Art&science exhibition created in collaboration with Annantalo Arts Centre

With Field_Notes - The Heavens the Bioart Society started to explore the interface between space and earth. Fragile Life and Celestial Matter(s) continues this inquiry with two online panel events bringing together a group of artists and researchers who work on space related issues for many years.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and postponed activities, our collaboration project Biofriction is setting up a a series of online conversations to instigate an informed discussion on current situation and possible scenarios.

All SOLU Space events and the Ars Bioarctica residency programme are currently on hold.

[The exhibition is temporarily closed] Visual artist Johanna Rotko works with living materials, mainly different yeasts. The exhibition features yeastograms - images made with living yeast cells - photographs of Rotko's research, and a video piece introducing her working methods.

How to represent life-material and bodies of living beings and at the same time avoiding the pitfalls of objectification? Join us for an open conversation with Bartaku (artist, FI/BE), Björn Kröger (paleontologist, FI/DE), Marietta Radomska (philosopherFI/SE/PL) and Mari Keski-Korsu (artist, FI)!

Welcome to celebrate the launch of Art as We Don’t Know It, a new book showcasing art and research that has grown and flourished within the wider network of both the Bioart Society and Biofilia during the previous decade. 

What happens when matter really matters? MaterialeX is a two-day deep-dive workshop about exploring how to make materials from local waste streams. The workshop is hosted by Chan'nel Vestergaard.

A three-hour workshop open to musicians, non-musicians, artists, professionals, students and anybody interested in field recording.

Welcome to join us for a dialogue that brings together artist, designer and researcher Emilia Tikka and Mianna Meskus, sociologist of science and technology.

The Bioartsociety is calling for Finnish artists or artists based in Finland to apply for a one month art & science research residency in Tokyo Japan in autumn/winter 2020. The residency will be hosted by BioClub Tokyo in partnership with the Finnish Institute in Japan.

The Bioart Society and Annantalo Art Centre in Helsinki, Finland are launching an open call for existing artworks and a workshop for a group exhibition to be held in the Annatalo main gallery space as part of the auxiliary program for the Helsinki Biennial 2020.