- Awards -
1991 - 2023
All the artists who have won the ARS FENNICA -award since 1991.
Emilija Škarnulyté
Filmmaker and installation artist Emilija Škarnulyté covers topics such as climate change, extraction, and extinction in ways that combine critical analysis with a searching imagination.. READ MORE »
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
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. READ MORE »
Ragnar Kjartansson
Ragnar Kjartansson moves freely between art forms, makes music sculptural, painting performative, and turns film into tableaux vivants. His elaborate practice includes video installations based on repetitive structures, extended live performances and vast series of plein‐air paintings. READ MORE »
Kari Vehosalo
Kari Vehosalo stages a performative spectacle fusing life and death in an excruciating dance. With extreme photographic and philosophical precision, he weaves together beauty, psychopathology and the history of western trauma culture. READ MORE »
Mika Taanila
Mika Taanila made numerous experimental music videos in the 1990s. His subsequent films occupy the intermediate terrain between experimental and documentary. History is always present in his works, and their elements consist of found and archive material. READ MORE »
Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen
Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen are an artist duo whose artistic work has its point of departure in creative collaboration with a participating public. The participants freedom to express themselves shows that it is possible to use personal stories to say something more universal about society. READ MORE »
Jeppe Hein
In Jeppe Hein’s works the legacy of minimalist art linked into social encounters and experiences. Hein’s aesthetic, which recycles basic abstract forms, is occasionally like a machine rebellion in the spirit of Charlie Chaplin. READ MORE »
Anssi Kasitonni
Anssi Kasitonni makes his sculptures and animation films the hardest way. Combining art and humour in a way that makes the viewer want to return to the work is a trick that few have mastered. He is one of those few. READ MORE »
Charles Sandison
Charles Sandisons works are poems in light, ornaments of light, which have strong ties with words and their meanings, which place the written word alongside the visual, and hence bring in a different social dimension. READ MORE »
Jussi Kivi
“What most interests me is the landscape,” says the artist Jussi Kivi. He also makes hiking trips to experience it. It need not be untouched, national-romantic nature; it can be the borderlands between culture and nature – even a rubbish dump. READ MORE »
Mark Raidpere
Mark Raidpere (1975) has been active in the field of photography and video art for the past 10 years, which includes representing Estonia at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Raidpere’s work carries shifts and conflicts between the poetic and pragmatic, figurative and physical, role perception and reality. READ MORE »
Markus Kåhre
Pictures say more than a thousand words. But Markus Kåhre’s works avoid pictoriality. The nature of the works cannot be stored in images, nor can it be condensed into words. They thrive in expectant silence. READ MORE »
Ilkka Juhani Takalo-Eskola
Lifetime Achievement. Takalo-Eskola’s artistic production consists of paintings, collages, photographs and performances, along with works that combine several of these. A philosophical proclamation, myth or ritual quality is often visible beneath the surface of the works. READ MORE »
Roi Vaara
Roi Vaara has criticised the artworld for being centred on museums and galleries, and has turned himself into an artwork that moves fluently among people, perplexing them and prompting them to ask questions. READ MORE »
Kimmo Schroderus
Kimmo Schroderus is a sculptor, whose arsenal of tools is as extensive as possible: ranging from a sewing machine to welding equipment. In his sculptures Schroderus has gone through metamorphoses both on the level of expression and of contentual nuance. READ MORE »
Anu Tuominen
In Anu Tuominen's hands, everyday utility objects, metal kitchen utensils, broken crockery or ordinary buttons from flee markets are miraculously transformed into something else, but without losing their original nature. READ MORE »
Harry Kivijärvi
Lifetime Achievement. Finnish sculpture made impressive progress internationally in the 1960s and 70s. Harry Kivijärvi, whose speciality is stone, came to be one of the most successful Finnish visual artists of the time. LUE LISÄÄ »
Heli Rekula
Rekula works mainly with video and photography, often posed photographs. The subject is often the female body and women’s different roles, women both collectively and as individuals. Frequent themes include innocence and the loss of innocence, purity and impurity, and the boundaries between. READ MORE »
Heli Hiltunen
Heli Hiltunen works primarily with series of works, where smaller works of art are combined into larger entities. Hiltunen’s subjects are often connected with memory, love and sensual closeness. READ MORE »
Hreinn Fridfinnsson
Hreinn Fridfinnssons art can be characterized as conceptual even though his conceptualism is more in visual poetics than in philosophical abstractions. He achieved international success and recognition for his poetic and philosophical studies of the visual enigmas of everyday life. READ MORE »
Markus Copper
Copper is not interested in the newest techniques, nor does he want to sell or to be ‘in vogue’. His apparently autistic, heavy-handed and sometimes rough sculptures speak to the other senses: they speak of inner fears about refined technologies that we cannot control, about animal urges and mythologies that continue to haunt us in dreams, in books, in movies. READ MORE »
Peter Frie
Peter Frie’s paintings are rooted in the long tradition of landscape painting, and especially in the way of depicting the landscape as a powerfully charged mood. The paintings manifest a powerful sense of place, but they are also have a metaphorical dimension, so that any overly explicit link with a certain place tends to become blurred. READ MORE »
Pauno Pohjolainen
Pauno Pohjolaisen maalatut reliefit ovat katsojalle kuin itseilmaisu ja ulkoinen ilmiö yhtä aikaa. Teokset käyvät jatkuvaa sisäistä keskustelua metodien ja materian, yhteisön ja ympäristön sekä luonnonmuotojen ja eriasteisten abstraktioiden välillä. LUE LISÄÄ »
Silja Rantanen
Silja Rantasen maalaukset edustavat taiteellisen tajunnan postmodernia tyyppiä. Hän käsittelee tuotannossaan arkkitehtuurin muotoja. Konkreettinen arkkitehtuuri ei kiinnosta taiteilijaa sellaisenaan, vaan impulssina, eräänlaisen kulttuuridialogin aloitteentekijänä. LUE LISÄÄ »
Olegs Tillbergs
Olegs Tillbergs on kiinnostunut aistielämyksistä ja eri materiaalien keskinäisestä vuorovaikutuksesta. Hänen tuotantonsa käsittää performansseja, installaatioita ja kollaaseja. Materiaaleina ovat arkipäiväiset esineet ja tapahtumat, alkaen Neuvostoarmeijan ylijäämäsaappaista päätyen lapsen syntymään. LUE LISÄÄ »
Per Kirkeby
Per Kirkeby hyödyntää monipuolisesti Kuvataiteen eri tekniikoita ilmaisukeinoja. Hänen maalauksiaan, veistoksiaan, grafiikkaansa, piirustuksiaan ja ympäristöteoksiaan onkin nähty viime vuosikymmenten mielenkiintoisimmissa näyttelyissä parhaissa taidemuseoissa. LUE LISÄÄ »
Johan Scott
Johan Scottin käsittelemät kuvalliset ongelmat ja niistä kasvaneet teokset osoittavat, että hänen panoksensa tämän hetken maalaustaiteeseen on todella omaperäinen. Hänellä on myös omintakeinen muodon ja välineen taju, josta esimerkkejä ovat hänen käyttämänsä maalauspohjat, tapansa levittää väri pohjalle sekä alusmaalaustekniikkansa. LUE LISÄÄ »
Maaria Wirkkala
Maaria Wirkkalan taiteen juuret ovat syvällisessä suomalaisen kulttuurin ja perinteen tuntemuksessa. Hänen työskentelynsä heijastaa tietoisuutta tilan ja ajan laajuudesta ja hiljaisuudesta. Se antaa mahdollisuudet hedelmälliseen vuoropuheluun muiden maiden taiteilijoiden kanssa. LUE LISÄÄ »
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