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.

Hassle-Free Connection

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 Project Manager Alex Kollerová at alex.kollerova(at)globeartpoint.fi.

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Eulogio Villaluz

Eulogio Villaluz

Don Villaluz is a Filipino self-taught artist, painter, muralist, a professional photographer/videographer and video editor, a graphic designer, ...

Languages: English

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

Performing arts: Acting, Directing, Set design

Music: Jazz, Folk music, Pop/Rock, Hard Rock/Metal, Classical / art music, Contemporary art music

Vitikainen Elaine

Vitikainen Elaine

I’m Elaine Vitikainen, an illustrator and an entrepreneur from Helsinki. While others say they have been drawing since the first time they held ...

Languages: Finnish, English

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Graphic design, Illustration

Nataliia Telman

Nataliia Telman

Nataliia Telman is highly creative and innovative designer with +10 years of experience in 2D animation, graphic design, painting, print and ...

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting, Graphic design, Media art, Illustration

Performing arts: Acting, Dramaturg

Music: Singing, Opera, Jazz, Pop/Rock

Other culture: Community art

Kollataj Julian

Kollataj Julian

Julian Kollataj explores different landscapes - mostly of the body-mind and physical, environmental landscape kind - through drawings and ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Photography, Graphic design, Video Art, Other visual arts

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Marisa Parra Zaid

Marisa Parra Zaid

Guatemalan born and raised artist with experience in Photography and Acrylic Painting. Her artistic formation began in 2012 in Vancouver, ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Visual arts: Photography

Maria Teplykh

Maria Teplykh

I was born in 1985 in Leningrad (nowadays Saint Petersburg), Russia. Moved to Finland in 2009. Currently I reside in Espoo. I have 3 Master ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Russian

Visual arts: Sculpture

Nilay Kılınç

Nilay Kılınç

Nilay Kılınç is a social anthropologist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. She holds a Master’s degree in European Studies from Lund University ...

Languages: Swedish, English

Performing arts: Script writing / playwright

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Joshua Levine

Joshua Levine

I'm an upright bassist who sings, born and raised in NYC. I worked for decades doing education and outreach in underserved communities, mainly ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Spanish

Music: Singing, Jazz, Folk music, Global Music, Composing & music theory, Music education, Lyrics writing, libreto

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

Valentina Černiauskaitė

Valentina Černiauskaitė

Valentina Černiauskaitė (b. 1997 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a visual artist and storyteller working at the intersections of graphic arts, ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Graphic design, Installation, Illustration, Other visual arts

Literature: Poetry, Non-fiction, Fiction

Emma Clear

Emma Clear

I am an Irish artist based in Finland (b. 1981). My work explores concepts for storytelling, care practices and strategies for building ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Sculpture, Painting, Curating, Installation, Illustration, Art theory / art history, Other visual arts

Literature: Poetry, Non-fiction

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Amy (Bear) Wiseman

Amy (Bear) Wiseman

I am a multifaceted wordsmith with a focus on creative writing, editing, interviews/podcasting, and journalism, though I dabble in many other ...

Languages: English

Performing arts: Script writing / playwright

Music: Lyrics writing, libreto

Literature: Poetry, Non-fiction, Fiction

Special groups: Children, LGTB

André Peniche

André Peniche

I embarked on my career as a still photographer in 1999 at the age of 17. By 2008, I had expanded my expertise into film and video. Over the ...

Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese

Visual arts: Photography, Video Art

Performing arts: Acting, Directing, Script writing / playwright

Ally Manson

Ally Manson

I'm an actor, director, and theatre practitioner from London, now living in Helsinki. As well as having experience working as an actor and ...

Languages: English

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

Alejandro Ramirez Perez

Alejandro Ramirez Perez

Alejandro (Alex) is a photographer. His biggest passion is music, so he focuses on concert and music photography, as well as events in general. ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Visual arts: Photography

Music: Hard Rock/Metal

Salvador Esparza

Salvador Esparza

Salvador Esparza is a queer Mexican-American screen, voice, and stage actor based in Helsinki, Finland and represented by Nordic talent agency, ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Performing arts: Acting

Special groups: LGTB

Stanislava Ovchinnikova

Stanislava Ovchinnikova

Stanislava Ovchinnikova is an interdisciplinary artist and curator whose interests lie primarily in the area of politically engaged and ...

Languages: English

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

Performing arts: Acting, Directing, Choreography, Dance, Performance art

Literature: Non-fiction, Fiction

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Gokhan Burhan

Gokhan Burhan

My art practice includes collages and acrylic paintings merging letter forms and typographic elements depend on primarily on accidental ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting, Graphic design, Illustration

Pan Tome Valencia

Pan Tome Valencia

I have a background in academia, including an MA in Theory and Practice of Theatrical Processes. I am active in the local poetry scene in Turku, ...

Languages: Swedish, English, Spanish

Visual arts: Painting

Performing arts: Acting, Dance, Script writing / playwright

Music: Lyrics writing, libreto

Literature: Poetry, Non-fiction

Special groups: LGTB

Other culture: Community art