Concept

A ROOM is a space contained. Persons are contained spaces too. A ROOM is a small space, almost a dress. It has certain features and characteristics that you will discover spending time in it, and modifying it with your thoughts and your creations.
It has been used to write, to draw comics, to build site specific installations. You can propose new uses.
The invited artist, at the end of the residency is asked to give a public presentation of the work. For this occasion A ROOM organises concerts, public speeches, vernissage, with cocktail party and buffet dinner.
You are welcome to be in A ROOM, you can choose and propose a period during the year.

We help our artists to find a suitable accommodation in Helsinki. We offer our expertises for the realization and launching of your creation.
We are interested in attracting to Helsinki active personalities from abroad.

Please send us your proposal in a free form. Remember that we are not bureaucrats, so please delight us with your creative writing, your imaginative ambitions, pitch the invisible.
Our aim is to let A ROOM resonate with the creative energy of each resident, hopefully with the years passing, A ROOM might manifest its voice.


Contact us by post:

A ROOM  
c/o Studio Magito
Kaasutehtaankatu 1,  building 7D
00540 Helsinki FINLAND


In 2006, thanks to the collaboration with Ossi Kajas and Magito Studio, I had an idea for a conceptual space. A ROOM is a place where certain energies gather and lead to the happening of performances and installations. 

The project took inspiration from a terrific piece of literature. Virginia Woolf wrote ‘A room of one’s own’, a volume of essays published in 1929. In this book she analyses women’s exclusion from the world of literature and the arts. The first reason of the problem is that women have never had a room of their own, she says, a room in which to study, to read or simply collect their thoughts far from the drudgery of everyday duties. So the room has a symbolical value: in fact, a room of one’s own means a place for one’s solitude and, above all, a place where one is an individual, before being part of community, or rather before being a person at the service of community.