Updates
The joint exhibition of the ARS FENNICA 2023 candidates opened at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art on September 8, 2023.
The 2023 ARS FENNICA catalog is out, offering an in-depth look at this year’s candidates and their works. It’s available for free download.
The opening of the ARS FENNICA 2023 candidate exhibition was celebrated on September 7, 2023
ARS FENNICA Candidates for 2023
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From the archive
Jesper Just Candidates 2021 Jesper Just became known some twenty years ago for videos in which tense psychological encounters lead to emotionally loaded scenes. What
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
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
First ARS Fennica candidates 1991
ARS FENNICA -foundation
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.
