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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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.

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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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Perrine Ferrafiat

I am a French puppeteer, visual theatre director, dramaturg, performer and graphic designer, working in Helsinki. I obtained in 2007 a master ...

Languages: English, Finnish, French

Visual arts: Graphic design

Performing arts: Directing, Dramaturg, Theatre pedagogy, Puppetry

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

Brooke Maggs

Brooke is fiction writer and narrative designer for games and interactive experiences based in Helsinki. After years of working as a freelance ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Media art, Other visual arts

Literature: Fiction

Special groups: LGTB

Felpe Vasconez

Felipe Vásconez (b. 1995, Ecuadorian) is a visual artist based in Helsinki, working with drawing, painting, and various printmaking techniques. ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Spanish

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

Maria Gatsal

I am a multidisciplinary artist from Mexico and Spain living in in Finland. My practice navigates the intersections of culture, language, and ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Spanish

Performing arts: Acting, Choreography, Dance

Special groups: Children, Youth, Multicultural / diversity

Lauren Guymer

Lauren Guymer is an Australian visual artist (b. 1992) living in Finland. Lauren’s practice includes painting, drawing, and fieldwork that ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Painting, Curating, Arts pedagogy

Analía Capponi-Savolainen

Analía Capponi-Savolainen (M.Mus., L.Mus., D.Mus.) is an Argentinian-Finnish singer and vocal pedagogue, music educator and researcher ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Spanish

Music: Singing, Music education, Classical / art music

Special groups: Children, Youth, Multicultural / diversity

Jon Irigoyen

My artistic practice is a continual exploration of the body—its potential, poetics, and political dimensions amid ecological urgency. I strive ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Visual arts: Curating, Photography, Media art, Installation, Arts pedagogy

Performing arts: Dance, Performance art

Special groups: Children, Youth, Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Community art

Reza Razm

Reza Razm, born in 1980 in Masjed Soleiman, is a multidisciplinary artist with over 20 years of experience in theater, cinema, and visual arts. ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Painting

Performing arts: Directing, Dramaturg, Script writing / playwright

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Dorota Buczkowska

I studied Fine Arts at the University of Toruń and have spent many years working as a graphic designer and art teacher, while also leading ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Graphic design, Illustration

Special groups: Children, Youth, Aged / seniors

Ximena Gamboa

Ximena Gamboa, born in 1997 in Mérida, Mexico, is a painter and visual artist based in Helsinki with a temporary studio in Raasepori. She ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Visual arts: Painting

Maryam Khalilzadehbin

Maryam Khalilzadeh, is an Iranian illustrator and animation filmmaker currently based in Finland. She recently earned recognition as an alumna ...

Languages: English

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

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

Literature: Visual Poetry

Special groups: Children

Dahlia El Broul

Dahlia El Broul is an artist, educator, and curator originally from New York City, where she received her BFA in Illustration and a minor in Art ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Painting, Illustration, Arts pedagogy, Other visual arts

Special groups: Children, Youth

Other culture: Community art

Özgu Gundeslioglu

Gundeslioglu is a material-based artist whose practice has centered on ceramics for more than fifteen years. In 2019, she completed her doctoral ...

Languages: English, Finnish

Visual arts: Sculpture, Arts pedagogy, Other visual arts

Literature: Visual Poetry

Other culture: Community art

Elli Nora Sayyad

Nora Sayyad (b. 1991) is a Finnish-Palestinian photographer, artist, and visual reporter whose experimental lens pushes the boundaries of ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Swedish

Visual arts: Photography, Media art, Arts pedagogy

Literature: Fiction, Visual Poetry

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Community art

Natalie Hamada

Natalie Hamada is a visual artist and printmaker whose practice spans more than a decade. Her work addresses female struggles, social issues, ...

Languages: Arabic, English

Visual arts: Graphic Arts

Special groups: Children, Youth, Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Community art, AI Art

Melika Mohammadhadi

I am an IT student and multidisciplinary artist working in embroidery and drawing. I have been creating art since I was 14 and continue to ...

Languages: English, Finnish

Visual arts: Painting

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

Heu Hsu

Heu Hsu is a sound artist based in Helsinki, experimenting with the possibilities of sonic narration in new forms. Her sound search across Japan ...

Languages: Chinese, English

Visual arts: Installation

Performing arts: Sound design

Music: Sound Art

Literature: Non-fiction, Fiction

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Environmental art

Mireia Castillo Saladrigues

Mireia c. Saladrigues is an artist and researcher, or rather, an artist-researcher. Her projects build on extensive inquiries while the ...

Languages: English

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