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.

A World of Creativity

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.

Exclusive Access

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.

Browse the GAP Creatives Database and connect with your next collaborator today! 

For inquiries, contact our Interim Project Manager Dayron Napoles Rubant at dayron.napoles(at)globeartpoint.fi.

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Phuong Dao

Phuong Dao

Dao Phuong, or Betty Fvck as his artist name, is an award-wining drag burlesque artist based in Helsinki. They have performed in over 12 ...

Languages: English

Performing arts: Performance art

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Chih-Tung Lin

Chih-Tung Lin

Chih-Tung Lin is a curator and artist, originally from Taiwan, and based in Helsinki since 2019. Lin works multidisciplinarily, between ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Curating, Illustration

Performing arts: Performance art

Valentina Bravo

Valentina Bravo

Valentina Bravo, Santiago de Chile 1988. Fine Arts Degree with a major in Plastic Arts (2017) Lives and works in Lahti, Finland. Her artistic ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Visual arts: Painting, Curating, Illustration

Jaime Belmonte

Jaime Belmonte

Jaime Belmonte Caparrós is a Spanish-Finnish composer, conductor and researcher based in Helsinki. He works as an independent composer and ...

Languages: Finnish, English, French, Spanish

Music: Composing & music theory, Conducting, Sound Art

Riband Kurd

Riband Kurd

Riband Ahmed from Kurdista, Iraq. I do street photography and outdoor model photography .

Languages: English

Visual arts: Photography

Reynolds Kevin

Reynolds Kevin

My company KRMB Management was formed in 1998 As a session musician I have worked with Phil Collin’s, Mary J Blige, Usher, Take That, Boyz Own, ...

Languages: English

Music: Singing, Music technology, Pop/Rock, Hard Rock/Metal, Urban/Electronic

Nathalie Sallegren

Nathalie Sallegren

Nathalie Sallegren (Gnattie) is an Australian spoken word artist based in Raseborg, Finland. British born/ French origin/ Papua New Guinean ...

Languages: Swedish, English

Visual arts: Other visual arts

Performing arts: Performance art

Music: Jazz, Global Music

Literature: Poetry, Non-fiction, Fiction

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Community art, AI Art

Polina Laamanen

Polina Laamanen

My main focus is hand embroidery with modified textiles. I transform old craft into modern art and research all the possibilities of fibers and ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Photography, Installation, Illustration, Other visual arts

Christopher X. Ryan

Christopher X. Ryan

My primary mission is to tell stories that challenge the reader—realist, grounded, everyday stories that discomfit and unnerve while refraining ...

Literature: Fiction

Marloes van Son

Marloes van Son

Marloes van Son (b. 1991, The Netherlands) creates sound-objects, instruments and experimental music. Her artistic practice combines ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Media art, Installation, Other visual arts

Music: Sound Art

Mercedes Balarezo

Mercedes Balarezo

Mercedes Balarezo is an Ecuadorian dance artist and pedagogue based in Helsinki. For her, dance and education are tools that can bring us closer ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Performing arts: Choreography, Dance, Dance pedagogy

Special groups: Children, Youth, Aged / seniors

Tal Riva Theodorou

Tal Riva Theodorou

I am a freelancer viola player. I have extensive experience on stage as an orchestra musician and as a chamber music musician. I am an active ...

Languages: English, German, Spanish

Music: Classical / art music, Contemporary art music

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Csilla Csépke

Csilla Csépke

Csilla Csépke is a Helsinki based writer from Hungary. She was born in the stern winter of 1986 in Budapest, raised by a single mother of two. ...

Languages: Finnish, English

Literature: Poetry, Non-fiction, Fiction

Anna-Sofia Nylund

Anna-Sofia Nylund

Anna-Sofia Nylund is born in a small Finnish-Swedish town at the Finnish west coast. She has a background in documentary and media art (Arcada ...

Languages: Swedish, English

Visual arts: Video Art, Media art

Other culture: Community art

Laura Hasanen

Laura Hasanen

I am a visual artist and educator who is passionate about art education as a tool for change, criticality, and compassion. I am interested in ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Sculpture, Arts pedagogy, Other visual arts

Special groups: Children, Youth

Pedro Aibéo

Pedro Aibéo

I am an architect (MSc) and civil engineer (MSc) with an extensive experience and training in music and drawing. I am the founder and chairman ...

Languages: English, German, French, Spanish

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Curating, Video Art

Performing arts: Set design

Music: Folk music, Music education

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Dace Strausa

Dace Strausa

This is about horses and art. After graduating from secondary school and finding myself in a situation, when the only road leads eastwards (I ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Painting, Photography

Hanan Mahbouba

Hanan Mahbouba

Hanan Mahbouba is a filmmaker and writer. Most recently she has been working with the themes of post-migration and diasporic cultural legacy. ...

Languages: Finnish, English

Visual arts: Video Art, Other visual arts

Literature: Fiction