Eng.
´Art as a unified field of experiences and activities.
Disciplines as divided parts of thought
(constructive knowledge forming apparatus).
Action (doing) goes beyond thought. It explores.
Thought builds based on defined knowledge.
Defined concepts as empty containers in the ever-changing present...
Empty containers of something that once was´
This triggered my interest and followed the critique quest on my primary art practice, painting. An implicit auto analysis on the making and the discipline of painting per se as a reference to the ´medium´ that transmits a message or experience. Often becoming itself the subject of the artwork.
I aspire to have a closer understanding of reality, and by looking critically into the painting as a language, I hope to convey the true nature of such a tool, which eventually could lead me to engage better with the reality of things. I see language in its totality, the Image, the space, and the matter as sort of ultimate perceptive tools, like painting and other disciplines.
Therefore, I prefer to operate with the latest subjects in an open field of study without predefined concepts or exclusive disciplines, trends, styles, currents, or mediums.
Ita.
´L'arte come campo unificato di esperienze e attività.
Discipline come parti divise del pensiero
(apparatus di formazione della conoscenza costruttiva).
L'azione (fare) va oltre il pensiero. Esplora.
Il pensiero costruisce sulla base di una conoscenza definita.
Concetti definiti come contenitori vuoti nel presente in continua evoluzione…
Contenitori vuoti di qualcosa che una volta c´era´
Questo ha innescato il mio interesse e ha seguito la ricerca critica sulla mia principale pratica artistica, la pittura. Un'autoanalisi implicita sulla creazione e la disciplina della pittura in sé come riferimento al ´medium´ che trasmette un messaggio o un'esperienza. Spesso diventando essa stessa il soggetto dell'opera d'arte.
Su larga scala aspiro a una comprensione più stretta della realtà e, esaminando criticamente la pittura come linguaggio, spero di trasmettere la vera natura di tale strumento, che alla fine potrebbe portarmi a ingaggiare meglio la realtà delle cose. Vedo la lingua nella sua totalità, l'immagine, lo spazio e la materia come una sorta di strumenti percettivi finali, e lo stesso vale per la pittura e altre discipline.
Per questo motivo preferisco lavorare con i soggetti soprannominati in un campo di studio aperto, senza concetti predefiniti o discipline, tendenze, stili, correnti o medium esclusivi.
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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); Residency at Galerie Pleiku, Berlin, (Germany May 2026).
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, Finland, 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), Galerie Pleiku (Berlin, Germany, May 2026).
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).
´Art as a unified field of experiences and activities.
Disciplines as divided parts of thought
(constructive knowledge forming apparatus).
Action (doing) goes beyond thought. It explores.
Thought builds based on defined knowledge.
Defined concepts as empty containers in the ever-changing present...
Empty containers of something that once was´
This triggered my interest and followed the critique quest on my primary art practice, painting. An implicit auto analysis on the making and the discipline of painting per se as a reference to the ´medium´ that transmits a message or experience. Often becoming itself the subject of the artwork.
I aspire to have a closer understanding of reality, and by looking critically into the painting as a language, I hope to convey the true nature of such a tool, which eventually could lead me to engage better with the reality of things. I see language in its totality, the Image, the space, and the matter as sort of ultimate perceptive tools, like painting and other disciplines.
Therefore, I prefer to operate with the latest subjects in an open field of study without predefined concepts or exclusive disciplines, trends, styles, currents, or mediums.
Ita.
´L'arte come campo unificato di esperienze e attività.
Discipline come parti divise del pensiero
(apparatus di formazione della conoscenza costruttiva).
L'azione (fare) va oltre il pensiero. Esplora.
Il pensiero costruisce sulla base di una conoscenza definita.
Concetti definiti come contenitori vuoti nel presente in continua evoluzione…
Contenitori vuoti di qualcosa che una volta c´era´
Questo ha innescato il mio interesse e ha seguito la ricerca critica sulla mia principale pratica artistica, la pittura. Un'autoanalisi implicita sulla creazione e la disciplina della pittura in sé come riferimento al ´medium´ che trasmette un messaggio o un'esperienza. Spesso diventando essa stessa il soggetto dell'opera d'arte.
Su larga scala aspiro a una comprensione più stretta della realtà e, esaminando criticamente la pittura come linguaggio, spero di trasmettere la vera natura di tale strumento, che alla fine potrebbe portarmi a ingaggiare meglio la realtà delle cose. Vedo la lingua nella sua totalità, l'immagine, lo spazio e la materia come una sorta di strumenti percettivi finali, e lo stesso vale per la pittura e altre discipline.
Per questo motivo preferisco lavorare con i soggetti soprannominati in un campo di studio aperto, senza concetti predefiniti o discipline, tendenze, stili, correnti o medium esclusivi.
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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); Residency at Galerie Pleiku, Berlin, (Germany May 2026).
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, Finland, 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), Galerie Pleiku (Berlin, Germany, May 2026).
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).
