The Visit Podcast: Contemporary Artists Talking

The Visit Podcast: Contemporary Artists Talking

Author: The Visit Podcast Language: English Episodes: 60
Step inside the studio, a space that’s equal parts workshop, sanctuary, and chaotic brain. The Visit Podcast: Contemporary Artists Talking is built around that simple, intimate act: a visit. Hosted by visual artist Leda Vaneva, each conversation moves beyond finished pieces hanging on gallery walls to explore the raw, often messy process behind them. You’ll hear from creators as they trace the winding path that first pulled them into making art, discussing the formative moments and stubborn decisions that shaped their trajectory. Central to these discussions is the studio itself-its physical and psychological role in daily practice, a subject Vaneva returns to with genuine curiosity. But this isn't just theory; it’s about the tangible reality of a creative life. Conversations naturally weave through practical survival strategies, the oddball situations that only an artist’s life can produce, and the personal stories that fuel the work. The result is a candid, grounding series that demystifies contemporary art by focusing on the people who make it. Tune into this podcast for a rare, unvarnished look at the discipline, doubt, and quiet triumphs that define a life dedicated to art.
Episodes
Visual artists need to be visible – with Pola Laamanen [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:32
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 channelWatc…
Be relevant to yourself and to others – with Noora Geagea [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:18:53
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…
Embrace complexity – with Kemê [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:29
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…
Aim for the sublime – with Oscar Dempsey [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:26
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 vas…
Explore what it’s like to be human – with Pasi Autio [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:31:21
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 aroun…
There’s not one way of doing things – with Paula Tella [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:03
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 YoutubeSubsc…
Go after the information – with Vilma Pimenoff [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:22:20
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,…
Confront the ugliness with beauty – with Marko Timlin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:43:27
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 developm…
Go beyond pictorial realities – with Natalia Kozieɫ-Kalliomäki [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:02:18
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 struct…