|
Frame Contemporary Art Finland
Frame Contemporary Art Finland (previously Frame Visual Art Finland) is a foundation whose mission is to promote Finnish contemporary art internationally. Frame supports international projects, awards grants to artists and art professionals, facilitates professional partnerships, and acts as an information centre for Finnish contemporary art. Frame commissions and produces Finland's exhibitions at the Venice Biennale. Frame's international programme includes an expert visitor programme for non-Finnish contemporary art professionals, networking and research projects such as Frame Curatorial Research Fellowship programme, Peer-to-Peer programme, Finland-Russia Curatorial Exchange and Helsinki International Curator Programme (HICP), which is run in collaboration with HIAP ( Helsinki International Artist Programme). For years 2019-2023 Frame organises Rehearsing Hospitalities programme, which consists of different forms of offline and online events such as talks, performances, gather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Art
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of Medium (arts), materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or "-ism". Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality. In vernacular English, ''modern'' and ''contemporary'' are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms ''modern art'' and ''contemporary art'' by non-specialists. Scope Some define contemporary art as art produced within "our lifetime," recognising tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Blasim
Hassan Blasim (born 1973) is an Iraqi-born film director and writer. He writes in Arabic. He is a citizen of Finland. Blasim left Iraq in 2000 to escape persecution for his films, including ''The Wounded Camera'', filmed in the Kurd ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian peoples, Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Ir ...ish area in northern Iraq and about the forced migration of Kurds by Saddam Hussein's regime. After travelling in Europe for four years, he settled in Finland in 2004, where he was granted asylum. He made four short films for the Finnish broadcasting company Yle. His short story collection ''The Madman of Freedom Square'' was long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2010. His book ''The Iraqi Christ'', translated from Arabic to English by Jonathan Wright, was published by Comma Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terike Haapoja
Terike Haapoja (born 1974) is a Finnish visual artist, based in New York City. In 2016, Haapoja won the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art. She has also been awarded Dukaatti prize (2008), the Säde prize (2009) and she received honorary mention for artist of the year in 2007 at Finland’s Festival. Haapoja’s work investigates the existential and political boundaries of the world, exploring things like nature, death and other species, she questions how different structures of exclusion and discrimination function as foundations for identity and culture. Haapoja approaches these themes by building large projects in the form of installations. Her work also consists of videos and staged projects that are characterised by the use of new media and new technology. Her work has been shown widely in solo and group exhibitions and festivals, both nationally and internationally. Haapoja represented Finland in the 55. Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition Closed Circuit †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antti Laitinen
Antti is a Finnish masculine given name derived from the Greek name ''Andreas''. In Estonia, the variant Anti is more common. It is uncommon as a surname. People with the name include: Given name * Antti Autti (born 1985), Finnish snowboarder * Antti Juntumaa (born 1959), Finnish boxer * Antti Hammarberg (Irwin Goodman) (1943–1991), Finnish musician * Antti Hyyrynen (born 1980), Finnish musician * Antti Kalliomäki (born 1947), Finnish athlete and Minister of Education * Antti Kasvio (born 1973), Finnish swimmer * Antti Laaksonen (born 1973), Finnish ice hockey player * Antti Niemi (footballer) (born 1972), Finnish football goalkeeper * Antti Niemi (ice hockey) (born 1983), Finnish ice hockey goalkeeper * Antti Miettinen (born 1980), Finnish ice hockey player * Antti Muurinen (born 1954), Finnish football coach * Antti Ojanperä (born 1983), Finnish footballer * Antti Okkonen (born 1982), Finnish footballer * Antti Piimänen (1712-1775), Finnish church builder * Antti Pohj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taru Elfving , an ancient Anatolian weather god
{{disambiguation, given name, surname ...
Taru may refer to: People Given or middle name * Taru Kuoppa (born 1983), Finnish competitive archer * Taru Mäkelä (born 1959), Finnish film director and screenwriter * Taru Rinne (born 1968), Finnish motorcycle racer * Bhai Taru Singh (1720–1745), Sikh martyr Surname * Eugen Taru (1913–1991), Romanian artist * Yoshikazu Taru (born 1964), Japanese wrestler Places * Taru, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Taru Jabba, a village in Pakistan * An alternative name for the Nyiri Desert Other uses * ''Taru'' (album), a 1968 Lee Morgan album * The Technical Assistance Response Unit of the New York City Police Department * Taru (god) Taru was a weather god worshiped in ancient Anatolia by Hattians. He was associated with the bull, and could be depicted in the form of this animal. It is presumed that the names of the Hittite and Luwian weather gods, Tarḫunna and Tarḫunz, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobra Museum
The Cobra Museum of Modern Art ( nl, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst) is an art museum in Amstelveen in the Netherlands. The collection of the museum consists of key works by artists associated with three art movements, Vrij Beelden (1945), Cobra (1948–1951), and Creatie (1950–1955). In addition, the museum organizes temporary exhibitions by national and international avant-garde artists. History The Cobra Museum of Modern Art opened its doors on November 8th, 1995, as a reference to the founding date of the Cobra movement on the 8th of November, 1948. Architect Wim Quist designed the building. Initially, the museum exhibited the private collection of collector J. Karel P. van Stuijvenberg. Later on, the collection was regularly supplemented with own purchases, long-term loans and donations. From the beginning of the twenty-first century, the museum has also come to focus on contemporary artists who work in the spirit of Cobra. This focus has led, among other things, to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xander Karskens
Xander is an abbreviated form of the name Alexander and pronounced like "Zander". Alexander is the Latin form of the Greek name "Alexandros". The name's meaning is interpreted from "alexein" which means "to defend" plus "andros" which translates to "man, warrior" in a relationship or possessive form. Hence the meaning: defender of man. People ;Music *Xander (Danish singer) (born 1988), Danish singer (full name Alexander Theo Linnet) *Xander (Dutch singer) (born 1985), Dutch singer songwriter (full name Xander Venema) * Xander (South Korean singer) (born 1988), also known as Alexander (full name Alexander Lee Eusebio) * Xander de Buisonjé, (born 1973), Dutch singer *Xander Rawlins, a British singer-songwriter known for his British Army charity single "1000 Miles Apart" ;In arts and entertainment * Alexander Armstrong (or Xander Armstrong; born 1970), British comedian, actor and television presenter *Xander Bennett (born 1984), Australian screenwriter and author *Xander Berkeley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suvi West
Suvi West (born 14 January 1982) is a Finnish Sámi director, screenwriter, and television personality. Early life and education Suvi West was born in Kittilä and spent her youth in Utsjoki's Outakoski. She received her primary education at Tampere's high school for expressive arts. As a media assistant, she studied in Inari at the film department of the Sámi Regional Education Center from 2003 to 2005. Career Suvi West's career progressed while still a student working in Inari for Yle Sami Radio and the Norwegian broadcasting company NRK as a television news and documentaries producer from 2000 to 2007. Still, the strict predetermined format of television work began to make her anxious, and she feared that it would stifle her own film narrative. Her final work in 2005 was the documentary film ''Vaikein niistä on rakkaus'' ''(The hardest thing is love)'', which humorously chronicled West's search for a boyfriend. The film was screened in Hollywood and Vancouver Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outi Pieski
Outi Pieski (born 1973) is a Sámi visual artist from Finland whose paintings, collages and installations employ traditional handicrafts such as the tassels of Sámi shawls to depict the light and landscapes of the far north. In 2017, she was honoured with the Fine Arts Academy of Finland Award. Biography Born in Helsinki in 1973, Outi Pieski is the daughter of a Sámi father and a Finnish mother. She was raised in Helsinki where she attended the Visual Arts School and the Academy of Fine Arts where she graduated in 2000. She also studied at the Sámi Education Institute in Inari. Her paintings are frequently framed with the tassels of traditional Sámi shawls. She has also employed yarn, branches and ornamental quilts to enhance her works. She has recently sought to emphasize light and nature in the Arctic areas of the North, enhancing the cultural environment. Pieski has exhibited widely with solo exhibitions in London's Southbank Centre (2017), at the Espoo Museum of Modern A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonya Lindfors
Sonia is a feminine given name in many areas of the world including the West, Russia, Iran, and South Asia. Sonia and its variant spellings Sonja and Sonya are derived from the Russian hypocoristic ''Sonya'', an abbreviation of '' Sofiya'' (Greek ''Sophia'' "Wisdom"). The name was popularised in the English-speaking world by characters in the novels ''Crime and Punishment'' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866, English translation 1885) and ''War and Peace'' by Leo Tolstoy (1869, English translation 1886), and later by a 1917 bestselling novel, ''Sonia: Between Two Worlds'', by Stephen McKenna. Scandinavian countries spell the name with the letter ''j'': Sonja, while many English speaking countries spell it with ''i'' or ''y'': Sonia or Sonya. Many other variant spellings exist. Although the most common English pronunciation is , is also possible. Notable people *Queen Sonja of Norway (born 1937) * Sonia, alias of Omaira Rojas Cabrera (born 1967), FARC-EP guerrilla member * Sonya, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed (born 10 January 1981), is a Finnish- Somali director and writer. He is best known for directing the feature film ''The Gravedigger's Wife''. Personal life Ahmed was born on 10 January 1981 in Mogadishu, Somalia. At the age of 16, he moved to Finland as a refugee with his family. Career In 2008, he wrote the script of the short film ''Citizens'' where he also worked as the second assistant director. Then in 2014, he directed the first short ''Me ei vietetä joulua'' which received critics acclaim. He later directed two more short films ''Yövaras'' (2017) and ''The Killing of Cahceravga'' (2018). In 2021, Ahmed directed his maiden film ''Guled & Nasra'', which is internationally known as ''The Gravedigger's Wife''. The film premiered in July 2021 at the Cannes Film Festival in the Semaine internationale de la critique. The film received critics acclaim and screened in many film festivals. Later the film received two nominations at the Cannes Film Festival f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Outi Pieski")