Third Space

This year Third Space participates in the Art Fair Suomi 2021 -event. We invite you to meet three of the five artists who are behind Third Space Collective: Ana Guiteszca, Rosamaría Bolom and Sepideh Rahaa. Artists will be present at the exhibition to meet you. The exhibition includes different artworks  addressing themes such as philosophy and the questions of human and animal, womanhood and resistance, emotional and psychological impacts caused by the pandemic situation. The artworks vary from video to painting, drawing, handmade prints and paper masks. Welcome to meet the artists and their works! 

*** You can visit preferably by pre-booking via this form or by showing up at Third Space. 

*** Please remember to wear your mask and that only maximum 3 people can visit the exhibition at the same time. To make it a safer experience for everyone, you can pre-book the visit via the form, we will get back to you by confirming it via email. 

About Third Space

Third Space is a cross border transcultural collective that seeks to erase the invisible lines that separate us. Our collective identity and goals are shaped by diverse geopolitical views and backgrounds. Our aim is to observe from both ‘the outside in’ and ‘the inside out’ in order to create new ways of understanding what marginal and central are in Finnish society, and how to bridge them through dialogue. Third Space emerged as a response to the lack of inclusivity and diversity in the Finnish art scene. Inclusivity is not a fixed concept but a changing one. Our role is to identify its different forms and to respond to them. 

Third Space is an incubator for generating ideas, a space for encounters, a space for people, art and its production. We endeavor to translate theories into actions. As the art field is becoming more and more capitalized and art practices are becoming increasingly individualized, we aim to accentuate collaborative practices over competitive ones. To support these ideas, Third Space is a space free of charge. 

Our current location is chosen to be in the center of Helsinki where it has become a meeting point that brings diverse cultural and artistic practices together. We remain there as an influential platform that aims to explore different ways of collaborating, curating, thinking and being. Third Space was founded the 13th of December 2013, hosting the first Sound Room as the beginning of all our activities.

Ana Guiteszca (1984, Mexico) is a visual and sound artist born in the dry lands of the northern Mexican plateau. Drawing is the core of her work. By addressing the question of the animal and its ambivalent presence through symbolic thinking, she embraces the otherness. With a background in visual arts and music, she sculpts the unfathomable boundaries of drawing through the creation of analog instruments, the sonification of graphite and its deconstruction into performance art. http://anagutieszca.com/

Sepideh Rahaa (1981, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Helsinki. Through her practice, she actively investigates and questions prevailing power structures, social norms and conventions while focusing on womanhood, storytelling and everyday resistance. Currently she is pursuing her doctoral studies in Contemporary Art at Aalto University. Her practice and research interests are representations in contemporary art, silenced histories, decolonisation, Intersectional feminist politics and post-migration matters.  https://www.sepidehrahaa.com

Rosamaría Bolom (Mexico/Finland). Psychologist and Sculptor of dreams on paper. She works with human rights, otherness, migration, language, collective processes and pedagogical tools combining art and psychology to reflect on cultural roots, everyday life, economic system and growth of empty stares. Her artistic practice includes installations, poetry, painting, drawing, engraving, photography and sculpture through the art of Mexican cartonería. She is constantly exploring reality and it´s preconceived constructions through her own and collective experiences. https://rosamariabolom.wixsite.com/bolom