As an association, Bioart Society hopes to renew and reevaluate it's purpose and functions in collaboration with it's members in order to keep reflecting the membership and adjusting to the changing landscape of contemporary art, culture and society at large.

With another year passing in a flash, it is time to reflect on the phenomenal year of 2024 at Bioart Society.

We are happy to announce our yearly open call for Ars Bioarctica residency program at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. Deadline for applications is 19th January 2025.

In November 2024 Ellen Bjerborn spent time at Kilpisjärvi Biological station, observing the changing nature of field studies in a new era. Much of the field work at the station is no longer done by human hands but rather by machines, and the staff at the station function to service the machines that monitor and collect samples.

In the fall of 2024 Lauri Linna studied the wind and its life, observing the arctic atmosphere at the Rewilding Cultures residency at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.

Donna Franklin, Tracy Hill and Sarah Robinson were in Ars Bioarctica residency at Kilpisjärvi in September working on their long-term Carbon Synthesis project.

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.

Eliisa Suvanto will start as the new Managing Director at the end of October.

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.

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.

Bioart Society selected Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka for Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation 2024 via the open call that was held in spring 2024.

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.