I have been invited to participate in the Mänttä Art Festival this summer as both a co-curator and an artist.

The XXIX Mänttä Art Festival will look at art curation from different perspectives. The exhibition will feature numerous co-curators making this the most extensive curatorial process in the history of the festival. The focus will be on the distribution of power and responsibility of the artistic directing known as curating. Curator Krister Gråhn has invited a group of co-curators, experts in different roles in the art world, to participate. They will bring an unprecedentedly wide range of artists and themes into the programme. 

The Mänttä Art Festival will push the boundaries of contemporary art with the help of the co-curators who will utilise architecture, design, urban planning, art education, theatre, jewellery, public art, art writing, and documentation.

https://www.kuvataideviikot.fi/en/co-curators-2025.htm

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The painting "Vistiahon lato Kiiskiseltä" (Vistiaho barn from Kiiskinen) by the painter Elina Försti is located in the H Building of the Vaasa Central Hospital. Försti wanted to make for the hospital a painting of an intact and upright barn. In her painting, she wanted to depict the period of early spring when some of the fields have already been ploughed, but some old stubble still remains. Spring is a significant time of the year for Elina Försti, as that is when light is at its purest and the waking nature at its most beautiful.

https://tarinapankki.fi/item/vistiahon_lato_ovph/

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