Aryan Vandi
Aryan Vandi is a self-taught visual artist who employs a variety of approaches such as painting, illustration and design to create spontaneous images in analog and digital format. Vandi’s works have been exhibited internationally and they are mainly recognized for their expressive and stylized personality, embodied with various characterized figures and hidden narratives. Vandi describes […]
Antti Mustaparta
Antti Mustaparta (b.1984) draws the subjects of his art from popular culture, especially films and TV series, and from the artist’s own life. Recently, Mustaparta has focused especially on ceramics: the subjects of the new sculptures arise from the artist’s own daily life and interests. Mustaparta graduated as a visual artisan in 2010 and works […]
Aleksi Pietikäinen
Aleksi Pietikäinen’s artworks (b.1992) describe subjects important to the artist warmly, often tinted with humor. “I enjoy painting. I have painted female artists; I like listening to their music. I am especially fond of ceramics, forming, for example, household appliances. Clay is a material dear to me.” Pietikäinen works at Kaarisilta Art Studio, mainly with […]
Tuomas Korppi
Tuomas Korppi is a nerd from Kuopio who enjoys writing, reading, mathematics, philosophy and board games. Korppi writes short stories, as well as about mathematics and philosophy. Korppi comes up with topics for short stories by playing board games. In terms of genre, sci-fi and supernatural horror are closest to Korppi’s heart. Although these genres […]
Riikka Tahvanainen
Riikka Tahvanainen is a multidisciplinary artist who has been making art enthusiastically for more than 12 years. Tahvanainen has played the flute, acted, made videos, cartoons, photographed and most recently written a miniature novel. Tahvanainen’s stories include honest expression, painting with poems as well as living and breathing personalities. The language used by Tahvanainen is […]
Niklas and Joonas Nyholm
Joonas and Niklas Nyholm (b.1992) are identical twins, cooks, lifestyle philosophers and autistic. The Nyholms’ poetry arises from the impulse of the moment and depicts the longing for the past, dreamy landscapes and inner storms. Many of the works do not even have a name, instead they are part of a huge fresco depicting the […]
Mira Mink
Mira Mink is a self-taught poet, writer, and producer of poetry events from Helsinki. For Mira Mink, writing and publishing are forms of therapy and art. Mink makes those accessible to others by deconstructing the forms into long-term writings, finished poems and word art texts. The artist wants to highlight freedom of speech and knowledge […]
Markus Kemppi
Markus Kemppi (b.1989) is a Helsinki-based poet whose poems and texts arise from everyday observations and the need to deal with experiences at the artist’s own peaceful pace. Kemppi halts to crystallize thoughts by writing on paper, pads, booklets and notebooks. In the texts, emotional experiences meet a play with words. A collection of poems […]
Satu and Maria Tani
Satu ja Maria Tani are both a working pair and siblings, whose work Hengittävä riutta (Breefing Reef, 2019-2022) is a continuation of a childhood play. “In playing, we created our own worlds with their requisites which we could enjoy for hours. Roles brought safety to both of us to speak about anything.” The sisters have […]
Jussi Sinkkonen
Jussi Sinkkonen‘s Karaoketiähti olet sinä! (in English: “You are the karaoke star!”) is a set of karaoke songs in Karelian language. Producer Jussi Sinkkonen has carefully created numerous video recordings of new and old songs in Karelian dialects. The karaoke set was completed in 2021 as part of the Parempi pajot project, which promotes the […]