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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Eka Teriina Vea Kosonen

I am Eka Teriina Vea Kosonen, a visual and community artist based in Kotka, Finland. Since 2009, I have specialized in mural art and ...

Languages: English, Finnish, Russian

Visual arts: Painting, Curating, Video Art, Media art, Installation, Arts pedagogy

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

Other culture: Community art

Chalabee Aya

Aya Chalabee is fiction author and artist. Holds BA in community interpreting and currently studies at Helsinki Artist's Association art school. ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Arabic

Visual arts: Painting, Illustration

Literature: Non-fiction, Fiction

Jane Hughes

Jane Hughes (b.1984, Dublin) currently lives and works in Perniö and Helsinki, she previously lived and worked in Germany for over a decade. She ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Sculpture, Painting, Curating, Installation

Other culture: Environmental art

Aleksandra Dunaeva

Future is already today. Today is already now. Aleksandra is a theatre maker, researcher and critic with migration experience. PhD in Theatre ...

Languages: English, Russian

Performing arts: Theatre pedagogy

Special groups: Youth, Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Community art

Olesia Komarova

Emerging artist and photographer from Russia based in Finland whose work is inspired by the beauty of natural things, including things most ...

Languages: English, Russian, German

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

Special groups: Children, Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Bresley Mansio

Born in Mexico, my artistic journey began in 2002 with private instruction and self-study in Helsinki, Finland. Later, at Heatherley’s School of ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Visual arts: Sculpture, Painting, Illustration, Other visual arts

Dilara Asardag

Currently, I work as a doctoral researcher in communication sciences at Tampere University. My doctoral project aims to comprehend to what ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Photography, Media art

Performing arts: Acting, Dance

Shweta Mistry

Shweta Mistry is a multidisciplinary artist currently working with handmade natural inks and pigments from locally sourced botanical and earth ...

Languages: English

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

Literature: Poetry

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

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Ekaterina Myllykoski

Ekaterina Myllykoski is a Symbolist artist based in Helsinki. Born in Moscow, I have established my artistic practice through a global lens, ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Painting

Special groups: Other

Basit Soomro

Hi there, I’m Basit. A Helsinki based multi-disciplinary creative. My main skillset revolves around visual design as I have a career as an 2D/3D ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Photography, Graphic design, Video Art, Illustration

Performing arts: Sound design

Music: DJ, Music technology, Urban/Electronic

Special groups: Youth

Veronika Kvitko

Veronika Kvitko, known as Vegesent, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores environmental responsibility and animal welfare through a ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Russian

Visual arts: Painting, Photography, Graphic design, Video Art, Media art, Illustration

Other culture: Environmental art

Jason DeBose

Since the acquisition of his first digital camera in 2005, fine art photographer Jason DeBose has been shooting as many as 80,000 photographs a ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Spanish

Visual arts: Photography

Performing arts: Performance art

Literature: Non-fiction

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Other culture: Community art

Yilin Ma

Yilin Ma is a Helsinki based curator and producer, working in the intersections of literature, visual culture, and live performance with a focus ...

Languages: Finnish, English

Visual arts: Curating

Elina Holley

The curious and open-minded find inspiration in surprising places, and so, also challenges can lead to something beautiful. I’m an experienced ...

Languages: Finnish, English

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

Performing arts: Dance, Set design, Costume design, Performance art

Other culture: Community art, Environmental art

Paloma Bautista Sánchez

Paloma Bautista is a Spanish self-taught visual artist with a professional background in architecture. She believes in art as a catalyst for ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Visual arts: Painting

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Community art

Jotham Peñaflorida

Im Joetams from Philippines and live here in Finland for almost 12 years now and here i started and found my talent as a visual artist do ...

Languages: Finnish, English

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

Performing arts: Dance, Light design, Sound design, Costume design, Performance art

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

Luiza Preda

Luiza Preda (born 1996) is a Romanian visual artist, cultural producer, and art educator based in Espoo, Finland. Preda uses photography as a ...

Languages: Finnish, English, French, Spanish

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

Performing arts: Set design

Other culture: Community art

Carla Duret

Carla du Ré is a vocalist, singer-songwriter and performing musician born in France. After studies in Litterature and Arts Management, and ...

Languages: English, German, French, Spanish

Performing arts: Performance art

Music: Singing, Global Music, Lyrics writing, libreto