Ars Fennica 2025, Helsinki Art Museum
The Ars Fennica visual arts prize exhibition is a good deal for museums. They get a curated, branded, and largely funded exhibition. This kind of arrangement frees up museums, which are currently committed to quite tight exhibition schedules, to prepare for other exhibitions. And it saves money Read this article in Finnish here HANNA VIHRIÄLÄ: Aisti (Sense/Instinct) (2025, detail) I recall that once upon a time some museums were somewhat reserved about hosting the Ars Fennica exhibition in their own space. The view was that such an exhibition would narrow the museum's own exhibition policy. Now the world has changed so that a high-quality international contemporary art exhibition is, I believe, acceptable to all art museums. The Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation awards the €50,000 visual arts prize every second year. Candidates have included artists from Finland, other Nordic countries, and the Baltic region. The candidates for 2025 were nominated by the prize committee a...