GAP Creatives database

Are you searching for diverse, international talent to enrich your projects?

The GAP Creatives Database is your gateway to connecting with professional artists, cultural producers, educators, and entrepreneurs with multicultural expertise and backgrounds. It’s an open archive showcasing creative professionals based in Finland who work across various disciplines and bring unique perspectives to their fields.

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Our members represent a wide range of disciplines, from the visual and performing arts to cultural production, education, and creative entrepreneurship. Whether you’re looking for an artist, facilitator, or partner, our database has the talent you need.

Multicultural Expertise

Our professionals are skilled in working within diverse communities and multicultural settings, making them ideal collaborators for inclusive and innovative projects.

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The GAP Creatives Database includes international talent that you won’t find in traditional networks. From Finnish returnees rebuilding their creative networks to foreign-born professionals creating outside of the traditional art venues, our database highlights all voices.

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Globe Art Point actively promotes its members’ work, and as a member, you’ll benefit from streamlined access to their profiles, projects, and achievements.

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Mustafa AKSU

Mustafa Aksu is a Helsinki-based traditional artist, puppeteer, and cultural producer specializing in the heritage of traditional shadow theatre ...

Languages: Finnish

Visual arts: Other visual arts

Performing arts: Performance art, Puppetry

Other culture: Community art

Maya Kubinova

Maya Kubinova was born in Eastern Europe during the era of socialism. She left Slovakia after the velvet revolution and after traveling and ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Photography, Video Art, Installation

Tiago Mazza Chiaravalloti

I’m a Brazilian / Italian photographer, photojournalist, visual artist and cultural worker based in Helsinki, Finland. I’m 35 years old, I was ...

Languages: English, Portuguese

Visual arts: Painting, Photography, Video Art, Arts pedagogy

Special groups: Children, Youth, Multicultural / diversity

Ezgi Tanrıverdi

Ezgi Tanrıverdi is a visual artist and illustrator based in Helsinki, Finland. She holds a Master’s degree in Arctic Art and Design from the ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Painting, Illustration

Oscar Dempsey

Oscar Dempsey is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and scenographer with over 10 years of experience working across performance, film, and ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Sculpture, Installation

Performing arts: Set design, Costume design

Mia Spangenberg

Mia Spangenberg translates from Finnish, Swedish, and German into English. Her published translations include works by Finlandia-prize winning ...

Languages: English, Finnish

Literature: Non-fiction, Fiction

Eman Mohamed

I am Eman Salah, an Egyptian printmaking and watercolor artist, graphic designer, and founder of Mono Art Lab, based in Espoo, Finland. My ...

Languages: Arabic, English

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting, Photography, Graphic design, Illustration, Other visual arts

Special groups: Children, Youth, Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Luthando Jamda

Luthando Jamda (professionally known as Luthando Sound) is a South African actor, stage manager, and music producer with a rich international ...

Languages: English, Swedish

Performing arts: Acting, Dance

Music: Singing, Folk music, DJ, Lyrics writing, libreto, Urban/Electronic

Special groups: Children, Youth, Multicultural / diversity

RIta Lemivaara

Rita Lemivaara is a Finnish performing artist, actress, and professional dancer with over two decades of international experience based in ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Swedish

Performing arts: Acting, Dance

Special groups: Children, Youth, Multicultural / diversity

Eva Lantseva-Helki

Eva Helki is a Helsinki-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, installation and mixed media. Her practice explores ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Painting, Installation, Arts pedagogy

Maksym Nalyvaiko

Maksym Nalyvaiko is a Helsinki-based filmmaker, director, editor and creative producer. Before moving to Finland, I lived in Warsaw for nearly ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian

Visual arts: Photography, Video Art, Media art

Performing arts: Directing, Script writing / playwright

Special groups: LGTB

Ginko Hsu

Ginko Hsu is a Helsinki-based visual artist. She holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki. Working across glass, ceramics, ...

Languages: Chinese, English

Visual arts: Sculpture, Painting, Curating, Installation, Other visual arts

Literature: Poetry, Visual Poetry

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Danielle Yamauchi

Danielle Yukari is a Japanese-Brazilian visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Inspired by the visual world and interested in the politics ...

Languages: English, Portuguese

Visual arts: Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Arts pedagogy, Other visual arts

Performing arts: Performance art

Shima Salehi

Shima Salehi is an interdisciplinary visual artist with Iranian roots, based in Oulu, Finland. Her practice explores how cultural memory, ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Painting, Installation

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Pak Lun Fung

Alan, an interdisciplinary artist with a doctoral degree in atmospheric science, bridges the worlds of science and art, using performance art ...

Languages: Chinese, English

Performing arts: Acting, Choreography, Performance art

Kathryn Ruck

Kate Ruck is based in Helsinki, Finland, with ongoing ties to New York and Las Vegas, New Mexico, where she spent over a decade fabricating and ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Sculpture, Video Art, Installation, Other visual arts

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Telman Nataliia

Nataliia Telman is a Chuvash-born visual artist, illustrator, and designer based in Finland. With over a decade of experience in painting, ...

Languages: English, Italian, Russian

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting, Graphic design, Illustration, Art theory / art history, Arts pedagogy

Performing arts: Acting, Performance art

Music: Opera, Jazz

Ton Melnyk

Ton Melnyk is an independent multidisciplinary artist and queer feminist activist from Kyiv now living in Helsinki-Espoo. They graduated from ...

Languages: English, Ukrainian

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting, Curating, Graphic design, Video Art, Media art, Installation, Illustration, Arts pedagogy, Other visual arts

Performing arts: Script writing / playwright, Performance art

Literature: Non-fiction

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art