Satu Rautiainen (born 1982) graduated from the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. Since graduating, she has organized annual solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions both in Finland and abroad. Rautiainen works with painting and textile art and the spatial entities formed by them. Her most recent solo exhibition was held in 2023 at the Heinola Art Museum, and her next exhibition will be held at the Virkki Home Museum in spring 2026. Rautiainen's works are included in several public art collections, such as the collections of the State, Wihuri, Paulo Foundation, Kiasma, HAM Helsinki City Art Museum, and EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art.

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Ilari Hautamäki (b. 1983) is a visual artist working in Helsinki. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2011. Hautamäki has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Purnu Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Mänttä Art Festival, the Hämeenlinna Art Museum, the Jyväskylä Art Museum, and the Nuoret exhibition at Taidehalli. In 2018–2019, Hautamäki participated in The Touch exhibition series, which was presented at the Tornio Art Museum, the Seinäjoki Art Hall, and the Pro Artibus Foundation's Sinne Gallery in Helsinki. His works are included in several public collections, such as those of HAM – Helsinki Art Museum, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, and the Wihuri Foundation.

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Eeva Peura (b. 1982) graduated from the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts in 2011. Eeva Peura paints oil paintings on canvas and draws works on paper. Peura's paintings are characterized by different marks and textures. The brushwork is varied and rich, created, for example, by focusing on the numerous details of the painting or by squeezing paint directly from the tube onto the canvas. Peura has held several solo and group exhibitions in Finland, including at Galerie Forsblom, the Mänttä Art Festival, and the Turku Art Museum. In 2019, he was awarded the William Thuring Prize. Peura is currently working on a five-year artist grant from Taike.

Peura's works are included in the collections of Kiasma, the Turku Art Museum, and the Vantaa Art Museum Artsi, among others.

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Visual artist Fanny Tavastila (b. 1977) lives and works in Helsinki. Tavastila's work draws on a subtle emotional scale. She constructs her paintings slowly, layer by layer: they are an intuitive and multidimensional exploration of the relationship between the visible and the hidden, the everyday and the elegant, the representational and the abstract. Through a natural and lyrical combination of color, rhythm, texture, and composition, her paintings achieve an essence that is difficult to put into words.

Tavastila works mainly with oil paints on canvas, as well as with various printing techniques and site-specific installations. Last year, the artist completed an extensive international collaboration project with Newil & Baun and Steven Hall Architects, comprising 120 works in the recently opened Meander building in Helsinki. His works are included in the collections of Wihuri, Pro Artibus, Helsinki University Hospital, and the Nordic Investment Bank, as well as numerous private collections in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, France, Benin, Japan, and the United States.

In addition to his own artistic work, Tavastila has created and curated various exhibitions and is currently the curator of the Runo Biennial exhibitions held at the Runo Hotel in Porvoo. The hotel has recently been awarded the Michelin Key, the first and so far only hotel in Finland to receive this recognition.