Tapiola Guest Studio
Espoo
Website
www.ateljeesaatio.fi/english/tapiola.html ↗ (opens in a new tab)Disciplines
Visual arts
Founded
1997
Contact information
Finnish Artists’ Studio Foundation, Lemuntie 4 D 21, FIN-00510 Helsinki
Tel +358 (0)50 4203062
info(at)ateljeesaatio.fi
Address
Nallenpolku 1 B FIN, 02110 Espoo
Accommodation and organization
Finnish Artists’ Studio Foundation – FASF – has maintained an international artist exchange programme and an artist residency in Tapiola Studio Building since 1997.
The Tapiola studio building was built in 1955 for Finnish visual artists. It was designed by professor, architect Aulis Blomstedt. The single-storey row-house type wood building houses four working spaces of 83 m2 (with living balcony) and six 100 m2 live-in-studios. One of the working spaces / studio is reserved for the residency programme.
The studio building is located in Espoo, 8 kms away from the centre of Helsinki.
Residency
The residency focuses on visual arts. The residency activities have been organised mainly through artist exchange between FASF and its international partners. FASF cooperates for instance with Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec from Canada. The Quebecois artists stay at the Tapiola studio for a working period of 4 months. The Finnish artists have an opportunity to work in Quebec retrospectively. The residency includes accommodation and studio space. Artists “home organisation” gives the artist a scholarship for living and travelling costs. Guests artists have access to contacts to local art associations and organisations.