Nominees 2027

Anna Camner’s painting moves in the borderline between surrealism and natural scientific observation, where reality and dreams constantly merge. With a technically precise and slow process, often on small panels or acrylic glass, she creates images that require presence and close observation. Her motives appear as microscopic cross-sections of a larger, unknown whole: organic structures, membranes, porous tissues, plant cell-like forms, eyes, gloves and bodily fragments that seem to be both living and artificial.

Anna Estarriola is a Catalan-born artist based in Helsinki whose multidisciplinary practice combines sculptural installations with moving image, sound, and technology through a performative approach. Working across these media, she frequently integrates the embodiment as both subject and object, using it as a lens through which to examine perception, communication, and the construction of reality. Her work draws influence from different forms of science, epistemologies and systems of belief, often through carefully staged circumstances.

Sandra Mujinga is an artist and musician based in Oslo. Working across installation, sculpture, performance, text, and digital media, she explores the body and its conditions of visibility within a present shaped by surveillance, technological acceleration, and shifting identity categories. In her work, spaces emerge where the boundaries between humans, animals, and machines are constantly displaced, while she develops speculative fiction and worldbuilding as an ongoing practice through which alternative worlds are continuously formed and reconfigured.

Joel Slotte’s painting is characterised by a dense, narrative and emotionally loaded world of images, where daily life is pushed towards mythical and dreamlike dimensions. In large figurative oil paintings, as well as in drawings and sculptures, he creates multi-layered scenarios where personal experiences and his own circle of friends are weaved together with art-historical references, folklore, popular culture and subcultural expressions such as metal aesthetics, tattoos and everyday rituals. Slotte often draws inspiration from Finnish settings and visual markers – forests, fields, cottages and everyday objects – that are set in dialogue with depictions of his closest circle of friends. Through these elements he comments on contemporary Finland and its cultural layers, where folklore and contemporary culture merge.