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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Wanda Holopainen

Wanda Holopainen is a storyteller, and documentarian who seeks for different stories. She is currently exploring on analgoe filming as a way to ...

Languages: Finnish, English

Visual arts: Video Art, Media art

Special groups: Children, Disabled people, Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Other culture: Community art

Naomi Holopainen

Naomi Holopainen’s art highlights the spectrum of emotions and how they manifest in different realities. The exploration of emotions through ...

Languages: Finnish, English

Visual arts: Curating, Photography, Video Art, Media art, Installation, Other visual arts

Performing arts: Script writing / playwright

Literature: Poetry, Non-fiction, Fiction

Special groups: Youth, Aged / seniors, Disabled people, Multicultural / diversity, LGTB, Other

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art, AI Art

JOSEF KA

Josef Ka is a curator, art educator, visual and performance artist based in Helsinki. They are a founder of Sauna Gallery, open for any ...

Languages: Swedish, English, Russian, French

Visual arts: Painting, Curating, Photography, Installation, Arts pedagogy

Performing arts: Performance art

Music: Composing & music theory, Contemporary art music, Sound Art

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

REENA JHA

Mandala "The Mystic Circles" are geometric configuration of symbols. It’s an ancient form of practice since the age of Vedas, also called as ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Painting, Other visual arts

Ilaria Tucci

I work as a university lecturer, playwright, actress, theatre director, community facilitator, diversity agent, singer and songwriter. I use ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Italian

Performing arts: Acting, Directing, Dramaturg, Script writing / playwright, Theatre pedagogy

Music: Singing, Jazz, Global Music, Pop/Rock

Literature: Poetry

Special groups: Children, Youth, Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Community art

Müge Yildiz

Müge Yıldız is a Turkish artist and filmmaker, based in Finland. She studied Cinema and Philosophy respectively at Galatasaray University in ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Photography, Video Art, Media art, Installation, Other visual arts

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Environmental art

Dasha Pears

Dasha Pears is an award-winning artist, currently based in Helsinki, Finland. Dasha's uncanny laconic art pieces are focused on self- discovery ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Photography

Merle Karp

Merle Karp is a Helsinki-based visual designer, video artist and VJ, also known as Folded Visuals. She is the artistic director and a co-founder ...

Languages: Finnish, Estonian, English, German

Visual arts: Curating, Graphic design, Video Art, Media art, Installation

Performing arts: Light design, Set design

E Rowan Mena

E Rowan Mena is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and book artist. They hold an MFA in poetry from Brown University, an MFA in literary ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Other visual arts

Literature: Poetry

Special groups: Disabled people, Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Walter Götsch

My practice is grounded in usability, field research, and symbolism to prepare, empower, and direct. They are form, feeling, and ...

Languages: Finnish, English, German

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Painting, Curating, Graphic design, Video Art, Installation, Illustration

Performing arts: Choreography, Set design, Costume design, Performance art

Literature: Fiction

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Heilemann Sandra

Being native German, born 1975, Art and creativity has been a part of Sandra‘s life since early childhood. Later it became a part of her ...

Languages: Finnish, English, German

Visual arts: Painting

Gabriella Presnal

Gabriella Presnal (b.2001) is a Finnish-American visual artist with a BA in Media and Arts from Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Their ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Sculpture, Curating, Video Art, Media art, Installation, Other visual arts

Performing arts: Light design

Special groups: Youth, LGTB

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Nikita Gavrilenko

After completing high school, my family advised me to pursue a "normal" job rather than pursuing my passion for art, a common sentiment in my ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Photography, Graphic design

Adel Kim

Adel Kim (b.1987) is a curator, manager, and researcher focused largely on art residencies. She received an MA in Art Studies from Hongik ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Curating, Art theory / art history

Veronica Solomon

Veronica Solomon is an animation filmmaker with more than 15 years experience in story-telling, concept design, character development, direction ...

Languages: English, German, Spanish

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Photography, Media art, Illustration, Other visual arts

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Elizabeth Torres

Elizabeth Torres (Madam Neverstop) 1987. Colombian/American poet, translator and multimedia artist. Her work intertwines poetry, visions and ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Painting, Curating, Video Art, Media art, Illustration

Performing arts: Dramaturg, Script writing / playwright, Performance art

Music: Sound Art

Literature: Poetry, Fiction

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Other culture: Environmental art

Anita Kittery

Anita Kittery is a French-Indian Tamil painter and PhD researcher currently based in Helsinki, Finland. Her work explores how traditions are ...

Languages: English, German, French

Visual arts: Painting, Illustration

Music: Classical / art music

Literature: Non-fiction

Farshad Sanati

Farshad Sanati is a musician, musicologist and a Santour (Iranian classical instrument) player. He obtained his master’s degree in Music, Mind ...

Languages: English

Performing arts: Performance art

Music: Singing, Folk music, Global Music, Composing & music theory, Music education

Special groups: Youth, Aged / seniors, Multicultural / diversity