Minni Välipakka
Minni Välipakka is a 30-year-old poet, media artist and DJ from Tampere. During her career she has worked with video art and installations and has been a pioneer in the field of video poetry in Finland. Her video art has been shown at the Zebra Poetry film festival in Berlin, the FiSH film festival in […]
Noora Juppi
Noora Juppi is a freelance pole dancer who has an education as a circus artist. She has been working in pole dance since 2012 as a performer, a choreographer and a teacher. She has performed in the WHS Company’s Swan of Tuonela, which has toured Finland and South Korea. Juppi is interested in challenging the […]
Fri Nilas Lindell
Fri Nilas Lindell is a Finland-Swedish dancer from Helsinki with a strong background in circus. Lindell graduated as a dancer from Live Vocational College in December 2022. Lindell is interested in how dance and movement can be used to get in touch with some deeper level that is otherwise inaccessible. He wants his work to […]
Pure
Pure is a rap artist from Joensuu, specializing in improvised freestyle rap. Pure has a total of three medals from the Finnish Rap Championship competition (Rapin SM-kilpailut), the brightest of which is gold. In 2023, he released his long-awaited debut album Satakybä. In this year’s March Pure set the Finnish record by rapping frestyle for […]
Vahid Goodarzpour
Vahid Goodarzpour is a visual artist, filmmaker and photographer active in Finland. He has worked as a lawyer and advertising photographer, among other things, and studied film directing in Tehran, Iran. He is active in several multicultural art associations in Finland such as Globe Art Point, Catalyst and Helsinki International Artists Association. OAF presents Goodarzpour’s […]
Kardo Shiwan
Kardo Shiwan is a Kurdish-Finnish artist, currently based in Helsinki. As a diverse artist, Kardo works as an actor and dancer, director, screenwriter, choreographer and producer in various projects both in Finland and abroad. Shiwan has studied at Lahti folk high school’s theatre department, at The University of the Arts Helsinki and at the Academy […]
Aleksi Leskinen
Aleksi Leskinen is a multi-disciplinary artist from the outskirts of Tampere. Leskinen has been passionate about creating independent art through writing, making music and filming videos all his life. In recent years, he has fulfilled a long-held dream and has established himself as a filmmaker. Leskinen’s artistic output is characterized by a distinctive feel-good dark […]
Satu and Maima Tani
Satu and Maima Tani are sisters who have been making art together since 2018. Satu Tani (b. 1984) is a visual artist (YAMK) who has worked with outsider art in a variety of ways as an art director, curator and mentor. Maima Tani (b. 1986) is an outsider artist and makes art in the Autism […]
Kanimaattorit
Kanimaattorit is a Helsinki-based animation group consisting of Leon Nyberg, Mika Hagman, Lasse Ilumar, Olli Huusko and Mikael Gripentrog. Kanimaattorit will present their stop motion animation Two Silly Rabbits And a Ball. The animation has been worked at the Autism Foundation’s Kenttä Kolmonen during the years 2022 and 2023. The idea for the animation came […]
Petri Keckman
Petri Keckman (b. 1963) is a Helsinki-based coder and animator who has been programming computer graphics since 1983. Keckman’s first computer was an 8-bit ZX Spectrum bought with summer job money, and he studied Computer Science at the University of Helsinki between 1983-1987. Keckman’s works have previously been exhibited at Mental Health Association Helmi, Laajasalo […]