At the core of Artists’ Association Yö is its members' desire to act. Yö ry is more than a benefit organisation or an artist-led gallery, it is an association of active and enthusiastic professionals from various fields. Yö is a movement and a community whose large number of members enables even ambitious initiatives to be implemented.
The values of community, sustainable development and multiculturalism are central to Yö ry and promoting them is a natural part of the association's activities. All of the association's activities emphasise openness, working together, peer support and multidimensional dialogue - dialogue between different forms and fields of art, as well as between the artist, the public and society. The aim is to strengthen the mutual interaction of artists as practitioners through peer learning, support and evaluation.
The board of Artists' Association Yö for 2026 are Henriikka Pöllänen (chair), Niko Tii Nurmi Sipiläinen (1st vice chair,) Kalle Ahonen (2nd vice chair), Krista Blomqvist (treasurer) Pauliina Korpi, Jussa Pennanen, Jukka Suvanto, Soile Kortesalmi and Aleksi Marjamaa.
Bodycount by Harri Piispanen photo by Mika Vehkala