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Join @mimauseful at Art + Social No. 18 today (18

Institute of Contemporary Art's (ICA) Director Ben

Institute of Contemporary Art's (ICA) Director Bengi Ünsal answered a few questions about the newly announced strategic partnership for 2024-2026 between the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland and ICA. 💫

Read the interview to find out what’s in the pipeline for the next couple of years and how the collaboration started in the first place. Link in bio ✨

Image: Muhsin Akgun

The Institute is on holiday in July. We wish you a

The Institute is on holiday in July.
We wish you a wonderful summertime, see you in August! ✨

A snapshot from last Saturday, when we celebrated

A snapshot from last Saturday, when we celebrated Pride with our fellow Nordic countries and thousands of others in the London Pride parade! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The fight for equality continues, and we remain committed.

Happy Pride! 🌈

#NordicsForEquality #LondonPride

Choreographer-dancer Maija Nurmio took part in a m

Choreographer-dancer Maija Nurmio took part in a mentoring programme which started last autumn as a part of Performing HEL showcase. Read the interview on our website to find out more about her experiences of the programme, link in bio! ⭐

@chisenhaledance
@circusdancefinland

Photo: Johanna Tirronen

Surrender to the intimacy of dancing and derives i

Surrender to the intimacy of dancing and derives its choreographic material from the context of club and rave culture this July 🔎

down below things shudder
📅 4th and 5th July 8pm
📍 ICA
🎟️ £14

🔗 Book your tickets via the link in our bio

Kaisa(@kaisacleva )is a dancer-choreographer. Her dance background is in street dance; mainly in hip hop and punking/waacking.
Marika(@marikapeura )is a freelance choreographer and dancer. Her background is in street and club dance culture. She works multidisciplinary in the fields of dance and contemporary performing art.

With grinding as its movement landscape, five dancers engage in a search of pleasure of the dancing body.

In partnership with @icalondon

📷 Venla Helenius

#downbelowthingsshudder #ica #dance #performance

Happy Summer! 🌼 Our July-August newsletter is o

Happy Summer! 🌼 Our July-August newsletter is out, this summer's highlights are:

💎 Anssi Kasitonni was selected as the recipient of the Below Zero Finnish Art Award 2025
🌟 Staff news! Sara Kärpänen will start as the new Arts Programme Director in August
🔥 ICA will present Marika Peura's and Kaisa Nieminen's 'down below things shudder' on 4-5 July

To read the newsletter, please visit the link in our bio ➡

Photo credits, in order:
Patrik Rastenberger
Aino Väänänen
Venla Helenius

#SummerNewsLetter #July_August #BelowZeroAward #newstaffmember #ICA_performance

🌟 Thank you for joining us at the @londonfestiv

🌟 Thank you for joining us at the @londonfestivalofarchitecture Symposium: On Architectural Acts of Care at Somerset House!

🌟 The event featured screenings and presentations from Vapaa Collective, Fitzrovia Noir, and Glenkerry House resident Katie John, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Samir Pandya.

This project was commissioned by the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, in partnership with the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and the Consulate General of Finland in New York. It is part of the pARTir initiative funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

Photography by Jamal Springer-Lynch (@350jam)
Visual Identity by @studioemmi

#VapaaCollective #Architecture #EnvironmentalCare #Helsinki #London #NewYork #Archtober #LFA2024

Jacksons Lane’s Artistic Director and joint CEO

Jacksons Lane’s Artistic Director and joint CEO Adrian Berry answered a few questions about the newly announced strategic partnership for 2024-2026 between the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland and Jacksons Lane. 💫

Read the interview to find out what’s in the pipeline for the next couple of years and how the collaboration started in the first place. Link in bio ✨

Photo: Alex Brenner

Anssi Kasitonni has been selected as the fourth wi

Anssi Kasitonni has been selected as the fourth winner of the Below Zero 2025 Finnish Art Award! 💫

Below Zero is the UK-based contemporary art award for Finnish artists emerging on the international scene, hosted by Beaconsfield London in association with the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland and Serlachius. The Beaconsfield Commission offers creative support during a mentored residency and exhibition at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, and subsequent exhibition of the commission at Serlachius in Mänttä, Finland.

Kasitonni’s sculptures and videos are complex, hand-made productions that reference popular culture and are filled with humour. During his residency, Kasitonni will be out and about talking to people and delving into the psyche of South London to inspire the new work.

Congratulations Anssi! 🎉

Read more on our website, link in bio ➡

#BelowZeroFinnishArtAward
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@serlachiusmuseums
@anssikasitonni

Photos by Anssi Kasitonni and Patrik Rastenberger

Below Zero Art Award 2025 Nominee shubhangi singh

Below Zero Art Award 2025 Nominee shubhangi singh

Full-lenght video available on our YouTube, please follow the link in bio.

The Below Zero art award for Finnish artists is presented for the fourth time this year. The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, Beaconsfield London, and Serlachius have published the shortlist for the 2025 award. The shortlisted artists are Saara Ekström, Anssi Kasitonni, Jaakko Pietiläinen, Vappu Rossi, shubhangi singh and Maija Tammi.

shubhangi singh works in the intersections between labour, gender, and the shared commons –– social spaces, resources and collective memory. Her practice often draws upon existing knowledge to address movement, identity, and queries related to the body and its relationship with the environment. Working across media, the works are transdisciplinary and multi-modal. singh holds a master’s degree in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art from Aalto University and is the co-founder of New City Limits, an initiative to facilitate creative viewing and practice in Navi Mumbai, India. She currently lives and works in Helsinki.

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@serlachiusmuseums
@shubhangisingh

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Below Zero Art Award 2025 Nominee Jaakko Pietiläi

Below Zero Art Award 2025 Nominee Jaakko Pietiläinen

Full-lenght video available on our YouTube, please follow the link in bio.

The Below Zero art award for Finnish artists is presented for the fourth time this year. The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, Beaconsfield London, and Serlachius have published the shortlist for the 2025 award. The shortlisted artists are Saara Ekström, Anssi Kasitonni, Jaakko Pietiläinen, Vappu Rossi, shubhangi singh and Maija Tammi.

Jaakko Pietiläinen's work include videos, sculptures, installations, performances and scenographies in which he studies porous matters such as time, memory, power and the body. Pietiläinen's works are often site and/or situation-specific, operating in an interplay of the factual (or the real) and fictional narratives. A recurring interest in his work is capitalist technology and its subliminal effects on language, knowledge and perception.
Pietiläinen is based in Helsinki, Finland. He has graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. He also holds two BA degrees from Aalto University Finland.

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@jaaakko

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Below Zero Art Award 2025 Nominee Maija Tammi Ful

Below Zero Art Award 2025 Nominee Maija Tammi

Full-lenght video available on our YouTube, please follow the link in bio.

The Below Zero art award for Finnish artists is presented for the fourth time this year. The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, Beaconsfield London, and Serlachius have published the shortlist for the 2025 award. The shortlisted artists are Saara Ekström, Anssi Kasitonni, Jaakko Pietiläinen, Vappu Rossi, shubhangi singh and Maija Tammi.

Maija Tammi's photographs, videos and installations often examine the liminal areas of mortality, immortality, science, and art. Her artistic practice is characterised by the desire to get to the bottom of things. She works with scientists and specialists from different fields to create artworks that confront, surprise, and provoke feelings.
Tammi currently holds the title of Artist Professor for
2020–2024. Tammi has a master's in visual journalism and worked as a photojournalist before her artistic career.
She holds a practice-based doctorate from Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture in 2017.

@beaconsfield_gallery_vauxhall
@serlachiusmuseums
@maija.tammi

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Below Zero Art Award 2025 Nominee Anssi Kasitonni

Below Zero Art Award 2025 Nominee Anssi Kasitonni

Full-lenght video available on our YouTube, please follow the link in bio.

The Below Zero art award for Finnish artists is presented for the fourth time this year. The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, Beaconsfield London, and Serlachius have published the shortlist for the 2025 award. The shortlisted artists are Saara Ekström, Anssi Kasitonni, Jaakko Pietiläinen, Vappu Rossi, shubhangi singh and Maija Tammi.

Anssi Kasitonni is an inventor and builder, whose works draw from the fringes of popular culture, of a world of skateboarders and moped boys partly gone by. The materials and techniques of the artworks vary. Bronze-cast reliefs, resin and cardboard sculptures and insightful puppet animations are Kasitonni at his most familiar. While the artworks are humorous, they also speak for equality and humanity. Kasitonni graduated from Lahti Polytechnic Institute of Fine Arts in 2003. Finland’s most prestigious art prize, Ars Fennica, was awarded to him in 2011.

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@serlachiusmuseums
@anssikasitonni

#BelowZeroFinnishArtAward

Below Zero Art Award 2025 Nominee Saara Ekström

Below Zero Art Award 2025 Nominee Saara Ekström

Full-lenght video available on our YouTube, please follow the link in bio.

The Below Zero art award for Finnish artists is presented for the fourth time this year. The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, Beaconsfield London, and Serlachius have published the shortlist for the 2025 award. The shortlisted artists are Saara Ekström, Anssi Kasitonni, Jaakko Pietiläinen, Vappu Rossi, shubhangi singh and Maija Tammi.

Saara Ekström works with film, photography, text and site-specific installations. Ekström is interested in documenting the stratification of time and history, moving on the borderlands between the concrete and the mythical, culture and nature. In her practice, Ekström has often worked in collaboration with various museums, and these places have become important sources for grasping who we are as humans and how our thoughts, habits and rituals manifest themselves through the years. She has been awarded with the Finnish State Art Prize in 2023.

@beaconsfield_gallery_vauxhall
@serlachiusmuseums
@ekstromsaara
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Below Zero Art Award 2025 Nominee Vappu Rossi Fu

Below Zero Art Award 2025 Nominee Vappu Rossi

Full-lenght video available on our YouTube, please follow the link in bio.

The Below Zero art award for Finnish artists is presented for the fourth time this year. The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, Beaconsfield London, and Serlachius have published the shortlist for the 2025 award. The shortlisted artists are Saara Ekström, Anssi Kasitonni, Jaakko Pietiläinen, Vappu Rossi, shubhangi singh and Maija Tammi.

Vappu Rossi is a visual artist working in Helsinki, Finland. She is a drawing artist pushing boundaries, inspired by experimental drawing challenges, movement drawing, live drawing, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Rossi works in different media: drawings, paintings, installations, light boxes, and animations. His practice includes expressive depictions of movement and large-scale studies of the human face. Rossi has a master’s degree from The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Besides her work as an independent artist, she is the first female Drawing Master at Helsinki University.

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@beaconsfield_gallery_vauxhall
@vappu.rossi
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