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Detail from Elga Sesemann’s work Self-Portrait with Yellow Pot, 1943. Photo: HAM/Hanna Kukorelli
Erik Creutziger, Mielikuvitusmaisema (Imaginary Landscape), oil on canvas, 200 × 190 cm, 2025
Erik Creutziger
"My inner drive is so strong that I cannot imagine life without painting"
Free Art School Sales Exhibition 2026, Opening on 6 March
Sales Exhibition | 7–15 March Opening Reception: 6 March, 5–8 pm – Welcome! The Free Art School’s traditional Sales Exhibition once again fills the walls of Gallery Vaaga. Come and discover your own favourites among the works of 46 students – emerging Finnish painters. The exhibition features a vari...
Vapaa ’26 Graduation Exhibition
The Free Art School’s graduation exhibition Vapaa ’26 opens to the public on April 25, 2026, at Puristamo, Cable Factory in Helsinki. This year, thirteen painters are graduating from the school – a traditional art institution dedicated solely to painting.
Applications for the Free Art School’s Four-Year Painter Training Programme 2026 Are Now Open
Applications for the Free Art School’s painter training programme are now open. Register for the week-long entrance course by 11 May 2026 at the latest. The entrance course will take place 18–22 May 2026. The Free Art School educates professional painters and supports and strengthens the role of pai...Study Period in Perugia, Italy Launched the Continuation of the Free Art School’s Erasmus+ Programme
The study period for graduating painter students of the Free Art School took place in Italy during the second week of December. The programme included workshops at a local art academy, visits to museums and churches, and day trips to Assisi and Spoleto. Fourth-year painter students spent a week-long...Student Stories
Mikko Haiko:
"Painting always leads the way."
Painting, 2022–2024 137 × 113 cm, mixed media on canvas
Free Art School strengthens ties with Sweden – anniversary book widely distributed to Swedish art institutions
The Free Art School will distribute its trilingual 90th anniversary book, published this spring, to a wide range of Swedish art museums, galleries, educational institutions, libraries, and professional organisations. The books will be sent to recipients free of charge, and alongside the distribution...Student Stories
Alumni Story: Silja Uuttula
— “Right now I’m in that restless, nervous mood before an exhibition.”
SIlja Uuttula. Photo: Maria Sorjonen