{"id":5,"date":"2026-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artist-5"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:54:10","slug":"marja-helander","status":"publish","type":"artists","link":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/artists\/marja-helander\/","title":{"rendered":"Marja Helander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marja Helander (born 1965)<\/strong> is a S\u00e1mi photographer, video artist and film-maker with roots both in Helsinki and Utsjoki. In her work, she has studied various themes including her own identity between the Finnish and the S\u00e1mi culture. Since 1992, Helander\u2019s work has been exhibited in two dozen solo exhibitions and over 50 group exhibitions in Finland and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why making video art and short films has been so inspiring after a long career in photography, Helander says.<br>- This is why making video art and short films has been so inspiring after a long career in photography, Helander says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">At the 2018 Tampere Film Festival, Marja Helander was awarded the Risto Jarva Prize for her film <em>Eatnanvulo\u0161 lottit, Birds In The Earth<\/em>. The M\u00e4ntt\u00e4 Art Festival has selected Marja Helander as the curator for the 2019 exhibition.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-5","artists","type-artists","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}