Grants
Artproof Grant news
All Artproof Grant exhibitions are up in our gallery
https://www.artproof.eu/artist/artproof-grant/
SPARK Art Fair ARTPROOF AWARD 2022
Artproof Production Award was given out at SPARK Art Fair Vienna
Congratulations to the ARTPROOF AWARD winner
FRANCESCA CATASTINI @francescacatastini
presented by OstLicht. Gallery for Photography @ostlichtvienna
“We were immediately submerged in Francesca’s story brought forth with the overall quality of the photographs and showcase at the booth.” – the jury explained their decision
Jury consisted of:
Taavi Rekkaro @rekkaro (Sales Manager, Artproof)
Hana Ostan Ožbolt @hana.ostanozbolt (Independent curator & director ULAY Foundation)
Verena Kaspar-Eisert @verena_kaspar_eisert (Curator of Kunst Haus Wien and Foto Wien)
Ruth Horak @ruth.horak (Independent curator, author and publicist)
Artproof Production Award is supported by Artglass, produced by Groglass, a world-leading developer and manufacturer of anti-reflective and other high-performance coatings on glass and acrylic for various industries.
For more info click here
Artproof Grant Finland 2022
MoA in Photography 2022
https://www.artproof.eu/artproof-grant-finland-2022-moa/
Artproof Grant Finland 2021
Artproof Grant Finland 2021 has been awarded to Karl Henrik Edlund. As a part of the award, he gets an opportunity to show his work at Hippolyte Korjaamo in a solo exhibition.
The exhibition Eden is named after Edlund’s grandfather’s garden island in the Archipelago Sea, in Åland Islands, Finland. In the series, consisting of photographs taken over a course of sixteen years (2004-2019), Edlund approaches the question of how ambiguity relates to the notions of place.
Check out more photos at:
https://www.artproof.eu/artproof-grant-finland-2021-karl-henrik-edlund-eden/
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This year the grant is supported by Hahnemühle. 
Artproof Grant Finland 2020
In the start of 2020 Artproof , together with Hahnemühle, sponsored for Aalto University students exhibition “Unfold” of their theses projects.
Exhibition was open in Finnish Photography Museum from 17.1.–22.3.2020.
Artproof and the Aalto University students thank Hahnemühle.
More photos of the exhibition from our website:
https://www.artproof.eu/artproof-grant-2020-aalto-students-unfold/
Artproof Grant Finland 2019
Artproof is glad to announce that the 2019 winner of Artproof Grant Finland is Aapo Huhta with his project OMATANDANGOLE.
The exhibition was shown at Art Fair Suomi 2019.
After achieving a second place at Artproof Grant 2015, the jury was excited to award Aapo with this year’s Grant.
The jury, consisting of Mikko Haiko (winner of 2017 grant), Minna Maria Kurjenluoma and Taavi Rekkaro wrote about the series. “Aapo Huhta´s Omatandangole is a series of fragmentary flashes of the Namibian desert, mirages, people, fauna, and flora. Images build a feverish and illusory narrative. The gaze that observes the desert is pointed simultaneously inside. Huhta´s mirage is enchantingly bizarre and disturbing yet playful.”
Check out more photos at:
https://www.artproof.eu/artproof-grant-finland-2019-aapo-huhta-omatandangole/
Artproof Grant Estonia 2019
At Foto Tallinn 2019 fair we announced Artproof Grant Estonia 2019 winner Kristina Õllek, who introduced her project Filter feeders, double binds and other silicones (2019) at Foto Tallinn. Project was organised with generous in-kind support of TruLife Acrylic by Tru Vue, Inc.”
Photos from the first part of the Grant exhibition
Photos from the second part of the Grant exhibition
Artproof Award at CHART fair
- Artproof Award winner Ville Kumpulainen
The jury of this year’s Artproof Award made their rounds at the CHART Art Fair at Kunsthal Charlottenborg today. From all the great works exhibited at the prominent Nordic galleries presenting at the fair, the jury consisting of Rachael Chambers, Assistant Curator of Photography at V&A in London and photographers Asger Carlsen and Peter Funch, selected Ville Kumpulainen (represented by Persons Projects) as the recipient of the 2019 Artproof Award. Kumpulainen wins both a residency and a production grant of 5,000 euros to produce and transport works.
For more info please check https://www.artproof.eu/grant/chart-fair-award/
Artproof Grant at Foto Tallinn 2019
The presentation of the series and the public announcement of the grant recipient will take place at the opening event on 26 September 2019. Applications for the grant will be accepted in conjunction with applications for participation, and the relevant information should be specified on the application form.
The deadline for submission of applications is 3. June 2019.
Find more info and apply at www.fototallinn.ee
Deadline for Artproof Grant Finland 2019
Deadline for Artproof Grant is 6th March 2019.
Please send your projects to info@artproof.eu
For more info please check https://www.artproof.eu/grant/grant-finland/
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The winner of the Artproof Grant Finland 2017 Mikko Haiko deals with error and gives away the control
The winner of the Artproof Grant Finland 2017 is a Helsinki-based artist Mikko Haiko (b.1984, Lemi). The exhibition will be opened on the Wednesday May 23rd at the Art Fair Finland in Cable Factory, Helsinki. His works are on display during the event May 24 – 28 at Merikaapelihalli.
Mikko Haiko´s series Solar explores the relationship between man and environment and incompleteness. ”Feels like sometimes I loose the connection with the environment, I get stuck in my mind and I fear mistakes. As a counterword to the these symptoms I make trips to periferic regions to quiet down and to be connected with the landscape.” In his works Haiko shows the error. He exposes his negatives to bright sunlight. ”Taking photographs becomes a mental exercise. I drop control and call for chance to co-operate with me. Incompleteness and accepting mistakes become an essential part of the work, Haiko describes.
Currently Haiko is finishing his Master of Arts degree in Aalto University. His works have been exhibited in solo and group shows both in Finland and abroad. In 2014 he was one of the Fotofinlandia -finalists. In summer 2017 Haiko´s works can be seen in ”Faces of Carelia” – group show in Lappeenranta Art Museum.
Artproof is a service oriented fine art laboratory in Tallinn that works with artists to print their vision, as envisioned, and deliver it framed for private or public exhibition.
Artproof Grant Finland is given out for the second time and the grant is 5000€ for the production of art works. The jury consisted of the Member of Photographic Artists’ Association Viivi Nieminen, the previous winner of Artproof Grant Hanna Rast, Varpu Lukka of the Artist Association MUU and Taavi Rekkaro from Artproof.
Contact info
www.mikkohaiko.com
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NEW Deadline for Artproof Grant Finland 2017
New deadline for Artproof Grant is 9th March 2017.
Please send your projects to info@artproof.eu
Competition For Young Artists
Artproof hereby announces the young artist competition Artproof Grant Finland 2017, which is being awarded for the second time in Finland. The winner of the competition will receive a grant valued at €5000 for the production of works in Artproof.
For the first time Artproof grant competition is open for young artists from all different fields. This means that printmakers, painters, photographers and new-media artists are welcome to send their project.
The grant includes the compilation of works for exhibition with professional printing services and, set-up and transport services for the exhibition itself.
A public exhibition with the winner’s works will take place in Art Fair Suomi event in May 2017, in Cable Factory, Helsinki. The aim of the exhibition is to showcase and promote the work of the young artist, the winner of Artproof Grant Finland 2017.
The competition is organised in co-operation with Photographic Artists’ Association and Muu Artist Association.
For more info, click Grant Finland link on the left of the screen.
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“Sigrid Viir ‘Hans55’ detail of photo installation”
Winners of Artproof Grant Estonia 2016 are Sigrid Viir and Jimmy Limit!!
In 2016 Artproof improved their grant format and offered Temnikova & Kasela gallery an opportunity to select a project that will be supported and carried out as part of ”Artproof Grant Estonia 2016″.
The scholarship is worth 5,000 euros and the funds cover the production of Sigrid Viir’s and Jimmy Limit’s new works for the exhibition “Import Export” at Temnikova & Kasela gallery. Artproof Estonian scholarship is organised in collaboration with Hahnemühle.
“Import Export” 11.03–30.04.2016, in Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn.
Olga Temnikova from Temnikova & Kasela Gallery said: “Sigrid Viir and Canadian Estonian Jimmy Limit collaboration is high-quality, ambitious, international and based on photo medium, that perfectly fits with the conceptual profile of Artproof. I am very happy that we have Artproof, who understands the project and can carrie out/manage the production creatively and professionally.”
Sigrid Viir’s and Jimmy Limit’s exhibition “Import Export” talks about import and export in a general commercial sense, alluding to the transportation of art works and artists from one continent to another, customs procedures, and the mass migration of people and files. The title of the exhibition also refers to photography, the widespread use and distribution of photographs, and digital importing and exporting.
Sigrid Viir and Jimmy Limit
Estonian artist Sigrid Viir’s artistic practice often deals with photography, and installation as a sculptural form. Here, she exhibits a photographic installation using as her material a photo of Surma people in Ethiopia found on the Internet, Polish apples bought in a store, and loosely arranged snow. The visual narrative of the exhibition, which leans towards the fantastical while concerned with current political issues, focuses on the idea of the exotic in the context of import and export, of photography as a transformer of reality, and of the relationship between market and demand.
Jimmy Limit, a photographer and author of playful installations, is a Canadian-born artist with Estonian roots. In his art practice, Limit is interested in the immaterial everyday consumption of images and its consequences. When taking photos, his aim is to free the objects from their original function and conjure up new absurd forms that lack a specific purpose.
http://jimmylimit.com/
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“Import Export”
11.03–30.04.2016
Temnikova & Kasela Gallery
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We kindly invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Import Export” by Sigrid Viir and Jimmy Limit at the Temnikova & Kasela Gallery on Thursday 10 March at 7pm