Ville Färsaaret
Ville Färsaaret (b.1986, Lappeenranta) is a self-taught visual artist living in Tampere, Finland, with a background in graffiti and street art. In recent years he has focused on his childhood game console, the Sega Mega Drive, and has developed his artistic work around the Art Alive! animation program released for it in 1991 – possibly […]
Matti Salmela
Matti Salmela (b. 1972) is a self-taught artist from Jyväskylä. Salmela, who works in the ITE art scene (Finnish contemporary folk art scene), makes art from other people’s “rejects”: recycled paintings, magazines and books. His works have been exhibited in the summer exhibition of Art Center Haihatus, Cultural Space Nuijamies in Lappeenranta and Vakiopaine bar […]
Tanja Huntus
Tanja Huntus is an artist living in rural Southwest Finland. Her work is characterised by an interest in different materials and their combination. Nature, its diversity and animals are important to Huntus. In her works, she often marvels at the absurdity that the actions of humans have created around them in relation to their fellow […]
Anton Amit
Anton Amit is a visual artist from Ukraine, living and working in Jyväskylä. His paintings are inspired by meditative experiences and memories of past lives. Amit teaches yoga and meditation, and he sees his creativity as an integral part of his yoga practice. Amit’s work has been exhibited in various venues in Jyväskylä, and he […]
Collins Ngiesi
Collins Ngiesi is a versatile artist who writes, plays the piano, paints, draws and makes works of art from beads. As a writer, Ngiesi specializes in lists, in which he lists and categorises things, events and dates that are meaningful to him. The themes of his work have a high degree of repetition and the […]
Kristiina Murola
Kristiina Murola is a storyteller and a comic book artist who works at the Autism Foundation’s Vallila art studio. Murola writes and illustrates her own stories, which feature mermaids and fairies. She draws inspiration for her storytelling from fairy tales, films and the stories of the Bible. For Murola, the most important things in writing […]
Tom Runeberg
Tom Runeberg (b. 1984) has been working with literature at Studio Aula for a year, searching for his own style as a writer. Recently, he has started to write longer and longer texts on events and interests in his own life. These include trips, events and delicacies: a family party, a Horse Show performance and […]
Mikael Diedrich Gripentrog
Mikael Diedrich Gripentrog is a German-Finnish poet. Gripentrog discovered his own style as a poet about 7 years ago, and has since written over 150 poems. Writing mostly in English, Gripentrog has written two unpublished collections of poetry, mostly based on Christian imagery, which finds its expression in the tradition of song. Gripentrog also writes […]
Milo Ruut
Milo Ruut has been writing texts for his own enjoyment for ten years. He enjoys the aesthetics of words, especially when the words are in wrong places at the wrong times. For Ruut, writing is all about communicating his own vivid imagination to others and the process of creating new images through words. Through his […]
Isaque Sanches
Isaque Sanches is a creator of systemic art currently living in Finland. He is of Portuguese origin but born in Switzerland. Sanches is also a senior videogame designer at Ubisoft, and used to be a senior XR developer at Siemens. By day Sanches creates rational and pragmatic tools for users to use – by night […]