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Emilija Škarnulyte
Ars Fennica 2023
This year's Ars Fennica prize goes to Emilija Škarnulyte from Lithuania.
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ARS FENNICA 2023 WINNER
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CANDIDATES 2023
Watch a short video and get to know the candidates 2023.
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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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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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Candidates 2023

Jury has chosen ARS FENNICA Award Nominees for 2023.

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2023

ARS FENNICA Candidates for 2023

Swimming Pool, 2021
Corduroy, 2020
Night Flight, 2019
Nightstand, 2021

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. 

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Conductor-2014
PsiFm, 2021
Haemocyanin, 2019
HC855, 2019

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.

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Dreamers' Quay, 2022
Phantom Banguet, 2020
Phantom Banguet, 2020
Phantom Banguet, 2019

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.

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Sunken-Cities-2021
Aphotic Zone at "Penumbra", 2022
Aldona, 2013

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. 

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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.

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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. 

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The Panel 2023

  • Leena Niemistö, chairman
  • Leevi Haapala, director, Kiasma
  • Kai Kartio, director, Amos Rex
  • Eija-Liisa Ahtila, artist

Emilija Škarnulyte

ARS FENNICA 2023

“The decision to give the Award to Emilija Škarnulytė is based on the unique approach that she has demonstrated in her films and immersive installations. Her work is deeply complex in terms of both content and methodology, covering topics such as climate change, extraction, and extinction in ways that combine critical analysis with a searching imagination.”

Anne Barlow, Art expert invited by award panel

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Randomly chosen candidates from our archive spanning 30 years.
2021
Jesper Just

Jesper Just

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

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2021
Anne-Karin Furunes

Anne-Karin Furunes

Anne-Karin Furunes Candidates 2021 A repeating theme in Anne-Karin Furunes’ art is that of the female character victim to historic events beyond her control.  She

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2017
Kari Vehosalo

Kari Vehosalo

Kari Vehosalo ARS FENNICA 2017 Kari Vehosalo stages a performative spectacle fusing life and death in an excruciating dance. With extreme photographic and philosophical precision,

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First ARS Fennica candidates 1991

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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.

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