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Finnish Art Academy grants a new art prize of 25 000 euros every second year. The first nominees are sculptor Petri Eskelinen, artist Tuomas A. Laitinen and photographer Anni Leppälä. The prize is to be granted to an internationally...

Rauha Mäkilä's and Jarmo Mäkilä's joint exhibition Sweet n' Rotten opened yesterday at Kerava Art Museum. Popular culture and the world of music are a visual and thematic link between the works in the exhibition.The...

Videoworks all chosen and compiled by Hannaleena Heiska will be screened at the event Carte Blanche in Andorra Cinema. Artists Mi Duncker, El Frauenfelder, Henna-Riikka Halonen, Jan Ijäs, Benjamin Orlow, Nicholas Provost, Timo Vaittinen,...

Jukka Korkeila, Putoaminen, 2011, oil on canvas,...

Miikka Vaskola presents his exhibition Buenos Aires at Helsinki Contemporary on 21st February at 5 pm. Gallerist Laura Köönikkä is joining the talk. Welcome!

The exhibition Collected Works at Turku Art Museum showcases their collection from the perspective of stories. The selection consists of approximately one hundred works, ranging from older literary favourites to personal narratives in contemporary...

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Norway was one of the first countries to grant...

Helsinki Contemporary showcases two artist at MARKET 2013 art fair in Stockholm 15-17.2.2013: Finnish Heli Rekula and Swedish Marcus Eek. The gallery can be found at booth 26. MARKET 2013 is the leading art fair in the Nordic countries. It gathers...

Curator, MA Laura Köönikkä will start as the gallery director of Helsinki Contemporary. Located at Bulevardi 10 Helsinki Contemporary (former Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary) renewed it's name and profile last...

Marcus Eek's exhibition Painting is red opens todays at Galleri Thomassen in Gothenburg, Sweden. Finnish artist Olli Piippo has a simultaneous solo show called Huhu at the gallery's X-rummet. During fall 2012 Eek's and Piippo's...

Pilvi Takala has been nominated as one of the five Ars Fennica 2013 candidates. As this year's Ars Fennica Expert, Akiko Miki (Senior Curator, Palais de Tokyo, Paris) will select the prize winner later in the spring. Helsinki Contemporary...

Bonniers Konsthall presents a solo show by Pilvi Takala in Stockholm. The exhibition Slight Change includes works in which Takala explores social behaviors with humor and comic arbitrariness. By knowingly misinterpreting...

VB Photographic Centre's exhibition year 2013 starts with Perttu Saksa's solo exhibition."Perttu Saksa's series Echo challenges us to examine the way we perceive ourselves – through fragile images, portraits of taxidermic primates, captured...

Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC) together with the Finnish Embassy of Bangkok present a group show called Contemporary Litography from Finland. Miikka Vaskola is one of eight participating artists.The exhibition is open...

Five works from the series Breathe by Elina Julin have been deposited at Sursik School in Pännäinen, North-West Finland. The works are part of Pro Artibus art collection. Pro Artibus is a foundation that maintains an art collection...

The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, in cooperation with the Embassy of Finland, presents the works of eight contemporary Finnish printmakers: Maija Albrecht, Kalle Berg, Matti Hintikka, Valpuri Kylmänen, Kuuuti Lavonen, Tapani Mikkonen, Kaisu...

Henry Wuorila-Stenberg,  Ja tulemme taas kirkkaiksi, 2010, oil on canvas, 170 x 148 cmThe gallery is happy to announce a new collaboration with painter Henry Wuorila-Stenberg. A...