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Volunteers of Kuopio Lifeboat Association ensure safety on the waters

Ana Teresa Barboza’s work ‘Interwoven Stories’ opened at Helsinki Biennial

The Silent People Arrive in Syvänniemi – A Summer Installation at the Old Spool Mill Invites You to Pause

Internationally Acclaimed Artist and Composer Tarek Atoui Brings Sound Art to Helsinki

In the Spring Youth Idea Competition, young people develop world-changing ideas: the 2025 winners are BioLöBö, Fish Reflectors, and ThriftySwipe

Anna Karima Wane and Lotta Hurnanen selected as grantees for Jan van Eyck Academie and LIFT alumni residencies

Saastamoinen Foundation donates EUR 1.5 million to Aalto University

Saastamoinen Foundation acquires a performance art piece for its collection

Saastamoinen Foundation to support Kiasma with EUR 100,000 for artwork production at the 2026 Venice Biennale

SILTA Programme Brings Silicon Valley Opportunities to Young Finnish Entrepreneurs

Visual artist Jade Kallio selected for ISCP residency in New York in spring 2026

The 2025 shortlist nominations for Live Art Prize

Ana Teresa Barboza’s New Work at Helsinki Biennial 2025

Saastamoinen Foundation continues funding Junior Achievement’s Yrityskylä

A Significant Grant from Saastamoinen Foundation for Research in Sustainability Law and Economics

Human Relationships and Visual Juxtapositions – A New Installation Opens in the Dialogues Exhibition

Open Call: New International Curatorial Fellowship Programme at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art

Zhanna Kadyrova to make IHME Helsinki Commission 2025

Antti Laitinen announced as eighth artist in the InCollection series

Harriina Räinä selected grantee for the residency program in Scotland 2025

Dr Julie Goodwin of Yale University takes a closer look at the study of children’s blood pressure

Artist Diego Bruno in conversation with keynote lecturer artist Stan Douglas: “History is not over yet”

Recent report: Finnish foundations distributed over half a billion euros in grants in 2023

Lars Rebien Sørensen’s Saastamoinen Foundation Keynote: A Nordic Form of Capitalism – The Novo Nordisk Story

Saastamoinen Foundation continues funding the Finnish Painters project

Saastamoinen Foundation granted a one-million-euro funding for a residency programme for visual artists

Tschabalala Self’s first solo exhibition in Finland is part of the InCollection series co-produced by Saastamoinen Foundation and EMMA

Internationally acclaimed Canadian artist Stan Douglas to deliver keynote lecture in Helsinki in September 2024

Saastamoinen Foundation expands Finnish freshwater research and collaboration

Uniarts alumni Paola Guzmán and Xiao Zhiyu selected as grantees for international residencies in Toronto and Maastricht

Saastamoinen Foundation strengthens research in analogue image together with Uniarts Helsinki

The Collection Exhibition of Saastamoinen Foundation is renewed

Jere Vainio and Kaija Hinkula to be awarded grants for alumni residencies

Tiziano Cruz announced as the 2023 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art

Cooking Sections to Make IHME Helsinki Commission 2024

Key findings and solutions from the Future Artpreneurship

Saastamoinen Foundation supports Taimiteko – Seedling Action to increase carbon sinks by planting 30,000 saplings

Saarinen, Kozieł-Kalliomäki and Gustafsson selected for alumni residencies in 2023

The Finnish debut of Pilvi Takala’s video installation Close Watch presented at EMMA

Hans Rosenström and Santtu Laine selected for the alumni residencies in New York and Scotland

Saastamoinen Foundation continues funding for the Finnish Painters project

Hiwa K to make IHME Helsinki Commission 2023

Latai Taumoepeau was announced as the winner of 2022 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art

Works from Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection on display at Espoo’s new Family Centre

In Search of the Present, a group show at the crossroads of art and science, will open EMMA’s autumn programme 

Saastamoinen Foundation Keynote 2022: Sonia Boyce

In support of youth and peace building – Saastamoinen Foundation grants significant further funding for Gutsy Go

Saastamoinen Foundation donates half a million euros to Uniarts Helsinki

Felipe de Ávila Franco selected for the alumni residency at ISCP in New York 2023

Kristin Wiking, Matti Harju and Ristomatti Myllylahti selected for alumni residencies 2022

Keynote Lecture speaker Nicolai Tangen from the Norwegian Oil Fund: “The most defining moments are not personal”

Saastamoinen Foundation and Kone Foundation will be supporting IHME Helsinki’s work in 2023-25

Fine arts alumni Iisa Lepistö selected for residency programme in Scotland

Finland presents Close Watch by Pilvi Takala at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

Chiharu  Shiota: Tracing  Boundaries -exhibition at EMMA

IHME Helsinki -teos 2021 on Katie Patersonin To Burn, Forest, Fire

Significant additional funding from Saastamoinen Foundation for Gutsy Go

Saastamoinen Foundation provides significant funding for the 4H Association’s Taimiteko – Seedling Action project

Uniarts Helsinki re­ceives 1.5 mil­lion euros for broad­en­ing in­ter­na­tional con­nec­tions in fine arts

EMMA’s collections are made accessible to everybody through the Finna search service

Eeva-Leena Eklund:) turns the notion of seriousness in painting upside down

Res­i­dent Fel­low Francesca Bertolotti-​Bailey is in­ter­ested in the po­lit­i­cal imag­i­na­tion of con­tem­po­rary art in­sti­tu­tions

EMMA transformed into a car park in a new exhibition by Elmgreen & Dragset

IC-98’s new large-sized work draws a comparison between a hemp rope and society

Alumni Britt Al-​Busultan, Yassine Khaled, Anssi Pulkkinen and Tiina Pyykkinen selected for residency programmes

Grants distributed by Saastamoinen Foundation and the COVID-19 outbreak

Fulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation Grant gave toxicology teaching a boost

Video work by duo representing Brazil in Venice Biennale 2019 on display at EMMA

Finnish foundations and ministry provide millions in emergency aid for cultural sector in distress

Foundations strengthen leadership skills in the art and culture sector together with Aalto EE

Thomas Hausmaninger wins Research Pitching Competition 2019

The internationally acclaimed  artist Chiharu Shiota will create a large spatial installation for EMMA in autumn 2021 

Leading expert on Latin American art Andrea Giunta to lecture in Helsinki 4.2.2020 – “What We Can or Cannot See in Latin American Art”

Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki hosts CrossSections_notes exhibition