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Navel-Gazing: Jenni Rope & the Napa Enterprise
Napa's wonderful map of Helsinki. Courtesy Jenni Rope/Napa. “I enjoy working with drawing, painting and collage. My studio is full of little pieces of drawings, colour papers and different colour...
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Techno-Trash: Mika Taanila and Pixelache
Mika Taanila, "Twilight," video installation, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Galleria Heino. One of the best exhibitions I saw in Helsinki this summer was at Galleria Heino, a small space on the hip...
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Open Enrollment: Artists Are Like Rats
Aalto University, University of Art (located at the Arabia Ceramics Factory) “We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.” — David Hockney Sometime in...
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Open Enrollment: An Afternoon with Miina Äkkijyrkkä
Lasipalatsi Plaza As if I am perched above on a watchtower, I am peering out the window of Café Java in the Lasipalatsi plaza with my friend and Finnish translator, Marjukka. The second story window...
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Open Enrollment: An Ordinary Day
At 7:30 am, the alarm clock on my Nokia cell phone rouses me from sleep. In preparation of the minus double-digit weather, I layer like a Renaissance oil painting —two pairs of tights, two pairs of...
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Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
Jani Leinonen I was waiting in line to buy a movie ticket when I heard the news: Jani Leinonen had been incarcerated. Conversations with my Finnish friends in the previous weeks had been gripped with...
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Open Enrollment |“Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds”
Katja Tukiainen, "Hi, my name is Peter. Do you want to find out why?," 70 x 70 cm, 2010. Courtesy the artist. In the Deer Forest “Hi, my name is Peter. Do you want to find out why?” With these words,...
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Inside the Artist’s Studio | Terike Haapoja
Terike Haapoja. Terike Haapoja is a Finnish visual artist based in Helsinki. She has a Master’s degree from the Theater Academy of Finland (Department of Performance Art and Theory) and from the...
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New Kids on the Block |“Brain Work” with Pilvi Takala
Artist Pilvi Takala describes her practice, which includes performance, video and the related ephemera, as “intervention.” Takala, who was born in Helsinki and is now based in Istanbul, embeds...
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Access 100 Artists: Get Involved!
The Museum of Modern Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Walker Art Center are some of the illustrious cultural spaces where one might expect to see our award-winning film series Art in the...
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How Residencies Change an Artist’s Practice
“Artist in Residence.” Image via jeremyriad.com. In a perfect world, every artist would have an opportunity to take time off and wander into that space outside of reality where creativity blossoms. Few...
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