Finland
KAAPELITEHDAS - HELSINKI
Contact
Name of the responsible structure : Real Estate Company Cable Ltd
Type of structure : Company Ltd
Profile of the initiators of the project : artist community working in the building since the beginning .
Continent : Europe
Country : Finland
Address/tel/fax :
Tallberginkatu 1 C / 15
00180 Helsinki
tél: 358.9.47.63.83.00
fax: 358.9.47.63.83.83
e-mail: cable@kaapelitehdas.fi
web: www.kaapelitehdas.fi
Contact : Antti Manninen, director
Description
The Cable Factory offers permanent and short-term space for all possible fields and forms of art.
Also commercial events are possible.
Former use of the building: cable factory owned by Nokia Ltd
Architect of the former building: Waino G. Palmqvist, (1939-1944)
Several architects for the renovation: Heikkinen & Komonen, Architects, Pia Ilonen etTotal
Surface of the indoor place only: 43 000 m2
Ownership: Real Estate Company Cable Ltd.
Type of occupation: rent
Location : city
Foundation year of the centre : 1991
Infrastructures / Facilities
Restaurant and cafe
Offices for associations
Training places
Art schools
Dance studios
Art gallery
Rehearsal studios
Theatre hall
Production studios (video, audio, etc.)
Artist residencies spaces (multidisciplinary)
Radio stations
Museum of Photography
Hotel-and Restaurant Museum, Theatre Museum
Venues:
- 2700 m2 - 2400 persons
- 280 m2- 240 persons
- 500 m2- 400 persons
- 470 m2- 400 persons
- 200 m2- 180 persons
- 102 m2- 60 persons
Social and artistic disciplines
Visual arts, studios, exhibitions etc.
Music
Dance
Theatre
Circus
Radio
Multimedia
Drawing
Video
Architecture,
Photography,
Material arts,
Ceramic
etc.
Workshops
Artist association
Magazines
Children’s specific cultural activities
Disabled people education and arts
Artists’ residencies
Recording audio and video studios
Artist education/training programmes etc.
Many spaces to rent (check website)
Other structures/organisations resident on the site
Many artists, companies, organisations in different fields, all renting a space at kaapelitehdas
Financial support
No Institutional support at all
% of own income in the budget : 100%
no sponsor
Networks