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.

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 Interim Project Manager Dayron Napoles Rubant at dayron.napoles(at)globeartpoint.fi.

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Wilson Tanner Smith

Wilson Tanner Smith

Wilson Tanner Smith is a cellist, composer, improviser, and music-theatre artist currently based in Helsinki. His work at the edges between ...

Languages: English

Performing arts: Acting, Dance, Script writing / playwright, Sound design, Performance art

Music: Singing, Opera, Jazz, Composing & music theory, Music education, Music technology, Classical / art music, Contemporary art music, Sound Art

Literature: Poetry

Other culture: Community art

Jessy Muyonjo

Jessy Muyonjo

J.C Muyonjo is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Uganda, currently residing in Finland. J.C fuses his practices as a ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Media art, Illustration, Arts pedagogy

Performing arts: Sound design, Performance art

Music: Singing, Music technology

Santiago Tovar

Santiago Tovar

I’m a Visual Designer and 2d Illustrator from Ecuador, currently based in Helsinki. As a freelance Illustrator, I’m passionate about creating ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Graphic design, Illustration

Allan Castellanos

Allan Castellanos

Allan Castellanos is a Mexico City-born electronic music artist and producer based in Finland. He began his career by producing successful music ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Spanish

Visual arts: Installation

Performing arts: Light design, Sound design

Music: Music education, DJ, Music technology, Music therapy, Urban/Electronic, Contemporary art music, Sound Art

Other culture: AI Art

Valerie Marshall

Valerie Marshall

Valerie Marshall is a Helsinki based artist and architect. Her art practice uses architectural drafting techniques as a way of exploring ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Painting, Media art, Illustration

Anna Siukola

Anna Siukola

I DO like to make things... I DO like to make them well... and it DOES get messy… and crazy… and goes out of hands sometimes... and I LOVE ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Russian

Visual arts: Sculpture, Painting, Other visual arts

Olesya Fokina

Olesya Fokina

My name is Olesya Fokina, and I am a creative multi-disciplinary artist from the capital region of Finland. I was born in Russia into a ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Russian

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting, Media art, Illustration, Art theory / art history

Performing arts: Acting, Directing, Theatre pedagogy

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

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Bilge Hasdemir

Bilge Hasdemir

Bilge Hasdemir (she/her) is Helsinki based researcher and curator exploring and thinking through the context and conditions of socially ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Curating, Other visual arts

Special groups: Youth, Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Vahide Shafie

Vahide Shafie

My design journey began in graphic arts and evolved into a specialized passion for 3D jewelry design. Over seven years, I've transformed my ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Graphic design, Illustration, Other visual arts

Mojgan Garshasbi

Mojgan Garshasbi

I am an artist with a strong background in teaching art, specializing in embroidery and needlework. My creative work is inspired by nature and ...

Languages: English

Mudassar Hussain

Mudassar Hussain

I am a post-production professional specializing in editing, color grading, and VFX for film and television. With a background in film studies ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Graphic Arts

Isabella Shaw

Isabella Shaw

Mezzosoprano, harpist, poet and multidimensional artist, Isabella Shaw was born in Colorado, USA. She is a graduate of Sibelius Academy Opera ...

Languages: English, Finnish

Performing arts: Dance, Dramaturg, Script writing / playwright

Music: Singing, Opera, Composing & music theory, Lyrics writing, libreto, Classical / art music, Contemporary art music, Sound Art

Literature: Poetry, Fiction

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Other culture: Environmental art

Kirill Razumov

Kirill Razumov

Kirill Razumov is a blogger and author who has been interested in photography for many years. His first photo exhibition was held in June 2008. ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Photography

Literature: Non-fiction

Paola Hernández Castañeda

Paola Hernández Castañeda

My profession is in sciences and techniques of communication, during my studies and working life I have always created or participated in ...

Languages: English, Spanish

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

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity, Other

Other culture: Community art, AI Art

Jeroen Sebrechts

Jeroen Sebrechts

I'm a creative producer and audience development professional based in Helsinki, currently employed at the Finnish National Theatre's ...

Languages: English, Finnish, French

Alexey Kandaurov

Alexey Kandaurov

Alex Kan is a story and animation artist, designer, director and filmmaker. With a full career path from designer to director he has gained vast ...

Languages: English, Russian

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

Performing arts: Script writing / playwright

Siavash Minaravesh

Siavash Minaravesh

I am a Helsinki-based Iranian artist working with photography and filmmaking. Storytelling through images and videos is at the heart of my work, ...

Languages: English, Finnish

Visual arts: Photography, Video Art

Isaque Sanches

Isaque Sanches

Isaque Sanches is an ‘outsider artist’ focused primarily on ‘systemic art’ (aka. ‘systems art’) — ie. exploring subject-object relationships via ...

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

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

Performing arts: Performance art

Literature: Visual Poetry

Other culture: AI Art