The Visit

The focus of Laura Itkonen's work is on visually detailed, tactile architectural ceramics and on sculptural emphasis with an experimental approach to the material and the chemistry in it.Watch the episode on Youtube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The roles have changed and the host became the guest! This is one way to celebrate the second birthday of the podcast ✨Leda Vaneva's practice tests the boundaries of the surrounding world through videos, objects, drawings. She gathers and highlights the multiplicity of viewpoints and possible takes on what can be considered "real".Watch the episode on Youtube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hanna Råst works with lens-based media, text, and sculpture. Her work delves into themes of memory, transience, and the human psyche, often intersecting with research areas such as archaeology, psychology, and ecology. Watch the episode on Youtube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ilkka Paloniemi is an artist, curator and designer working in the field's of light, art and architecture. He is also Master of Theatre Arts, theatre consultant, 3D specialist, and scenographer and is based in Espoo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gregoire Rousseau's work ranges from audio performance to text based installation, always proceeding from a research on an artistic practice that stands for material as language, and concept taking form based on knowledge.Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is special.Each artist at The Visit shares a funny story, unique perspective, or a piece of wisdom they acquired among multiple other fascinating details related to their work. This video is a gathering of all guests from 2024, with some of their most memorable moments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sebastian Reis's practice combines photography, painting and sculptural elements. His approach emerges from synthesising subjective experiences with culture-historical and art-historical occurrences. 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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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. 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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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. 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. 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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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.Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcastMan's current exhibition: https://www.hamhelsinki.fi/en/exhibitions/man-yau-passage/Pitted dates: https://pitteddates.site/ 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.Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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 @polalabWatch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast 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.fi/esitys/sivuhenkilot-2/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/170537726108817/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[]%7DWatch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Multiple perspectives, people's relations to the natural, and recently – power, are some of the themes she explores. Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Juliana Irene Smith is a half Iranian, half American expat who works with generational trauma through material memory, photography and installation. The works are direct and unafraid of confrontation. The aesthetic qualities of colour, imperfection, flaws, and a sense of urgency reflect the artist's desperation to expel, in her words, the “bad things” from her body and recover from the past. Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 philosophical development of kinetic sound sculptures, dynamic light installations, performances with self-made sound machines and multimedia theater plays.Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 tool for sound making. In her drawings, she embraces the question of the animal and its ambivalent presence through symbolic thinking. She is also known for being the founder and sonic mind behind Third Space, an artist run gallery and collective based in Helsinki. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Natalia Kozieɫ-Kalliomäki is moving in the area of expanded printmaking and film. She is fascinated by the power of light, analogue technology, relation between camera and subject, distorted images and mesmerizing structures. Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Roberto Fusco is an Italian media artist based in Helsinki. At the intersection of physical and computational processes, Roberto focuses his artistic research on the use of digital techniques capable of recording, reconstructing, and simulating reality, exposing the role of technology itself in mediating our perception and experience.Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcastSweet Water Rough Water exhibition: https://www.valmed.fi/sweet-water-rough-water/https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=650299053796601&id=100064495368138&set=a.456164886543353 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pauliina Heinänen is an artist who works around the themes of presence, longing and belonging. All their works start from photographic thinking and are characterized by focusing on details. In addition to their own artistic practice, Pauliina maintains the Uumen association together with Laura Konttinen where they publish texts by visual artists.Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jane Hughes is an Irish artist who works with painting, drawing, installation and various collaborative projects. She is fascinated by remnants of the past, textures, otherworldly ambiance.Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jenni Niskala is a Finnish artist whose work moves around the questions of seeing, observing, experiencing and existing. She works mainly with printmaking.More about Jenni: https://jenniniskala.com/Video episode: https://youtu.be/VjtCuWeple8 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kamila Śladowska is an interdisciplinary visual artist who explores inspirations from culture anthropology and permacultural thinking about creation.More about Kamila: https://www.instagram.com/kamilla_sladowska/Video episode: https://youtu.be/-g2KPZssp2A Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Simo Saarikoski's works examines the phenomena of our time as well as the human psyche and the impact of humans on their environment.He is also part of the group Messianic Research Centre for Visual Ethics and the Pori-based T.E.H.D.A.S. collective. Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marloes van Son builds instruments, installations and systems. Her recent work focuses on sound objects, instrument building, graphic scores and experimental compositions. During performances Marloes plays her self-built instruments combined with voice according to precomposed scores. Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Barbora Kachlíková is a Czech artist based in Finland. Her paintings are influenced by the farming neighbourhood of the Finnish village Ratula, where she lives and works.Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alison's exploration has, over many decades, focused on the visual arts and has ranged over many themes, different countries and cultures.Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lora Dimova is a Bulgarian-Finnish artist based in Helsinki. Her work explores the ephemeral and extrasensorial spaces, the inner and outer territories of the body. Watch the video of the episode on youtube @thevisitpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.