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NOBA Nordic Baltic contemporary art platform

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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Creator, Priest and Prisoner all in one: meet Laura Marija Salkauskiene

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!
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There is never too much time to create

Almost two weeks at art residency in Viinistu – this was part of the prize pack that Kristine Krauze-Slucka received for winning the Nordic and Baltic Young Artist Award 2020. Now she is ready to share her insights and emotions.
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Art flour ground between the ruins of a mill

For Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts it is the first semester ending now that started in a new building Mylly – named after the milling company that operated there in the past. Hanna Johansson, dean of the academy, will give us an insight about the modern space that now…
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Footprints in the snow – a sculptor’s way

Or should I say – a painter’s way? Per William Petersen, who recently won the Ado Vabbe Award, has many paths to choose between. Read more about his working methods and traces he leaves behind!
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Once Upon Another Time… Visiting 13th Kaunas Biennial

Whether a fan of textile art exhibitions or not by this point most of us have heard about Kaunas Biennial. What started as an exhibition platform to showcase Baltic textile techniques back in 1997, today is one of the largest, longest-lasting, most significant, and most visited contemporary art festivals in…
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NBYAA’21 Painting Award. Gazing upon a landscape after a hurricane

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…
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NBYAA’21 contest. The roller coaster of emotions

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.
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Deeyah Khan: Art needs to be democratized, not restricted to an elite

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,…
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Augmented reality at ArtVilnius’20

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…
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Rainy days at Tallinn Biennial – water to a merman’s mill

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…
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