Young Visual Art
Young Visual Art (Nuori Taide) is a nationwide forum for visual art makers aged 13–29. It organises art exhibitions, art residencies, workshops, trainings, 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.
News
Upcoming workshops, events, trainings, exhibitions, and art residencies in English or bilingual. More information of activities on the Young Visual Art's Finnish web site.
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.
Eco crisis art workshop
Workshop is a 75 minutes critical and artistic implementation fasilitated by Nuori Taide. It is based on Guidebook for Reactive eco crisis art practice co-designed with artist Sonja Salomäki. Book a workshop for you group by sending an email to us.
Guidebook
Art residency
Art residency programme is a week long mini residency for Generation 2026 artists exhibited in Amos Rex art museum in 2026. Next residency takes a place in Helsinki in June 2025.
Generation 2026
English articles and materials
Creating Impact through Art
Diggiloo, Digital cultural production from youth to youth (2022–2023)
Taide\Folio: a Free Portfolio and Discussion Platform for Young People
Diggiloo, Digital cultural production from youth to youth (2022–2023)
Nuori Taide's essay in NO NIIN magasize Issue 13
Read Soyoung's trainee experinces 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 and funded by the Ministry of education and Culture in Finland. The Young Visual Arts is cultural youth work specialist, specialised in visual art.
Involve
By involving one may have new experiences to improve their artistic hobby or 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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Donate to support Young Art
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.
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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