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 [...]