The Visit Podcast: Contemporary Artists Talking
The Visit Podcast is an interview show in which visual artist Leda Vaneva visits contemporary artists in their studios. Each episode explores how the guest found their way into the art world, the role of the studio in their practice, and the practical realities of making a living as an artist. The conversations offer personal stories, practical tips, and curious situations from the creative process.
Episodes
Grow new work from old roots - with Tatu Tuominen
Tatu Tuominen’s work deals with the relationship between printed image and its history. In his artistic process the appropriated pictures undergo a transformation, taking on novel material forms and contemporary contexts, thereby acquiring new meanings. He employs a multimedia approach encompassing collage, installation, moving image, computer-operated intaglio, cut paper and more.Watch the episod
Nothing is forever, so be present when you can – with Alves Ludovico
Alves Ludovico is a Portuguese artist based in Helsinki whose practice investigates the entanglements between material consumption, ecological balance, and interspecies well-being. Over the past years, he has developed a material practice centered on sugar, exploring its potential as a biodegradable sculptural medium and speculative bioplastic.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit No
Create the dream space – with Kasper Muttonen
Kasper Muttonen is a Helsinki-based artist combining sculpture and architecture in his practice. He sees himself sometimes as three-dimensional painter.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Make the personal universal – with Erno Enkenberg
Erno Enkeberg is Helsinki based visual artist working mainly with paintings. He builds models, that he uses as a starting point. They are either scale models, made out of paper or digital models built with Blender 3D software. He sees the models as a miniature film sets or scenes from video games.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p
Create your own visual language – with Inma Herrera
Inma Herrera is a visual artist, printmaker, bodyworker, and educator whose practice explores the alchemy and material transformation of image-making processes. Through installations that bridge printmaking, sculpture, video, and performance, she creates spaces that invite states of becoming.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac
Take up space - with Kelvin Au
Kelvin Au is a Hong Kong-based sculptor. In his art practice, he uses found objects and multimedia assemblages to reimagine and re-contextualise his relationship with these conditions of tension and flux, uncertainty and paradox, frailty and strength.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Are machines only for what human can’t do? – with Silvester Mok
Silvester Mok is a Hong Kong ceramics artist who works mainly with 3D printed ceramics. He is mesmerised by the magic of how clay is extruded layer by layer, gradually forming a larger structure before his eyes.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Be more spontaneous – with Cleo Lau
Cleo Lau is a Hong Kong-based artist working with ceramics in combination with images and screen printing. She collects photos daily and the process of creating her pieces helps her review and organise her memories.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Build a sense of belonging – with Lee Suet-ying
Lee Suet-ying's recent work delves into the concept of territory, encompassing the claimed or occupied space by individuals or institutions, along with the borders established to denote ownership. She finds interest in the potential reclamation of a space by nature if left untended.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more
Keep memories through the cracks – with Yuko Fukuba Johnsson
Yuko Fukuba Johnsson is a practicing ceramic artist from Tokyo, based in Hong Kong. She uses ceramics as a medium to create works under the theme of Memory Containers. For her, memory means a combination of facts, including time and place, together with qualia, subjective experiences with the senses.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co
Revisit 2025
The yearly summary of all episodes. Key ideas from each guest's art practice.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Living in technological medieval times – Sheung Yiu
Sheung Yiu is an image-centered artist and researcher, based in Helsinki. In his research-based practice, Yiu collaborates with multi-disciplinary experts to explore imaging practices emerging at the intersection of photography and large-scale computation.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Having a social practice – with Andrew Gryf Paterson
Andrew Gryf Paterson is a Scottish artist-organiser, cultural producer, educator and independent researcher. Specialises in developing and leading inter- and trans- disciplinary projects exploring connections between art, digital culture and science, cultural activism, ecological and sustainability movements, cultural heritage and collaborative networks.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to Th
Play with conflicting ideas – with Antti-Ville Reinikainen
Antti-Ville Reinikainen is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice revolves around spatial, atmospheric, and multi-layered sculptural works. He seamlessly blends a variety of techniques, frequently venturing into new creative territories while often revisiting his foundational skills in painting and drawing.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. Se
Do what you're drawn to – with Inka Bell
In Inka Bell's practice, she explores the relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional through material, colour, surface, and repetition. Paper plays a central role in her work, serving as a medium for printing or shaping into new forms. She's intrigued by visual phenomena and the infinite possibilities of constructing image surfaces.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visi
The voice of the material – with Suvi Sysi
The meaning of Suvi's works arises through being in touch with the materials, through the process, research, and wonder. Her practice often questions the boundary between a ready and an unready artwork.The meaning of Suvi's works arises through being in touch with the materials, through the process, research, and wonder. Her practice often questions the boundary between a ready and an unready artw
Find references in art history – with Eeva-Riita Eerola
In her paintings Eeva-Riitta Eerola explores the concept of perception and how we understand and experience images. Abstract and recognisable elements vary in her expression, working in series as well as creating subtly defined links between the works are in the core of her practice.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor
Traces of deep time – with Kristiina Mäenpää
Kristiina Mäenpää works with installation, sculpture and photographic mediums. Her works emphasise the dialogue between the art work and the exhibition space, focusing on their materiality.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Art is a painful need – with Rute Morais Peixoto
Rute Morais Peixoto is a Portuguese interdisciplinary artist combining visual art, architecture, and music. Her practice delves into themes of perception, memory, attachment, compulsive geometrical alignments, and the pursuit of singularities in the ordinary.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The studio as a warm cocoon – with Jennifer Lipkin
Jennifer Lipkin works at the intersection of sculpture, space and art. She creates meaningful experiences and thought-provoking moments by emphasizing a sensory approach towards aesthetics. Place, identity, and color semiotics are common themes in her creative practice.Watch the episode on Youtube.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Resist the push to just produce – with Laura Itkonen
The focus of Laura Itkonen's work is on visually detailed, tactile architectural ceramics and on sculptural emphasis with an experimental approach to the material and the chemistry in it.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What is real? – with Leda Vaneva
The roles have changed and the host became the guest! This is one way to celebrate the second birthday of the podcast ✨Leda Vaneva's practice tests the boundaries of the surrounding world through videos, objects, drawings. She gathers and highlights the multiplicity of viewpoints and possible takes on what can be considered "real".Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter
Dig into memory – with Hanna Råst
Hanna Råst works with lens-based media, text, and sculpture. Her work delves into themes of memory, transience, and the human psyche, often intersecting with research areas such as archaeology, psychology, and ecology.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bring up phenomena which are bigger than us – with Ilkka Paloniemi
Ilkka Paloniemi is an artist, curator and designer working in the field's of light, art and architecture. He is also Master of Theatre Arts, theatre consultant, 3D specialist, and scenographer and is based in Espoo.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How do people still want to do something together? – with Gregoire Rousseau
Gregoire Rousseau's work ranges from audio performance to text based installation, always proceeding from a research on an artistic practice that stands for material as language, and concept taking form based on knowledge.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Revisit 2024
This episode is special.Each artist at The Visit shares a funny story, unique perspective, or a piece of wisdom they acquired among multiple other fascinating details related to their work. This video is a gathering of all guests from 2024, with some of their most memorable moments.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more
The art in research – Suzanne Mooney
Suzanne Mooney is a visual artist originally from Ireland, working with photography, moving image and found objects. She is currently a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, and a Doctoral candidate at Aalto University, delving into the connections between photography and glass.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy
Make connections between fragments – with Sebastian Reis
Sebastian Reis's practice combines photography, painting and sculptural elements. His approach emerges from synthesising subjective experiences with culture-historical and art-historical occurrences.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Break the polarisation “is it good or bad” – with Satu-Minna Suorajärvi
Satu-Minna Suorajärvi is a sculptor working with digital fabrication using 3D modelling, laser cutting and 3D printing. After switching from being a doctor of medicine, she now combines digital art with old traditions of sculpture.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Autofiction – with Aapo Huhta
Aapo Huhta combines elements of documentary practice and experimental darkroom techniques with subjective, mundane observations, building a range of ambiguous and often fragmented narratives in his photographic work. Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Connect visual art with text – with Maija Savolainen
Maija Annikki Savolainen is a visual artist working with photography, text, stones, and green plants.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Find ideas in moments of emptiness – with Ville Aalto
Ville Aaltо is a sound artist & electronic musician based in Helsinki. He works with synthesizers, creates artificial, electronic versions of natural sounds and presents them in the form of surround sound installations, electronic music recordings and live concerts.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Set yourself challenges – with Joonas Hyvönen
Joonas Hyvönen predominantly employs digital mediums such as animation, film, and games in his artistic practice. His works are often narrative-driven studies utilising storytelling as an instrument of reflection.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Make sense through repetition – with Karl Ketamo
Karl Ketamo works in a multidisciplinary approach towards photography, moving image, sculpture and installation. A common thread in his work is the use of the use found images and objects, which he recycles, reworks, and presents in a new manner.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Define what human is through the non-human – with Alma Heikkilä
Alma Heikkilä invites us to acquaint ourselves with the many symbiotic relationships we participate in and the essential role they play in constantly making us who we are. In doing so, she encourages us to contemplate how access to embodied knowledge may challenge our understanding of what it means to be a human.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast.
Overcome fear – with Minja Kolehmainen
Minja Kolehmainen is an artist and cabinetmaker from Finland who lives and works in her mobile workshop van. She is inspired by nature and everything she creates is handmade with a lot of love and respect towards nature.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Question identity. Why am I me? – with Minjee Hwang Kim
Minjee Hwang Kim is a Korean painter based in Helsinki who explores the notions of identity through self-portraits. She creates a continuous loop between the artist-self and the artist as subject.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It’s important to be seen – with Lau Rämö
Lau Rämö is a visual artist working with video art, photography, installations and zines. Their animations combine soft and found materials with evocative tendencies and broader themes, often emphasising the shared existence as animate beings.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Conceptual handicraft – with Emma Rönnholm
Emma Rönnholm works with sculpture and installation, often featuring movement or other mechanical elements. Her artistic practise stems from a fascination for language, materials and processes, paired with a passion for mechanics and do-it-yourself.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Create tension between materials – with Sofi Häkkinen
Sofi Häkkinen invents new combinations of materials. Humour and serendipity are guiding principles in her sculptural and performative practice. She is always doing many things and they flow into each other.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What is nomadic art - with Anna Broms
Anna Broms is an artist who works with expanded painting, installation, and moving images, among other mediums. She is part of SubaruSisters. Her recent upcoming exhibitions will be in Lapinlahden Lähde (Venetsia building) in July 2024, and in galleria Huuto in march 2025.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio
See the space in a new light –with Päivikki Alaräihä
Päivikki Alaräihä is working mainly with painting and installation. Her minimalist approach guides the viewer to the surrounding space, blending the artwork with its environment.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
First you need an idea or an irritation – with Miradonna Sirkka
Miradonna Sirkka is a performance and contemporary circus artist, director and performer. The artworks are multidisciplinary mashups and worlds to dive in; performances, installations, videos, sounds and media artworks.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Materials matter – with Man Yau
Man Yau lives and works in Helsinki. Through the use of various materials –from porcelain, glass, wood or casted metals, to ribbon – her sculptures bring up questions around the issue of exoticization.Man's current exhibition.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trust your practice – with Anu Raatikainen
Anu Raatikainen is a visual artist living in Helsinki, Finland, working with light, painting, drawing, sculpture, video and performance. Light has been a unifying factor as a medium, theme and a metaphor in her work.Subscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Visual artists need to be visible – with Pola Laamanen
Polina Laamanen is an embroidery and textile artist. She creates one of a kind hand stitched artworks using threads and hand modified textile. She also produces original ebooks and tutorials.Check her Youtube channelWatch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Be relevant to yourself and to others – with Noora Geagea
Noora Geagea is a storyteller from Helsinki, with interest in cultural attitudes and structures and body movement, as an expression of the individual and the collective.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Embrace complexity – with Kemê
Kemê is a multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki who works with photography, performance, installation and text, often hybridising them. She sees the arts as something between alchemy and magic, the spiritual and the subconscious.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aim for the sublime – with Oscar Dempsey
Oscar Dempsey is a visual artist, set designer and prop maker working with production companies and arts projects to design and manufacture for performance, film, art and public projects. They find inspiration in the vast, overwhelming spaces – natural, or man-made, in search for the feeling of the Sublime.Oscar's latest work can be seen in the upcoming Luukamari performance: https://cirko.fi
Explore what it’s like to be human – with Pasi Autio
Pasi Autio works with photography, moving image and installation. His pieces often deal with the inner world of thoughts and its relation to external reality.Autio often investigates specific environments, circling around a single moment or train of thought and opening it up for examination.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy
There’s not one way of doing things – with Paula Tella
Paula Tella is a Finnish artist who focuses on the body, and who uses embodiment in the core of her practice. She creates photographs, installations, drawings, paintings, performances... Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Go after the information – with Vilma Pimenoff
Vilma Pimenoff is a visual artist whose work is rooted in photography. She is interested in the semiotics of the everyday, that is - how we understand the world around us through signs and symbols. Multiple perspectives, people's relations to the natural, and recently – power, are some of the themes she explores.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast.
Confront the ugliness with beauty – with Marko Timlin
Marko Timlin is a Finnish-German artist creating artworks that link science with art, technology with nature and the past with the present. His artistic work centers on the technical, aesthetic and philosophical development of kinetic sound sculptures, dynamic light installations, performances with self-made sound machines and multimedia theater plays.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The V
Find the visual in sound and sound in the visual – with Ana Gutieszca
Ana Gutieszca is a Mexican-Finnish visual and sound artist, an inventor of broken noises and graphite universes: she is fascinated by the transformation of drawing into sound and using graphite as a tool for sound making. In her drawings, she embraces the question of the animal and its ambivalent presence through symbolic thinking. She is also known for being the founder and sonic mind b
Go beyond pictorial realities – with Natalia Kozieɫ-Kalliomäki
Natalia Kozieɫ-Kalliomäki is moving in the area of expanded printmaking and film. She is fascinated by the power of light, analogue technology, relation between camera and subject, distorted images and mesmerizing structures.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Use data as clay – with Roberto Fusco
Roberto Fusco is an Italian media artist based in Helsinki. At the intersection of physical and computational processes, Roberto focuses his artistic research on the use of digital techniques capable of recording, reconstructing, and simulating reality, exposing the role of technology itself in mediating our perception and experience.Sweet Water Rough Water exhibitionWatch the episode on YoutubeSu
Always get paid for your work – with Pauliina Heinänen
Pauliina Heinänen is an artist who works around the themes of presence, longing and belonging. All their works start from photographic thinking and are characterized by focusing on details. In addition to their own artistic practice, Pauliina maintains the Uumen association together with Laura Konttinen where they publish texts by visual artists.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit N
Look for unusual environments – with Jane Hughes
Jane Hughes is an Irish artist who works with painting, drawing, installation and various collaborative projects. She is fascinated by remnants of the past, textures, otherworldly ambiance.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feel the Process – with Jenni Niskala
Jenni Niskala is a Finnish artist whose work moves around the questions of seeing, observing, experiencing and existing. She works mainly with printmaking.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Eco-erotics – with Kamila Śladowska
Kamila Śladowska is an interdisciplinary visual artist who explores inspirations from culture anthropology and permacultural thinking about creation.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
All about time – with Simo Saarikoski
Simo Saarikoski's works examines the phenomena of our time as well as the human psyche and the impact of humans on their environment.He is also part of the group Messianic Research Centre for Visual Ethics and the Pori-based T.E.H.D.A.S. collective.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Stay up to date – with Marloes van Son
Marloes van Son builds instruments, installations and systems. Her recent work focuses on sound objects, instrument building, graphic scores and experimental compositions. During performances Marloes plays her self-built instruments combined with voice according to precomposed scores. Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv
You need to have desire – with Barbora Kachlíková
Barbora Kachlíková is a Czech artist based in Finland. Her paintings are influenced by the farming neighbourhood of the Finnish village Ratula, where she lives and works.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Life as a creative journey – with Alison Wiklund
Alison’s exploration has, over many decades, focused on the visual arts and has ranged over many themes, different countries and cultures.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How to break the pattern? – with Lora Dimova
Lora Dimova is a Bulgarian-Finnish artist based in Helsinki. Her work explores the ephemeral and extrasensorial spaces, the inner and outer territories of the body. Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
