The Lönnström Art Museum in Rauma announces a call for ideas for a unique and distinctive contemporary art project to be funded by the museum foundation. The call for a new project to begin in 2025 is launched on 13 December 2024, the birthday of the museum’s founder, honorary councillor Teresia Lönnström (1895–1986). Operating without an exhibition space of its own, the aim of the art museum is to establish a long-term artistic collaboration in a project that reaches new audiences for contemporary art.
The Lönnström Art Museum will finance the production of the new work with up to 70,000 euros, and will also pay the artist a fee of 30,000 euros.
The open call is for artists based in Finland, and it runs from 13 December 2024 to 13 April 2025.
The digital application form, the full call for proposals, and detailed application instructions can all be found here
Established under the will of honorary councillor Teresia Lönnström, the Lönnström Art Museum has been funding and producing major contemporary art projects since 2015. The foundation’s purpose is to support and promote visual art in Finland and to enable the public to appreciate contemporary art in contexts and forms that differ from the traditional gallery setting. Six Lönnström Projects have been completed to date, all uniquely different. The most recent project, SKÖNÄRIT, a film by Milja Viita, premiered in Rauma in September 2024. The seventh Lönnström Project, Pia Sirén’s large public artwork Big Botanic, will be shown in Rauma in autumn 2025.
