Jani Ruscica has been nominated as one of the candidates for Finland’s most significant fine art prize, Ars Fennica! The award is presented annually to a visual artist in recognition of distinctive artistic work of high merit. A joint exhibition showcasing the nominees’ works will be on display at HAM Helsinki Art Museum from 24 October 2025, to 15 March 15 2026. The winner 2025, selected by Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, will be announced in the spring of 2026.
“Jani Ruscica works across mediums of moving and printed image, sculpture and performance. Central to the artist’s practice is the slippage and simultaneity of meaning animated by forms that move, stretch, shape-shift, and exceed the borders of time, space, and bodies. Working with fragmentary signs or images we think we already know, Ruscica deploys the pseudo-familiar to undermine immediate legibility in favour of precarious, improvisational processes.” –Camilla Granbacka
Photo: Diana Luganski