30 October – 1 December
The North Escaping: Grasping Transformations @ SOLU Space
Thu–Fri 13–18h / Sat–Sun 12–17h
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Autumnal breakfasts at SOLU Space
2 Oct 2024 09:30 — 11:00
20 Nov 2024 09:30 — 11:00
11 Dec 2024 09:30 — 11:00
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!
#TheNorthEscaping
The North Escaping: Grasping Transformations
30 Oct — 1 Dec 2024
Thu–Fri 13–18h
Sat–Sun 12–17h
or by appointment

The exhibition presents works and works-in-progress by artists and curators who had their The North Escaping residencies at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station during Spring and Summer 2024.
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Reading matters
28 Feb 2024 12:00 — 14:00
SOLU
2 May 2024 18:00 — 20:00
SOLU
13 Jun 2024 18:00 — 20:00
SOLU
28 Nov 2024 18:00 — 20:00
Online
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.
#ArsBioarctica
Carbon Synthesis
Donna Franklin, Tracy Hill and Sarah Robinson were in Ars Bioarctica residency at Kilpisjärvi in September working on their long-term Carbon Synthesis project.
Guest post | Donna Franklin, Tracy Hill & Sarah Robinson | 31 October 2024
#TheNorthEscaping
IORE/AORTA -  A Terrestrial Hope Affair
Hannah Wiker Wikström travelled to Kilpisjärvi Biological Station for The North Escaping residency in July 2024. During her time in residency, she worked with a film, which will be a part of a longer research on timespacematter imagination.
Guest post | Hannah Wiker Wikström | 16 October 2024
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SOLU Dialogues: Landscape Machines
10 Oct 2024 18:00 — 19:00
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.
Eliisa Suvanto starting at Bioart Society
Eliisa Suvanto will start as the new Managing Director at the end of October.
9 October 2024
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Songs from the Wreck / Själö Poeisis
4 Oct 2024 18:00 — 20:00
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.
#RewildingCultures
Homecoming with gifts from distant relatives
Bioart Society selected Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka as the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation 2024 grant receivers in spring 2024. They are travelling from Serbia to Finland by land in a manner of 'symbiotic movement'. In this second blog entry they write about their experiences on the road.
Guest post | Goran Tomka | 26 September 2024
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Symbiotic wilderness
Bioart Society selected Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka as the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation 2024 grant receivers in spring 2024. They are travelling from Serbia to Finland by land in a manner of 'symbiotic movement'. In this first blog entry they write about the methodology of their trip.
Guest post | Goran Tomka | 6 September 2024
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Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka travelling to Helsinki from Serbia in September
Bioart Society selected Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka for Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation 2024 via the open call that was held in spring 2024.
3 September 2024
#deCYPher
Open call for HORIZON artists in residence
We host an open call for 4 fully funded residencies across the two European Union Horizon projects deCYPher and Bioindustry 4.0. Three artists will be selected to participate in the deCYPher project and one in the Bioindustry 4.0 project.
30 August 2024