Creatives database

Are you searching for diverse, international talent to enrich your projects?

The GAP Creatives Database is your gateway to connecting with professional artists, cultural producers, educators, and entrepreneurs with multicultural expertise and backgrounds. It’s an open archive showcasing creative professionals based in Finland who work across various disciplines and bring unique perspectives to their fields.

A World of Creativity

Our members represent a wide range of disciplines, from the visual and performing arts to cultural production, education, and creative entrepreneurship. Whether you’re looking for an artist, facilitator, or partner, our database has the talent you need.

Multicultural Expertise

Our professionals are skilled in working within diverse communities and multicultural settings, making them ideal collaborators for inclusive and innovative projects.

Exclusive Access

The GAP Creatives Database includes international talent that you won’t find in traditional networks. From Finnish returnees rebuilding their creative networks to foreign-born professionals creating outside of the traditional art venues, our database highlights all voices.

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Globe Art Point actively promotes its members’ work, and as a member, you’ll benefit from streamlined access to their profiles, projects, and achievements.

Browse the GAP Creatives Database and connect with your next collaborator today! 

For inquiries, contact our Project Manager Alex Kollerová at alex.kollerova(at)globeartpoint.fi.

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Nathalie Sallegren

Nathalie Sallegren

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

Languages: Swedish, English

Arts, general: Producer

Visual arts: Performance art, Other visual arts

Performing arts: Performance art

Music: Jazz, Global Music

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Literature / fiction, Literature / non-fiction, Literature / poetry, Community art, Net Art

Polina Laamanen

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 ...

Languages: English, Russian

Arts, general: Audience development, outreach

Visual arts: Photography, Installation, Illustration, Other visual arts

Christopher X. Ryan

Christopher X. Ryan

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

Other culture: Literature / fiction

Marloes van Son

Marloes van Son

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

Languages: English

Visual arts: Media art, Installation, Other visual arts

Music: Sound art, Sound Art

Mercedes Balarezo

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 ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Performing arts: Choreography, Dance, Dance pedagogy

Special groups: Children, Youth, Aged / seniors

Tal Riva Theodorou

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 active ...

Languages: English, German, Spanish

Arts, general: Audience development, outreach

Music: Classical / art music, Contemporary art music

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Csilla Csépke

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 of two. ...

Languages: Finnish, English

Other culture: Literature / fiction, Literature / non-fiction, Literature / poetry

Anna-Sofia Nylund

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 ...

Languages: Swedish, English

Arts, general: Applied arts

Visual arts: Video Art, Documentary film, Media art

Other culture: Community art

Laura Hasanen

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 ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Sculpture, Arts pedagogy, Other visual arts

Special groups: Children, Youth

Pedro Aibéo

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 ...

Languages: English, German, French, Spanish

Arts, general: Audience development, outreach, Producer, Applied arts

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Curating, Video Art

Performing arts: Set design

Music: Folk music, Music education

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Dace Strausa

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 ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Painting, Photography

Hanan Mahbouba

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 ...

Languages: Finnish, English

Arts, general: Producer

Visual arts: Video Art, Fiction film, Documentary film, Media art

Other culture: Literature / fiction

Thane van Niekerk

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 ...

Languages: English

Arts, general: Audience development, outreach, Applied arts

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Painting, Curating, Graphic design, Other visual arts

Special groups: Children, Youth, Disabled, Multicultural / diversity

Helena Aleksandrova

Helena Aleksandrova

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

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Video Art, Fiction film, Media art, Performance art, Installation, Art theory / art history

Performing arts: Acting, Directing, Script writing / playwright, Set design, Performance art

Joachim Beens

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 ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Painting, Photography, Art theory / art history, 3D

Gerry Stewart

Gerry Stewart

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

Languages: English

Other culture: Literature / poetry

Anne Delgoulet

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 booking & ...

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Arts, general: Audience development, outreach, Producer