Katja Kanerva
Katja Kanerva has worked at Lyhty textile workshop Luovilla, Helsinki, since 2019. In her drawings, Katja has a strong line and strong colors. Katja is an imaginative artist and curious about everything around her. Katja’s dream is to get her art in exhibitions. Family is also important to Katja. The collection of art pieces selected […]
Kari Aalto & Rastakarai
Kari Aalto, lead singer of Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät -band, has founded a new reggae band called Kari Aalto & Rastakarai. The band’s back-beat serves authentic Jamaican sound. The spirit and rhythm of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh are strongly present in the band’s sound and Kari’s unique vocal interpretations. Kari has a big and ferocious […]
Kalevi Helvetti
Kalevi Helvetti is the satanic alter ego of guitarist Pertti Kurikka. Kalevi’s main art form is visual art, but he’s done also radio drama and performances. Dressed in a dracula outfit and accompanied by a musician or band, Kalevi tells horrible ghost stories mixing fiction and the unpleasant facts of life. Kalevi Helvetti has made […]
Jaana Miettinen
Jaana Miettinen is a visual artist who currently works in the Studio Viis -kollektiivi in Lahti. She is a multi-tech artist. She both paints and sculpts and uses recycled materials in her work. Jaana’s art works often feature wolves, pokemons, and other mystical figures and phenomenas. Jaana’s Musta Vartija (Black guardian) sculpture is part of […]
Haaponiemi and Lillhonga
At the heart of Haaponiemi and Lillhonga’s performance art is working in between dance and battle improvisation. Their playful movement features childhood heroes from action movies, pop culture, computer games, and the mystique aesthetics and pseudo-science of oriental martial arts. In addition to the physical dimension, Haaponiemi and Lillhonga’s performance discusses the cultural demands of […]
Greger Grönholm
Greger Grönholm is a 50-year-old artist from Karjaa, originally an artesan graphic. Greger has had several exhibitions (1996-), one of the most recent in Moscow at the Kotar Fest (2019). Greger describes his style as outsider art or punk art and uses a variety of techniques in his work (horrorvacui / mixedmedia / collage art […]
Delia St. Claire I
Delia St. Claire I is a trio from Forssa performing psychedelic chamber music, smoky medium-brewed beer jazz and ghostly schlagers. This multidimentional band includes vocalist and megaphone player Sini Eloranta, bass player Anssi Pohjola and guitar player Juha Kreivi. The band writes songs together at Forssa people’s’ house and performs them in Finnish, English and […]
Aleksanteri Jaakkola
Aleksanteri Jaakkola is a film director who has been making short films for a dozen years. In recent years, he has also acted and made special effects for feature films. Curators’ comment: In Jaakkola’s film, The Drunkard’s Diary Meets Evil Dead. If this is not outsider art, then nothing is! Today, these kinds of films […]
Aatos Ketvel
Aatos Ketvel is a young singer-songwriter-stage poet from Helsinki whose restless lyrics dance down the paths of absurdity aside in words. His production is defined by a non-commercial ethos and home-made aesthetics. DIY style crafted raw, frameless music is created between the guitar and the bedside table. In his debut album Hedelmäasetelma (Fruit collection), self […]