The Visit Podcast: Contemporary Artists Talking

Suzanne Mooney is a visual artist originally from Ireland, working with photography, moving image and found objects. She is currently a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, and a Doctoral candidate at Aalto University, delving into the connections between photography and glass. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Sebastian Reis 's practice combines photography, painting and sculptural elements. His approach emerges from synthesising subjective experiences with culture-historical and art-historical occurrences. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Satu-Minna Suorajärvi is a sculptor working with digital fabrication using 3D modelling, laser cutting and 3D printing. After switching from being a doctor of medicine, she now combines digital art with old traditions of sculpture. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aapo Huhta combines elements of documentary practice and experimental darkroom techniques with subjective, mundane observations, building a range of ambiguous and often fragmented narratives in his photographic work.  Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Maija Annikki Savolainen is a visual artist working with photography, text, stones, and green plants. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ville Aaltо is a sound artist & electronic musician based in Helsinki. He works with synthesizers, creates artificial, electronic versions of natural sounds and presents them in the form of surround sound installations, electronic music recordings and live concerts. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Joonas Hyvönen predominantly employs digital mediums such as animation, film, and games in his artistic practice. His works are often narrative-driven studies utilising storytelling as an instrument of reflection. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Karl Ketamo works in a multidisciplinary approach towards photography, moving image, sculpture and installation. A common thread in his work is the use of the use found images and objects, which he recycles, reworks, and presents in a new manner. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alma Heikkilä invites us to acquaint ourselves with the many symbiotic relationships we participate in and the essential role they play in constantly making us who we are. In doing so, she encourages us to contemplate how access to embodied knowledge may challenge our understanding of what it means to be a human. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast...

Minja Kolehmainen is an artist and cabinetmaker from Finland who lives and works in her mobile workshop van. She is inspired by nature and everything she creates is handmade with a lot of love and respect towards nature. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Minjee Hwang Kim is a Korean painter based in Helsinki who explores the notions of identity through self-portraits. She creates a continuous loop between the artist-self and the artist as subject. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lau Rämö is a visual artist working with video art, photography, installations and zines. Their animations combine soft and found materials with evocative tendencies and broader themes, often emphasising the shared existence as animate beings. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emma Rönnholm works with sculpture and installation, often featuring movement or other mechanical elements. Her artistic practise stems from a fascination for language, materials and processes, paired with a passion for mechanics and do-it-yourself. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sofi Häkkinen invents new combinations of materials. Humour and serendipity are guiding principles in her sculptural and performative practice. She is always doing many things and they flow into each other. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anna Broms is an artist who works with expanded painting, installation, and moving images, among other mediums. She is part of SubaruSisters. Her recent upcoming exhibitions will be in Lapinlahden Lähde (Venetsia building) in July 2024, and in galleria Huuto in march 2025. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

Päivikki Alaräihä is working mainly with painting and installation. Her minimalist approach guides the viewer to the surrounding space, blending the artwork with its environment. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Miradonna Sirkka is a performance and contemporary circus artist, director and performer. The artworks are multidisciplinary mashups and worlds to dive in; performances, installations, videos, sounds and media artworks. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Man Yau lives and works in Helsinki. Through the use of various materials –from porcelain, glass, wood or casted metals, to ribbon – her sculptures bring up questions around the issue of exoticization. Man's current exhibition . Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anu Raatikainen is a visual artist living in Helsinki, Finland, working with light, painting, drawing, sculpture, video and performance. Light has been a unifying factor as a medium, theme and a metaphor in her work. Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Polina Laamanen is an embroidery and textile artist. She creates one of a kind hand stitched artworks using threads and hand modified textile. She also produces original ebooks and tutorials. Check her Youtube channel Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Noora Geagea is a storyteller from Helsinki, with interest in cultural attitudes and structures and body movement, as an expression of the individual and the collective. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kemê is a multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki who works with photography, performance, installation and text, often hybridising them. She sees the arts as something between alchemy and magic, the spiritual and the subconscious. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oscar Dempsey is a visual artist, set designer and prop maker working with production companies and arts projects to design and manufacture for performance, film, art and public projects. They find inspiration in the vast, overwhelming spaces – natural, or man-made, in search for the feeling of the Sublime. Oscar's latest work can be seen in the upcoming Luukamari performance: https://cirko.f...

Pasi Autio works with photography, moving image and installation. His pieces often deal with the inner world of thoughts and its relation to external reality. Autio often investigates specific environments, circling around a single moment or train of thought and opening it up for examination. Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Paula Tella is a Finnish artist who focuses on the body, and who uses embodiment in the core of her practice. She creates photographs, installations, drawings, paintings, performances...  Watch the episode on Youtube Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.