Hector was awarded for his music and the Q Theatre for their performance. The second of the two state prizes for literature went to Kari Hotakainen. The total amount of the state prizes is €360 000.
For ten years, Mangs and Åman have been creating transnational community theatre art that gives a voice to children and young people, the justification says.
Mäkiö raised the issue of sustainable development already in the 1970s and 1980s. His speech against, among other things, the mechanisation of buildings appealed to the awarding body, the State Commission for Architecture and Design.
As a professor at Aalto University, he has highlighted the complex relationships between design, production methods and consumer choices,” the citation says.
In the works of Niki and Pösö, surprising perspectives and fresh work are combined with a high artistic level. The independent production method and treatment of the subject have produced films that deviate from the mainstream, the justifications say. Nikki and Pösö are known, among other things, for the films *Blind man who didn’t want to see Titanic* and *Mercy killer* and the TV series *Sekasin and
In terms of form, Puolaka’s works are placed in the middle ground of visual art, performance, theater and cinema, and they are characterized by a multidisciplinary and rarely natural collaboration across the borders of art, the justifications say.
Pirinen’s approach is in feminist, psychodynamic and ceremonial corporeality and movement language. He is known for physically and emotionally impressive, sensuous performances, whose artistic processing is profound and expression is multi-layered.
Hotakainen has built a unique style, which is characterized by startling figures of speech, an aphoristic sentence, and the overlapping of the comic and the serious, the award justification says.
The experienced, skilled Finnish translator duo has achieved de Kerangal’s meandering narrative and refined long-sentence style brilliantly, the justifications say.
Hector’s recorded production is part of our common songbook and collective pop memory, the award justification states.
Talvitie continues the best traditions of modernism in his music in a personal way. Talvitie, on the other hand, has questioned the conventions related to composition – and, more broadly, authorship – by acting in an exceptionally active interaction with performers, composer colleagues and artists from other fields, the reasons say.
He ventures into hidden or forgotten places and landscapes on the borders of nature and culture. He presents his discoveries as original multidisciplinary works, the justifications say.
With his long-term work, he has expanded our understanding of what photographic art can be. Rantala comments on social and current challenges beautifully and poetically without forgetting the wry humor, the justification states.
The Artists at Risk (AR) activity receives the award for the social impact of art for ten years of working with security residencies. According to the reasons, it is internationally unique in organizing and coordinating security residencies for threatened artists.
The importance of the activity has been emphasized now that Ukrainian artists are fleeing the war of aggression. Russian and Belarusian dissidents forced into exile also need help, the reasons say.
The state award for art can be received in recognition of meritorious work completed within the last three years or for a long-term, meritorious artistic career or activity for the benefit of the field.