Admission result: Master of Fine Arts, Autumn 2025
24 applicants are admitted as new students to the 2-year education leading to a master’s degree in fine arts, and 12 applicants are placed on a waiting list.
The Master’s admission for the Academy of Fine Arts was conducted as a separate admission in autumn 2025. The application period to Master’s studies in fine arts was from the 6th of August to the 20th of August 2025. The applications were submitted electronically via the Studyinfo.fi portal.
179 applications were submitted to the degree programme in fine arts, of which 172 applicants were deemed eligible or conditionally eligible to apply based on their language skills, educational background and the required advance assignments. Based on the evaluation of the compulsory appendices and portfolios, 48 applicants were invited to the interviews.
The following 24 applicants are admitted as new students to the 2-year education leading to a master’s degree in fine arts, and the following 12 applicants are placed on a waiting list (applicants grouped by subject area):
Degree programme in fine arts
Painting
- Heikkilä, Tytti
- Julku, Kirsi
- Lora Romero, Irene
- Rahikainen, Jelina
- Rieskaniemi, Kristian
- Saarikoski, Kristo
- Shepherd, Nooka
- Vainio, Anna
- Välikangas, Ville
Waiting list:
- Kähönen, Sini
- Applicant who has not authorised publication of their name on the website
- Salonen, Jenni
Printmaking
- Applicant who has not authorised publication of their name on the website
- Holmstrand, Jonas
- Huolman, Noora
- Kesänen, Susanna
Waiting list:
- Tujula, Miska Mio
- Ramoul, Maxime
- Applicant who has not authorised publication of their name on the website
- Paloheimo, Soile
- Khizran, Aleena
Sculpture
- Jussila, Antti
- Kella, Hertta
- Lehtinen, Annika
- Parjanen, Pauliina
- Ryynänen, Liisa
- Strandman, Julia
Waiting list:
- Kiiskinen, Petriina
Time and Space Arts
- Aphalo, Tomas
- Heiskanen, Petja
- Jaakonaho, Maija
- Koskivirta, Maria
- Lesiv, Kateryna
Waiting list:
- Applicant who has not authorised publication of their name on the website
- Vartiainen, Aaron
- Applicant who has not authorised publication of their name on the website
Applicants who have been accepted or placed on the waiting list will be notified of the admission result by email on 5 November 2025. The email contains information about the selection process, starting studies, accepting the study place and enrolment. Some e-mail clients may treat our messages as spam; please check your spam folder as well. Applicants can also inquire the results via e-mail (kuva.admissions@uniarts.fi).
Admitted students are to accept the offered study place latest by 19 November 2025 3:00 p.m. EET. New master’s students will start their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in January 2026.
Feedback
Members of the admission jury will give feedback to those applicants who were interviewed at specific time if requested. Applicants receive more detailed information on how to request feedback via e-mail. Feedback is not given at another time.
Other applicants will be given a short written feedback upon request. You can request feedback by email at kuva.admissions@uniarts.fi at the latest on 12 November 2025 at 15:00. Feedback will be sent by email at the latest on 14.11.2025. Feedback will not be given at other times.
Rectification request
Applicants can apply for rectification of the admission decision from Uniarts Helsinki under the Universities Act (558/2009), section 82. The purpose of a written request for rectification is to give the applicant the possibility to appeal and request for rectification if there is a reason to believe that there has been an error in the decision-making process. The rectification procedure is not intended as a means for receiving feedback or asking for further information about the admissions process.