During this spring, we are hosting a three-piece Reading Matters series with Helen Kaplinsky, and artist and writer Kirsty Hendry.

Laura Lowe spent a few weeks in May – June 2025, at the Ars Bioarctica residency conducting artistic research for her ongoing body of work "The Strcutural Colour Paintings". Lowe was gathering visual material of melting ice and embedded 'black carbon' pollution through the iridescent colours these materials reveal under polarised microscopy, as well as, by capturing the ice's surface with gelatin prints. She travelled across a thawing landscape of glaciers, tundra lakes, cascading waterfalls, and the Arctic Sea collecting her samples of ice.  

Coinciding with the opening week of the Helsinki Biennale and Frame Contemporary Art Finland’s Teurastamo art space tour, Bioart Society is hosting a moving image screening event at SOLU Space.

This seventh SOLU dialogues takes place at Kivinokka allotment garden. Artist, writer and seed librarian of Glasgow Seed Library, Rowan Lear, will discuss with artworker and researcher Joss Allen about what it means to live, work and think with seeds.

The Rewilding Cultures network partners issued 8 grants to support mobility, projects and experiments which conribute to the rethinking of mobility and cultural exchange in novel ways.

During his residency, Laine will experiment with using marine bacteria to carve and shape bioplastics, exploring how bacteria can be used for bio-etching to create organic patterns on the bioplastic surface. Laine is also keen to learn about the traditional methods of processing Japanese tengusa-seaweed (Gelidium amansii) and the production of kanten.

Dancers Gesa Piper and Paula Kramer were in Ars Bioarctica residency in February 2025. They focused on outdoor movement practice in relationship to temperature, cllimate, light and the rotation of panet Earth, partly accompanied by photographer Venla Helenius.

Bioart Society's eight Field_Notes field laboratory, Field_Notes – Living Methodologies, will take place in Sápmi during 14–24 September 2025.

Marzecová will continue her longer exploration of how ecological narratices structure ways of knowing and relating to nature through the lens of queer and feminist ecology.

Bioart Society welcomes members, peers, partners and publics to join for breakfast at our SOLU Space in Kalasatama. Free of charge and no pre-registration needed!

Lau Kaker was selected for the Tokyo Art & Science Research Residency in 2024. This is their third and final blog entry about their experiences in residency.

12 transdisciplinary artists and artist groups have been selected fo Ars Bioarctica residency for 2025–2026.