Inspiration Lunch TAB edition: Public art – why and to whom?

Seminar

Kultuurikatel, Põhja pst 27a

From:11:30 24.09.2015

To:16:30 24.09.2015

The seminar introduces the percent-for-art principle; how it has been undertaken and how it could be developed. Professionals from Estonia, Sweden and Finland will share their experiences and a wide range of cases and possibilities will be discussed.

Participation fee 5€ (includes lunch, will be paid on the spot).

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Programme

11.30  Lunch
12.00  Introduction to the ‘Percent for Art!’ project by Miisa Pulkkinen with example from Finnish artist Heini Riitahuhta.
12.30  Public art projects in Helsinki by Klas Fontell
12.50  Public Art Agency Sweden by Magdalena Malm
13.10  Discussion
13.30  Coffee break
14.00  Estonia and one percent – five years of commissioning artworks by Maria-Kristiina Soomre
14.15  Art in architecture – view of an architect by Maarja Kask
14.30  Connecting Arts and Architecture by Heini Orell
15.00  Discussion
16.00  Visit to the Estonian Contemporary Art Museum

Speakers

Heini Riitahuhta

independent ceramics artist (FIN)

Heini Riitahuhta is an independent ceramics artist and designer based at the Arabia Art Department studio in Helsinki. Her monumental artwork Arabia Flower was displayed on the Arabianranta shoreline, close to the ceramic factory in Helsinki in 2013. Alongside her studio work at the Arabia Art Department, she works on design projects based on a range of materials such as enamelware and textiles in Finland and Japan.
www.artarabia.fi

Heini Orell

producer, Frei Zimmer (FIN)

Frei Zimmer is a leading public art consultancy and design studio in Finland. Its services cover the whole art project from generating ideas to implementing the art work. Clients they work for include the public sector, construction companies, constructors, architecture firms and construction sector consultants.
www.freizimmer.fi

Magdalena Malm

director, Public Art Agency Sweden (SWE)

Magdalena Malm joined the agency in August 2012 and during her leadership she is redifining the direction of the Art Agency towards also including temporary projects and artists’ involvement in urban development. Prior to joining the Public Art Agency, Malm was the founding director of Mobile Art Production, an independent arts organisation producing situation-specific art projects. She has curated a number of exhibitions at Moderna Museet Stockholm, at the Venice Art Biennale and at Iaspis international exchange program and she is co-editor of among other Black Box Illuminated and Imagining the Audience.
www.statenskonstrad.se

Maarja Kask

architect (EST)

Salto Architects are interested in the fascinating area between architecture, landscape design and art. By operating in the border areas of architecture they try to experiment with context; including the social and economical, and rethink their methods every time. Their designs range from installations that serve as architecture to buildings that become a new landscape, or architecture that can be used as an installation etc. Projects as diverse as ``Gas pipe`` installation at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale and the site-specific temporary straw theater for Tallinn Culture Capital of Europe 2011, to public building commissions are all treated as equal.
www.salto.ee

Miisa Pulkkinen

communication officer, The Artists' Association of Finland (FIN)

Percent for art is a project that promotes public art and the percent for art scheme in Finland. The project is a collaboration with the design, art and architecture associations in Finland. The project enhances the knowledge of the percent for art scheme and promotes the scheme in both public and private sectors. Pulkkinen works with communications and media relations in the project. She also is editor-in-chief of the professional journal The Artist.
www.artists.fi

Maria‐Kristiina Soomre

Adviser on Visual Arts at Estonian Ministry of Culture (EST)

The Commissioning of Artworks Act was passed by the Estonian Parliament in 2010. Since 2011 over 40 artworks have been realised in different new and renovated buildings all over the country. The presentation gives an overview of the system for commissioning artworks as well as main problems we have faced so far. Maria-Kristiina Soomre has worked as curator and project manager in the Kumu Art Museum, lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts, as well as critic and editor at the Sirp cultural weekly.
www.kul.ee

Klas Fontell

architect, Helsinki Art Museum (FIN)

Helsinki Art Museum - HAM is among the largest museums in Finland. In addition to organising art exhibitions the museum is responsible for it’s own collection, comprising of ca. 9000 works, and for the city’s public art sector.

Klas Fontell has been working for HAM for almost 20 years and is together with his team in charge of public arts initiatives, including both projects realised through own allocations and initiatives realised through the extensive percent art agency. Additionally, Fontell is dealing with questions regarding the maintenance of works as well as information and consultation relating to the field.
hamhelsinki.fi

Moderator

Veronika Valk is an architect who has constructed both public and private buildings, designed interiors and landscapes and published a number of critical essays on architecture and urbanism. She runs her practice Zizi&Yoyo, directs research at the Faculty of Architecture and leads the PhD program in architecture at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Today, she is concurrently an advisor on architecture and design at the Ministry of Culture of Estonia.
www.kul.ee




Main organiser: The Finnish Institute in Estonia
Partners: The Estonian Ministry of Culture, The Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Estonia and the Estonian Centre for Architecture