Experimental and playful works in the BFA Exhibition
The BFA exhibition 2024 brings together the works of 24 students from the Academy of Fine Arts, which will take over the ground floor of the Mylly building from 13 September to 6 October 2024. The exhibition features experimental, playful and daring works from the subject areas of painting, printmaking, sculpture and time and space arts.
The works of the young Bachelor of Fine Arts graduates are playful, experimental and do not shy away from sensitive subjects. There is an element of the unexpected in presentation, content and technique. Paintings, prints, sound, words, sculptures, moving and still images, made of different materials, are installed in the space. The exhibition also features performative works. The diversity of techniques and the distinctness of the works is the strength of the exhibition, allowing the works to engage in a dialogue with each other.
“The works are particularly good at bringing out sensitive and even personal issues in a subtle way, through presentation and visual means. For example, the theme of corporeality is dealt with in a personal, playful and even daring way,” says the curator of the exhibition, Lecturer Marika Orenius.
The annual bachelors’ degree exhibition presents the work of students from all subject areas at the Academy of Fine Arts of Uniarts Helsinki: Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture and Time and Space Arts. There is no shared theme to the exhibition – each participant is allowed to produce and present the artistic component of their bachelor’s thesis freely.
Artists
Irini Arana, Erkki Huilla, Sini Ilves, Ville Karlsson, Matilda Keränen, Otto Koskelo, Paavo Kärki, Anastasiia Lapteva, Diana Luganski, Lasse Määttä, nauthey / anundi-nousiainen, Aino Raatikainen, Mirella Salo, Viktor Sundman, Aino Tillonen, Luumu Tursas, Jaakko Uljas, Olli Valkola, Iida Valmé, Emppu Veinola, Eva Volmerson, Sofia Vuorenmaa, Minja Yletyinen, Anne Yli-Ikkelä
Publication
The publication Halki – Tekstejä taiteellisista prosesseista (in Finnish) brings together texts written by students of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts, which have emerged from discussions with the artists of the BFA exhibition in Spring 2024.