Liisa Lounila switches between traditional oil painting, painting with glitter, drawing, creating neon sculptures, and working with video. The latest addition to her ouvre are the silver and palladium coated everyday objects. Lounila's films Popcorn, Flirt and Play>> have received international acclaim. In 2003, she represented Finland in the Devil-may-care group exhibition organized at the Nordic Pavillion during the 50th Venice Biennial.
Visual artist and photographer Anu Suhonen is more interested in similarities than she is in differences between places and cultures. She is curious about the ways people adapt to their habitat, how they react to it, and how they finally settle down.
Architect Helena Teräväinen has worked several years in urban and regional planning, while at the same time doing research on the cultural heritage of the built environment. As the city architect of Lapua, in South Ostrobothnia, Helena Teräväinen was in charge of many of the town’s renovation and construction projects.
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have announced the annual GOOD DESIGN awards for the year 2011. GOOD DESIGN, dating back to 1950, is the oldest, largest, and also one of the most prestigious awards programs organized worldwide. It was founded by Charles and Ray Eames, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr, George Nelson, Eero Saarinen, and Russel Wright.
Artist Mikko Kallio moved to New York in July to spend a year working here. Kallio's Greenpoint workspace was part of the Scandinavian artists' open studio day on Saturday November 5th. The tour to the North Brooklyn studios was organized by Elfi Alvin, a pioneer in promoting the work of Nordic artists in New York.
Every other year, one city is selected the World Design Capital by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID). Only two other cities, Torino (2008) and Seoul (2010), have previously held the title. World Design Capital 2014 will be Cape Town. In 2012, the design capital of the world is Helsinki, together with four other Finnish cities: Espoo, Vantaa, Kauniainen, and Lahti.
The program for the upcoming year has now been published.
The art world is once again gathering to Miami at the end of November and beginning of December. There are altogether seventeen different art fairs or festivals today taking place during one week, November 29 - December 4. Art Basel Miami celebrates its 10th anniversary edition from December 1st through 4th, and it will convene 260 exhibitors and feature some changes outside the Miami Beach Convention Center venue, from which video and installations are spilling over into the neighboring buildings and open spaces.
The old TWA Terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport was added to openhousenewyork (OHNY) Weekend's architectural program in the last minute but the house was full on Sunday, October 16th. For the first time in ten years public was allowed inside the terminal designed by Eero Saarinen. OHNY estimates that about 1,000 people visited the terminal on Sunday, with most visitors toting cameras. During the event, many former TWA flight crew members also showed up, some of them in uniform.
Jaakko Heikkilä started working as a photographer in the 1990s, interpreting the cultural scene in the Tornio River Valley, at the Northern border of Finland and Sweden. Ever since then Heikkilä has expanded his photographing trips to other minority communities in various parts of the world.
Pauliina Koskinen Tonboe has her own practice Arkitektstudio 3D in Copenhagen where she works as a consulting architect in town planning and 3D visualization. She has been working with public city planning projects in both Finland and Denmark, and also in projects related to private housing, urban design and landscape architecture.
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