Jussi Kivi has won this year's Ars Fennica Prize. The winner of the Ars Fennica 2009 was chosen by Vicente Todolí, Director of the Tate Modern.

Kivi's solo show will be on view from 27 March to 23 May 2010 in the Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art in Vaasa.

Other contestants for the prize were Matti Kalkamo (b. 1968), Mika Karhu (b. 1969), Jyrki Riekki (b. 1976) and Petri Yrjölä (b. 1972). Ars Fennica 2009 exhibition will be on view in the Museum of Contemporary Art  Kiasma until 10th of January 2010.

Birkenau I, Poland 1998. Photo: Rax Rinnekangas.

Invitation to implement a worldwide premiere of a new Holocaust film on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 2010.

The Colours of the Holocaust  (60 min) by Rax Rinnekangas is a film on the least known reasons for the world’s longest hatred, anti-Semitism, – the birth of Aryanism in Europe in the 19th century – on its shift to Nazism in the first half of the 20th century and on the impact of its consequences on the spiritual climate after the World War. Read more...

Anni Leppälä, Window (Forest), 2009.

Anni Leppälä has been selected as the Young Artist of the Year 2010.

Leppälä will receive a 20,000 euro stipend awarded by the City of Tampere and supported by Nokia plc, as well as the opportunity to arrange a private exhibition at the Tampere Art Museum.

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Jani Ruscica's Evolutions won the International Competition at Kunstfilm Biennale in Cologne 1st of November

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Cao Fei, Father, 2005, video
Courtesy of Vitamin Creative Space

‘Not Yesterday, Not Tomorrow’ Screening
Kaapelin Galleria, Cable Factory, Helsinki
October 28, 2009 at 6p.m.

Works by three artists working in Guangdong, Southern China
Selected by Christina Li, based in Amsterdam and Hong Kong
Running time 1’ 51’’ with an interval after the first two films.

Programme:

Yuk King Tan
Scavenger (2008), 14’

Zheng Zuo Guo
The Landscape of Empire Age (2008), 9’

Cao Fei
Father (2005), 88’

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Revolution per Minute, Moscow 2009. Photo: Tommi Grönlund

Curator: Anna Bitkina

Artists: Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen

25 september 2009 — 25 october 2009

At the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Tommi Gronlund and Petteri Nisunen present their new project ‘Revolution Per Minute' elaborated especially for the space of one of the former shop floors of the factory Red October. In this installation, the artists work with the synthesis of the structure, geometrical forms and history of the chosen space that is used as an art venue for the first time and still preserves the spirit of the Soviet factory. Read more...

Taivex – Exporting culture with skill

FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange takes part in Taivex, an EU-project with other national information centers of culture to enhance the internationalization of the Finnish arts field. The aim of the project is also to work towards better networking within the culture sector and wider knowledge of the international arts market. Within Taivex two training and mentoring periods are organized for the mediators, in which also the producers, gallerists, curators and other Finnish fine arts professionals are welcomed to apply.

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More information in Finnish from www.taivex .fi, www.frame-fund.fi

Pekka Jylhä, Valon tuoja (Bearer of Light), 2002

21.8. – 4.10.2009

Arctic hysteria resonates in the work of 16 Finnish artists or groups, and features sculptures, videos, paintings, photographs, installations, audio works and a documentary film. Arctic Hysteria is curated by Alanna Heiss (P.S.1 MoMA, New York) and Marketta Seppälä (FRAME – Finnish Fund for Art Exchange).

The artists are Veli Granö, Reijo Kela, Erkki Kurenniemi, Petri Sirviö/The Screaming Men, Mika Ronkainen, Tea Mäkipää, Pink Twins, Mika Taanila, Markus Copper, Ilkka Halso, Pekka Jylhä, Anni Rapinoja, Stiina Saaristo, Jari Silomäki, Sami Sänpäkkilä, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, and Salla Tykkä.

The exhibition was previously on view in the P.S.1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center in New York and at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. The version in the Kunsthalle will also include new work not shown in the previous exhibitions.

The exhibition is produced in cooperation with the Artists' Association of Finland and FRAME.

Photo by Ben Fain

Thursday 27th August 2009, 3-5pm

Participating artists: Noah Angell, Davina and Daniel, Ben Fain, Eric Hynynen, Pekka and Lea Kantonen, Jaakko Karhunen, Patrick McGoohan, Carrie Schneider, Veronika Spierenburg.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Suomenlinna Treasure Hunt is a curatorial project involving the participation of artists from Helsinki, Suomenlinna and elsewhere, and taking the form of a one-off guided tour around eight art works placed or performed on various sites in Suomenlinna. Read more...

Variations on Transcending the Finiteness of Human Vision
On view until 23 August 2009

Jaakko Heikkilä, Picking the Herbs, 2004

The exhibition Variations on Transcending the Finiteness of Human Vision, opening at Riga Art Space on 10 July, includes works from eleven Finnish or Finland-based artists. Among them are Adel Abidin (b. 1973), Joakim Eskildsen (b. 1971), Jaakko Heikkilä (b. 1954), Sasha Huber (1975), Sanna Kannisto (b. 1974), Tuomas Laitinen (b. 1976), Anu Pennanen (b. 1975), Sini Pelkki (b. 1978), Harri Pälviranta (b. 1971), Seppo Renvall (b. 1963), Jani Ruscica (b. 1978) and Jari Silomäki (b. 1975). Each in its own way reflects on the difficulty of seeing beyond marked paths and mental highways, of transcending physical boundaries and zones to create new cultural and political spaces and alternatives.