BELOW ZERO FINNISH ART AWARD 2025 Application Portal opens

Beaconsfield, The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland and Serlachius are pleased to announce Anssi Kasitonni as the winner of  the Below Zero Finnish Art Award 2025.
Pauli Sivonen of Serlachius comments: ‘This will only be Anssi’s second solo exhibition abroad. He is held in affection by the Finns since his artworks  speak very directly to the Finnish sensibility. It will be exciting to see how this artist responds to the London context and how the work translates’.

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JONNA KINA: BELOW ZERO Finnish Art Prize

7 March – 22 April 2018

Emerging from Finland into the international arena, JONNA KINA is the first recipient of BELOW ZERO, a new contemporary art prize for emergent Finnish artists.

Nastja Säde Rönkkö

salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears
Nastja Säde Rönkkö

Residency: 23 January – 15 March, Exhibition: 16 March – 6 May 

The third recipient of the Below Zero Finnish Art Prize, investigates relationships between the digital era, power, humanity and the future of our planet. For this commission she will develop three new moving image works on site, produced with Beaconsfield under the working title salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.

Nastja Säde Rönkkö

NASTJA SÄDE RÖNKKÖ
Residency: 23 January – 15 March

Exhibition: 16 March – 6 May 2023 
Below Zero Finnish Art Prize UK Residency & Exhibition