Eva Mustonen is an installation artist living and working in Tallinn, Estonia. With a background in textile art and semiotics, her work are heavily influenced by handicraft and physical labour as means of expression. For six weeks Eva stayed at RUPERT - an artist residency and an alternative education centre at …

Vartai is the oldest private gallery in Lithuania, founded in 1991, just a year after Lithuania regained independence. The gallery has played a vital role in the country’s cultural life ever since. Toma Monginė, director of Vartai shares her thoughts about the gallery, Lithuanian art scene and suggests her favourite …

Maija Tanninen-Mattila is the director of the Helsinki Art Museum (HAM). Her previous leadership practices took place at the Ateneum Art Museum and Kunsthalle Helsinki, among other institutions. Here she is speaking about her experience as an art consumer, describing how does she understand art, as well as giving some …

Text by Gytis DovydaitisWe are facing a revolution. Manuel Castells in his "The Rise of Network Society" showed us that there's no point to be humble here: everything is connected, information is liberated, both financial and human capital flows freely, national borders are becoming anachronistic, cheap technology democratizes artistic practices …

Exhibition "Frame grabber" has also captured himself among the pop culture symbols and icons of the era. With the help of pictorial means of expression, the captured moment in Ritums Ivanovs’ works transforms the icons and symbols of today, as well as those of bygone times, into a different dimension …

In this exclusive video for the Guardian, philosopher Alain de Botton gives his top five reasons why art is such a vital force for humanity. Are we wrong to like pretty pictures? Why is some art painful to look at? Can art heal your feelings of urban alienation? Relax, watch …