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! 

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Claudia Vasconcelos Varjotie

Claudia Vasconcelos Varjotie

I am a freelance children's book illustrator, artist and facilitator of creative workshops. Currently, I am pursuing a Master's degree in ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Portuguese

Visual arts: Painting, Illustration

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

Other culture: Community art

Ricardo Baltazar

Ricardo Baltazar

Ricardo Baltazar is a Portuguese transdisciplinary artist currently based in Helsinki. They are a curator and activist, working with ...

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Visual arts: Curating, Photography, Video Art, Media art, Installation, Art theory / art history

Performing arts: Performance art

Music: Sound Art

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Polina Kuznetsova

Polina Kuznetsova

I am a weaver, textile designer, musician, woodworker, inventor of art equipment, luthier, collector of musical instruments and promoter of my ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Other visual arts

Music: Global Music, Music therapy

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

Other culture: Community art

Sebastian Björkman

Sebastian Björkman

I am a Helsinki based graphic designer and visual artist who is specialized in logo-art and communication design. Rather than having an ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Swedish

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Graphic design, Illustration

Other culture: Environmental art

Christelle Mas

Christelle Mas

Christelle Mas (b. 1984, Paris, France) is a French photographer and a media artist based in Finland. Her work explores the human connection to ...

Languages: English, Finnish, French

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

Literature: Poetry

Other culture: Environmental art

Ishani Upendra Siriwardana Parana Palliya Guruge

Ishani Upendra Siriwardana Parana Palliya Guruge

Sangeeth Visharadh Upendra Siriwardana is a passionate and talented musical artist, A multicultural music educator, ensemble teacher, vocal ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Hindi

Performing arts: Performance art

Music: Singing, Folk music, Global Music, Composing & music theory, Music education, Pop/Rock, Classical / art music, Contemporary art music

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Cleide Prado

Cleide Prado

Brazilian Finnish artist Cleide Prado creates art that radiates color, warmth, and joy. Having lived across Europe for many years, she blends ...

Languages: English, Finnish, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Visual arts: Painting, Other visual arts

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Cinta Hermo Martin

Cinta Hermo Martin

Singer-songwriter from Andalusia living in Helsinki expert in multicultural projects. Concerts in 22 countries, 17 albums, 11 with the world ...

Languages: English, Finnish, French, Spanish

Music: Singing, Folk music, Global Music

Literature: Poetry

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Pedro Castellon

Pedro Castellon

Machu Picchu was established in 1986 in Stockholm. For over thirty years, Machu Picchu has appeared in concerts, on television, held music ...

Languages: Finnish

Music: Folk music, Music education

Gua Khee Chong

Gua Khee Chong

Chong Gua Khee is a Singaporean director and dramaturg. At its core, her work is about creating spaces where people can explore and embody ...

Languages: Chinese, English

Performing arts: Directing, Dramaturg

Other culture: Community art

Alexandra Trizna

Alexandra Trizna

Alexandra Trizna is a Russian-born visual artist known for her dynamic and evolving body of work. Born in 1980 in Leningrad (now Saint ...

Languages: English, Russian, Swedish

Visual arts: Painting, Curating, Installation

Miguel Ortiz

Miguel Ortiz

Mike is a versatile musician, he plays the acoustic and electric guitar, bass, percussion, synthesizer, and is the lead and backing vocals on ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Spanish

Music: Singing, Global Music, Composing & music theory, Lyrics writing, libreto, Pop/Rock

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Jovani De la Cruz Marin

Jovani De la Cruz Marin

Jovani De la Cruz Marín is a multidisciplinary Peruvian artist based in Finland, whose work intertwines ancestral Andean music, audiovisual art, ...

Languages: Finnish, Spanish

Visual arts: Photography, Graphic design, Video Art, Media art, Other visual arts

Performing arts: Performance art

Music: Folk music, Global Music, Music technology, Music therapy

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

Other culture: AI Art

Maria Leskinen

Maria Leskinen

I am an artist and illustrator Maria Leskinen, MA, living in Finland and in Brazil. I exhibit my art in Finland and abroad. I studied scientific ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Portuguese, Spanish

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

Other culture: Environmental art

Gloria Velasco

Gloria Velasco

Gloria Velasco (b. 1992, Mexico) is a painter and art historian whose work fuses the intimate with the symbolic. Based in Helsinki since 2020, ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Spanish

Visual arts: Painting

Devina Boughton

Devina Boughton

Devina Boughton (they/them) is a versatile trumpet player, vocalist, composer and pedagogue hailing from rainy Portland, OR and currently based ...

Languages: English, Finnish

Music: Singing, Jazz, Folk music, Global Music, Composing & music theory, Conducting, Music education, Pop/Rock, Classical / art music, Contemporary art music, Sound Art

Literature: Poetry

Special groups: Youth, Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Other culture: Environmental art

Julia Gagarina von Heiroth

Julia Gagarina von Heiroth

Julia Gagarina von Heiroth is a visual artist based in Helsinki. Her art explores the line between imagination and reality, often through ...

Languages: English, Russian, Swedish

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting, Illustration

Uliana Novak

Uliana Novak

I am Uliana Novak, a self-taught artist of Russian origin based in Finland since 2010. For many years I worked as a sociologist, earning a PhD ...

Visual arts: Painting