Kunstnikud

MaRA on (s 1977) Norra muusik, kunstnik ja loitsija, kes keskendub perforance-ja helikunstile ning installatsioonile. MaRA esivanemad on segu paljudest põhjapoolsetest rahvastest: saami, rootsi, kveeni, karjala ja soome. Kunstnik on on kasvanud keskkonnas, mis on lähedalt seotud looduse, käsitöö ja hooajatööga mistõttu on ta uurinud väljendamisvõimalusi läbi kunsti ja erinevate muusikažanride. Tema projektide ühiseks nimetajaks […]

Cleaning Women (FIN) – a three-piece band who build their own instruments from household objects to create fascinating music that defies categorisation. Originally formed back in 1996, the band utilise electronically reinforced household utensils such as laundry racks, washing-machine trolley wheels and coffee-bean tubs to create their work, turning them from junk into incredibly characterful […]

Hansina Iversen is a Faroese artist educated in Iceland and Finland. She primarily explores non-figurative painting. The interplay between the world and the spirit, between nature and mankind is perhaps the most prevalent theme in Faroese art. Faroese painters have through generations sought images that can portray the states of mind, the moods and the […]

Irma Optimist has for a number of years been a prominent figure in Finnish performance. She has adopted Optimist as a last name to counterbalance the Finnish melancholy. She has presented over 160 performances since 1989 in Finland, USA, Japan, Canada, Germany, Austria, Poland, France, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Romania, Denmark, Sweden, Slovakia, Hungary, Israel, United […]

Norwegian filmmaker- and performance artist based in Tromsø.  He studied from 2010 to 2015 at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (GE) in the class of Prof. Stephan Balkenhol. With his background of biology and expeditions his works plumbs the relation between man and nature with the use of surreal artistic created performances and sceneries.

Niina-Anneli Kaarnamo (born. 1978) is a Finnish artist and producer, currently working in the fields of culture, art, and entertainment in Tallinn. She has a BA in culture and art producing, has studied sculpture in Slovakia, and finished her MA in Estonian Academy of Arts. At Copper Leg Art Residency Kaarnamo has done snow research, […]

(b. 1975) makes photographs, videos and installations, constructs islands and conceptual objects, digs and documents, and rows with icebergs. Looking at his work one can sense the physical labour behind them: the hours of digging and chopping, moving, building and reorganizing.

Visual artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland “As a visual artist I like to combine different materials and techniques to fuel the creative process. Drawing and painting are the backbone of my work, the place where my stories and characters come from. The alluring glittery pop aesthetics are reminiscent of the nostalgic world of […]

Roi Vaara is one of the most internationally recognized performance artists in Scandinavia. He was born in 1953 in Moss (Norway), but grew up in Helsinki, Finland, where he has caused constant controversy in the art world since the early 80s. His critical point of view is not to attract public sensation but to challenge […]

Drawing on folk, classical and electronica, he blends acoustic instruments with field recordings and computer-generated sounds, crafting richly textured, emotive pieces

Steinar Stensen is a performance and sound artist. He lives and works in Trondheim, Norway.

Kenneth Bamberg (born 1981 in the Åland Islands) graduated with an Master of Arts from the Aalto University in Helsinki in 2011. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad. Bamberg has held soloshows in The Finnish Cultural Institute in Madrid and at Gallery VU in Quebec City. He has […]

Linda and Aura (Linda Granfors and Aura Hakuri) is a performance duo, friends and artists who have been working together since 2001. They met in the Fine Arts Academy in Helsinki in 2001 and performed together for the first time the same year. They are also painters and share the language of painting, which is […]

Morgan Schagerberg is most frequently exhibited in Sweden, but also had exhibitions in Norway, Estonia. Schagerberg has at least one solo show and 7 group shows over the last 13 years. Notable shows were at Signal – Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö and Skånes Kunstförening in Malmö. Morgan Schagerberg has been exhibited with Espen […]