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 [...]