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Catalog 2023
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The 2023 ARS FENNICA catalog is out, offering an in-depth look at this year's candidates.
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Candidate Exhibition
8.9.2023-28.1.2024
The 2023 ARS FENNICA catalog is out, offering an in-depth look at this year's candidates.
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Ars Fennica 2023
Award panel has chosen the candidates for ARS FENNICA 2023.
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Candidates 2023

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2023

ARS FENNICA Candidates for 2023

Henni Alftan

FINLAND

In Henni Alftan’s canvases, an entwined sense of the familiar and the uncanny keeps viewers actively looking and guessing. Everyday subjects such as domestic interiors, outdoor scenes, personal belongings and figures appear anything but commonplace through the artist’s precise manipulations of paint and composition. 

Tuomas A. Laitinen

FINLAND

Artist Tuomas A. Laitinen works with video installations, sound, glass as well as chemical and microbial processes. He is interested in ecological issues, the formation of proposals for knowledge, and porous systems.

Lap-See Lam

SWEDEN

The installation artist Lap-See Lam (born 1990 Stockholm) explores the Cantonese diaspora in Sweden. She uses technology like 3D-scanning, Virtual Reality and animation to tackle different projects like cataloging the interiors of quickly disappearing Chinese restaurants in Stockholm.

Emilija Škarnulyte

LITHUANIA

The multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker, Emilija Škarnulytė has long been attuned to the stories that have shaped the transition from modern humanism to the post-human condition of perpetual crisis, critical hope, and a return to allegory as a means of comprehending the self and the Other within the maelstrom of radical change known as the twenty-first century. 

Camille Norment

NORWAY

Camille Norment is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist, composer, and performer whose art and performance works are exhibited and performed worldwide. Cultural psychoacoustics is both an aesthetic and conceptual framework for much of her practice.

Exhibition

An exhibition presenting the candidates will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma 8 September 2023 – 28 January 2024. The audience can also vote for their own favorite artist. 

The Panel 2023

Eija-Liisa Ahtila

ARS FENNICA 2021

Visual artist and filmmaker Eija-Liisa Ahtila experiments with narration and form in her works that address the gendered, colonial and anthropocentric structures haunting the everyday and its representations.

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Jesper Just

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Magnus Wallin

Magnus Wallin

Magnus Wallin Candidates 2021 Magnus Wallin’s art constitutes an exploration of the human body. It is not just the relationship between bodies and norms that

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Eeva-Liisa Ahtiala

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About Us

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The Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation – ARS FENNICA sr was established in 1990 to promote the arts by opening up new channels for Finnish visual art internationally, by providing artists with inspiration in their creative work, and by encouraging interest in and respect for the visual arts among the general public.

In alternate years, the Foundation awards Finland’s most significant visual-art prize – 50,000 euros. The prize goes to an artist in recognition of individual artistic work of outstanding quality.