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september 07, 2023 - Kiasma
KIASMA: Ars Fennica 2023 nominees joint exhibition opens at Kiasma
The nominees for the 2023 Ars Fennica award are Henni Alftan and Tuomas A. Laitinen from Finland, Lap-See Lam from Sweden, Camille Norment from Norway, and Emilija Škarnulytė from Lithuania. The winner, to be announced on 22 November, will be chosen by Anne Barlow, Director of Tate St Ives. The exhibition will be on show at the Museum of #contemporaryart Kiasma, Helsinki from 8.9.2023 to 28.1.2024.
The Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation – ARS FENNICA sr organizes Finland's most important visual arts award every other year. The award of 50,000 euros is given in recognition of an individual artistic oeuvre of outstanding quality.
The nominees and the internationally renowned art expert selecting the awardee were chosen by a panel chaired by Leena Niemistö, Vice Chairman of the Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation and comprising Eija-Liisa Ahtila, artist and filmmaker, Leevi Haapala, Director of Kiasma and Kai Kartio, Director of Amos Rex. Visitors to the exhibition can also vote for their favourite, and following the conclusion of the exhibition, the audience award will be presented.
The Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation – ARS FENNICA sr was established in 1990 to promote the visual arts. Exhibitions showcasing the Ars Fennica nominees have previously been presented in Kiasma five times, in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2017. The nominees have included artists from Finland, the Nordic and Baltic countries.
The exhibition is curated by Piia Oksanen, Curator of Exhibitions Kiasma. The exhibition is organized in collaboration between Kiasma and Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation – ARS FENNICA sr.
Ars Fennica 2023 expert
Anne Barlow is Director of Tate St Ives where she oversees its programme of exhibitions, collection displays, artist residencies, new commissions, learning and research. Barlow was formerly Director of Art in General, New York, and held curatorial roles at the New Museum, New York and Glasgow Museums, Scotland.
Across these roles, she has organised numerous exhibitions and published and lectured widely. She was also Curator of 5th Bucharest Biennale, Co-Curator of the Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, and most recently curated the Samdani Art Award at the 2023 Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh. Barlow has acted on selection panels and juries nationally and internationally, including the British Pavilion Selection Committee, 58th Venice Biennale.
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