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! 

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Ira Derviz

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. ...

Languages: English, Russian

Arts, general: Audience development, outreach

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Painting, Curating, Photography, Graphic design, Video Art, Installation, Illustration, Art theory / art history, Arts pedagogy

Music: Sound art

Special groups: Children, Youth, Aged / seniors, Disabled, Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Yemi Butterman

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 from my bones. You can ...

Languages: English

Arts, general: Audience development, outreach, Producer

Visual arts: Video Art, Documentary film, Performance art, Arts pedagogy

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

Music: Singing, Global Music, Composing & music theory, Lyrics writing, libreto, Music therapy, Contemporary art music

Special groups: Youth, Multicultural / diversity, Other

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

Edwina Goldstone

Edwina Goldstone

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

Languages: Finnish, English

Arts, general: Audience development, outreach

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Installation, Other visual arts

Special groups: Children, Youth, Aged / seniors, Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Community art

Kuralay Meirbekova

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 ...

Languages: Finnish, English

Arts, general: Applied arts

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Painting, Graphic design, Video Art, Media art, Installation, Illustration, Arts pedagogy

Special groups: Children, Youth, Aged / seniors, Disabled, Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Rogério Nuno Costa

Rogério Nuno Costa

Portuguese performance artist, theatre director, writer, researcher, teacher and curator based in Helsinki. His cross-disciplinary projects ...

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Arts, general: Audience development, outreach, Producer

Visual arts: Curating, Performance art, Installation, Art theory / art history, Arts pedagogy

Performing arts: Acting, Directing, Choreography, Dance, Dramaturg, Script writing / playwright, Theatre pedagogy, Dance pedagogy, Performance art

Special groups: Children, Youth, Aged / seniors, Disabled, Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

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

Andres Felipe Romero

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 first Demo titled ...

Languages: English, Spanish, Italian

Music: Singing, Global Music, Lyrics writing, libreto, Music therapy, Pop/Rock, Urban/Electronic

Special groups: Youth, Aged / seniors, Multicultural / diversity

Moncayo Paula

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 ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Visual arts: Painting, Performance art, Installation, Illustration

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Eoin O’Dowd

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, ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Curating, Video Art, Media art, Performance art, Installation, Art theory / art history, Arts pedagogy, Other visual arts

Performing arts: Performance art

Music: Folk music, Sound art, Contemporary art music, Sound Art

Special groups: Other

Kateryna Harahulia

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 ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Installation, Illustration, Art theory / art history, Arts pedagogy, Other visual arts

Performing arts: Acting, Dance, Set design, Costume design, Performance art, Puppetry

Music: Singing, Folk music, Music education

Special groups: Youth

Other culture: Environmental art

Tomasz Szrama

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 ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Curating, Photography, Performance art

Performing arts: Performance art

Tashi Iwaoka

Tashi Iwaoka

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

Languages: English

Visual arts: Performance art

Performing arts: Dance, Performance art

Igor Baranov

Igor Baranov

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

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Painting, Curating, Installation, Arts pedagogy

Special groups: Youth, Multicultural / diversity, LGTB, Other

Other culture: Environmental art

Godwin Otieno

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, ...

Languages: English

Performing arts: Directing, Choreography, Dance, Dance pedagogy

Jacqueline Aylward

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 ...

Languages: English

Performing arts: Choreography, Dance, Dance pedagogy, Performance art

Special groups: Children, Multicultural / diversity

Anna Ruth

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 her ...

Languages: Finnish, English, French

Visual arts: Painting, Curating, Performance art, Installation, Other visual arts

Other culture: Environmental art

Mor Halperin

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. ...

Languages: English

Arts, general: Applied arts

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting, Graphic design, Media art, Illustration, Other visual arts

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity, Other

Other culture: Environmental art

Ana Jaumandreu Poncela

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 ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Spanish

Arts, general: Applied arts

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Graphic design, Video Art, Media art, Installation, Illustration, Other visual arts

Other culture: Literature / poetry

Uljas Suvanen

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, ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Russian

Arts, general: Applied arts

Visual arts: Sculpture, Performance art