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Audience chose Viggo Wallensköld as their favorite artist
The exhibition was visited by about 8,300 guests, who had the opportunity to vote for their own favorite artist.
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2021 ARS FENNICA award for Eija-Liisa Ahtila
“Ahtila has always bridged disciplines and shows us alternate viewpoints on things. The artist has created a more balanced image of life on our planet. For example trees can be protagonists in her stories”, says Hans Ulrich Obrist, who chose the winner this year.
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Video: The Announcement of the Winner 3.3.2022
Watch a video from the announcement event 3.3.2022 at Hämeenlinna Art Museum.
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For the Love of Art – Promoting Nordic Fine Arts for 30 years
How did Ars Fennica get its start? The film opens up the origin of why a fine art award was needed in Finland over 30 years ago.
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Exhibition 2021 opening
ARS FENNICA 2021 candidate exhibition was opened on 15th October 2021 at Hämeenlinna Art Museum. See photos and from the opening.
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2021 Candidate Videos: Magnus Wallin
The material I’ve used in this work in blood. Whenever I’ve been working on a monochromatic piece, I’ve taken it further by thinking how I could break the surface without making a composition or a picture.
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2021 Candidate Videos: Anne-Karin Furunes
We usually know the history from the winning side – the side told in history books. All the other parallel stories have been hidden. Those are the stories I am very interested in telling.
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2021 Candidate videos: Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Since the mid-2000s I’ve sought to disengage moving image art from human-centredness.
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2021 Candidate Videos: Jesper Just
Jesper Just organizes and designs a video installation into a set for the performance to be staged therein.
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2021 Candidate Videos: Viggo Wallensköld
When a create a painting, it somehow entails a world – with the human figure and their environment.
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VIDEOS – Announcing Candidates for 2021
Katso videot ehdokkaiden julkistustilaisuudesta 17.8.2021 Hämeenlinnan raatihuoneella. Ehdokkaiden esittelyn lisäksi taiteilijat kertovat työskentelystään ja teoksistaan.
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ARS Fennica 30th anniversary
ARS FENNICA, Finland’s most prestigious art award, is presented by the Henna and Pertti Niemistö Foundation, established in 1990. Presented in recognition of an outstanding