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on-going thoughts (o)noticingand the I’s in the we’s and the we’s in the I’s. I first visited Kilpisjarvi where I now am staying on 21st December...
SOLU Space to Host PIXELACHE Festival 2019
Pixelache Festival is one of oldest European emerging, electronic and experimental art and culture festivals. From May 20 to 26, Pixelache Festival...
Artist Talk: George Ridgway
Welcome to join us for a talk by George Ridgway, a Scotland-based artist currently participating in North AiR network's pilot residency Expanding...
Spectres in Change: Maja Kuzmanovic & Nik Gaffney
Spectres in Change
Hints, Traces and Resonances - Experiencing Ecological Uncertainty Monday,May, 13, 2019, 15–17h
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13 --

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Open Call for Field_Notes - The Heavens
Field_Notes – The Heavens is an art&science field laboratory organized by the Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in...
(Micro)chimerism and the temporality of life: rethinking the bio-imaginary
Welcome to join us for atalk by Margrit Shildrick (PhD),feminist phenomenologist and philosopher working with body
theory, monster studies,...
In dialogue: Martin Howse & Erich Berger
In dialogue: Martin Howse & Erich Berger
April 12, 2019, 17h
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13 Martin Howse is occupied with an artistic investigation...
#SOLUexhibitions
Anu Osva: Kanssakulkijat / Co-Travellers
Anu Osva's exhibition Kanssakulkijat / Co-Travellersexplores the relationship between the human and their companion species. Welcome to the opening...
ARS Bioarctica

The Bioart Society is the motor behind Ars Bioarctica which is a long term art&science initiative with a focus on the Arctic environment which was started in autumn 2008 in Kilpisjärvi. The activities of Ars Bioarctica encompass the development and implementation of courses, workshops, lectures, conferences and seminars, exhibitions, an artists in residency programme, the establishment of national and international relations as well as the production of works, promotion of Finnish artists and publishing of related material.

Featured Projects
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Field_Notes -The Heavens
2019
Field_Notes is an art&science field laboratory at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five groups work for one week in the sub-Arctic Lapland to develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches on questions located above ground.
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SOLU exhibitions
2019
Anu Osva (FI) - Siberian Cattle Project - April 11th to April 12th PIXELACHE Festival exhibition - May 20th to May 20th
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Field_Notes
2018
Field_Notes is an art&science field laboratory at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five groups work for one week in the sub-Arctic Lapland to develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches in relation to the notion of Ecology of Senses.
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SPLICE
2017
The SPLICE exhibition focuses its gaze on our relationship with nature, including diverse approaches towards the transforming environment. Canadian curator Nina Czegledy and the Finnish Bioart Society compile a review of relevant ideas approaching from a cross-disciplinary viewpoint.
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HYBRID_MATTERs
2015 - 2016
A Nordic art&science network program which investigates hybrid ecologies, the convergence of our environment with technology and essentially the intentional and unintentional transformation of our planet through human activity.
Activities
Encounters Across Art and Science DRAFT
Encounters Across Art and Science is the frst in a series of investigative events with and for artists, scientists, thinkers, doers and the general...
21 May, 2018 | Tiedekulma
Book launch “Kira O’Reilly: Untitled (Bodies)” DRAFT
Kira O’Reilly: Untitled (Bodies) edited by HarrietCurtis & Martin Hargreaves brings together newly commissioned and other writings by major...
21 May, 2018 | Tiedekulma
Merry CRISPR workshop with Marta de Menezes and others DRAFT
CRISPR is a novel gene editing systems which allows the permanent modifcation of the genes in cells of living organisms. The workshop activities...
21 May, 2018 | Bioflia Aalto Univeristy
Artist presentation Marta de Menezes DRAFT
Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon, and a MSt in History of Art and...
21 May, 2018 | House of Science and Letters
Book presentation “Britt Wray: Rise of the Necrofauna” DRAFT
In Rise of the Necrofauna, Britt Wray takes us deep into the minds and labs of some of the world’s most progressive thinkers to fnd out. After an...
21 May, 2018 | Galleria FORUM BOX
State price for Interdisciplinary art DRAFT
The Bioartsociety was awarded the state prize for multidisciplinary art by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland. We want to warmly thank all of our...
21 May, 2018 | TAIKE / Smolna
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“Be-Wildermend (Nature Drag)” performance by Kira O’Reilly DRAFT
Opening performance by Kira O’Reilly. Rather than indulge in questionable polarities of artifce and nature, this work seeks to perform a version of...
18 May, 2018 | Oulu Museum of Art
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Ars Bioarctica Field Report #1 with Soichiro Mihara
Ars Bioarctica Field Report #1 with Soichiro Mihara Ars Bioarctica resident Soichiro Mihara (JP) gave a talk about his residency at the Kilpisjärvi...
17 October, 2017 | Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, AV-Arkki office
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Yeastogram workshop with Johanna Rotko DRAFT
Yeastogram workshop with Johanna Rotko
Oulu Museum of Art 17 participants The yeastogram workshop explores with participants how to make living...
11 — 15 Sep 2017 | Oulu Museum of Art
Growing Cellulose workshop with Margherita Pevere DRAFT
Growing Cellulose workshop with Margherita Pevere The workshop focuses on the aesthetic potential of microbial cellulose (MB) and the philosophical...
11 — 18 Sep 2017 | Pixelache Office, Helsinki
Copper Kimchi workshop with Andrew Paterson DRAFT
Copper Kimchi workshop with Andrew Paterson The workshop brought together typically unrelated biological, metal-mineral and nature-cultural...
29 — 31 Aug 2017 | Temporary, Helsinki
Launch of Nordic Bioart network and network meeting #1 DRAFT
Launch of Nordic Bioart network and network meeting #1 The Bioartsociety joins the new DIYBio network which is emerging in the Nordic and Baltic...
29 — 31 Aug 2017 | Temporary, Helsinki
About
The Bioart Society

Bioart Society is a Helsinki-based association developing, producing and facilitating activities around art and natural sciences with an emphasis on biology, ecology and life sciences. It runs SOLU Space, an artistic laboratory and platform for art, science and society in Katajanokka, Helsinki, and - together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki - Ars Bioarctica, an art & science program with focus on the sub-arctic environment. Bioart Society was established in May 2008 and it has more than 110 members from Finland and other countries.

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Suomen Biotaiteen Seura ry / Finnish Bioart Society
Kaasutehtaankatu 1
FI-00540 Helsinki

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