New Steering Group Appointed for the Finnish Painters Project The Finnish Painters project concluded its three-year pilot phase at the end of 2024. Building on the foundation created by the pilot, the project will continue in 2025. As a key first step, the Board of the Finnish Painters’ Union has appointed a new steering group … Continue reading New Steering Group Appointed for the Finnish Painters Project
The Finnish Painters’ Union is part of the Visual Art House Visual Art House is a joint project, which brings together a wide range of visual arts organisations in close cooperation, and in the future also under one roof. The aim of the Visual Art House is to broaden the audiences for the visual arts, … Continue reading Visual Art House
You can apply for an exhibition time at tm•gallery for the year 2026 Application period: 1.-30. September 2024 Applying for an exhibition time at tm•gallery is open to all professional artists. In tm•gallery’s exhibition selections, the main focus is on high-level contemporary painting. Link to the application form will open 1.9.2024: https://painters.gruppo.fi/online-applications/index.php/165594/lang-en The application form … Continue reading Applying exhibition time at tm•gallery 1.9.–30.9.2024
Saastamoinen Foundation continues funding the Finnish Painters project The Saastamoinen Foundation has granted 10,000 euros to the Finnish Painters project and will join the Finnish Ministry of Culture and Education as a project supporter in 2024. The Saastamoinen funding continues the grants awarded by the Foundation in 2021, 2022, and 2023. The Finnish Painters project … Continue reading Saastamoinen Foundation continues funding the Finnish Painters project
Twenty-one new artists published on the Finnishpainters website Release 28.3.2024 The Finnish Painters project has published twenty-one new artists on the Finnishpainters website: Petteri Cederberg, Henri Hagman, Jenni Hiltunen, Petri Hytönen, Helka Immonen, Markus Jäntti, Eemil Karila, Liisa Karintaus, Markus Konttinen, Tuomo Laakso, Heidi Lampenius, Niina Lehtonen-Braun, Iisa Maaranen, Mikko Paakkonen, Kimi Pakarinen, Heli Penttinen, … Continue reading Twenty-one new artists published on the Finnishpainters website
The Ministry of Education and Culture supports the Finnish Painters project The Ministry of Education and Culture has granted a special grant of 70,000 euros to the Finnish Painters’ Union to develop the Finnish Painters project and evaluate its effectiveness. The period of use of the grant is 1 October 2023–31 December 2024. The grant … Continue reading The Ministry of Education and Culture supports the Finnish Painters project
You can apply for an exhibition time at tm•gallery for the year 2025 Application period: 1.-30. September 2023 Applying for an exhibition time at tm•gallery is open to all professional artists. In tm•gallery’s exhibition selections, the main focus is on high-level contemporary painting. Link to the application form: https://painters.gruppo.fi/online-applications/index.php/348285/lang-en The application form closes 30.9.2023 at … Continue reading Applying exhibition time at tm•gallery 1.9.–30.9.2023
Art Fair Suomi Goes Galleries 2023 – throwing galleries open all over Finland AFS23 welcomes contemporary art lovers 6–18 June 2023! For the first time in its history, Art Fair Suomi expands from the Helsinki region to cover the entire country. Featuring 30 galleries, approximately one hundred artists and dozens of exhibitions, AFS23 gives audiences … Continue reading Art Fair Suomi Goes Galleries 2023 – throwing galleries open all over Finland
Nuoret 2023 (Young Artists) is an exhibition of today’s young contemporary artists, and will be held from 22 April to 4 June 2023. The exhibition will be displayed in seven different exhibition spaces: Kunsthalle Helsinki, Galleria G, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Galleria Sculptor, tm•gallery and the Helsinki Art Museum, HAM. … Continue reading Nuoret – Young Artists 2023
News from the Finnish Painters project Tuesday, 28th of March, the Finnish Painters project had the pleasure of organising the first curatorial meeting related to collaborating with the Frame Contemporary Art Finland’s Visitor Program. The meeting took place at the Finnish Painters’ Union’s tm•gallery. Our visitor was Kasia Redzisz, artistic director of the Brussels-based KANAL-Centre … Continue reading News from the Finnish Painters project
