SOLU

Since 2009, the Bioart Society has been running art&science residency Ars Bioarctica at the Kilpisjärvi Biological station located in the Finnish subarctic/Sápmi. So far 204 artists, scientists and transdisciplinary working groups have attended the residency. The Time and River are alike exhibition offers a glimpse into this residency, mediated through video, audio and photo works by five artists.

Visual artist Johanna Rotko works with living materials, mainly different yeasts. The exhibition features yeastograms - images made with living yeast cells - photographs of Rotko's research, and a video piece introducing her working methods.

During this three-evening workshop, participants learn how to make yeastograms - living images made with yeast, growth media, UV light and rasterized images.

New experimental works that explore images as scientific tools, or as other forms of information, and as physical entities consisting of pixels or pigment grains correlating to a physical object sensitive to light.

Join artist Maija Annikki Savolainen for a sequence of reading circles in connection to her exhibition /d a t a c e n t r e! The reading circles are held as online events over zoom.

An exhibition shifting through time. Mirroring the format of a residency, the exhibition performs as a site for ongoing research, material experimentation and knowledge transmission.

Welcome to #SOLUspa to experience the transformational power of art and hairdressing!

Contemplations and ideas from a collaboration between artists Laura Beloff and Kira O’Reilly on ticks and tick-borne pathogens and their environments.

Imaginative prototypes from the five-day BioFutures workshop and ongoing work.

A dialogue about Koek’s pioneering work and the many ways in which art, science and society can come together within artistic and curatorial practices.

Trans*Plant is a transdisciplinary project that utilizes living systems and is based on self-experimentation: it is a process that involves a human to plant transition in various formats.

A long-term project involving scientists and artists in a quest to explore the stratosphere and capture microorganisms that may live there.

Making invisible microbes visible and trying to identify them has been a pastime of the curious for many centuries.

An evening of soundscapes and discussions surrounding the theme of Atmospheric Encounters.

Down to Earth is a two-day hands-on workshop where participants will go through the process of how to make a chromatography and prepare some with their own soil samples.

Our friends from TUO TUO are welcoming you to the Screening dreaming of laho paratiisi: return of (the) earth, rhizomes laaaaaaugh, spiralling at SOLU Space.

Ines Montalvao and Annina Antinranta are inviting everyone with a curious mind about plants and the way they communicate with each other, with humans and the surrounding environment, to gather at SOLU Space for a matinée of sound experimentation.

Down to Earth II is a two-day hands-on workshop where participants will go through the process of how to make a chromatography and prepare some with their own soil samples.

SOLU Space will host the book launch event for The Permian Collection by Axel Straschnoy.

Exhibition opening on 5 May 2022 at 17:00.

The first instalment of m/other becomings exhibition includes works from Riina Hannula, Lyndsey Walsh, and Rian Ciela Hammond.

The mini festival Emergence, Microbes, Governing Bodies will take place at SOLU Space 1–5 June 2022.

Exhibition opening on 9 June 2022 at 18:00.

The second instalment of m/other becomings exhibition includes works from Marta de Menezes, Pekko Vasantola, and Margherita Pevere.

MNEMONIA, a collaboration installation by Emilia Tikka, Oula A Valkeapää and Leena Valkeapää, will have it's opening at SOLU Space on the Night of the Arts, 18th of August 2022.

It has come time to say goodbye to our beloved SOLU Space as we head out for new adventures. Welcome to one last party at Katajanokka!