Tag: Helsinki

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
Maija Luutonen: ‘I’m not a big fan of monuments’

Maija Luutonen is the inaugural recipient of the Kiasma Commission by Kordelin, a project to promote contemporary Finnish art. Here, she discusses her exhibition at Helsinki’s Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, community-building, monuments and painting on paper