multi-instrumentalist, her principal instrument is Santoor, a traditional...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Performing arts • Music • Special groups •

Maria Averina

Maria Averina (b. 1993 in Pretoria, South Africa). Cultural manager, producer, curator. Studied in HEC Paris (management) and Lomonosov Moscow State University (history of art)....

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Russian • French •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Farshad Sanati

Farshad Sanati is a musician, musicologist and a Santour (Iranian classical instrument) player. He obtained his master’s degree in Music, Mind and Technology from University...

Region

Keski-Suomi •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Performing arts • Music • Special groups •

Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova is a Helsinki-based creative who currently prefers capturing images and DJing as the main forms of self-expression, however, endeavours to become a visual...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Music •

Anita Kittery

Anita Kittery is a French-Indian Tamil painter and PhD researcher currently based in Helsinki, Finland. Her work explores how traditions are perpetuated despite voluntary migrations...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • German • French •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Music • Other culture •

Elizabeth Torres

Elizabeth Torres (Madam Neverstop) 1987. Colombian/American poet, translator and multimedia artist. Her work intertwines poetry, visions and soundscapes with language and performance across various art...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Veronica Solomon

Veronica Solomon is an animation filmmaker with more than 15 years experience in story-telling, concept design, character development, direction and animation. In her works she...

Region

Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

English • German • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups •

Adel Kim

Adel Kim (b.1987) is a curator, manager, and researcher focused largely on art residencies. She received an MA in Art Studies from Hongik University (Seoul,...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Nikita Gavrilenko

After completing high school, my family advised me to pursue a "normal" job rather than pursuing my passion for art, a common sentiment in my...

Region

Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Gabriella Presnal

Gabriella Presnal (b.2001) is a Finnish-American visual artist with a BA in Media and Arts from Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Their works are many...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Heilemann Sandra

Being native German, born 1975, Art and creativity has been a part of Sandra‘s life since early childhood. Later it became a part of her...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English • German •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Walter Götsch

My practice is grounded in usability, field research, and symbolism to prepare, empower, and direct. They are form, feeling, and attention.  Hopeful-post-corona design futures with...

Region

Helsinki • Häme •

Communication language

Finnish • English • German •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Other culture •

Erica Mena

Erica Mena is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and book artist. They hold an MFA in poetry from Brown University, an MFA in literary translation...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Merle Karp

Merle Karp is a Helsinki-based visual designer, video artist and VJ, also known as Folded Visuals. She is the artistic director and a co-founder of...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • Estonian • English • German •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts •

Dasha Pears

Dasha Pears is an award-winning artist, currently based in Helsinki, Finland. Dasha's uncanny laconic art pieces are focused on self- discovery and our inner worlds....

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Müge Yildiz

Müge Yıldız is a Turkish artist and filmmaker, based in Finland. She studied Cinema and Philosophy respectively at Galatasaray University in Istanbul, Turkey and received...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Ilaria Tucci

I work as a university lecturer, playwright, actress, theatre director, community facilitator, diversity agent, singer and songwriter. I use theatre as a nonviolent tool of...

Region

Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Italian •

Specialized in

Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

REENA JHA

Mandala "The Mystic Circles" are geometric configuration of symbols. It’s an ancient form of practice since the age of Vedas, also called as Yantra. With...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

JOSEF KA

Josef Ka is a curator, art educator, visual and performance artist based in Helsinki. They are a founder of Sauna Gallery, open for any possible...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Swedish • English • Russian • French •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups •

Naomi Holopainen

Naomi Holopainen’s art highlights the spectrum of emotions and how they manifest in different realities. The exploration of emotions through video, photography, literature and drawing...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Häme • Keski-Suomi • Pohjois-Karjala •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Wanda Holopainen

Wanda Holopainen is a storyteller, and documentarian who seeks for different stories. She is currently exploring on analgoe filming as a way to interpert the...

Region

Helsinki • Häme • Pohjois-Karjala •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Andrea Mancianti

I am a composer, performer and sound artist mostly devoted to experimental sonic arts. I studied composition with Rosario Mirigliano in the Conservatory of Florence....

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • French • Italian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music •

Moe Louanjli

Mohamed Louanjli is a Moroccan-born Australian visual artist, photographer, art director, graphic designer, teacher, and entrepreneur based in Helsinki. With a background in graphic design...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups •

TIFF ZHANG

Tiff Tian Zhang is an independent producer and immersive experience designer specializing in theatre, art, and events. She previously held the role of senior producer...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general •

Francesca Bogani Amadori

Francesca Bogani Amadori (she/they) is a Peruvian multimedia artist based in Helsinki. After receiving her BFA in 2015 from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Inês Jales

I'm an artist who loves to capture the beauty of nature and the complexities of femininity through my artwork. I'm passionate about creating art that...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Katja Arapova

I Katja Arapova and I'm 46 years old. I am from Russian Karelia. Now I live in the city of Kaskinen. I am a psychologist...

Region

Pohjanmaa •

Communication language

Finnish • Swedish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Daria Craciun

She is a 25-year old Visual Artist currently in her 3rd year at Tampere University of Applied Sciences, studying Media&Arts with a focus on Fine...

Region

Helsinki • Pirkanmaa •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Nina Bulgakova

My name is Nina Bulgakova. I am director,choreographer and performer of Ethno Contemporary Ballet (Kharkiv,Ukraine). My colleagues and I arrived to Finland on October 2022....

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Zara Asgher

Zara Asgher is a visual artist and educator from Lahore, Pakistan, currently living and practicing in Finland. She graduated from the National College of Arts,...

Region

Helsinki •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Pamela Cohn

I work mainly as an arts & culture writer, film & video curator and story consultant and dramaturge for all forms of moving image work....

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • German • French • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Vladislav Nenchev

A part-time human, with a mild compulsion for over-analysis. Vladislav writes short pieces of fiction that explore the fault line between knowledge and emotions, tackling...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts • Other culture •

Joshua Cockroft

I am a visual artist, photographer and educator based in Helsinki. I use photography as a tool to examine and engage with the world – in...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Shkurte Ramushi

My name is Shkurte Ramushi, I’m a painter, photographer and art teacher , currently based in Espoo, Finland, originally from Kosovo. In my artworks I...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups •

Mathilde Palenius

Mathilde Palenius is an artistic producer and projects coordinator based in Helsinki, working with pluri-disciplinary artistic spaces and projects, in relation to visual and performing...

Region

Other capital city area •

Communication language

Swedish • English • French •

Specialized in

Arts, general •

Damilare Olalude

I am an experienced and passionate cinematographer with in depth nollywood experience, training and proven success in cinematography. An adept in overseeing all aspects of...

Region

Other capital city area •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Naser Bayat

I am curiously in constant exploration for the perfume of life, photography is a medium to be in touch with mystery, but I am open...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Viv Magia

Viv Magia is an internationally working street artist and visual artist. She loves painting large, colorful walls, and also enjoys implementing multidisciplinary collaborations. Characteristic for...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Kriti Kumari

Since my childhood, I have been interested in drawing, painting, art and crafts as a hobby. Later, I earned a bachelor's degree in textile design,...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Sahar Ajami

I’m a visual artist and illustrator passionate about creating cartoons and graphic design. In my work, I play around with lines, symbols, and simple shapes....

Region

Helsinki •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups •

Helena Kulishova

Helena Kulishova is a versatile artist and designer, professionally working in the field of painting, graphics, design and architecture. Member of the Finnish Ornamo community...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Other culture •

Vahid Goodarzpour

Vahid Goodarzpour is a visual artist based in Finland. He studied filmmaking at the School of Journalism in Tehran/ Tehran News Faculty and also holds...

Region

Helsinki • Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Jason Janicki

My name is Jason Janicki and I write a variety of fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and young adult. I currently work as a...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Other culture •

Martin Dahlström-Heuser

Martin Dahlström-Heuser has graduated with an MA in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art from Aalto University, Finland, including a five-month exchange period at the...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Swedish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups •

Wisam Abboud

Wisam Abboud has been based in Helsinki, Finland. He is a founder of Neighbourgoods community, Dj & producer at The Yalla Collective. I was born...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Music • Other culture •

Vedran Brnjetic

I am a photographer originally from Croatia. Core of my activity is event photography, particularly I like covering live music, as well as medieval events...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Häme • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups •

Vera Boitcova

Theatre director, playwright, curator, queer performance/video artist and political activist. Currently, Doctoral Researcher at University of the Arts, Helsinki. BA Directing in Musical Theatre -...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Tatiana Potapenko

Tatiana is a figurative art painter based in Vantaa. She is fascinated by the complexity and emotional depth of the human experience. Her work centers...

Region

Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Yiu Sheung

Sheung Yiu (HK/FI) is a Hong-Kong-born, image-centered artist and researcher, based in Helsinki. His artwork explores the act of seeing through algorithmic image systems and...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Érica Dahlström Dezonne

Érica Dahlström-Dezonne is a Brazilian-Finnish photojournalist and visual artist currently based in Tampere, FI. As a visual storyteller, Dezonne used her lens to showcase the...

Region

Helsinki • Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Cansu Pylkkänen

Helsinki-based emerging artist Cansu Pylkkänen (b.1987, Turkey) is primarily working in photography, acrylic painting, and performance art. Pylkkänen holds a BA in Architecture from Haliç...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Other culture •

Martina Marti

For me, diversity is a lived reality. Re-thinking artistic processes and cultural institutions from an inclusive perspective is not just challenging but above all hugely...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • English • German •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts • Special groups •

Sofia Stupenkova

I have a passion for working with both documentary and fictional material, and my works focus on exploring themes of broken communication, absurdism, and the...

Region

Helsinki •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Polina Polkinghorne

Contemporary thinking applied to traditional methodology is an essential part of my artistic practice. My approach is hands on. I like to create and experiment,...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Olesia Kova

Olesia Kova is a cultural producer and music artist based in Helsinki. She works as a DJ and event producer at Club Kaiku and as...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Music •

Zachariah Chamberlaine

Zachariah Chamberlaine is an author, performer and visual artist who is originally from London (UK), but has been living in Helsinki (Finland) for twenty-five years....

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Ilana Palmgren

Ilana Palmgren is a Finnish performing artist and actor (FIA) working with theater, performance art, movement and text. Palmgren has a master’s degree in theater...

Region

Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Performing arts •

Olga Mezhevich

I am a visual artist creating digital illustrations as well as acrylic paintings. I have a special interest in Art Nouveau architecture of Helsinki. I...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • Swedish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Hilkka Helmi

I’m a Finnish artist , humorist, feminist from Helsinki, 39 years old self-taught artist. My art (paintings and photo collage) is often a dream-like dive...

Region

Helsinki •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Man Huen aka Christy Ma

Christy Ma is a Hong Kong-born and raised artist currently based in Helsinki. She has attained her MA double degree at Uniarts Helsinki and Goethe...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Axel Hjertman

As an artist and designer, I know how important it is to feel creative confidence and agency as a creator. Through design, whether it's designing...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • Swedish • English • German •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music •

Kristina Korpelainen

Kristina Korpelainen (b.1990), is a Helsinki-based multidisciplinary artist, inspired by nature and everything that surrounds us. Working with a myriad of different media, creating installations...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Other culture •

Naakai Addy

Naakai is a Ghanaian-American writer and multimedia artist based in Raasepori. Her visual artwork involves photography, painting, lyrical prose, movement, and collage to explore themes...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

ROBERTO PUENTES

Roberto Puentes is a Mexican creative with a Finnish twist. With background in graphic design, photography and video he is deeply passionate about creating stories...

Region

Helsinki • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Anna Dantchev

Anna Dantchev is a Finnish-Bulgarian singer, songwriter, producer and educator. She is also experienced in the music and culture scene in various roles. She creates...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • Swedish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Music • Special groups •

Frankie Sleptsov

I am a Finland-based artist and illustrator, working primarily with painting. In my art practice I reflect upon identity, uniqueness and means of expression of...

Region

Helsinki • Pohjanmaa •

Communication language

Swedish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Huyen Pham

Hi, I'm Bong. I am an artist and illustrator. Bong's art is where I document my journey to finding joy. I have a passion for...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Rute Morais Peixoto

Rute Morais Peixoto is a Portuguese award-winning artist and architect based in Helsinki, Finland. Rute’s multidisciplinary practice is highly focused on the emotional, sensorial, and...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Music •

Artem Zenev

I am Artem Zenev, a musician, composer and guitarist standing at the crossroads of musical innovation and cultural synthesis. Pushing the boundaries of traditional music,...

Region

Other capital city area •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Music •

Eliisa Loukola

Recently working with hän, (a basketball hoop), Eliisa Loukola (b. 1997, Finland) deals with (re)translation and language (co)creation through the notion of re-performance in an...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • Swedish • English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Anna Kozonina

Anna Kozonina is a performing arts researcher, dance writer, dramaturg and educator based in Helsinki. As well as obtaining an MA in Political Science and...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English • Russian • French •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts •

Edris samani

Edris Samani Painter. Filmmaker. Born in 1982 in Mahabad/ Iran. Graduated Painting at Art University of Tehran (Bachelor) and Art research (cinema) at Tabriz Islamic...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Other culture •

Vitaliia Ter-Avakian

I appreciate art ceramics for the luxury of being imperfect. This is something that the modern technological world cannot afford. Because it is considered as...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Olga Blokh

I am a professional ceramist and ceramic artist Olga Blokh. I founded my own studio Bloch Ceramics in Puumala, Finland, in 2020. I make ceramics...

Region

Helsinki • Etelä-Savo •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Other culture •

Victor Hugo Gutiérrez

I am a Mexican visual communicator born in Mexico City in 1976. In 2003 I graduated from the Graphic Communication Design degree that is taught...

Region

Lappi •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Other culture •

Aleksei Tkachenko

ILMU ("air", "weather") is a folk-trip-hop band from Karelia Republic, Russia. Now the band lives in Tampere, Finland. ILMU plays folk-trip-hop and world music with...

Region

Helsinki • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala • Pirkanmaa • Pohjois-Karjala •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Music •

Valio Art

Valioart is a visionary artist renowned for his captivating and intricate cat creations. With his boundless imagination and unique artistic style, Valioart transforms blank spaces...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English • German •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Filiz Aksu

I was born and raised in Turkey. I have been continuing my artistic career in the field of theatre, creative drama and puppet theater for...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Performing arts • Special groups •

Lu Chen

Lù (CN; SG), designer and media artist based in Helsinki. Born in Fuzhou, China, living in Singapore before moving to Finland - from the tropics...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups •

mentula alysia

Alysia Mentula is a US-born Illustrator and graphic designer who loves to bring mysticism to game art and add whimsy the stark reputation of graphic...

Region

Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Veronika Gramotina

Veronika Gramotina, a 1995-born emerging artist with a BBA in marketing, is a creative force exploring the improbable nature of existence through a multifaceted approach...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Pirkanmaa • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Samuel Boateng

I am Samuel Boateng, an Italian-born filmmaker of Ghanaian descent, currently residing in Finland. In 2016, I embarked on a transformative journey, relocating to Finland...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English • Italian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Anastasiia Riame

Through the medium of acrylics, fluid acrylics and texture paste I create abstract artworks that delve into the depths of self-expression and the complexities of...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Monika Leszkowicz

Hello, my name is Monika. I come from Poland and I graduated form Art Academy in Szczecin. I do photography, painting and a little bit...

Region

Helsinki •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts •

Alan Guerra

I am a versatile musician that equal enjoys playing Bach on a classical guitar as much as playing folk music in a Mexican jarana. You...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Music •

Giorgia Lolli

Giorgia Lolli is an Italian dance artist whose practice intertwines dramaturgical-choreographic research and community processes. She graduated from Zürich University of the Arts – BA...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

English • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts •

Elisabetta Turaglio

I am a graduated student at the university of Helsinki (MA) and entrepreneur, working with individual artists and institutions. I offer services related to project...

Region

Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Special groups •

Manu Harutyunyan

Manu Harutyunyan, born in Armenia, and currently based in Helsinki, Finland, is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative journey spans continents and cultures. With a foundation...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Luciana Mariano

Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, I am the third generation of naïve painters in my family. I draw and paintintensively since I was...

Region

Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Other culture •

Sumarokov Artur

Artur Sumarokov is an artist who works in a variety of media. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Ekaterina Chernyaeva

Ekaterina is a filmmaker, passionate about storytelling and in particular documentary genre. Her background is in journalism and video art, and her inspiration comes from...

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts •

Fran Trento

Fran Trento (they/them) is an artist-researcher and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, within the Academy of Finland-funded research project ´Enchantment in...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish • Italian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups •

João Luís Matos Lopes

João Luís was born and raised in Porto, Portugal. After studying at the Porto Music Conservatory (1996-2010) and architecture (2008-2010), he decided to pursue a...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Music • Other culture •

Lorena Articardi

Lorena Articardi (b. 1992, Italian-Uruguayan), is a visual artist and researcher working with photography and motion images as her primary mediums. She describes her material-discursive...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish • Italian •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Scarlet Nuoskanen

Artist statement Scarlet is a queer artist and entrepreneur, originally from Manchester, UK. She is an internationally selling painter and is now an award winning...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups •

Mayer Daniel

Daniel Mayer, a Brazilian-born creative based in Helsinki, is fueled by a relentless passion for storytelling. Inspired by captivating visuals and moved by life experiences,...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts •

Tamara Mezina

I am an illustrator specializing in digital-based visual methods. Over more than ten years as an illustrator, I've undertaken various projects, ranging from standard commissions...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Special groups •

Luciana Mariano

Brazilian-Finnish Naive artist based in Pirkkala.

Region

Pirkanmaa •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Other culture •

Julia Syrzistie

Julia Syrzistie works across printmaking, book arts and design for print. Her work centres around researching unexplored narratives and social phenomena through a typographic lens:...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Aoi Yoshizawa

Aoi Yoshizawa is a Helsinki-based artist and textile designer engaged in the experimental process of applying traditional craft techniques to contemporary textile practice. Her artistic...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Swedish • English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Rachel Tome Valencia Hamilton

I am a researcher, writer and poet living in Turku, Finland. I am an immigrant to Finland, having moved to the country from the UK...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

Finnish • Swedish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Pan Tome Valencia

I have a background in academia, including an MA in Theory and Practice of Theatrical Processes. I am active in the local poetry scene in...

Region

Helsinki • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

Swedish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Gokhan Burhan

My art practice includes collages and acrylic paintings merging letter forms and typographic elements depend on primarily on accidental discovery. The essence of my work...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Stanislava Ovchinnikova

Stanislava Ovchinnikova is an interdisciplinary artist and curator whose interests lie primarily in the area of politically engaged and trauma-based artistic practices. Her work relies...

Region

Helsinki • Satakunta •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Salvador Esparza

Salvador Esparza is a queer Mexican-American screen, voice, and stage actor based in Helsinki, Finland and represented by Nordic talent agency, Aura Actors. He started...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Performing arts • Special groups •

Alejandro Ramirez Perez

Alejandro (Alex) is a photographer. His biggest passion is music, so he focuses on concert and music photography, as well as events in general. He...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Music •

Ally Manson

I'm an actor, director, and theatre practitioner from London, now living in Helsinki. As well as having experience working as an actor and director, I...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts •

Andre Peniche Ferreira

I embarked on my career as a still photographer in 1999 at the age of 17. By 2008, I had expanded my expertise into film...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts •

Amy (Bear) Wiseman

I am a multifaceted wordsmith with a focus on creative writing, editing, interviews/podcasting, and journalism, though I dabble in many other areas, like XS embroidery.

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area • Etelä-Savo • Häme • Keski-Suomi • Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala • Lappi • Pirkanmaa • Pohjanmaa • Pohjois-Karjala • Pohjois-Pohjanmaa ja Kainuu • Pohjois-Savo • Satakunta • Uusimaa (other than capital city area) • Varsinais-Suomi •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Performing arts • Music • Special groups • Other culture •

Emma Clear

I am an Irish artist based in Finland (b. 1981). My work explores concepts for storytelling, care practices and strategies for building emotional resilience. With...

Region

Other capital city area •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Other culture •

Valentina Černiauskaitė

Valentina Černiauskaitė (b. 1997 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a visual artist and storyteller working at the intersections of graphic arts, publishing, illustration and writing. Valentina...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Other culture •

Joshua Levine

I'm an upright bassist who sings, born and raised in NYC. I worked for decades doing education and outreach in underserved communities, mainly through two...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Music • Special groups •

Nilay Kılınç

Nilay Kılınç is a social anthropologist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. She holds a Master’s degree in European Studies from Lund University and a PhD in...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

Swedish • English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Performing arts • Special groups •

Maria Teplykh

I was born in 1985 in Leningrad (nowadays Saint Petersburg), Russia. Moved to Finland in 2009. Currently I reside in Espoo. I have 3 Master...

Region

Helsinki • Other capital city area •

Communication language

Finnish • English • Russian •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Marisa Parra Zaid

Guatemalan born and raised artist with experience in Photography and Acrylic Painting. Her artistic formation began in 2012 in Vancouver, Canada. Since then she has...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English • Spanish •

Specialized in

Visual arts •

Kollataj Julian

Julian Kollataj explores different landscapes - mostly of the body-mind and physical, environmental landscape kind - through drawings and sketches, made by pen and pencil...

Region

Helsinki •

Communication language

English •

Specialized in

Arts, general • Visual arts • Special groups • Other culture •

Nataliia Telman

Nataliia Telman is highly creative and innovative designer with +10 years of experience in 2D animation, graphic design, painting, print and outdoor advertising. I managed...

Region

Other capital city area •

Specialized in

Visual arts • Performing arts • Music • Other culture •