The Helsinki Artists’ Association (HAA) promotes the modes of operation and position of the visual arts domain with diverse education, project, and exhibition activities as well as with multidisciplinary collaboration.
Take up visual arts at the Cable Factory! The Helsinki Artists’ Association Art School offers basic education in the arts for 4–18-year old students, and the Course Centre extensive courses for adults. The teachers are all professional visual artists and members of the Association.
The Helsinki Artists’ Association Art Lending services lends art by professional visual artists based in Helsinki both for private and business customers. The versatile and continuously increasing selection of over 9 000 works of art from the members of the Helsinki Artists’ Association includes paintings, graphic art, photography, sculptures, and more.
The diverse exhibitions presented by the Helsinki Artists’ Association (HAA) display interesting and current contemporary art extensively. An open national and international call is arranged to all permanent exhibition spaces of the Helsinki Artists’ Association, and the exhibitions are curated in high-quality manner.
The Helsinki Artists’ Association (HAA) promotes the modes of operation and position of the visual arts domain with diverse education, project, and exhibition activities as well as with multidisciplinary collaboration.
Take up visual arts at the Cable Factory! The Helsinki Artists’ Association Art School offers basic education in the arts for 4–18-year old students, and the Course Centre extensive courses for adults. The teachers are all professional visual artists and members of the Association.
The Helsinki Artists’ Association Art Lending services lends art by professional visual artists based in Helsinki both for private and business customers. The versatile and continuously increasing selection of over 9 000 works of art from the members of the Helsinki Artists’ Association includes paintings, graphic art, photography, sculptures, and more.
The diverse exhibitions presented by the Helsinki Artists’ Association (HAA) display interesting and current contemporary art extensively. An open national and international call is arranged to all permanent exhibition spaces of the Helsinki Artists’ Association, and the exhibitions are curated in high-quality manner.
Image: Heini Lehväslaiho – On the Edge of the Space, mixed media, 74 x 56 cm, 2021
Heini Lehväslaiho: Anyoneis here
Anyone Anyonesson is a combination of hamster-dog-monkey. She was born with wings on her back, but she had to let them go at an early age. She misses her wings, but notices that it is also possible to fly with the help of silence and imagination. Like for all of us stopping before everyday phenomena and wondering about things are also for Anyone the keys to seeing things in a new way. She will also press the limitations and go beyond the boundaries by simply and earnestly believing it is possible. Gazing down a dark hole, she says: ”On anything that you are able to see, there is at least some light”.
”Parts of the series of work called ”Anyone is here” have been presented in several exhibitions since 2022 and I am also working on a book of Anyone’s adventures. For my inspiration I look for the unity of humans, animals and all nature. I often picture animals strong and humans vulnerable and sometimes I mix people and animals all together. Despite of being incomplete the human being is part of nature which in its own right is perfect.”
Heini Lehväslaiho has been a Helsinki-based photographer for 20 years and now lives in the Finnish countryside in Pernaja as a full-time artist.
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