Tag: Finland
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Helsinki Biennial 2023: New Directions May Emerge
If this second Helsinki Biennial lacks the ‘wow factor’ of its predecessor, it is partially down to its respect for the environment, and the city’s wider art community and institutions have more than filled the gaps
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Sámi Pavilion (Nordic Countries), Venice Biennale 2022
Sámi artists Anders Sunna, Máret Ánne Sara and Pauliina Feodoroff have transformed the Nordic Pavilion to highlight the continuing struggle against colonialism, discrimination and land possession faced by Europe’s only Indigenous people
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Pilvi Takala: Close Watch – Venice Biennale 2022
Close Watch, Takala’s multi-channel video at the Finnish Pavilion, is based on her time working undercover as a security guard in a large shopping centre. As she explains, it explores the concept of how private companies exert control over the…
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Helsinki Biennial and Helsinki Design Week
For 2021, the inaugural Helsinki Biennial and Helsinki Design Week wore their hearts on their sleeves: showcasing art and design in an ethical, environmentally responsible framework that placed nature, craftsmanship and creativity in the service of community, both local and…
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Rachel Kneebone – interview: ‘My work is concerned with our visceral life, with movement and the experience of inhabiting the body’
Sculptor Rachel Kneebone talks about her forthcoming exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the new direction her work is taking
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Helene Schjerfbeck
A striking study of the process of ageing and mortality, the central room of this three-gallery exhibition offers a stand-alone journey through this Finnish artist’s life and concerns
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Alge Julija Kavaliauskaitė: ‘There is something about glass that I am continually drawn to’
Kavaliauskaitė, originally from Lithuania but now living in Finland, talks about art and alchemy, haunted mansions, her latest exhibition and why she was drawn to live in Nuutajärvi, a village famous for its glass-blowing
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Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen: The Aalto Natives – Venice Biennale 2017
Mellors and Nissinen represent Finland at this year’s Venice Biennale. They discuss handmade puppets, homemade film sets, creation myths involving eggs, the flimsy narratives on which national identities are built, and whether you have to love something in order to…
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IC-98: Drawn into Tomorrow
Finnish duo IC-98’s large-scale projections, combining intricate hand drawing with digital animation, take us into a maelstrom of waves, ruin and woodland, leaving us to contemplate the treachery of nature, and our tiny place in the world
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Book review: Pallasmaa phenomenon
Archipelago: Essays on Architecture for Juhani Pallasmaa Peter MacKeith (ed) Helsinki: Rakennustieto/Building Information Ltd, 2006
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