Raimo Saarinen is a visual artist and sculptor based in Helsinki. He graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2017. In his art, Saarinen deals with the Western concept of nature, and its problematic view of humans acting as separate individuals towards nature. Nature’s temporality and ability to regenerate are the core motifs of his art, where he uses living plants and other organic materials. (Continues…)
Around launches ”Color of the Month” – a monthly selection of an inspirational shade that reflects the here and now. Alongside the color we present a moodboard of images that back our choice. The color will also be featured in the design of our site each month.
We start May 2019 with 13-0210 Fog Green from the Pantone FHI color range. (Continues…)
Aro Mielonen is an activist come art student, a fashion and secondhand shopping enthusiast, job refuser, anarchist and wonderer. Mielonen’s photo series Born into this body is now on display at the Young Artists exhibition in Kunsthalle Helsinki. The main idea behind the artwork is to criticize the trans narrative in mainstream media and the often used phrase “born in the wrong body”. Ultimately what motivates Mielonen’s creative work, is the need and search for freedom. (Continues…)
The works of the Helsinki-based artist Kristina Sedlerova are staged set pieces, slowly revealed with time. They speak of absence, presence and existence. As the artist herself says, “Time as a concept is intriguing to me. The approaches to measuring time or having a shortage of time are topics I speculate about. I think that we can’t even talk about ‘not having time’ to do this or that, because we can’t deny the existence of time.” (Continues…)
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Young Artists exhibition, which had its debut at Kunsthalle Helsinki in 1939. The significance of art has by no means decreased over the years; on the contrary, different genres of art are finding new audiences through digital platforms and social media. Around Journal presents a series of interviews of some of the artists exhibited at Kunstahalle, starting with visual artist Astrid Strömberg and her work The Originals. (Continues…)
Designer Tero Kuitunen is inspired by the interface of design and art, the unprejudiced apposition of things, floating sceneries, and the meaning of humor and touch in design. Alongside product design, Tero is known for concept and space planning as well as memorable projects of contemporary art and design. (Continues…)
Some years ago we were told by many experts that soon we will all have 3D printers at home. Clearly, this has not been the case – and thankfully so. With the technology developing in such a fast pace, we can only imagine the amount of discarded printers that would be in the landfills by now. While we have come to realize that not every home will need a 3D printer, this technology has by no means been forgotten. (Continues…)
Babette Wiezorek is a product designer, art historian and researcher who works at the interface of materials, technologies and the processes that connect them. Her Berlin-based Additive Addicted studio focuses on additive and computer-aided technologies (3D-printing) using fluid materials, ceramics in particular.(Continues…)
Finnish artist and designer Kustaa Saksi is famous for his graphic storytelling through patterns, textile art and installations. Saksi’s works have been exhibited at Victoria & Albert Museum, Cooper Hewitt Museum and the San Jose Museum of Art, just to mention a few, as well as in many galleries around the world. Saksi has also produced commissioned artworks for companies such as Nike, Issey Miyake and Marimekko. Around Journal interviewed Saksi on his latest exhibition First Symptoms at the Finlandsinstitutes Galleri in Stockholm.
Fashioned from Nature is an exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum that explores the complex relationship between fashion and nature from 1600 to the present day. It presents fashionable dress alongside natural history specimens, innovative new fabrics and dyeing processes, inviting visitors to think about the materials of fashion and the sources of their clothes. (Continues…)
