´Sebbene ora il mio approccio di ricerca sia interdisciplinare, aperto e pronto a sperimentare al di fuori del mio campo di studi primario, rimango fortemente legato allo studio del colore, del segno e della pittura.
La mia ricerca artistica, mettendo in discussione la rappresentazione del contenuto e accantonando il figurativo, si concentra sugli elementi fondamentali e costitutivi di un'opera pittorica: colori, forme, gesti, spazio e supporto. Il processo del ‘fare’ ricopre una parte fondamentale nel procedimento e creazione del lavoro. Come viene trattata e usata la materia, cambiata e impressa in uno spazio che diviene quasi scultoreo, guidato dall’improvvisazione e intuito. Un approccio che trova similitudine con il ´Process Art´ ma che non si definisce come tale.
In una visione più ampia, miro alla comprensione della genesi della creazione artistica per poterla applicare e sperimentare in diverse categorie, discipline, mezzi, o linguaggi. Per questo motivo, mi sono trovato a sperimentare con la video arte, l'installazione, la scultura, la performance e così via. Mi interessano le multi-dimensioni che questi mezzi possono toccare, cercando sempre di farlo dal mio punto di partenza: la pittura. Nella mia ricerca emergono spesso delle riflettessioni in termini di coesistenza, visibile e non, conosciuta e sconosciuta, che vedo come una parabola del mio processo di creazione artistica.
Il mio percorso artistico è stato segnato dal disegno e dalla pittura già in giovane età, per poi proseguire con la ‘classica’ formazione accademica durante il liceo artistico e nei primi anni dell’università, fino a quando mi sono aperto ai multi-linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea incontrati e sperimentati in età più matura. Infatti, con sguardo retrospettivo, si nota un’espressione figurativa legata alla tecniche pittoriche, dove la figura umana e l´autoritratto sono temi ricorrenti nella mia produzione. Tematiche legate a un profondo sentimento esistenziale interconnesso all’essere umano, che ancora oggi è presente in me e nella mia ricerca. Negli ultimi anni dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera è avvenuta la rottura con il ‘figurativo’ e la rappresentazione intesa come tale, aprendomi verso una coscienza maggiore su colore e forma. Dinamiche che si fanno notare sia nella composizione, che nell’uso dei materiali, esteriorizzandosi in forme più plastiche che iniziano un nuovo dialogo con lo spazio in cui vengono realizzate, o installate. Il superamento della ´classica´ tela bidimensionale (da dipingere) ha segnato per me un punto di non ritorno, aprendomi dimensioni che vanno al di là della propria disciplina di studio; sottolineando ancora una volta un rifiuto totale della rappresentazione illustrativa in relazione al supporto e alla sua presupposta forma e piattezza. Lo stesso accade al contenuto, che viene messo in discussione e riconcepito attraverso il processo del ‘fare’, e non dalla mera rappresentazione figurativa all'interno dell'opera d'arte.
Al momento sto cercando un dialogo più stretto tra oggetto d'arte e ambiente circostante, tra colore, spazio e concetto, alla ricerca di un nuovo equilibrio artistico.´
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CV summary:
Born in Bajram Curri, Albania, 1990. Currently based in Ostrobothnia, Finland.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2010-2014, Bachelor degree in Visual Arts from Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan (Italy), score of 110/110; 2005–2009,
2009, Diploma from J. Misja High School of Art, Tirana (Albania), score of 10/10.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Curated by Artist Residency Swap & Finnish Institute in UK and Ireland, Dublin (Ireland, March 2022); Moskosel Creative Lab-Northern Sustainable Futures, Moskosel (Sweden, October-November 2024).
GRANTS (selection)
Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, project grant, 'The Shell Cracked', 2024;
Arts Promotion Center-Taike, working grant (two months), 2022;
Finnish Institute in UK and Ireland, salary, short artist residency, 2022;
Svenska Kulturfonden, working grant, project 'Scanning Landscape', 2021.
Svenska Kulturfonden-Frans Henriksson fund, development project, (public) art events in rural and natural areas, 2025;
Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, project grant, 'Translucid Skins', 2023-2024;
Bröderna Gröndahls Stiftelse, project grant, exhibition, 2023;
Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, project grant, public art, 2023;
Svenska Kulturfonden, project grant, exhibitions promotion, 2022;
Bröderna Gröndahls Stiftelse, project grant, installation - public art, 2022;
Svenska Kulturfonden-Frans Henriksson fund, development project, public art, 2022; Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, project grant, exhibitions promotion, 2021-2022;
Vaasa City Cultural Grant, project grant, installation - public art, 2021;
HONOURS AND AWARDS (selection)
Selected, Contemporanea Prize 2024, ARTEiX (Tagliacozzo, Italy); Top ten Finalist, Exibart Prize 2023-24 (Rome, Italy); Selected, Yicca Art Prize 23/24, Aps MOHO (Udine, Italy); Top ten Finalist, Exibart Prize 2022-23 (Rome, Italy); Selected, 'RINart', Tirana International Contemporary Festival 2022 (Tirana, Albania); Selected, Who I am, VIZart International Biennale 2019 (Tirana, Albania); Winners, CCSA (under 35) open call, Crema Municipality with the collective La Faretra, (Crema, Italy, 2019).
EXHIBITIONS (selection):
‘The Shell Cracked’, duo exhibition, Rådhusgalleriet (Nykarleby, Finland, January-February 2025);
'The Shell Cracked', duo exhibition, Gallery 3H+K (Pori, Finland, January 2025);
'Contemporanea Prize 2024. Costruire Nuovi Mondi’ group exhibition, curator Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, Palazzo Ducale Orsini-Colonna (Tagliacozzo, Italy, August-September 2024);
Yö Fest vol.4, 4.3 'Fishes of the paradise city' group exhibition, Yö Galleria (Helsinki, Finland, March-May 2024);
Yicca Art Prize 23/24 group exhibition, curators Massimo Toffolo & Margherita Jedrzejewska, Luciana Matalon Foundation (Milan, Italy, January 2024);
'Dripping Cavities' duo exhibition, coordinator Silvia Rinne, Vaasa City Art Gallery- Vaasa City Museums (Finland, November 2023-January 2024);
'Papertopia' duo exhibition, Vaasa City Library (Vaasa, Finland, June 2023);
Collision Festival group exhibition, Collision Art Collective, Gammal Brandkårshuset (Jakobstad, Finland, May 2023);
'Dripping Cavities’ duo exhibition, curator Anni Fahler, Galleria Albert IX (Helsinki, Finland, January 2023);
'Offside #1' group exhibition, Offside, curator Marcus Lerviks, pop-up space in Varastokatu 6, 65100 Vaasa (Finland, May-June 2022);
'RINart' group exhibition, Tirana International Contemporary Festival, VIZart, National Historical Museum & COD (Tirana, Albania, May 2022);
Group exhibition, Pasila Urban Art Center-Helsinki Urban Art (Helsinki, Finland, March-April 2022);
'Dripping Cavities' duo exhibition, Makers' Gallery (Vaasa, Finland, December 2021);
'Challanging the Support' solo show, G.A.P.-Globe Art Point (Helsinki, Finland, November-December 2021);
'Wall Mania' group exhibition, Black Box Genesis art space (Vaasa, Finalnd, 2020);
'Terminal' group exhibition, curator Stefano Monti, Sale Agello (Crema, Italy, December 2019);
'Who I Am' group exhibition, VIZart International Biennal 2019 of Self-portrait, National Historical Museum (Tirana, Albania, September 2019);
'Untitled' solo show, Black Box Genesis art space (Vaasa, Finland, April-May 2019);
Next Exhibitions:
'The Shell Cracked', duo exhibition, Varikko Galleria (Seinäjoki, Finland, October-November 2025); 'The Shell Cracked', duo exhibition, Taidekeskus Itä-Gallery Riutta (Lappeenranta, Finland, November-December 2025), Tempus-Jakobstad Museum (Jakobstad, date to be confirmed).
Artist Duo current projects (Bekim Hasaj and Valentina Gelain):
-'The Shell Cracked' 2024-2026
Interactive sculptural-audio installation and namesake exhibition concept.
-'Translucid skins~strands~of~us' 2024-2025
Multidisciplinary project with focus on outdoor temporary interventions/installation and production of the art film 'Fall'.
-'What is left |in the| Temple of memory' 2025-2026
Interdisciplinary project based on community research and spatial installations in disused places in rural (and urban) areas and natural settings.
-D.P.A.R.A. 2023-Present
Long-term public art development project in rural areas.
-'Extension-Flexion-Contraction-Spasm-Expansion'
Multidisciplinary spacial installation for indoor venues.
Link to the projects: Current | Black Box Genesis
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selection)
Interview by Reija Penttinen for ´Followers of the Movement´ column, Regional Dance Center of Ostrobothnia (31 January 2025);
Article by Elsa Barbieri about 'The Shell Cracked' exhibition, Exibart (12 January 2025);
'Exibart Prize 2023-24', finalists' digital catalog, publisher Exibart (19th September 2024);
'Abruzzo contemporaneo. Focus sull'arte emergente', Contemporanea 24, curator Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, publisher Metilene, printing house Polistampa (Firenze, Italy, July 2024);
Interview by Kirsi Koivuporras, Magazine Y 1/24 (March 2024);
'Yicca 23/24', International Contest of Contemporary Art, digital and printed catalog, publisher - Aps MOHO (1st December 2023);
Interview by Elsa Barbieri about 'Dripping Cavities' exhibition, Exibart (12 November 2023);
'222 Artisti emergenti su cui investire / 2024', book, curator Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, publisher - Exibart/Exibartlab (Rome, Italy, 12th October 2023);
'Exibart Prize 2022-23', finalists' digital catalog, publisher - Exibart (27th July 2023); Offside #1, online exhibition archive (May 2022);
‘RINart’, Tirana Contemporary Art Festival, exhibition catalog, publisher - VIZart (Tirana, Albania, May 2022);
Globe Art Point online exhibition archive (17th December 2021);
Article about 'Mural Rural' Festival by Clara Amodeo, Another Scratch In The Wall (Milan, Italy, 31st August 2021);
Interview and online article by Luca Curci, Itsliquid Group (8th April 2021);
Interview and photo documentation about 'Growing' mural painting, 'Mural Rural' project, for the Vaasa Museum Archive by Silvia Rinne (Vaasa, Finland, May 2021);
Interview and photo documentation about Vaasa Arts Night Mural Painting for the Vaasa Museum Archive by Silvia Rinne (Vaasa, Finland, September 2020);
Participation in the television program, workshop and interview for Yle Strömsö (Finland, October 2020);
Interview, article and video documentation by Vaasa City cultural department, about the Mural for Vaasa Arts Night 2020 (Vaasa, Finland, 1st September 2020);
Radio interview and article by Yle cultural section (Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, Finland, 31st July 2020);
'Who I Am', VIZart International Biennale 2019 of Self-portrait, exhibition catalog, publisher - VIZart (Tirana, Albania, September 2019);
Video documentation by Crem@online and article by Cultura Crema about 'Terminal' group exhibition (Crema, Italy, December 2019).
PUBLICATIONS
'Taide', Yö Lehti #4, edited by Henrik Pathirane and Atte Karttunen, Yö ry (Helsinki, Finland, 2023); 'Public Art in Rural Areas', Ostrobothnian Regional Museum's Cultural Blog (Vaasa, Finland, 2nd May 2023).
ARTIST TALKS
Guest artist for the Kuvata Webinar with focus on ‘As an Artist in a Sparsely Populated Area', organised by Tampere University of Applied Sciences, the University of Lapland’s Faculty of Art and Globe Art Point, 20 January 2025;
‘Dripping Cavities’ duo exhibition, finissage, (Vaasa, Finland, 4th January 2024);
'Papertopia', duo exhibition, Vaasa City Library (Vaasa, Finland, 15th June 2023);
Artist Talk, three meetings with the students of Vasa övningsskola, about the mural commissioned by Vaasa City (Vaasa, Finland, September 2020);
Invitation, Malakta Art Factory (Malax, Finland, 27th June 2019).
ORGANIZATIONS (Member)
August 2023-Present, Artists' Association of Finland - Artist Register;
August 2023 – Present, member of Suomen Taideyhdistys (Finland);
April 2023-Present, board member of Globe Art Point ry (Finland);
November 2022-Present, member of Yö ry (Finland);
February 2022-Present, Artists Bank of Rakennustieto rts sr;
January 2022-Present, member of Finnish Painters' Union ry (Finland);
February 2021-Present, full member of Globe Art Point ry (Finland);
January 2021-Present, client of Kuvasto ry Visual Arts' Copyright Society (Finland);
May 2019-September 2023, board member of Art in Malakta rf (Finland);
August 2022-April 2023, vice member of the Board for Globe Art Point ry (Finland).
WORK EXPERIENCE (selection)
August 2021-Present, co-manager of Black Box Genesis art space (online and pop-up events); May 2018-Present, Black Box Genesis co-founder as visual artist, creative freelancer & cultural worker / Visual artists and visual art experts | Organisation of exhibition and cultural events | Planning and management of projects, including long-term ones | Collaborations ; February 2024, guest teacher at Novia University to hold an intensive workshop on handmade paper for second/third-year visual art students, the position is shared with colleague Valentina Gelain (Jakobstad, Finland); October-November 2023, guest teacher at Novia University to hold the course Ateljestudier 7 for second-year visual art students, the position is shared with colleague Valentina Gelain (Jakobstad, Finland); September-October 2022, manager of Mural Rural project and assistant curator of New Beginnings Festival exhibition by Art in Malakta rf (Malax, Finland); October-November 2021, art course at Malakta Art Factory (Malax, Finalnd); April 2020-August 2021, co-organizer and artists´ coordinator of Mural Rural Festival for Art in Malakta rf (Malax, Finland); June 2018-July 2021, co-manager of Black Box Genesis art space (Vaasa, Finland); 23rd September 2020, guest artist in Yle Strömsö for an episode on the monotype technique (Vaasa, Finland), areena.yle.fi | article; 2014-2017, freelance artist (Milan, Italy); 2011-2014, assistant for Remo Salvadori (Milan, Italy).
La mia ricerca artistica, mettendo in discussione la rappresentazione del contenuto e accantonando il figurativo, si concentra sugli elementi fondamentali e costitutivi di un'opera pittorica: colori, forme, gesti, spazio e supporto. Il processo del ‘fare’ ricopre una parte fondamentale nel procedimento e creazione del lavoro. Come viene trattata e usata la materia, cambiata e impressa in uno spazio che diviene quasi scultoreo, guidato dall’improvvisazione e intuito. Un approccio che trova similitudine con il ´Process Art´ ma che non si definisce come tale.
In una visione più ampia, miro alla comprensione della genesi della creazione artistica per poterla applicare e sperimentare in diverse categorie, discipline, mezzi, o linguaggi. Per questo motivo, mi sono trovato a sperimentare con la video arte, l'installazione, la scultura, la performance e così via. Mi interessano le multi-dimensioni che questi mezzi possono toccare, cercando sempre di farlo dal mio punto di partenza: la pittura. Nella mia ricerca emergono spesso delle riflettessioni in termini di coesistenza, visibile e non, conosciuta e sconosciuta, che vedo come una parabola del mio processo di creazione artistica.
Il mio percorso artistico è stato segnato dal disegno e dalla pittura già in giovane età, per poi proseguire con la ‘classica’ formazione accademica durante il liceo artistico e nei primi anni dell’università, fino a quando mi sono aperto ai multi-linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea incontrati e sperimentati in età più matura. Infatti, con sguardo retrospettivo, si nota un’espressione figurativa legata alla tecniche pittoriche, dove la figura umana e l´autoritratto sono temi ricorrenti nella mia produzione. Tematiche legate a un profondo sentimento esistenziale interconnesso all’essere umano, che ancora oggi è presente in me e nella mia ricerca. Negli ultimi anni dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera è avvenuta la rottura con il ‘figurativo’ e la rappresentazione intesa come tale, aprendomi verso una coscienza maggiore su colore e forma. Dinamiche che si fanno notare sia nella composizione, che nell’uso dei materiali, esteriorizzandosi in forme più plastiche che iniziano un nuovo dialogo con lo spazio in cui vengono realizzate, o installate. Il superamento della ´classica´ tela bidimensionale (da dipingere) ha segnato per me un punto di non ritorno, aprendomi dimensioni che vanno al di là della propria disciplina di studio; sottolineando ancora una volta un rifiuto totale della rappresentazione illustrativa in relazione al supporto e alla sua presupposta forma e piattezza. Lo stesso accade al contenuto, che viene messo in discussione e riconcepito attraverso il processo del ‘fare’, e non dalla mera rappresentazione figurativa all'interno dell'opera d'arte.
Al momento sto cercando un dialogo più stretto tra oggetto d'arte e ambiente circostante, tra colore, spazio e concetto, alla ricerca di un nuovo equilibrio artistico.´
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CV summary:
Born in Bajram Curri, Albania, 1990. Currently based in Ostrobothnia, Finland.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2010-2014, Bachelor degree in Visual Arts from Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan (Italy), score of 110/110; 2005–2009,
2009, Diploma from J. Misja High School of Art, Tirana (Albania), score of 10/10.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Curated by Artist Residency Swap & Finnish Institute in UK and Ireland, Dublin (Ireland, March 2022); Moskosel Creative Lab-Northern Sustainable Futures, Moskosel (Sweden, October-November 2024).
GRANTS (selection)
Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, project grant, 'The Shell Cracked', 2024;
Arts Promotion Center-Taike, working grant (two months), 2022;
Finnish Institute in UK and Ireland, salary, short artist residency, 2022;
Svenska Kulturfonden, working grant, project 'Scanning Landscape', 2021.
Svenska Kulturfonden-Frans Henriksson fund, development project, (public) art events in rural and natural areas, 2025;
Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, project grant, 'Translucid Skins', 2023-2024;
Bröderna Gröndahls Stiftelse, project grant, exhibition, 2023;
Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, project grant, public art, 2023;
Svenska Kulturfonden, project grant, exhibitions promotion, 2022;
Bröderna Gröndahls Stiftelse, project grant, installation - public art, 2022;
Svenska Kulturfonden-Frans Henriksson fund, development project, public art, 2022; Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, project grant, exhibitions promotion, 2021-2022;
Vaasa City Cultural Grant, project grant, installation - public art, 2021;
HONOURS AND AWARDS (selection)
Selected, Contemporanea Prize 2024, ARTEiX (Tagliacozzo, Italy); Top ten Finalist, Exibart Prize 2023-24 (Rome, Italy); Selected, Yicca Art Prize 23/24, Aps MOHO (Udine, Italy); Top ten Finalist, Exibart Prize 2022-23 (Rome, Italy); Selected, 'RINart', Tirana International Contemporary Festival 2022 (Tirana, Albania); Selected, Who I am, VIZart International Biennale 2019 (Tirana, Albania); Winners, CCSA (under 35) open call, Crema Municipality with the collective La Faretra, (Crema, Italy, 2019).
EXHIBITIONS (selection):
‘The Shell Cracked’, duo exhibition, Rådhusgalleriet (Nykarleby, Finland, January-February 2025);
'The Shell Cracked', duo exhibition, Gallery 3H+K (Pori, Finland, January 2025);
'Contemporanea Prize 2024. Costruire Nuovi Mondi’ group exhibition, curator Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, Palazzo Ducale Orsini-Colonna (Tagliacozzo, Italy, August-September 2024);
Yö Fest vol.4, 4.3 'Fishes of the paradise city' group exhibition, Yö Galleria (Helsinki, Finland, March-May 2024);
Yicca Art Prize 23/24 group exhibition, curators Massimo Toffolo & Margherita Jedrzejewska, Luciana Matalon Foundation (Milan, Italy, January 2024);
'Dripping Cavities' duo exhibition, coordinator Silvia Rinne, Vaasa City Art Gallery- Vaasa City Museums (Finland, November 2023-January 2024);
'Papertopia' duo exhibition, Vaasa City Library (Vaasa, Finland, June 2023);
Collision Festival group exhibition, Collision Art Collective, Gammal Brandkårshuset (Jakobstad, Finland, May 2023);
'Dripping Cavities’ duo exhibition, curator Anni Fahler, Galleria Albert IX (Helsinki, Finland, January 2023);
'Offside #1' group exhibition, Offside, curator Marcus Lerviks, pop-up space in Varastokatu 6, 65100 Vaasa (Finland, May-June 2022);
'RINart' group exhibition, Tirana International Contemporary Festival, VIZart, National Historical Museum & COD (Tirana, Albania, May 2022);
Group exhibition, Pasila Urban Art Center-Helsinki Urban Art (Helsinki, Finland, March-April 2022);
'Dripping Cavities' duo exhibition, Makers' Gallery (Vaasa, Finland, December 2021);
'Challanging the Support' solo show, G.A.P.-Globe Art Point (Helsinki, Finland, November-December 2021);
'Wall Mania' group exhibition, Black Box Genesis art space (Vaasa, Finalnd, 2020);
'Terminal' group exhibition, curator Stefano Monti, Sale Agello (Crema, Italy, December 2019);
'Who I Am' group exhibition, VIZart International Biennal 2019 of Self-portrait, National Historical Museum (Tirana, Albania, September 2019);
'Untitled' solo show, Black Box Genesis art space (Vaasa, Finland, April-May 2019);
Next Exhibitions:
'The Shell Cracked', duo exhibition, Varikko Galleria (Seinäjoki, Finland, October-November 2025); 'The Shell Cracked', duo exhibition, Taidekeskus Itä-Gallery Riutta (Lappeenranta, Finland, November-December 2025), Tempus-Jakobstad Museum (Jakobstad, date to be confirmed).
Artist Duo current projects (Bekim Hasaj and Valentina Gelain):
-'The Shell Cracked' 2024-2026
Interactive sculptural-audio installation and namesake exhibition concept.
-'Translucid skins~strands~of~us' 2024-2025
Multidisciplinary project with focus on outdoor temporary interventions/installation and production of the art film 'Fall'.
-'What is left |in the| Temple of memory' 2025-2026
Interdisciplinary project based on community research and spatial installations in disused places in rural (and urban) areas and natural settings.
-D.P.A.R.A. 2023-Present
Long-term public art development project in rural areas.
-'Extension-Flexion-Contraction-Spasm-Expansion'
Multidisciplinary spacial installation for indoor venues.
Link to the projects: Current | Black Box Genesis
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selection)
Interview by Reija Penttinen for ´Followers of the Movement´ column, Regional Dance Center of Ostrobothnia (31 January 2025);
Article by Elsa Barbieri about 'The Shell Cracked' exhibition, Exibart (12 January 2025);
'Exibart Prize 2023-24', finalists' digital catalog, publisher Exibart (19th September 2024);
'Abruzzo contemporaneo. Focus sull'arte emergente', Contemporanea 24, curator Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, publisher Metilene, printing house Polistampa (Firenze, Italy, July 2024);
Interview by Kirsi Koivuporras, Magazine Y 1/24 (March 2024);
'Yicca 23/24', International Contest of Contemporary Art, digital and printed catalog, publisher - Aps MOHO (1st December 2023);
Interview by Elsa Barbieri about 'Dripping Cavities' exhibition, Exibart (12 November 2023);
'222 Artisti emergenti su cui investire / 2024', book, curator Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, publisher - Exibart/Exibartlab (Rome, Italy, 12th October 2023);
'Exibart Prize 2022-23', finalists' digital catalog, publisher - Exibart (27th July 2023); Offside #1, online exhibition archive (May 2022);
‘RINart’, Tirana Contemporary Art Festival, exhibition catalog, publisher - VIZart (Tirana, Albania, May 2022);
Globe Art Point online exhibition archive (17th December 2021);
Article about 'Mural Rural' Festival by Clara Amodeo, Another Scratch In The Wall (Milan, Italy, 31st August 2021);
Interview and online article by Luca Curci, Itsliquid Group (8th April 2021);
Interview and photo documentation about 'Growing' mural painting, 'Mural Rural' project, for the Vaasa Museum Archive by Silvia Rinne (Vaasa, Finland, May 2021);
Interview and photo documentation about Vaasa Arts Night Mural Painting for the Vaasa Museum Archive by Silvia Rinne (Vaasa, Finland, September 2020);
Participation in the television program, workshop and interview for Yle Strömsö (Finland, October 2020);
Interview, article and video documentation by Vaasa City cultural department, about the Mural for Vaasa Arts Night 2020 (Vaasa, Finland, 1st September 2020);
Radio interview and article by Yle cultural section (Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, Finland, 31st July 2020);
'Who I Am', VIZart International Biennale 2019 of Self-portrait, exhibition catalog, publisher - VIZart (Tirana, Albania, September 2019);
Video documentation by Crem@online and article by Cultura Crema about 'Terminal' group exhibition (Crema, Italy, December 2019).
PUBLICATIONS
'Taide', Yö Lehti #4, edited by Henrik Pathirane and Atte Karttunen, Yö ry (Helsinki, Finland, 2023); 'Public Art in Rural Areas', Ostrobothnian Regional Museum's Cultural Blog (Vaasa, Finland, 2nd May 2023).
ARTIST TALKS
Guest artist for the Kuvata Webinar with focus on ‘As an Artist in a Sparsely Populated Area', organised by Tampere University of Applied Sciences, the University of Lapland’s Faculty of Art and Globe Art Point, 20 January 2025;
‘Dripping Cavities’ duo exhibition, finissage, (Vaasa, Finland, 4th January 2024);
'Papertopia', duo exhibition, Vaasa City Library (Vaasa, Finland, 15th June 2023);
Artist Talk, three meetings with the students of Vasa övningsskola, about the mural commissioned by Vaasa City (Vaasa, Finland, September 2020);
Invitation, Malakta Art Factory (Malax, Finland, 27th June 2019).
ORGANIZATIONS (Member)
August 2023-Present, Artists' Association of Finland - Artist Register;
August 2023 – Present, member of Suomen Taideyhdistys (Finland);
April 2023-Present, board member of Globe Art Point ry (Finland);
November 2022-Present, member of Yö ry (Finland);
February 2022-Present, Artists Bank of Rakennustieto rts sr;
January 2022-Present, member of Finnish Painters' Union ry (Finland);
February 2021-Present, full member of Globe Art Point ry (Finland);
January 2021-Present, client of Kuvasto ry Visual Arts' Copyright Society (Finland);
May 2019-September 2023, board member of Art in Malakta rf (Finland);
August 2022-April 2023, vice member of the Board for Globe Art Point ry (Finland).
WORK EXPERIENCE (selection)
August 2021-Present, co-manager of Black Box Genesis art space (online and pop-up events); May 2018-Present, Black Box Genesis co-founder as visual artist, creative freelancer & cultural worker / Visual artists and visual art experts | Organisation of exhibition and cultural events | Planning and management of projects, including long-term ones | Collaborations ; February 2024, guest teacher at Novia University to hold an intensive workshop on handmade paper for second/third-year visual art students, the position is shared with colleague Valentina Gelain (Jakobstad, Finland); October-November 2023, guest teacher at Novia University to hold the course Ateljestudier 7 for second-year visual art students, the position is shared with colleague Valentina Gelain (Jakobstad, Finland); September-October 2022, manager of Mural Rural project and assistant curator of New Beginnings Festival exhibition by Art in Malakta rf (Malax, Finland); October-November 2021, art course at Malakta Art Factory (Malax, Finalnd); April 2020-August 2021, co-organizer and artists´ coordinator of Mural Rural Festival for Art in Malakta rf (Malax, Finland); June 2018-July 2021, co-manager of Black Box Genesis art space (Vaasa, Finland); 23rd September 2020, guest artist in Yle Strömsö for an episode on the monotype technique (Vaasa, Finland), areena.yle.fi | article; 2014-2017, freelance artist (Milan, Italy); 2011-2014, assistant for Remo Salvadori (Milan, Italy).
