Young Visual Art
Young Visual Art (Nuori Taide in Finnish) is a nationwide forum for visual art makers aged 15–29. It organises art exhibitions and Nuori Taide events for young art makers as well as those working closely to visual culture created by young people. In addition, it maintains Taide\Folio portfolio website and showcases young artists on Instagram.
Nuori Taide video was filmed in Nuori Taide 2023 event in Tiivistämö Helsinki
News
Group exhibition in English
One of our four group exhibitions in 2026 will be produced in English. English exhibition takes a place in May in Culture factory Vernissa in Vantaa. Open call will open in spring 2026.
More information of activities on the Young Visual Art's Finnish web site.
Recent events
Nuori Taide 2025 event
Photo: Linnea Laatikainen, artist: Olli Laitinen
17th May 2025 at 11am-5pm
Youth Cultural Centre Monitoimitalo 13, Tampere
Nuori Taide events are organised every second year in different cities in Finland. Events gather hundreds of young art makers to exhibit and sell their art, organise workshops and discussion programme as well as performances. In the event, young art professionals work as mentors or discussion partners of young art praticioners. Content is created together with a group or young volunteer production assistants and regional partners.
Art residency
Art residency programme is a week long mini residency for a group of Generation 2026 artists exhibited in Amos Rex art museum in 2026. The residency took a place in Helsinki in June 2025.
Selected projects and articles
Florere zine in collaboration with Pfotofuss, Finnish Museum of Photography
Nuori Taide's essay in NO NIIN magasize Issue 13
Soyoung Christina Chung's trainee experiences: My valuable experiences as a production assistant at Nuori Taide
Guidebook book for reactive eco crisis art practice
Creating together
All Young Visual Art's activities are conducted in collaboration with young people, as well as youth work and visual art professionals. Long term partners include e.g. Amos Rex art museum and its Generation triennal. Activities are organised mainly in Finnish and partially in English and Swedish.
Guidelines for safer space
Don't make assumptions based on appearance, skin color, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, or speech. Pay attention to your choice of words and know that people are different individuals.
Respect everyone and their right to self-determination, as well as physical and social space, and their art.
Act when you notice harassment or other disturbing act in case you feel safe to act. Report situations for a harassment contact person.
Relax, making mistakes and asking is allowed. Wonder, let's learn togehteer.
Young Visual Art is a discrimination-free platform.
History
Nuori Taide was established in November 2018. It is operated by the Art Centre for Children and Young people. Activities are funded by the Ministry of education and Culture in Finland. The Young Visual Arts is cultural youth work, specialised in visual art.
Involve
By involving one may have new experiences to improve their artistic practice. Young Visual Art invites all young art makers to involve wether they are beginners, intermediates, or soon to be professionals. Internship programme and research collaboration is open for English speaking students/researchers.
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International collaboration
Young Visual Art has involved several international projects. It's goal is to strength Nordic-Baltic and international collaboration of cultural youth work network and visual culture. Sharing practices, leaning together, and offering new participatory projects for young people are the main interest of us. In 2023–2025 we have travelled in Netherlands and Denmark.
Leave feedback
We are collecting feedback from young art makers and people interested in visual art created by young people. The responses are applied to develop the activities as well as make report for our funder. Responses are anonymous.
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Contact
Send us an inquiry, proposal or feedback to nuoritaide(a)artcentre.fi or
call/text to us +358 50 308 3625 (time EET). We are using WhatsApp.
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