SOLU ongoing

SOLU exhibitions

Events

Reading Matters series: Bacteria to AI

30 Apr — 25 Jun 2025

SOLU Space

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

SOLU Space

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!

Reading matters

SOLU Space

Reading matters is a regular reading circle that activates the SOLU library and brings people together to discuss matters connected to our projects and wider programme.

Small sceneries – microscopy workshop

SOLU Space

During The Night of Science, Bioart Society facilitates a microscopy workshop for people of all ages.

SOLU Dialogues goes Frame: Follow the Plants

Frame Finland

This special SOLU Dialogues takes place at Frame Contemporary Art Finland's premises in Töölö. During the event, curator Madeleine Collie and Bioart Society’s artistic director Yvonne Billimore, discuss their collaboration within the Follow the Plants project.

PIKKUJOULU BRUNCH

SOLU Space

Join us for a combination of a pre-Christmas brunch and the finissage of The North Escaping: Grasping Transformations exhibition.

SOLU Dialogues: Landscape Machines

SOLU Space

During the fifth iteration of SOLU Dialogues, artist-curator and doctoral researcher Erich Berger invites participants for a dialogue about his ongoing engagement with deep time, deep futures and the nuclear contemporary through his art and research practice.

Songs from the Wreck / Själö Poeisis

SOLU Space

Lotta Petronella will perform new pieces of writings and rituals Songs from the Wreck embodying hundreds of years of institutional violence and hauntings on the island of Seili.

Autumnal breakfasts at SOLU Space

2 Oct — 11 Dec 2024

SOLU Space

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

SOLU Space

As part of the Night of the Arts program, Bioart Society hosts Kaajal Modi's workshops M/others M*lk.

SOLU Dialogues: Thinking with Onkalo

SOLU Space

The fourth iteration of SOLU Dialogues, event researchers in nuclear culture – Ele Carpenter, Erich Berger, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Alex Ressel and Susan Schuppli – will share their different research practices, and reflect on how their recent field trip to Onkalo informs these discourses and practices.

SOLU Dialogues: You contain more-than-culture

SOLU Space

The third iteration of SOLU Dialogues by Kaajal Modi is inspired by Finnish and Global South fermentation practices, sauna culture, seed and Oodi libraries and recent attempts to codify and monitor the human microbiome.

SOLU Space miniresidencies start in...

Bioart Society member artists will be having their residencies from July until October.

SOLU Space is closed in July

Bioart Society staff is on holiday, and SOLU Space is closed in July. We wish you a sunny summer!

Guest post | Johanna Salmela | 27 June 2021

Visiting SOLU Space during the...

We want to make your visit to SOLU Space during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic a good experience. For that, we will be taking extra precautions to sustain a healthy and safe environment.

Guest post | Johanna Salmela | 11 January 2021

SOLU INVOKATION + Portal opening...

On the occasion of the opening of SOLU Space our esteemed colleagues and friends Kira O'Reilly and Ava Greyson performed a ritual to invoke the qualities, hopes and aspirations of the ‘SOLU Temple’ and to perform the opening and sealing rites for the mysterious '‘interdimensional portal’ the opening to which is located in the kitchen area.

9 November 2019

Bartaku: Leaky Light

Bartaku: Leaky Light August 30–September 26, 2019 SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13 WED12–17h |THU12–19h |FRI12–17h |SAT-SUN12–16h [Suomenkielinen teksti...

Guest post | Johanna Salmela | 21 August 2019

SOLU Space to Host PIXELACHE Festival...

Pixelache Festival is one of oldest European emerging, electronic and experimental art and culture festivals. From May 20 to 26, Pixelache Festival...

Guest post | Johanna Salmela | 9 May 2019

Anu Osva: Kanssakulkijat /...

Anu Osva's exhibition Kanssakulkijat / Co-Travellersexplores the relationship between the human and their companion species. Welcome to the opening...

Guest post | Johanna Salmela | 2 April 2019

Co-Travellers – Seminar

Welcome to a seminar discussinghuman-animal relations in the Arctic. The eventfeatures an introduction by artistAnu Osva and talks by professor of...

Guest post | Johanna Salmela | 2 April 2019

subsensorialXYZ journal #Hypnosis...

Transcript Hypnosis 09.03.2019 Hypnotist: Marina Kronkvist Client: Pia Lindman Location: Bed room in SOLU space, Bioartsociety PART 2/First Scene...

Guest post | Pia Lindman | 11 March 2019

subsensorialXYZ journal #Hypnosis...

Transcript Hypnosis 09.03.2019 Hypnotist: Marina Kronkvist Client: Pia Lindman Location: Bed room in SOLU space, Bioartsociety PART 1/Setting goals...

Guest post | Pia Lindman | 11 March 2019

IN VITRO AGENCIES

Welcome to theopening of IN VITRO AGENCIES, a prototyping exhibition by Guy Ben-Ary and Nathan Thompson on March 22nd, 17-19h at SOLU Space...

Guest post | Mari Keski-Korsu | 7 March 2019

subsensorialXYZ journal #2

During the first month of residency at SOLU, I would repeatedly walk around the rooms and breathe in, sensing air. I would go into corners, next to...

Guest post | Pia Lindman | 5 March 2019