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Photo reportage: Day in Kiasma

The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Helsinki hosts three outstanding exhibitions worth taking the trip to the Finland's capital. The museum's collections currently comprise 8,800 works of art, and about 100 new works are added each year - primarily from Finland and nearby regions such as Scandinavia and the Baltic…

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Helsinki Biennial’s second edition is open

By envisioning various speculative futures, Helsinki Biennial: New Directions May Emerge brings together 29 international artists and collectives to explore alternative ways of living in, and understanding, the world. Curated by Joasia Krysa with five curatorial collaborators, the second edition engages with some of the pressing issues of our time,…

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Art Week festival will be postponed to uncertain future

Estonian Art Week has been organized by the contemporary art center NOBA.ac for six years, this year due to financial difficulties it will be postponed to an uncertain future. The reason for postponing the art festival, which is popular among artists, art institutions and the audience, is the lack of…

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The first-ever graduation show at Vilnius Academy of Arts

This spring, for the first time Vilnius Academy of Arts presetned the public show of its students‘ final artworks. The VDA Graduation Show was the first opportunity to see the artworks of the entire VDA 2023 graduates’ cohort, scattered around the VDA spaces and various galleries in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda…

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Photo gallery: Kuvan Kevat – annual MFA Degree Show of the University of the Arts Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts

Until 4 June, University of the Arts Helsinki, Uniarts, hosted the annual MFA Degree Show of the Academy of Fine Arts called Kuvan Kevät. The exhibition presented new works by emerging artists from the Academy’s all four study areas (painting, printmaking, sculpture, time and space arts). In the year 2023,…

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Art Academy of Latvia Diploma Candidate exhibition presented over 100 artists

On 9 June the fifth Art Academy Diploma Candidate exhibition by the Art Academy of Latvia (LMA) was opened. The exhibition includes works by BA and MA students from all departments and everyone is welcome to see the works of new artists as the results of several years of studies.

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Mustarinda: art and research amidst the wonders of nature

The Nordic-Baltic Network Meeting this time took place in Estonia, covering the themes of sustainability and regional dynamics, Nordic-Baltic, urban-rural. Among others, Miina Kaartinen from Mustarinda Association, Finland was invited as a guest speaker to talk about artistic sustainability in a place that is pretty much cut out of everything.

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Check out the graduation shows of Estonian art schools!

The annual graduation show of the Estonian Academy of Arts - TASE - presents graduation works of the Architecture, Art and Culture, Design, and Fine Arts faculties. This year, the show is open until June 17 and takes place in various locations including Tallinn Art Hall building and the studios,…

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LOOK gallery to offer impressions of Abu Dhabi

As part of the Riga Photography Biennial - NEXT 2023 program, starting from April 29, LOOK gallery in Riga will present On Transition: Impressions of Abu Dhabi, a solo exhibition by Latvian artist Adele Bea Cipste, currently residing in the United Arab Emirates. The show is the artist's reflection on…

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Personal experience growing up in a menacing home on show at the Riga Art Space

The first exhibition of the Riga Photography Biennial program NEXT 2023 (RPB - NEXT 2023), the solo show Soft Spot by Polish artist Michalina Kacperak, will be hosted at the exhibition hall Riga Art Space Intro Hall starting on April 28. The exhibition showcases the artist's personal experiences growing up…

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Marti Manen: “Art is a measurement for democracy”

Marti Manen - the director of one of the most essential institutions in Swedish contemporary art, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation - is looking back on the changes in society through the art world on its 25th anniversary. In Index words: “25 years of doing”. In the interview…

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Māris Vītols: The selection of artworks reveals the subjective taste of a collector

In the introduction of the exhibition “Archaeologists of Memory: Vitols Contemporary Art Collection” at Kumu Art Museum, on display until April 9, Māris Vītols has said that the collection has been inspired by the interest in social and political changes in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of the…

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Photo reportage: “[up]rooting” at gallery “Arka”

In 2020 Lithuanian Artists’ Association, in cooperation with the Centre Of Contemporary Art In Toruń (Poland) and the Academy of the Senses organization from Reykjavík (Iceland) started an international project "Common Ground/ComG". The focus of the project is on a social discourse: challenges of migration, interactions between different cultures, integration…

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Laura Aizporiete: without a physical experience, you cannot have an emotional one

Since the winners of NOBA Young Artist Award have been announced, we have interviewed the laureates of Public Choice and Young Painter Award. Now is time to get to know the happy winner of the Grand Prix - Laura Aizporiete and her Garage 119 that is closely related to the…

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HAM’s new art museum director selected

The Board of the HAM Helsinki Art Museum Foundation has selected Arja Miller, MA, as the new director of the art museum. Arja Miller moves to the new role from her current position as the chief curator at EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art. She will start at HAM on…

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