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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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

Rachel Tome Valencia Hamilton

Rachel Tome Valencia Hamilton

I am a researcher, writer and poet living in Turku, Finland. I am an immigrant to Finland, having moved to the country from the UK two years ago ...

Languages: Finnish, Swedish, English

Performing arts: Sound design

Literature: Poetry, Non-fiction, Fiction

Special groups: LGTB, Other

Other culture: Community art

Aoi Yoshizawa

Aoi Yoshizawa

Aoi Yoshizawa is a Helsinki-based artist and textile designer engaged in the experimental process of applying traditional craft techniques to ...

Languages: Swedish, English

Visual arts: Installation, Other visual arts

Julia Syrzistie

Julia Syrzistie

Julia Syrzistie works across printmaking, book arts and design for print. Her work centres around researching unexplored narratives and social ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Graphic design

Luciana Mariano

Luciana Mariano

Brazilian-Finnish Naive artist based in Pirkkala.

Languages: English

Visual arts: Sculpture, Painting

Literature: Poetry

Tamara Mezina

Tamara Mezina

I am an illustrator specializing in digital-based visual methods. Over more than ten years as an illustrator, I've undertaken various projects, ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Russian

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Other visual arts

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

Mayer Daniel

Mayer Daniel

Daniel Mayer, a Brazilian-born creative based in Helsinki, is fueled by a relentless passion for storytelling. Inspired by captivating visuals ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Spanish

Visual arts: Photography, Video Art

Performing arts: Directing, Script writing / playwright

Scarlet Nuoskanen

Scarlet Nuoskanen

Artist statement Scarlet is a queer artist and entrepreneur, originally from Manchester, UK. She is an internationally selling painter and is ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Other visual arts

Special groups: LGTB

Lorena Articardi

Lorena Articardi

Lorena Articardi (b. 1992, Italian-Uruguayan), is a visual artist and researcher working with photography and motion images as her primary ...

Languages: English, Spanish, Italian

Visual arts: Curating, Photography, Video Art

Music: Sound Art

Literature: Poetry

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Other culture: Community art

João Luís Matos Lopes

João Luís Matos Lopes

João Luís was born and raised in Porto, Portugal. After studying at the Porto Music Conservatory (1996-2010) and architecture (2008-2010), he ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Music: Global Music, Contemporary art music, Sound Art

Other culture: Environmental art

Fran Trento

Fran Trento

Fran Trento (they/them) is an artist-researcher and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, within the Academy of ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Spanish, Italian

Visual arts: Media art, Installation, Arts pedagogy

Special groups: Disabled people, Multicultural / diversity, LGTB, Other

Ekaterina Chernyaeva

Ekaterina Chernyaeva

Ekaterina is a filmmaker, passionate about storytelling and in particular documentary genre. Her background is in journalism and video art, and ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Video Art

Luciana Mariano

Luciana Mariano

Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, I am the third generation of naïve painters in my family. I draw and paintintensively since I was very ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Painting

Literature: Poetry

Manu Harutyunyan

Manu Harutyunyan

Manu Harutyunyan, born in Armenia, and currently based in Helsinki, Finland, is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative journey spans ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting

Performing arts: Costume design