The Visit Podcast: Contemporary Artists Talking
Episodes
Are machines only for what human can’t do? – with Silvester Mok
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Be more spontaneous – with Cleo Lau
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Build a sense of belonging – with Lee Suet-ying
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Suet-ying's recent work delves into the concept of territory, encompassing the claimed or occupied space by individuals or institutions, along wit...
Keep memories through the cracks – with Yuko Fukuba Johnsson
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 M...
Revisit 2025
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The yearly summary of all episodes. Key ideas from each guest's art practice.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visit Notes newsletter. Host...
Living in technological medieval times – Sheung Yiu
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sheung Yiu is an image-centered artist and researcher, based in Helsinki. In his research-based practice, Yiu collaborates with multi-disciplinary exp...
Having a social practice – with Andrew Gryf Paterson
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Gryf Paterson is a Scottish artist-organiser, cultural producer, educator and independent researcher. Specialises in developing and leading int...
Play with conflicting ideas – with Antti-Ville Reinikainen
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Antti-Ville Reinikainen is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice revolves around spatial, atmospheric, and multi-layered sculptural works. He seam...
Do what you're drawn to – with Inka Bell
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Inka Bell's practice, she explores the relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional through material, colour, surface, and repetition...
The voice of the material – with Suvi Sysi
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The meaning of Suvi's works arises through being in touch with the materials, through the process, research, and wonder. Her practice often questions ...
Find references in art history – with Eeva-Riita Eerola
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In her paintings Eeva-Riitta Eerola explores the concept of perception and how we understand and experience images. Abstract and recognisable elements...
Traces of deep time – with Kristiina Mäenpää
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kristiina Mäenpää works with installation, sculpture and photographic mediums. Her works emphasise the dialogue between the art work and the exhibi...
Art is a painful need – with Rute Morais Peixoto
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rute Morais Peixoto is a Portuguese interdisciplinary artist combining visual art, architecture, and music. Her practice delves into themes of pe...
The studio as a warm cocoon – with Jennifer Lipkin
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Lipkin works at the intersection of sculpture, space and art. She creates meaningful experiences and thought-provoking moments by emphasizing...
Resist the push to just produce – with Laura Itkonen
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The focus of Laura Itkonen's work is on visually detailed, tactile architectural ceramics and on sculptural emphasis with an experimental approach to ...
What is real? – with Leda Vaneva
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Dig into memory – with Hanna Råst
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hanna Råst works with lens-based media, text, and sculpture. Her work delves into themes of memory, transience, and the human psyche, often intersect...
Bring up phenomena which are bigger than us – with Ilkka Paloniemi
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
How do people still want to do something together? – with Gregoire Rousseau
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gregoire Rousseau's work ranges from audio performance to text based installation, always proceeding from a research on an artistic practice that stan...
Revisit 2024
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 fas...
The art in research – Suzanne Mooney
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Suzanne Mooney is a visual artist originally from Ireland, working with photography, moving image and found objects. She is currently a lecturer ...
Make connections between fragments – with Sebastian Reis
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Reis's practice combines photography, painting and sculptural elements. His approach emerges from synthesising subjective experiences with c...
Break the polarisation “is it good or bad” – with Satu-Minna Suorajärvi
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Satu-Minna Suorajärvi is a sculptor working with digital fabrication using 3D modelling, laser cutting and 3D printing. After switching from being a ...
Autofiction – with Aapo Huhta
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aapo Huhta combines elements of documentary practice and experimental darkroom techniques with subjective, mundane observations, building a range of a...
Connect visual art with text – with Maija Savolainen
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Maija Annikki Savolainen is a visual artist working with photography, text, stones, and green plants.Watch the episode on YoutubeSubscribe to The Visi...
Find ideas in moments of emptiness – with Ville Aalto
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ville Aaltо is a sound artist & electronic musician based in Helsinki. He works with synthesizers, creates artificial, electronic versions of nat...
Set yourself challenges – with Joonas Hyvönen
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joonas Hyvönen predominantly employs digital mediums such as animation, film, and games in his artistic practice. His works are often narrative-drive...
Make sense through repetition – with Karl Ketamo
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Ketamo works in a multidisciplinary approach towards photography, moving image, sculpture and installation. A common thread in his work is the us...
Define what human is through the non-human – with Alma Heikkilä
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alma Heikkilä invites us to acquaint ourselves with the many symbiotic relationships we participate in and the essential role they play in constantly...
Overcome fear – with Minja Kolehmainen
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Question identity. Why am I me? – with Minjee Hwang Kim
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Minjee Hwang Kim is a Korean painter based in Helsinki who explores the notions of identity through self-portraits. She creates a continuous loop betw...
It’s important to be seen – with Lau Rämö
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lau Rämö is a visual artist working with video art, photography, installations and zines. Their animations combine soft and found materials with evo...
Conceptual handicraft – with Emma Rönnholm
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emma Rönnholm works with sculpture and installation, often featuring movement or other mechanical elements. Her artistic practise stems from a fascin...
Create tension between materials – with Sofi Häkkinen
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sofi Häkkinen invents new combinations of materials. Humour and serendipity are guiding principles in her sculptural and performative practice. She i...
What is nomadic art - with Anna Broms
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Broms is an artist who works with expanded painting, installation, and moving images, among other mediums. She is part of SubaruSisters. Her rece...
See the space in a new light –with Päivikki Alaräihä
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Päivikki Alaräihä is working mainly with painting and installation. Her minimalist approach guides the viewer to the surrounding space, blending th...
First you need an idea or an irritation – with Miradonna Sirkka
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Miradonna Sirkka is a performance and contemporary circus artist, director and performer. The artworks are multidisciplinary mashups and worlds to div...
Materials matter – with Man Yau
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Man Yau lives and works in Helsinki. Through the use of various materials –from porcelain, glass, wood or casted metals, to ribbon – her sculpture...
Trust your practice – with Anu Raatikainen
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anu Raatikainen is a visual artist living in Helsinki, Finland, working with light, painting, drawing, sculpture, video and performance. Light has bee...
Visual artists need to be visible – with Pola Laamanen
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Polina Laamanen is an embroidery and textile artist. She creates one of a kind hand stitched artworks using threads and hand modified textile. She als...
Be relevant to yourself and to others – with Noora Geagea
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Noora Geagea is a storyteller from Helsinki, with interest in cultural attitudes and structures and body movement, as an expression of the individual ...
Embrace complexity – with Kemê
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kemê is a multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki who works with photography, performance, installation and text, often hybridising them. She sees...
Aim for the sublime – with Oscar Dempsey
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Oscar Dempsey is a visual artist, set designer and prop maker working with production companies and arts projects to design and manufacture for perfor...
Explore what it’s like to be human – with Pasi Autio
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pasi Autio works with photography, moving image and installation. His pieces often deal with the inner world of thoughts and its relation to external ...
There’s not one way of doing things – with Paula Tella
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Go after the information – with Vilma Pimenoff
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Confront the ugliness with beauty – with Marko Timlin
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marko Timlin is a Finnish-German artist creating artworks that link science with art, technology with nature and the past with the present. His artist...
Find the visual in sound and sound in the visual – with Ana Gutieszca
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ana Gutieszca is a Mexican-Finnish visual and sound artist, an inventor of broken noises and graphite universes: she is fascinated by the transformati...
Go beyond pictorial realities – with Natalia Kozieɫ-Kalliomäki
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Natalia Kozieɫ-Kalliomäki is moving in the area of expanded printmaking and film. She is fascinated by the power of light, analogue technology, rela...
Use data as clay – with Roberto Fusco
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Roberto Fusco is an Italian media artist based in Helsinki. At the intersection of physical and computational processes, Roberto focuses his artistic ...
Always get paid for your work – with Pauliina Heinänen
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pauliina Heinänen is an artist who works around the themes of presence, longing and belonging. All their works start from photographic thinking and a...
Look for unusual environments – with Jane Hughes
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Hughes is an Irish artist who works with painting, drawing, installation and various collaborative projects. She is fascinated by remnants of the...
Feel the Process – with Jenni Niskala
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jenni Niskala is a Finnish artist whose work moves around the questions of seeing, observing, experiencing and existing. She works mainly with printma...
Eco-erotics – with Kamila Śladowska
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kamila Śladowska is an interdisciplinary visual artist who explores inspirations from culture anthropology and permacultural thinking about crea...
All about time – with Simo Saarikoski
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Stay up to date – with Marloes van Son
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marloes van Son builds instruments, installations and systems. Her recent work focuses on sound objects, instrument building, graphic scores and ...
You need to have desire – with Barbora Kachlíková
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Barbora Kachlíková is a Czech artist based in Finland. Her paintings are influenced by the farming neighbourhood of the Finnish village Ratula, wher...
Life as a creative journey – with Alison Wiklund
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alison’s exploration has, over many decades, focused on the visual arts and has ranged over many themes, different countries and cultures.Watch the ...
How to break the pattern? – with Lora Dimova
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lora Dimova is a Bulgarian-Finnish artist based in Helsinki. Her work explores the ephemeral and extrasensorial spaces, the inner and outer territorie...