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.

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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Olga Mezhevich

I am a visual artist creating digital illustrations as well as acrylic paintings. I have a special interest in Art Nouveau architecture of ...

Languages: Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian

Visual arts: Painting, Illustration

Ilana Palmgren

Ilana Palmgren is a Finnish performing artist and actor (FIA) working with theater, performance art, movement and text. Palmgren has a master’s ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Russian

Performing arts: Acting, Directing, Choreography, Dance, Script writing / playwright

Zachariah Chamberlaine

Zachariah Chamberlaine is an author, performer and visual artist who is originally from London (UK), but has been living in Helsinki (Finland) ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Painting

Performing arts: Acting, Directing, Script writing / playwright

Literature: Poetry, Fiction

Special groups: LGTB

Polina Polkinghorne

Contemporary thinking applied to traditional methodology is an essential part of my artistic practice. My approach is hands on. I like to create ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Painting, Installation, Illustration

Sofia Stupenkova

I have a passion for working with both documentary and fictional material, and my works focus on exploring themes of broken communication, ...

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting, Illustration

Performing arts: Acting, Directing, Performance art

Martina Marti

For me, diversity is a lived reality. Re-thinking artistic processes and cultural institutions from an inclusive perspective is not just ...

Languages: Finnish, English, German

Performing arts: Acting, Directing, Dramaturg, Script writing / playwright, Performance art

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity

Cansu Pylkkänen

Helsinki-based emerging artist Cansu Pylkkänen (b.1987, Turkey) is primarily working in photography, acrylic painting, and performance art. ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting, Photography, Graphic design, Installation

Performing arts: Acting, Set design, Performance art

Literature: Non-fiction

Érica Dahlström Dezonne

Érica Dahlström-Dezonne is a Brazilian-Finnish photojournalist and visual artist currently based in Tampere, FI. As a visual storyteller, ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Photography, Video Art, Media art

Yiu Sheung

Sheung Yiu (HK/FI) is a Hong-Kong-born, image-centered artist and researcher, based in Helsinki. His artwork explores the act of seeing through ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Photography, Video Art, Art theory / art history

Tania Potapenko

Tania Potapenko is a contemporary figurative artist based in Helsinki. Her work explores the complexities of human life experience, focusing on ...

Languages: Finnish, English, Russian

Visual arts: Painting

Vera Boitcova

Theatre director, playwright, curator, queer performance/video artist and political activist. Currently, Doctoral Researcher at University of ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Curating, Video Art, Arts pedagogy

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

Special groups: Multicultural / diversity, LGTB

Other culture: Community art

Vedran Brnjetic

I am a photographer originally from Croatia. Core of my activity is event photography, particularly I like covering live music, as well as ...

Languages: English

Visual arts: Photography, Video Art

Special groups: LGTB

Wisam Abboud

Wisam Abboud has been based in Helsinki, Finland. He is a founder of Neighbourgoods community, Dj & producer at The Yalla Collective. I was ...

Languages: English, Spanish

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting, Curating, Photography, Graphic design, Video Art, Media art, Installation

Music: DJ

Other culture: Community art

Martin Dahlström-Heuser

Martin Dahlström-Heuser has graduated with an MA in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art from Aalto University, Finland, including a ...

Languages: Swedish, English, Spanish

Visual arts: Painting, Photography, Video Art, Installation, Other visual arts

Performing arts: Performance art

Music: Composing & music theory, Classical / art music

Special groups: LGTB

Jason Janicki

My name is Jason Janicki and I write a variety of fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and young adult. I currently work as a ...

Languages: English

Literature: Fiction

Vahid Good

Vahid is a Helsinki-based visual artist, photographer, and filmmaker, known professionally as Vahid Good. He began his creative journey after ...

Languages: English, Finnish

Visual arts: Photography, Video Art

Helena Kulishova

Helena Kulishova is a versatile artist and designer, professionally working in the field of painting, graphics, design and architecture. Member ...

Languages: English, Russian

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Painting, Graphic design, Illustration, Art theory / art history, Arts pedagogy, Other visual arts

Performing arts: Set design

Other culture: Environmental art, AI Art

Sahar Ajami

I’m a visual artist and illustrator passionate about creating cartoons and graphic design. In my work, I play around with lines, symbols, and ...

Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Painting, Curating, Illustration

Special groups: Children