SOLU ongoing

SOLU exhibitions

Events

SOLU Dialogues: Andrew Gryf Paterson and Adam Zaretsky on conservation

SOLU Space

Join us at SOLU Space for the tenth iteration of SOLU Dialogues, where Adam Zaretsky and Andrew Gryf Paterson will discuss bioart archival and conservation practices.

SOLU Dialogues: How to grow a pair of shoes

SOLU Space

Join us for a workshop edition of SOLU Dialogues, where Alan Bulfin will share his durational research working with scoby.

SOLU Space

Welcome to the first SOLU breakfast of autumn 2025!

SOLU dialogues: More than Person River

HIAP

Join us for a collective listening workshop with Mari Keski-Korsu. This eight edition of SOLU Dialogues takes place at HIAP's facilities in Suomenlinna.

Night of the Arts at SOLU Space: To Notice is to Remember

SOLU Space

Join us for a film screening consisting of the works of Bioart Society's members on the Night of the Arts.

To Notice is to Remember

SOLU Space

Coinciding with the opening week of the Helsinki Biennale and Frame Contemporary Art Finland’s Teurastamo art space tour, Bioart Society is hosting a moving image screening event at SOLU Space.

SOLU dialogues: Glasgow Seed Library

Kivinokka allotment garden

This seventh SOLU dialogues takes place at Kivinokka allotment garden. Artist, writer and seed librarian of Glasgow Seed Library, Rowan Lear, will discuss with artworker and researcher Joss Allen about what it means to live, work and think with seeds.

Reading Matters series: Bacteria to AI

29 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 breakfast in April

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.

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.

Guest post | Erich Berger | 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