The grant will be allocated to the artwork production and presentation of three artists as part of the Nordic Pavilion at the 2026 Biennale in Venice. The Nordic Pavilion will feature a joint exhibition of works by three Nordic artists. [...]
The SILTA programme supports Finland’s most promising young startup founders in building their companies to compete on the global stage. The programme seeks to encourage, support and facilitate pushing growth targets to new heights. In 2025, [...]
Visual artist Jade Kallio has been selected as the grantee for the ISCP alumni residency, offered by the Uniarts Helsinki and the Saastamoinen Foundation partnership program. The scholarship, valued at a total of 48,000 euros, enables a [...]
The nominees for the 2025 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art are Chiara Bersani (Italy), Harold Offeh (United Kingdom) and SJ Norman (Australia). The internationally significant Prize is supported by Saastamoinen Foundation. The [...]
Saastamoinen Foundation is supporting a new artwork by artist Ana Teresa Barboza at Helsinki Biennial 2025. With the support of the Foundation, the artist’s work will be showcased in Finland for the first time. Barboza (b. 1981) is known for her [...]
Saastamoinen Foundation has granted €726,000 in funding to Junior Achievement Finland (JA) for the years 2025–2027. With Saastamoinen Foundation’s continued funding, over 300,000 children and young people can explore the cultural sector through [...]
Saastamoinen Foundation has granted the University of Eastern Finland €1.7 million in funding for research aimed at addressing the sustainability gap in a fair and welfare-promoting manner. This funding significantly strengthens the university’s [...]
A new selection from the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection is set to open at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition expands with over 30 new works, showcasing several artists and pieces previously unseen in Finland, ranging from [...]
Saastamoinen Foundation and EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art are launching a new, three-year research programme aimed at international curators. Applications are now open for the first EMMA-Saastamoinen Curatorial Fellowship, which will take [...]
IHME Helsinki Commission 2025 is to be made by award-winning Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova (b. 1981), who lives and works in Kyiv. Kadyrova’s site- and situation-specific works include sculpture, photography, video and performance. In IHME [...]
The InCollection commission series, created by Saastamoinen Foundation and EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, annually enhances the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection with a commissioned work from a visionary contemporary artist. Around the [...]
Academy of Fine Arts alum Harriina Räinä has been selected for the “Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures” residency program. The residency is divided into two parts: the first part will take place at Cove Park and the second at the [...]
Fulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation grant in Health and Environmental Sciences offers a unique opportunity for international academic collaboration, bringing top-level researchers to the University of Eastern Finland. The grant has offered Dr [...]
Teksti: Elena Sulin Helsinki: The Saastamoinen Foundation residence apartment is bathing in quaint light, September continues to stay warm and humid. Across the table Stan Douglas, Canadian visual artist and Diego Bruno, Argentinian [...]
For the Saastamoinen Foundation Keynote in Business 2024, Saastamoinen Foundation and Aalto Executive Education were proud to welcome Lars Rebien Sørensen as the speaker. The subject of Sørensen’s keynote lecture was A Nordic Form of Capitalism [...]
According to a report commissioned by the Association of Finnish Foundations, foundations in Finland funded science with 295 million euros, art with 85 million euros, and other societal development projects with 158 million euros last year. In [...]
RARE Media, a new generation media outlet, celebrated the premiere of its new short documentary on September 5, 2024. The documentary, titled The Finnish Paradox, was made possible with the support of Saastamoinen Foundation. It explores the [...]
The Saastamoinen Foundation Keynote continues, as Lars Rebien Sørensen, the chairman of the board of Novo Nordisk Foundation, arrives to Helsinki in the beginning of September. Sørensen has been invited by Saastamoinen Foundation and Aalto EE to [...]
In the age of digitalisation, the significance of analogue art forms persists. Analogue methods apply to both still and moving images, which are produced with light-sensitive materials. In order to preserve this traditional art form and to [...]
Stan Douglas will give a lecture with the title The Black Mirror or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Photography on 18 September at Dance House Helsinki. Douglas’ lecture is the eighth event in the Saastamoinen Foundation Keynote series, [...]
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 Foundation’s funding continues the grants awarded by the [...]
Launched in 2015, the residency programme offers a unique opportunity for international residencies to artists who have graduated from Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts. The one-million-euro funding ensures the implementation of six [...]
Tschabalala Self is the seventh artist to join the InCollection series of exhibitions co-produced by the Saastamoinen Foundation and EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art. The centrepiece of the exhibition Around the Way is Anthurium, a newly [...]
Fresh and clean water may seem self-evident to many Finns, but maintaining our freshwater reserves also in the future requires extensive water research. Saastamoinen Foundation, together with the University of Eastern Finland, the [...]
Paola Guzmán has been selected for the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) residency programme for the autumn 2024 and Xiao Zhiy for the Jan van Eyck Academie residency programme for 2025. The alumni residency programme of the [...]
The concept of the exhibition featuring Saastamoinen Foundation’s Art Collection at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art is being renewed. The exhibition will be renewed section by section, the first of which will open to the public on [...]
Jere Vainio and Kaija Hinkula, alumni of Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts, have been selected to participate in alumni residencies in Scotland and New York. Vainio was selected for a four-month residency taking place in Scotland next [...]
Tiziano Cruz was announced as the 2023 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art on Saturday 16th September. Tiziano Cruz was revealed as the 10th winner of the prestigious prize during the ANTI Prize Party in Kuopio, Finland. [...]
The artist duo Cooking Sections – Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe – will be making IHME Helsinki Commission 2024. Cooking Sections started in London in 2013 and since their inception they have been examining the systems that organise [...]
Academy of Fine Arts alumni: apply to the Rijksakademie Residency starting in Autumn 2024! If a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts is selected to the Rijksakademie Residency, they will receive a grant from the International Incubators in Fine [...]
Future Artpreneurship 2022-2023 was a project to sustain the creative sector over the long term through an innovative life wide learning model and solutions. It was a unique collaboration between different academic and cultural institutions in [...]
On Monday 24 April 2023, Saastamoinen Foundation and its partner Aalto EE hosted the Saastamoinen Foundation Keynote Lecture with Mr. Peter Wallenberg Jr., the Chair of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and several other family [...]
4H organisation and Taimiteko – Seedling Action partners are once again employing hundreds of underage young people to plant hundreds of thousands of tree saplings around Finland – for a fifth consecutive year. Saastamoinen Foundation [...]
Visual artists for Jan van Eyck, LIFT and SPACE alumni residencies in 2023 have now been selected. Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts supports the internationalisation of its alumni and career advancement of visual artists in the form of [...]
The Finnish Painters project develops the international activities and visibility of Finnish painters, the openness of access to activities, support services for artists, and new contacts and operating models between artists and other actors in [...]
Pilvi Takala’s Close Watch (2022) takes a critical look at how power is exercised in public spaces through the private security industry. Premiered at the 59th Venice Biennale at the Pavilion of Finland, the video work now returns to the Finnish [...]
The artists for the Scotland’s four-month residence in 2023 and New York’s six-month residence in 2024 have been selected. Santtu Laine was selected for the Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Scotland and Hans Rosenström for the [...]
The Finnish Painters project has received a grant of 20,000 euros from the Saastamoinen Foundation for the year 2023. The funding is a continuation of the grants awarded by the Foundation in 2021 and 2022. The project develops the international [...]
The finnishpainters website has published 36 new artists: Adamsson Erika, Aho Henna, Ala-Maunus Petri, Alaräihä Päivikki, Andersson Timo, Aurinko Roy, Autio Elina, Avdeikov Jesse, Elg Toni, Heiska Tiina, Hellberg Karoliina, Innanen Petra, Javén [...]
Business of Culture is an Executive Program for Leaders in Arts and Culture in Nordic and Baltic. Like any other sector, the cultural sector faces challenges because of today’s growing volatility and ambiguity. As a result, many cultural [...]
The Kurdish artist and musician Hiwa K is to make a Helsinki version of his Chicago Boys: While We Were Singing, They Were Dreaming in the spring of 2023. This brings together people from different backgrounds, everyday experiences of [...]
Academy of Fine Arts graduate: are you planning to apply for the Rijksakademie residency in Amsterdam the Netherlands? Get feedback on your work and plans directly from Rijksakademie specialists on 28 and 29 September! Date and time: Wednesday [...]
Latai Taumoepeau was revealed as the 9th winner of the prestigious prize during the ANTI Prize Party in Kuopio, Finland. The 2022 shortlist comprised of four celebrated artists from across the globe: River Lin (Taiwan), Zinzi Minott(United [...]
Espoo’s first Family Centre has recently been opened in Espoon keskus. The new Family Centre brings under the same roof children’s, youth’s and family services. The City of Espoo commissioned art from EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art to the [...]
You are warmly welcome to attend Saastamoinen Foundation Keynote 2022 in Dance House Helsinki on Wednesday 14th September. This year, the Keynote will be given by artist, professor and researcher Sonia Boyce, winner of the Venice Biennale’s [...]
In Search of the Present is a broad international exhibition of contemporary art that takes a profound look at our world, which is defined by technology and its impact on who we are. EMMA has invited 16 visionary contemporary artists to the [...]
Saastamoinen Foundation continues as a key supporter of Gutsy Go. The foundation has awarded the non-profit organisation Gutsy Go ry a grant of 120,000 euros for the academic year 2022-23. Saastamoinen Foundation has been involved in supporting [...]
Finnish Vaasa-based artist Britt Al-Busultan is joining The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) as a visiting artist from June 22 to September 15, 2022 as the second resident in the residency program for alumni of the Academy of [...]
British artist, professor and researcher Sonia Boyce won the Golden Lion for best national participation at the Venice Biennale with her work Feeling Her Way. Boyce will visit the University of the Arts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts in [...]
Our office is closed from the 1st of July to 31st of July 2022. Painting: Mari Sunna, Four Winds, 2021 © Saastamoinen Foundation
Saastamoinen Foundation finds it important that Uniarts Helsinki’s research into education of artists is developed further, as it provides support for teaching. Saastamoinen Foundation, known for its support for Finnish art and science, is [...]
Ilona Sagar’s artist talk and screening of “The Body Blow” explore ideas of ‘acceptable bodily risk’ in the context of care, work and our health. Time: 30.5.2022 at 17.00 – 19.30 UTC+03 Place: Cinema Kino K13 Organizer: The [...]
The three-part media art series of the Touch exhibition continues with Jeannette Ehlers’ impressive Black Bullets. The series of media works has been curated from works of the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection that deal with the human [...]
Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts, in partnership with Saastamoinen Foundation, provides international opportunities and professional support for academy graduates in the form of residency grants. Our program partners are SPACE Art + [...]
InCollection is a series of commissions and exhibitions co-produced by EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art and the Saastamoinen Foundation, one of Finland’s leading collections of Finnish and international art. Each year a visionary [...]
Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts, in partnership with Saastamoinen Foundation, provides international opportunities and career support for academy graduates in the form of residency grants. Our programme partners are SPACE Art + [...]
British artist, professor and researcher Sonia Boyce will visit the University of the Arts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts ins September and hold a public Keynote lecture on 14 September 2022. Sonia Boyce (b. 1962) is an award-winning, [...]
On Thursday 24 March, Saastamoinen Foundation and its partner Aalto University Executive Education (Aalto EE) hosted a Keynote Lecture with Nicolai Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, as the speaker. The audience [...]
Academy of Fine Arts graduates may apply for the International Studio & Curatorial Program until 18 April 2022. Our residency programmes, aimed at the alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts, support post-graduate visual arts studies at [...]
The contemporary-art organization IHME Helsinki is pleased to announce that Kone Foundation and Saastamoinen Foundation have decided to support IHME Helsinki’s operations in 2023-25. IHME Helsinki is a contemporary-art-commissioning body that [...]
Saastamoinen Foundation is Frame Contemporary Art Finland’s main partner in the Pavilion of Finland exhibition at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. Pilvi Takala’s video work Close Watch, which premieres at the biennale, will be shown at EMMA – [...]
Finnish Painters’ Union’s Finnish Painters project has received a grant of 20,000 euro from the Saastamoinen Foundation for the year 2022. The funding is a continuation of the grant awarded by the Foundation in 2021, which supported [...]
Artist for the Academy of Fine Arts alumni residency in Scotland 2022 have been selected. International residencies support the careers of our fine arts alumni. Residencies also create possibilities for encounters, discussion and creating [...]
This year the Touch exhibition, which showcases works from the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, presents a series of three media artworks. Wonderland (2016) by Erkan Özgen is the first of these works. The series is a part of the Listening [...]
Close Watch, a newly commissioned video installation by Pilvi Takala, premieres at the Pavilion of Finland at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Commissioned and produced by Frame Contemporary Art Finland, the [...]
Happy holidays! Let us hope that the new year will bring even more opportunities to enjoy beautiful art and support important science. Leena Luostarinen Kerameikos, 2001 Painting on canvas Picture: Matti Ruotsalainen © Saastamoinen Foundation [...]
In partnership with Saastamoinen Foundation and in collaboration with Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop, we now launch Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures, a new artists’ residency programme in Scotland focusing on making [...]
In 2022 EMMA turns the spotlight toward visionaries of art and design under the theme Crystal Ball. The title is a metaphor for visions of things to come, creative dreams and artists’ knack for anticipating the future. The 2022 exhibition [...]
Chiharu Shiota’s labyrinth of yarn invites visitors on a journey into personal memories and hidden depths. The world-famous artist created her installation site-specifically for EMMA. Tracing Boundaries by Chiharu Shiota (b. [...]
Ac/kademie is a new discussion series that is broadcast alternately from the Jan van Eyck Academie and the Rijksakademie. Ac/kademie is a new series of conversations about art and artistic work. In the series, international artists discuss their [...]
To Burn, Forest, Fire will consist of the scent of the first-ever forest on earth and the scent of the last forest of the age of climate crisis, made into incense and then burned across a variety of sites around the city of Helsinki in 1-30 [...]
The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten invites applications from artists to develop their work over one or two-year periods in Amsterdam. The Rijksakademie houses a highly international, multi-disciplinary, experimental and critically engaged [...]
Our office is closed from the 5th of July to 8th of August 2021. Painting: Tanya Akhmetgalieva, 13 grams № 12, 2019 © Saastamoinen Foundation
The Saastamoinen Foundation will support Gutsy Go, an awarded method that strengthens the inclusion of young people, with 100,000 euros during the school year of 2021-22. Thanks to the significant support, more and more young people will be able [...]
New work added to the Touch exhibition – Heiskuja, a documentary film about Outi Heiskanen and a selection of her artworks are on display at EMMA Touch presents a curated selection of works from the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection. The [...]
The Saastamoinen Foundation provides funding for 15 hectares worth of seedlings to the Taimiteko – Seedling Action. In the Taimiteko – Seedling Action, the aim is to plant new carbon sinks and employ young people to plant the seedlings. This [...]
Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts has received a donation of 1,5 million euros from the Saastamoinen Foundation. The donation gives a boost to the international activities of the students and researchers in fine arts and the alumni of the [...]
The contemporary-art commissioning agency IHME Helsinki will stage two new artworks in Helsinki’s public spaces in 2021. “This year, we are bringing to audiences two very special artworks tailor-made for IHME Helsinki that emphasise both sensing [...]
What if a crow could take photographs? What kinds of photos would it take? What would the world look like through the eyes of a bird? Opening in October 2021, the title of the fifth Festival of Political Photography is ‘Bird’s-Eye View’. The [...]
More than one thousand artworks will be digitally accessible when EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art joins the national search service Finna. Through EMMA’s Finna pages, you can get broadly acquainted with artworks and design objects in the [...]
Due to the COVID-19 situation, EMMA has made changes to the exhibition schedule. The Daniel Buren exhibition planned for the coming summer will open in spring 2022. EMMA will feature Aaron Heino’s solo exhibition in the summer, instead. Some [...]
Eeva-Leena Eklund is the first Finnish artist in the exhibition series by EMMA and the Saastamoinen Foundation, in which a work of art for the foundation’s collection is commissioned from a topically relevant contemporary artist. This year’s [...]
Touch exhibition displays the art collection of Saastamoinen Foundation. It has a central theme of humanity, and the different parts of the exhibition address the human relationship with the surrounding reality. The exhibition will see the [...]
Art institutions were more daring and experimental in the 1960s and the 1970s than they are today, says Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Resident Fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts. If the corporate world first imitates the art world, and the art [...]
IHME Helsinki is happy to announce that the artist Katie Paterson will create the second IHME Helsinki Commission in 2021. The new commission entitled To Burn, Forest, Fire will take place on numerous sites in Helsinki during summer 2021. Katie [...]
EMMA’s new exhibition is an unprecedented takeover of the museum’s clean-lined modernist, concrete exhibition space. With new works made especially for this exhibition and a selection of iconic sculptures from their 25 years of [...]
Theses on the Body Politic (bind) continues a series of works by IC-98 started 16 years ago. In the video animation, the construction of society is compared with the transformations of a rope. The piece commissioned for the art collection of [...]
Our office is closed from the 1st of July to 2nd of August 2020. Painting: Eggert Pétursson, Untitled (Nordurland Tröllaskagi) © Saastamoinen Foundation
Anni Puolakka’s work is on display in the media space of Touch exhibition. Staged as a conversation with an artificial intelligence chatbot, Diamond Belly explores love and companionship between a human artist, the bot and mosquitoes. The [...]
Artists for the Academy of Fine Arts alumni residencies 2020 have been selected. International residencies support the careers of fine arts alumni. For many artists, an international residency that lasts for several months is an excellent [...]
The outbreak of the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has rattled Finland and the entire world. This has lead to many changes in all sectors of our society. Many initiatives related to art, science and society supported by the Saastamoinen [...]
The media space of Touch exhibition, which presents Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, will showcase a video work by the successful artist duo Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca. Faz que Vai (Set to go) is a four-part video essay, where [...]
David Dorman is an experienced toxicologist whose arrival in Kuopio as a Fulbright-Saastamoinen grantee was a strike of luck for toxicology courses at the School of Pharmacy and at the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Due to [...]
The first IHME Helsinki Commission will be open to the public on August 7–25. The site-specific sound installation by the Norwegian artist Jana Winderen will be at the Rowing Stadium on Taivallahti Bay, Helsinki. The Rowing Stadium designed by [...]
A number of large Finnish foundations, the Ministry of Education and Culture, and Arts Promotion Centre Finland are working together to grant swift assistance to arts and culture professionals who have been hard hit by the coronavirus outbreak. [...]
The art and culture sector has been spurred on by global megatrends, changes in work and financial uncertainty to develop its leadership and business skills. The new Business of Culture program seizes the challenge in the Nordic and Baltic [...]
Eight early-career scientists pitched their research ideas at the Research Pitching Competition at Slush in Helsinki on Friday. The winner of the grand prize, the 100 000 euro Skolar Award grant, is Thomas Hausmaninger from VTT Finland. Large [...]
Since 2018, the collaboration between EMMA and Saastamoinen Foundation has seen works created by topically relevant international artists, tailored site-specifically for EMMA’s unique space. The fourth artist in the collaboration is Chiharu [...]
Researcher and curator Andrea Giunta, one of the most esteemed international experts in Latin American art, will arrive in Helsinki in February 2020 to give the Saastamoinen Keynote Lecture, organised by the University of the Arts Helsinki’s [...]
Opening: Thursday, October 24, 5–8pm Curated by Basak Senova Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki hosts CrossSections_notes exhibition with 19 participating artists at Exhibition Laboratory. Developed and curated by Basak [...]