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On this page, you can find basic information about the activities of our arts councils and the appointment process.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) will be hosting an English-language webinar on grant structures for the arts in Finland on Wednesday 5 March from 1pm to 2pm. The webinar will discuss the nature of these grants, decision-making, application types, and the evaluation process. In addition, the webinar will separately discuss the special characteristics of Taike grants as part of the overall funding of the arts in Finland.

Taike will host a webinar on Thursday 13 March starting at 3pm covering this spring’s calls for applications for artist grants and regional grants. The webinar will go through the changes that have been made to this year’s calls for applications and provide tips for how to apply.

Taike will host a webinar on Thursday 13 March starting at 1:30pm covering this spring’s calls for applications for artist grants and regional grants. The webinar will go through the changes that have been made to this year’s calls for applications and provide tips for how to apply.

The arts councils of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) have awarded state artist grants starting in 2022 to 311 professional artists, 12 of whom have been awarded five-year Artist Professor grants.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) has awarded grants and subsidies to support the work of 5346 artists and 569 private traders in the fourth round of COVID-19 support. The application period for these grants and subsidies was 29 March to 15 April 2021.

Minister of Culture and Sport Paavo Arhinmäki has appointed the chairperson and members of the Central Arts Council for the term 1 January 2013 to 31 August 2016. Tiina Rosenberg (Helsinki), Rector of the University of the Arts Helsinki, has been appointment Chairperson of the new Central Arts Council.

Six artists based in Varsinais-Suomi are given the opportunity to develop a new performance work under the guidance of artist Joshua Sofaer. The results of the workshop will be presented in the opening night of New Performance Turku Festival. The international festival for new performance and Live Art takes place in Turku from 13th to 16th June 2013.

The national arts councils have awarded state prizes in the fields of architecture, cinema, the performing arts, literature, the visual arts, children’s culture, media art, multidisciplinary art, design, music and photographic art. The value of the State Prize for Children’s Culture is 30,000 euros and the State Prize for Multidisciplinary Art 28,000 euros. The value of each of the other state prizes is 14,000 euros. The prizes were awarded by Hanna Kosonen, Minister of Science Culture, at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki on 29 November.

The arts councils of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) have awarded artist grants to 290 professionals, two-thirds of whom work in the fields of the visual arts, literature, theatre and music.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) has awarded grants and subsidies to support the work of 1609 artists and 161 private traders in the third round of COVID-19 support. This funding was targeted towards professional artists, writers and art journalists who have lost work opportunities due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The first round of COVID-19 grants awarded by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) attracted 3733 applications, from which 533 applicants were awarded a grant of 3000 euros.