Visiting Professor programme

Internationally recognised artists and art professionals share their know-how and networks with the Academy of Fine Arts.

Introduction

Distinguished, international artists and experts of different fields of art teach by way of the Academy of Fine Arts’s Visiting Professor programme. The programme reinforces the international connections of the Academy and supports student networking.

From 2022 onwards, the programme is a part of the International Incubators in Fine Arts project, supported by the Saastamoinen Foundation.

The teachers of the Visiting Professor programme

2023: D. Graham Burnett, Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers (KAYA), Ann Böttcher

2022: Melissa Gordon, Nina Wakeford

2021: Omer Fast, Josephine Pryde, Ruth Pelzer-Montada, Vesa-Pekka Rannikko, Alexandria Smith

2020: David Batchelor, Özgü Gündeslioglu, Ciara Phillips, Josephine Pryde, Nina Roos, Katarina Pirak Sikku

2019: David Batchelor, Christian Benefiel, Monster Chetwynd, Peter McDonald, James Nisbet,  Ruth Pelzer-Montada, Mira Schor, Emily Wardill

2018: IC-98 (Patrik Söderlund ja Visa Suonpää), Dianna Molzan, Alex Olson, Emily Wardill

2017: Philip Allen, Christian Benefiel, Berenika Boberska, Pascal Gielen, Tellervo Kalleinen ja Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Annette Kelm, Yelena Popova      

2016: Tommi Grönlund, Signe Johannessen (visiting lecturer), Alisa Margolis, Marco Poloni, Michael Schwab

2015: Adel Abidin, Kim Byron, Hans van Dijk, Nikos Doulos (visiting lecturer), Attilia Fattori Franchini (visiting curator), Annika von Hauswolff

2014: Ahmet Ögüt

Open lectures