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The Visit

Studio visits with artists sharing their work and life stories. 

Visual artist Leda Vaneva asks creators how their path led them to the world of art, what the role of the studio is for their practice, and generally how to survive being an artist. Practical tips and curious situations.


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Update frequency
every 17 days
Average duration
65 minutes
Episodes
51
Years Active
2023 - 2025
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Define what human is through the non-human – with Alma Heikkilä

Define what human is through the non-human – with Alma Heikkilä

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…

01:17:53  |   Fri 07 Jun 2024
Overcome fear – with Minja Kolehmainen

Overcome fear – with Minja Kolehmainen

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 re…

00:52:23  |   Fri 24 May 2024
Question identity. Why am I me? – with Minjee Hwang Kim

Question identity. Why am I me? – with Minjee Hwang Kim

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.


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01:13:13  |   Fri 26 Apr 2024
It’s important to be seen – with Lau Rämö

It’s important to be seen – with Lau Rämö

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 emphasi…

00:45:22  |   Fri 12 Apr 2024
Conceptual handicraft – with Emma Rönnholm

Conceptual handicraft – with Emma Rönnholm

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, paire…

01:01:01  |   Fri 29 Mar 2024
Create tension between materials – with Sofi Häkkinen

Create tension between materials – with Sofi Häkkinen

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…

00:57:35  |   Fri 15 Mar 2024
What is nomadic art - with Anna Broms

What is nomadic art - with Anna Broms

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 Lä…

00:54:33  |   Fri 01 Mar 2024
See the space in a new light –with  Päivikki Alaräihä

See the space in a new light –with Päivikki Alaräihä

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.


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00:53:16  |   Fri 16 Feb 2024
First you need an idea or an irritation – with Miradonna Sirkka

First you need an idea or an irritation – with Miradonna Sirkka

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…

00:53:52  |   Fri 02 Feb 2024
Materials matter – with Man Yau

Materials matter – with Man Yau

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 exoticizatio…

01:00:44  |   Fri 19 Jan 2024
Trust your practice – with Anu Raatikainen

Trust your practice – with Anu Raatikainen

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 meta…

00:56:10  |   Fri 05 Jan 2024
Visual artists need to be visible – with Pola Laamanen

Visual artists need to be visible – with Pola Laamanen

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 he…

01:10:32  |   Mon 18 Dec 2023
Be relevant to yourself and to others – with Noora Geagea

Be relevant to yourself and to others – with Noora Geagea

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.


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01:18:53  |   Mon 27 Nov 2023
Embrace complexity – with Kemê

Embrace complexity – with Kemê

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, …

01:10:29  |   Mon 13 Nov 2023
Aim for the sublime – with Oscar Dempsey

Aim for the sublime – with Oscar Dempsey

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 i…

01:08:26  |   Mon 30 Oct 2023
Explore what it’s like to be human – with Pasi Autio

Explore what it’s like to be human – with Pasi Autio

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 environ…

01:31:21  |   Mon 16 Oct 2023
There’s not one way of doing things – with Paula Tella

There’s not one way of doing things – with Paula Tella

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... 


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00:55:03  |   Mon 02 Oct 2023
Go after the information – with Vilma Pimenoff

Go after the information – with Vilma Pimenoff

Vilma Pimenoff is a visual artist whose work is rooted in photography. She is interested in the semiotics of the everyday, that is - how we understand the world around us through signs and symbols. M…

01:22:20  |   Mon 18 Sep 2023
Confront the ugliness with beauty – with Marko Timlin

Confront the ugliness with beauty – with Marko Timlin

Marko Timlin is a Finnish-German artist creating artworks that link science with art, technology with nature and the past with the present. His artistic work centers on the technical, aesthetic and p…

01:43:27  |   Mon 21 Aug 2023
Find the visual in sound and sound in the visual – with Ana Gutieszca

Find the visual in sound and sound in the visual – with Ana Gutieszca

Ana Gutieszca is a Mexican-Finnish visual and sound artist, an inventor of broken noises and graphite universes: she is fascinated by the transformation of drawing into sound and using graphite as a …

01:08:58  |   Mon 07 Aug 2023
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