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Founder of Public Art Agency Finland, Maija Kovari, sheds light on her background in the field of public space art and opens up about the upcoming three-year period as the year 2023 approaches its conclusion.
The City of Tampere organizes a two-phased public art competition for artists with connection to Tartu County. The first phase was an open call for portfolios, in which 24 artists and artist groups submitted their portfolios. Based on the submitted portfolios, the competition’s multidisciplinary jury decided unanimously to invite three artists to the next phase of the competition.
The Espoo Lasihytti Art Program has been completed. Its purpose is to enhance the area's identity, atmosphere, and comfort. The goal is to create an urban village where art enables unexpected encounters in the midst of everyday life and provides reflections on the area's history, present, and future while preserving the natural values of the Espoo River Valley.
Sculptor Matti Kalkamo was selected to realise the new public artwork of Kuhmalahti’s school building in Kangasala through the portfolio-based open call.
Known for her ceramic works, music and textile-based art artist Ninni Luhtasaari was awarded in the art competition of Lamminrahka area’s new school building. Lamminrahka area in Kangasala is currently under construction and will house around 8000 new inhabitants. Luhtasaari’s upcoming work consists of multiple parts and will be ready along side the school construction in 2023.
The new public art and landscape design programme of Lamminrahka neighbourhood in Kangasala brings diverse public art and event-based art projects into the new area.
The program was created by Public Art Agency Finland in multidisciplinary collaboration with city planners, land owners, and consulting designers, and closely connected to the area planning process.
The work by beloved graphic artist was opened together with the Ainoa commercial centre in Tapiola, fall 2019. Public Art Agency Finland facilitated the production process.
The city council of Espoo confirmed this historical program to use for the second largest city in Finland. Public Art Agency Finland created the program in collaboration with the city of Espoo in 2017-2019.
Accepted by the city council, it will guide art projects in public space in the coming years. Public Art Agency Finland created the program over a two year project in collaboration with representatives from the city’s departments of cultural affairs, urban planning, and other involved in curating, installing, and maintaining public art in the city.
The joyful creatures of the renown graphic artist Seela Petra will take central stage in the public artwork to be opened together with the Ainoa commercial centre in Tapiola, fall 2019. Public Art Agency Finland will facilitate the production process of the project made possible trough collaboration with the city of Espoo and EMMA - Espoo museum of modern art.
In this multi part artwork, a young okapi animal in a mural ends up climbing up on a square, and taking three dimensional form. We were responsible for the production of the project from start to finish.
During 2017, Public Art Agency Finland will create guidelines for future public art projects in the form of a public art program for the city of Mikkeli. These common guidelines will connect different parts of the city administration and help in the production of high quality public art projects - be it in the form of monuments, light art, temporary snow sculptures during winter, murals, or sound art - in a flexible way.
A new collaborative project with the University of Lapland and the northern travel industry is to develop the use of Public Art in the Arctic Region. The aim is to create general guidelines for collaboration between contemporary artists and the arctic travel industry. Here are preliminary thoughts on the arctic areas in relation to Southern Finland.
The founder of Public Art Agency Finland, sculptor and architect Maija Kovari worked in a study project of public art, the results of which are now public. In the project, Kovari worked as an artist in a street design team, designing artworks that could replace ordinary structures in city space. The goal was to study, if art could be integrated in urban surroundings in more cost affective methods than is currently customary. The results are promising.
We are very proud to be involved in a project in Espoo, where a public artwork by Lotta Mattila will be the connecting force between three areas of a new neighbourhood of Niittykumpu.
Working in collaboration with the City of Espoo, the Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA, as well as with Ramboll Finland, we make sure that the artwork is created seamlessly in collaboration with the other parts of the huge construction project.
We designed a series of collectable cards for the in Tampere, a city of approx 220 000 inhabitants in Southern Finland. The collectible cards tell stories along the tracks of the soon to be built tramway that will permanently change the city and its infrastructure. Each card sheds light on the history, and the future of a specific area around the future tram stops.
In October 2016, Maija Kovari spent a month in Singapore, meeting local experts and professionals in art and urban planning to understand the particularities that make up the rich urban landscape of the city state, from the point of view of public art. Join her on this trip here.
... read about these and other pertinent questions concerning art as part of urban planning and landscape architecture, as discussed in an interview with Tobias Baur
Three contemporary art professionals will be working as experts on sculpture, photography and painting in our future projects.
Public Art Agency Finland’s CEO Maija Kovari spent three months in New York City to learn, how the field of public art is organised in the city, and what we could learn from each other.