Admission results: Master of Fine Arts, Autumn 2024

24 applicants are admitted as new students to the 2-year education leading to a master’s degree in fine arts, and 13 applicants are placed on a waiting list.

The Master’s admission for the Academy of Fine Arts was conducted as a separate admission in autumn 2024. The application period to Master’s studies in fine arts was from the 7th of August to the 21st of August 2024. The applications were submitted electronically via the Studyinfo.fi portal.

260 applications were submitted to the degree programme in fine arts, of which 230 applicants were deemed eligible or conditionally eligible to apply based on their language skills, educational background and the required advance assignments. Based on the evaluation of the compulsory appendices and portfolios, 48 applicants were invited to the interviews.

The following 24 applicants are admitted as new students to the 2-year education leading to a master’s degree in fine arts, and the following 13 applicants are placed on a waiting list (applicants grouped by subject area):

Degree programme in fine arts

Painting

Waiting list:

  1. Vesanen, Jenni
  2. Applicant has not authorised publication of their name on the website
  3. Mattila, Heidi
  4. Kalejaye, Tosin

Printmaking

  • Karjalainen, Kiia
  • Pathirane, Henrik
  • Peräkylä, Hanna
  • Terho, Elmeri

Waiting list:

  1. Kesänen, Susanna
  2. Berg, Päivi
  3. Kyöttinen, Wilma

Sculpture

Waiting list:

  1. Applicant has not authorised publication of their name on the website
  2. Radebe, Sandile
  3. Hokkanen, Laura

Time and Space Arts

  • Benzoni, Elena
  • Gašperič, Žan
  • Heikkinen, Joa
  • Punkari, Janne
  • Tanttu, Ananaya
  • Þórhallsson, Sölvi Steinn

Waiting list:

  1. Applicant has not authorised publication of their name on the website
  2. Runola, Pauliina (conditional)
  3. Kuusa, Laura

The Academy of Fine Arts will send information to applicants about the admission results also by e-mail on 5 November 2024. Some e-mail clients may treat our messages as spam; please check your spam folder as well. Applicants can also inquire the results via e-mail (kuva.admissions@uniarts.fi).

Admitted students are to accept the offered study place latest by 19 November 2024 3:00 p.m. EET. New master’s students will start their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in January 2025.

Members of the admission jury will give feedback to those applicants who were interviewed, but were not admitted, at specific time if requested. Applicants receive more detailed information on how to request feedback via e-mail. Feedback cannot be given at another time.

Rectification request

Applicants can apply for rectification of the admission decision from Uniarts Helsinki under the Universities Act (558/2009), section 82. The purpose of a written request for rectification is to give the applicant the possibility to appeal and request for rectification if there is a reason to believe that there has been an error in the decision-making process. The rectification procedure is not intended as a means for receiving feedback or asking for further information about the admissions process.

How to request for rectification