More information:

Artistst' Association MUU,
Timo Soppela +358-45 136 0161 director@muu.fi

Union of Artist Photographers,
Marjatta Tikkanen, +358-40-591 0770, photo@artists.fi

30.09. - 09.10.2005
Cable Factory - Puristamo & Valssaamo - Tallberginkatu 1 C, FIN-00180 Helsinki

Companies, committees and groups may book a guided tour that suits your timetable.

“A medium-size performance, 1600 grams of freshly picked photos and a pinch of social criticism in the open-plan office, please! ART FAIR SUOMI - the art buyer's department store. Make your acquisitions in our two departments, HANKI05 and MUUcafé - a wide range of art: brilliant performances, attention grabbing, eye catching, mind boggling memorable art. Art you never thought could be purchased. Photographs, moving images, performances, oral sculptures, sound art and happenings. And there is more! The disearning buyer will be happy to know that Finnish art seldom gets bad reviews abroad. Food for thought - indulge in impulse buying!”

The Opening of Art Fair Suomi at the Cable Factory exhibition spaces Puristamo and Valssaamo on Thursday September 29 at 5-7 pm. Welcome!

ART FAIR SUOMI offers a new way to get acquainted with the most exciting, up-to-date an fascinating
contemporary art in Finland. The coolest, hottest and greatest art works by some two hundred Finnish artists representing the top of their fields in Finland and even internationally. The fair offers you the latest in photography and the new art forms for acquisition - or just for viewing - all under one roof!

HANKI05 continues its well established tradition of presenting the cream of Finnish photographic art at the Cable Factory's Puristamo - large & small, black-and-white & colour, lush, subtle, delicate, humoristic…

At Valssaamo MUUcafé presents new art forms, including video, sound and light art as well as multimedia art and performance. The new visual art is established as art presented in public spaces and as investments. An electric art work can be adapted to the space available - an excellent choice to fill your chosen space! Video art on your flat screen monitor - a new trend in interior decoration? A moving image in the lobby the image builder for your company? A party piece or program number on any festive occasion - place an order for a performance from the art fair! The State Art Collection, as an example of new type of investment in art, commissioned a sound installation from composer and sound artist Max Savikangas that functions as an audible signal as well as an art work for the users of Iiris - the Service and Activity Centre for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki.

Still hungry for more? ART FAIR SUOMI offers a huge selection of materials presenting the artists and their production - your acquisitions can be tailored to your needs!

Guided tours on Sunday October 2nd and 9th at 2-3 pm, and on Thursday October 6th at 5-6 pm, climaxing in a finale 6 pm onwards with the performances you may wish to commission for your own event and venue.

Free entrance to the art fair and the guided tours - welcome!

Art Fair Suomi is a joint event organized by the Artists' Association MUU and the Union of Artist Photographers

MUU cafe -department has pieces from over 100 artists

Performances from following artists and groups:The Groovy Eldorado Ensamble
Otto Karvonen
Varpu Lukka
Oblivia
Markus Renvall
Mari Räsänen-Rogers
Juha Valkeapää

Videoart, Installations, Voice-art, photographs, etc from following artists and artgroups:
 Björn Aho, Pauli Apollo Ahopelto, Hanna Maria Anttila, Marjut Anttonen, Hanna Arvela, Pasi Autio

Maija Blåfield

Marina Ciglar

Alvar Gullichsen and Tuija Markonsalo

Saara Ekström

Eeva-Mari Haikala, Marja Hakala, Kalle Hamm ja työryhmä: Juha Holopainen, Michiko Isogai, Sade Kahra, Dzamil Kamanger ja Goran Mrjda, Elina Hartzell, Minna Heikinaho, Ismo-Pekka Heikinheimo ja Simon Le Roux, Marketta Holmberg, Gun Holmström

Jarno Jokinen and Katja Valanne

Sunna Kangas, Reetta Heiskanen ja Kaisa Ahtiainen
, Vappu Kantola, Hannu Karjalainen, Otto Karvonen, Päivi Kastemaa, Leena Kilpeläinen, Tanja Koistila
Jaana Kokko, Tero Kontinen, Taina Kontio, Tanja Koponen, Kristiina Korpela, Hilda Kozári ja Esa Vesmanen, Iina Kuusimäki, Aarre Kärkkäinen and Hilkka Okkonen

Erja Laakkonen, Marko Lampisuo, Johanna Lecklin, Elina Liikanen, Heidi Lunabba, Pia Läspä

Peter Maury, KirsiMarja Metsähuone, Annukka Mikkola, Teemu Mäki, Heikki Mäntymaa

Elena Näsänen

Sari Palosaari, E.Parel, Suvi Parrilla ja Leena Kela, Ahti Parviainen, Sini Pelkki, Anu Pennanen, Sami Pennanen

Aurora Reinhard, Markus Renvall, Heidi Romo, Jani Ruscica, Mari Räsänen-Rogers

Elina Saloranta, Aarno Salosmaa, Heidi Saramäki, Nina Sarkima, Pekka Sassi, Lena Séraphin, Anni Sumari, Päivi Suomalainen

Kirsi Tiittanen, Hanna Timonen, Katja Tukiainen, Salla Tykkä

Milla Vauhkonen ja Annika Dahlsten / tres blondes, Milja Viita, Thom Vink, Sampsa Virkajärvi, Greta-Mari Voijola

Thomas Westphal, Pia Wikholm

Maria Ylikoski

ARTISTS' ASSOCIATION MUU
Finnish Artists' Assiciation MUU, founded in 1987, is an artist run interdisciplinary artist association. The main function of MUU is to represent and promote new and experimental forms of art i.e. media art, performance, video, environmetal, spatial and conceptual art, sound and any other experimental modes of cultural production.