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.

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…

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…

Laura Marija Salkauskiene, winner of the NOBA Award Public Choice this year, says that the easiest way to show emptiness is to show nothing. Despite of that she filled some blank pages to share her thoughts as well as revelead what kind of music would illustrate the void. Read below!

Madara Kvēpa, the winner of the Young Painter Award at The Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Award (NBYAA) contest, wishes to outbid the classical understanding of painting but at the same time knows the secret ingredient of the medium – its stillness that can be compared to a landscape after…

The Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Award (NBYAA) contest’s Grand Prix belongs to Sofia Haapamäki this year. Every competition makes participants a bit nervous, but Haapamäki’s winning work itself turned out to be a roller coaster of emotions that rose while trying to answer the questions about identity.

Changes in the art market are evident today — the personalities of both artists and their works becoming increasingly interesting. Technology — from social networks to revolutionary nfts, P2P, and blockchain — has the potential to diminish the role of intermediaries. Art researchers are marking the beginning of a new…

Last week Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, organized an online-webinar “Artistic Freedom – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy”. The webinar began with a poem* by Fatemeh Ekhtesari, an Iranian author, who was sentenced to lashes and imprisonment for her creative activity that was considered as a crime against the government,…

Five years ago when Banksy opened his Dismaland in Weston-super-Mare, UK, visitors were obligated to wear a mask there – to be part of the symbolism of graffiti culture and its criminal tinge as well as to play a role in Banksy’s another tricky art project. I remember I was…

Last year, after winning the Nordic Baltic Young Artist Award, Rag Elnyg, a graduate of The University of the Arts Helsinki talked about his feelings – how the prize came at a perfect moment because just before that his exhibition applications were turned down again and again and he also…