* COVID-19 *
Studio is open for clients who wish to print or learn new skills.
We provide sterilizing gel and use masks during workshops.
You can also bring your own gel and your own mask.
Do not come if you feel ill or sick.
Studio is open only by appointment. Please call 0452215100.
Welcome!
Rita Vargas
Affection Adrift, 10.–28.7.2021
Galleria Becker
Affection Adrift is an art exhibition which represents Vargas’s ability to reconcile her Portuguese roots with Finnish cultural identity. Vargas has been living and working in Finland (Jyväskylä) for 11 years and moved to Helsinki in 2019 to found an atelier, Vargas Print Studio.
In her artistic practice, Vargas combines art history, memories from a post-colonial family and her impressions from the passage through European and Asian countries. Her living and travelling experiences influenced her aesthetic choices, bringing to the exhibition a collection of prints that reflect Vargas’s thoughts and reflections about absence, motherhood, family, travel, boundaries, belonging.
“With Affection Adrift I try to silently bring a loud sensation of not being able to belong to a place, at the same time that familiarity is present. Perhaps it just came to tell that we are all one in the end. There is no you and me, there is not they and us, there is we. We all go through the same feelings, whether it is loneliness, or passion, whether it is sadness or anger, frustration or despair, solitude or overwhelming. It is through this fragile line that Affection Adrift tries to bring to the closest audience the need to rethink boundaries.”
Vargas’s Affection Adrift’s art exhibition will be open from 8th until 28th of July, at Galleria Becker, Jyväskylä Artists’ Association, Seminaarinkatu 28,
For more information, please visit the Artist's Association from Jyväskylä, Galleria Becker:
https://jkltaiteilijaseura.net/2021/07/01/rita-vargas-affection-adrift-10-28-7-2021-galleria-becker/
[Finnish]
Kuvataiteilija Rita Vargasin Affection Adrift on toinen yksityisnäyttely 11 vuoden sisällä Galleria Beckerissä.
Affection Adrift on taidenäyttely, joka esittelee Vargasin kykyä sovittaa yhteen hänen portugalilaiset juurensa suomalaisen kulttuuri-identiteetin kautta. Vargas on asunut ja työskennellyt Suomessa (Jyväskylässä) yksitoista vuotta. Hän muutti Helsinkiin vuonna 2019 löydettyään ateljeen, Vargas Print Studion. Taiteellisessa tuotannossa Vargas yhdistelee taidehistoriaa, muistoja ja saamiaan vaikutteita matkoiltaan Euroopassa ja Aasiassa. Elämän ja matkustamisen tuomat kokemukset ovat vaikuttaneet hänen esteettisiin valintoihinsa, joita on nähtävillä näyttelyyn valituissa teoksissa. Teoksista heijastuu Vargasin ajatuksia poissaolosta, äitiydestä, perheestä, matkustamisesta, rajoista ja kuulumisesta.
“With Affection Adrift I try to silently bring a loud sensation of not being able to belong to a place, at the same time that familiarity is present. Perhaps it just came to tell that we are all one in the end. There is no you and me, there is not they and us, there is we. We all go through the same feelings, whether it is loneliness, or passion, whether it is sadness or anger, frustration or despair, solitude or overwhelming. It is through this fragile line that Affection Adrift tries to bring to the closest audience the need to rethink boundaries.”
Vargasin näyttely, Affection Adrift, on avoinna 10.–28.7.2021 Galleria Beckerissä, Jyväskylän Taiteilijaseura, Seminaarinkatu 28, 40100 Jyväskylä. Galleria on avoinna tiistaista perjantaihin klo 12–17, lauantaisin klo 12–15 ja sunnuntaisin klo 12–16.
Galleria Becker: 040 824 3031 * galleria@jkltaiteilijaseura.net * Avoinna ti–pe 12–17, la 12–15, su 12–16
Bookings for studio work are closed for 2023.
Key holders can use the facilities and exceptions are made for guest artists and/or individual artistic projects.
Vargas Print Studio wishes you a Happy New 2023!
Art Fair Suomi
6.–18.6.2023
We are happy to announce that Vargas Print Studio is part of the
Art Fair Suomi Goes Galleries Festival this year again!
10.– 11.6. AFS invites you to visit the studio and participate in a printing workshop in Vallila, save the date!
Like libraries, galleries are free, shared living rooms for the citizens of the cities. Art
Fair Suomi invites the public to enjoy art in the gallery spaces of the festival, which
will be held on June 6-18, 2023, across Finland. Never before has Art Fair Finland spread across the entire country, as it will do this summer!
In total, there are 28 participating galleries from 12 locations.
The AFS 2023 weeks will raise awareness among the general public about Finland's versatile gallery activities and visual arts offerings. During the festival, the artists can be seen and heard. Galleries, together with artists, bring art into everyday life. Now it's time to open the gallery and studio doors!
CONTEMPORARY ART WEEKS
In addition to the exhibitions, the weeks offer the public an excellent opportunity to
get to know the artists' work and the themes of the exhibitions through discussions
and artist meetings. Performances, workshops, concerts and other festival-related programs are organised on the premises. An audio production, dispersed at various locations, provides insights into works and spaces, revealing new insights and perspectives.
The festival highlights the galleries and art communities that are an integral part of and contribute to the domestic visual art scene. It gathers people to see what is happening in the visual arts field right now in Finland. The spectrum of festival organisers is extensive, and includes private galleries, artists' association galleries, and artist-led project spaces. The galleries offer vibrant and experimental visual art productions and highlight artists at different stages of their artistic careers.
The festival will have a joint opening event on June 6, 2023.
All exhibitions and events of the festival are free to enter with exception to our workshop, which needs a participation fee to cover the material costs.
More information on the AFS23 website: https://artfairsuomi.fi/
PARTICIPATING GALLERIES
HELSINKI
ArtTogether
Forum Box
Galleria G, The Association of Finnish Printmakers
Galleria Halmetoja
Photographic gallery Hippolyte, Association of Photographic Artists
Galleria Huuto
Galleria Katariina, Helsinki Artists' Association
HAA Galleria, Helsinki Artists' Association
Galleria Kuvitus
Galleria Pirkko-Liisa Topelius
Galleria Sculptor, The Association of Finnish Sculptors
MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Artists' Association MUU
Art Block - Taidekortteli
Tischenko Gallery
tm-galleria, Finnish Painters' Union
Vargas Print Studio
OTHER FINNISH REGIONS
HYVINKÄÄ: Promenadigalleria, Hyvinkään taiteilijaseura
JOENSUU: Taidekeskus Ahjo, Joensuun taiteilijaseura
JÄRVENPÄÄ: Taidetalo, Järvenpää Art Society
JYVÄSKYLÄ: Galleria Becker, Jyväskylän taiteilijaseura
KORPILAHTI: Höyry-galleria
KOUVOLA: KOUTA-galleria, Kouvolan taiteilijaseura
KUOPIO: Galleria Ars Libera and GalleriA
LAPPEENRANTA: Art Centre East, The Artists' Association of South Karelia and The Finnish Jewellery Art Association
RIIHIMÄKI: Galleria Tärinä, Riihimäen kuvataiteilijat
SEINÄJOKI: Art Rental Shop Parsi, Seinäjoki Artists' Association and Varikkogalleria
TAMPERE: Galleria Rajatila
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Since 2005, the Art Fair Suomi contemporary art festival has been organised by the Artists Association MUU and the Association of Photographic Artists. From 2020, other national member organisations of visual artists have participated: the Finnish Sculptors' Association, The Association of Finnish Printmakers, the Finnish Painters' Union, and the Union of Finnish Art Associations.
Additional information and interview requests:
Annika Dahlsten, AFS23 coordinator, 040 517 1750, info@afs.fi
Henna Harri, executive director, Association of Photographic Artists, 040 591 0770,
henna.harri@hippolyte.fi
Timo Soppela, executive director, the Artists Association MUU, director@muu.fi
Vargas Print Studio on Teosvälityksen 2022 mukana!
TEOS 2022 Suvilahden Kattilahallissa 23.9.–2.10.
Suomen Kuvanveistäjäliiton ja Suomen Taidegraafikoiden
vuosittainen teosvälitys avaa ovensa
Suvilahden Kattilahallissa perjantaina 23.9. klo 11.
Taiteen ostaminen TEOS 2022 -tapahtumassa on vaivaton,
hauska ja hyvällä tavalla jännittävä kokemus. Esillä on yli tuhat teosta noin 270 ammattikuvataiteilijalta. Ostamansa teoksen saa heti mukaan.
Teoksia voi ostaa myös osamaksulla.
Tapahtumalla on myös verkkokauppa, joka aukeaa perjantaina 23.9.2022.
Ostoja voi tehdä vielä tapahtuman päätyttyä 31.10. asti.
Teoksiin pääsee tutustumaan verkossa ennakkoon 16.9. alkaen.
teosvälitys.fi/kauppa
Tervetuloa tekemään uniikkeja taidelöytöjä!
TEOS 2022
23.9.–2.10.
Kattilahalli, Suvilahti
Sörnäisten rantatie 22, 00540 Helsinki
teosvälitys.fi
Avoinna: ma-su 11–18
Vapaa pääsy
TIEDUSTELUT
Suomen Taidegraafikot ry
+358 50 362 2091, teos@taidegraafikot.fi
Näyttelykoordinaattori Petra Hollmérus, +358 50 433 1441
* COVID-19 *
Studio is open for clients who wish to print or learn new skills.
We provide sterilizing gel and use masks during workshops.
You can also bring your own gel and your own mask.
Do not come if you feel ill or sick.
Studio is open only by appointment. Please call 0452215100.
Welcome!
Rita Vargas
Affection Adrift, 10.–28.7.2021
Galleria Becker
Affection Adrift is an art exhibition which represents Vargas’s ability to reconcile her Portuguese roots with Finnish cultural identity. Vargas has been living and working in Finland (Jyväskylä) for 11 years and moved to Helsinki in 2019 to found an atelier, Vargas Print Studio.
In her artistic practice, Vargas combines art history, memories from a post-colonial family and her impressions from the passage through European and Asian countries. Her living and travelling experiences influenced her aesthetic choices, bringing to the exhibition a collection of prints that reflect Vargas’s thoughts and reflections about absence, motherhood, family, travel, boundaries, belonging.
“With Affection Adrift I try to silently bring a loud sensation of not being able to belong to a place, at the same time that familiarity is present. Perhaps it just came to tell that we are all one in the end. There is no you and me, there is not they and us, there is we. We all go through the same feelings, whether it is loneliness, or passion, whether it is sadness or anger, frustration or despair, solitude or overwhelming. It is through this fragile line that Affection Adrift tries to bring to the closest audience the need to rethink boundaries.”
Vargas’s Affection Adrift’s art exhibition will be open from 8th until 28th of July, at Galleria Becker, Jyväskylä Artists’ Association, Seminaarinkatu 28,
For more information, please visit the Artist's Association from Jyväskylä, Galleria Becker:
https://jkltaiteilijaseura.net/2021/07/01/rita-vargas-affection-adrift-10-28-7-2021-galleria-becker/
[Finnish]
Kuvataiteilija Rita Vargasin Affection Adrift on toinen yksityisnäyttely 11 vuoden sisällä Galleria Beckerissä.
Affection Adrift on taidenäyttely, joka esittelee Vargasin kykyä sovittaa yhteen hänen portugalilaiset juurensa suomalaisen kulttuuri-identiteetin kautta. Vargas on asunut ja työskennellyt Suomessa (Jyväskylässä) yksitoista vuotta. Hän muutti Helsinkiin vuonna 2019 löydettyään ateljeen, Vargas Print Studion. Taiteellisessa tuotannossa Vargas yhdistelee taidehistoriaa, muistoja ja saamiaan vaikutteita matkoiltaan Euroopassa ja Aasiassa. Elämän ja matkustamisen tuomat kokemukset ovat vaikuttaneet hänen esteettisiin valintoihinsa, joita on nähtävillä näyttelyyn valituissa teoksissa. Teoksista heijastuu Vargasin ajatuksia poissaolosta, äitiydestä, perheestä, matkustamisesta, rajoista ja kuulumisesta.
“With Affection Adrift I try to silently bring a loud sensation of not being able to belong to a place, at the same time that familiarity is present. Perhaps it just came to tell that we are all one in the end. There is no you and me, there is not they and us, there is we. We all go through the same feelings, whether it is loneliness, or passion, whether it is sadness or anger, frustration or despair, solitude or overwhelming. It is through this fragile line that Affection Adrift tries to bring to the closest audience the need to rethink boundaries.”
Vargasin näyttely, Affection Adrift, on avoinna 10.–28.7.2021 Galleria Beckerissä, Jyväskylän Taiteilijaseura, Seminaarinkatu 28, 40100 Jyväskylä. Galleria on avoinna tiistaista perjantaihin klo 12–17, lauantaisin klo 12–15 ja sunnuntaisin klo 12–16.
Galleria Becker: 040 824 3031 * galleria@jkltaiteilijaseura.net * Avoinna ti–pe 12–17, la 12–15, su 12–16
Art Fair Suomi
8.–13.6.2021
We are happy to announce that Vargas Print Studio is part of the
Art Fair Suomi Goes Galleries Festival this year!
Instead of one common venue, this year the festival AFS21 will highlight selected galleries and art communities that belong and enrich Helsinki metropolitan area, thus responding to the cultural thirst caused by corona pandemics in a safe and audience friendly way.
For a week, visitors can immerse themselves in art experiences, meet the artists, discuss personally their processes, visit galleries, purchase artwork and see interventions produced specifically for the festival!
Admissions are all free!
Vargas Print Studio is part of the selected artist-led project spaces and it will offer, besides open studio where visitors can purchase artwork directly from the artist,
two silkscreen workshops!
Check here: https://artfairsuomi.fi/en/galleriat/vargas-print-studio/
For more detailed information about the festival, please visit the link http://artfairsuomi.fi
The joint opening of the festival will be celebrated on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.
WELCOME!
Vargas Print Studio is now an official Pop member of People of Print!
To read new article click here!
People of Print begun as a website in 2008, originally created by Marcroy Smith. As a directory of illustrators, designers and printers both creatively and commercially, its purpose is educating and inspiring. In 2013 it has been established as LTD, joining a team of art directors, project managers, graphic designers, illustrators and printmakers based in London office and across the globe.
People of Print is composed by an unique creative community who enjoy working with brands, companies and educational institutions to execute fresh and impressive campaigns, create media partnerships and put on events.
Vargas Print Studio is grateful for being part of it! We shall inspire!
Guest Artist 2021
Egle Oddo
Egle has been working at the studio with her recent project "Performative Habitats". In Egle's artwork, there is a sensitivity connected with the origins of life. Questionning its beginnings, Egle dives deep into the initial shapes of a plant, a seed, a colour, a scent. In a trans-disciplinary research, Egle brings alive visions in ways never seen before at the studio. For that we are grateful to be part of her unique force of Nature, born out of an natural expressive artist, performer, researcher, curious and beautiful mind. As mentioned by the latest articles published in Zagreb GMK Gallery, Egle's body of work is focused "on plant seeds seen as elements asserting their way through the relations inter-species and vital balances regulating the biosphere."
The series developed at the studio have been showned at Zagreb GMK Gallery in November and December 2020. In Italy, the prints will belong to the collection of the Botanical Garden of Rome.
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Egle Oddo has completed a MA in Painting from the Fine Arts Academy of Palermo, Italy. Since 2005 the artist lives and works in Finland. Egle is a board member of Myymälä Gallery.
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Past Events
Helsinki Design Week
The event was part of Helsinki Design Week’s programme. Founded in 2005, Helsinki Design Week is the largest design festival in the Nordic countries. Held annually in September, the multidisciplinary festival presents design from a number of fields including fashion, architecture and urban culture. The festival dates are 5–15 September 2019. Helsinki Design Week is produced by the design service agency Luovi Productions Ltd.
Vernissage
Finally after almost a year of negotiations, changes, construction, repairs, recycling, planning, reflections, calculations and risks, VARGAS PRINT STUDIO officially opens its doors to the public. Everything is ready in order to start another dream, another step in a new city with new people and new beginnings. Many steps still lay ahead, but little by little everything will start to get shape...with your support, your smile.
Guest artist 2019 / 2022
Tiitus Petäjäniemi
This is one of the prints made at Vargas print Studio during July (2019) by the first guest artist Tiitus Petäjäniemi (b. 1983).
"Icefishing"
40x54cm
Monotype
Petäjäniemi's simple and sensitive artworks related with Finnish culture, humour, introversion feelings towards mundane situations associated with isolated winter activities, will be exhibited next winter at Mikkeli Art Museum. In Petäjäniemi's words,
“I made couple different ideas, right now my favourite of them are series called ice fishers, its 20 prints of black and white characters doing ice fishing.”
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Tiitus Petäjäniemi is a fine artist working with painting, photography and printmaking. Petäjäniemi finished his Master in Fine Arts in 2016 by the Arts University in Helsinki.