Member-led writing club open to all 

Join us for a screening of the short film Diorama and a following artist talk with director Ellen Bjerborn. Ellen was an artist in residence at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station via Bioart Society's ARS Bioarctica residency in 2024. The residency culminated in a 15 minute artist film - Diorama (2026).  With Kilpijsärvi Biological Station lacated in Gilbbesjávri, in the sub-arctic as a base, Diorama looks at how the field of biology quantifies nature into numbers and data, abstracting it into diagrams and symbols. We follow the Keeper, the caretaker of the land, as the film moves in a range of the "natural" from fermenting in primordial juices to taxidermied animals forever petrified. The screening will be followed by a talk and informal discussion with Ellen Bjerborn. Light refreshments will be served. 
Ellen Bjerborn is a media artist b. 1995 in Malmö, Sweden. Her artistic practice hunkers under three ominous forces; nature, technology and spirituality. Through film and video she moves closer to these obscured powers that loom over the human experience. Since 2024 she has worked with art in an expanded field of participation and community. She holds a BFA in industrial design from Parsons School of Design, NYC. Portrait photo: Gabriel Prenbo 

An exhibition coinciding with the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes (CSSM) Conference 2026 featuring the works of artists that have collaborated with the project over the last five years.

Helsinki book launch of Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies (2025, eds. Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi, and Marietta Radomska).

During her Learning Materials residency, Paula Zvane explored the connections between materials, mythologies and the environment through sculptural experiments, painting, and storytelling inspired by the island’s landscapes and foraged materials.

As part of their Learning Materials residency and an ongoing material research, Aistė Gaidilionytė and Kamilė Vasiliauskaitė travelled to the Äänekoski bioproduct mill in central Finland where they explored the industrial processes through which wood is transformed into a wide range of products and reflect on material flows, industrial extraction, and the often-invisible infrastructures behind everyday materials.

Join us to celebrate three new publications emerging from Rewilding Cultures as the project comes to an end 

Genietta Varsi presents her work in Tokyo during her Tokyo Art & Science Research Residncy

An evening of performances by Margherita Pevere, Rubiane Maia and Sepideh Rahaa. 

Bioart Society and Food Art Research Network host a lively research assembly to celebrate and activate the newly launched publication Follow the Plants. 

Artist Nathalie Muchamad hosts a participatory breadfruit cooking workshop        

Afternoon readings and listening session at Kaisaniemi Botanic outdoor gardens and on OOO Radio