Nine artists have been selected to tell new kinds of narratives of Finnishness
The project ”Narratives of Finland: Historical Culture, Arts and Changing Nationality” includes an artistic part which askes how do contemporary artists conceive changes in the understanding of Finnishness and what are the new perspectives they can offer for building a diverse nation.
The artistic part is carried out from April 2023 to August 2024 in cooperation with Mannerheim Museum, Helinä Rautavaara Museum, Cultural Centre Caisa, Vantaa Art Museum Artsi and Gallen-Kallela Museum.
The selected artists are:
Özgü Gündeşlioğlu, Harold Hejazi, Spartak Khachanov, Nadiye Koçak, Mia Malviniemi and Mervi Junkkonen, Sara Moayed, Ennisofia Salmela Flores, Mia Seppälä.
About the selection process:
In November and December 2022, the project Narratives of Finland published an open call for artists. All together we received 151 proposals to our open call from a broad range of art fields: music, theatre, circus, dance, poetry, literature, painting, photography, textile art, ceramics, sculpture, comics, multimedia, film and performance art. The amount of applications and the proposals’ personal commitment to the topics proposed by the project made a big impression on the project team and the jury. We feel very happy and grateful for all this interest, each proposed artwork aimed in its own way at telling a story of Finnishness.
In February 2023, the jury selected nine artists. In their artworks questions related to Finnishness find an original and strong artistic expression and thereby they bring new voices to the discussion about the narratives of Finland.
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