Felipe de Ávila Franco
Felipe de Ávila Franco (b.1982) is a Brazilian visual artist working between South America and Europe since 2013. His work explores the intersection of sculpture and other mediums, delving into themes of biopolitics and environmental aesthetics. Through different blends of traditional and experimental techniques, his process incorporates industrial materials and residues to be transfigured into sculptures, installations, ceramic series and other interventions questioning notions of nature, energy, territory, and the human body.
Grounded on concepts of materiality, his work expresses concern with the industrial dystopia of our current times, illuminating sculpture as a practice capable of materializing temporalities and dimensions that reflect on the encounter between the scales
of the human, the nonhuman, and the planet. The artist addresses the artistic process as a mechanism to awaken new perspectives of knowledge, establishing interdisciplinary links between arts, humanities, natural sciences and ancient cosmologies. Engaging in a critical examination of topics regarding the socio-environmental emergency, his work aims at evoking art as a tool to activate a deeper discussion on the conflicting relationship between human society and the natural
environment, highlighting those as interdependent entities.
Currently, the artist works between Brazil and Finland. His work has been displayed in South America, Asia, Europe and United States, and integrates distinguished collections such as the Museum of Brazilian Arts FAAP, in São Paulo, the Helsinki Arts Museum HAM, and the Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, in Helsinki.
Laura Lowe
Laura Lowe is an emerging oil painter working with the iridescent colour spectra found in oil slicks and coal seams. Rather than using pigment, Lowe’s Structural Colour Paintings produce colour by building up layers of translucent paint, which bend and refract light like a prism. Her practice is informed by laboratory experimentation and an alchemical interest in the interplay of light and matter.
Lowe trained at Factum Arte & Factum Foundation, Madrid before completing her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, during which she won the Hotel GLO Art competition and her MFA degree show was awarded the Anita Snellman award. Lowe’s work has been exhibited at Galleria Paperihuone, Hämeenlinna ‘22; Galleria Rajatila, Tampere ‘23; B-galleria, Turku ‘24, and Huuto galleria, Helsinki ‘25. Lowe is currently working with a two-year working grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation on an upcoming solo show “Fiat Lux”, Forum Box ‘26, as well as group shows for Madrid and Oulu.
Oskari Ruuska
Oskari Ruuska is a Finnish artist who lives and works in Helsinki. Working primarily with sculpture and video, Ruuska often incorporates technological elements and sensitive materials to engage viewers in tactile, sensory experiences.
Oskari Ruuska’s work is supported by the Kone Foundation for the years 2024 and 2025. His works have been exhibited at Nuoret 2023 in Kunsthalle Helsinki, Kuvan Kevät in Exhibition Laboratory, SIC space in Helsinki, Titanik Gallery in Turku, ACUD macht neu, and Ohrenhoch Der Geräuschladen in Berlin. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and has taught at Art School MAA.
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