SOLU Breakfast
27 August 2025 at 9:30-11:00
Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), 00580 Helsinki As Bioart Society staff is returning to the office after the...

SOLU dialogues: More than Person River
16 August 2025 at 14:00-16:00
HIAP Gallery Augusta (Suomenlinna B 28 / 2) Bioart Society and Sympoietic...

Night of the Arts: To Notice is to Remember screening
14 August at 16:00-20:00
SOLU Space, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor) [in Finnish below] To Notice...

Bioart Society hosts the second of three labs within the deCYPher project in Ghent with the project partners at the Centre for Synthetic Biology...

To Notice is to Remember
Bioart Society members screening
Saturday 7th June, 16:00-20:00
SOLU Space (Panimokatu 1, 3rd floor, 00580 Helsinki) ...

SOLU dialogues: Glasgow Seed Library
with Rowan Lear & Joss Allen
30 May 2025 at 18:00
Kulosaari Manor, Kipparlahdensilmukka 5, 00810 Helsinki...

Reading matters: Bacteria to AI
29 April; 28 May; 25 June 2025
18:00-20:00
SOLU Space, Helsinki
This April-June we are hosting three consecutive...

Bioart Society welcomes members, peers, partners and publics to join for a breakfast at our SOLU Space in Kalasatama. With an interest in providing...

With a new collection of books recently purchased for our library, including recommendations from members, we invite you to come and read them with...

[suomeksi alhaalla] The Night of Science: Small sceneries – microscopy workshop
with Katri Naukkarinen
9 January 2025 at 17:00-20:00
Panimokatu 1...

SOLU Dialogues goes Frame: Follow the Plants
3 December 2024
Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Töölönkatu 11 A, Helsinki In collaboration with...

On the last day of The North Escaping: Grasping Transformations exhibition we will host a pre-Christmas party in the form of a late brunch. Welcome...

Neal Cahoon, Espen Sommer Eide, Erik Fallgren, Christine Hvidt, Anne Lindgaard Møller, Hilde Methi and Hannah Wiker Wikström
The North Escaping:...

SOLU Dialogues: Landscape Machines
10 October 2024 at 18:00-19:00
Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), 00580 Helsinki You stand on the southeastern slope of...

Songs from the Wreck / Själö Poeisis– a reading & performance by Lotta Petronella
4 October 2024 at 18:00
Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), 00580...

We continue our breakfast session in autumn, starting from September. Bioart Society welcomes members, peers, partners and publics to join our...

Reading Matters: Feral Labs reading & book launch
28 August 2024 at 18:00-20:00
Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), 00580 Helsinki This reading group is...

Night of the Arts: M/others M*lk
Kaajal Modi in collaboration with Riina Hannula and Panu Räisänen.
15 August 2024 at 17:00-22:00
Panimokatu 1 (3rd...

deCYPher lab: on the ethics and aesthetics of linking AI/ML & SynBio
09:30-18:00 on Thu 6 June 2024
Design Factory, Aalto University...

SOLU Dialogues: Thinking-with Onkalo
29 May 2024 at 16:30-18:00
Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), 00580 Helsinki
Finland is building the world’s first...

Ways of seeing: life – glass – chem workshop
9–19 April 2024 (9–12 April Optional introductions / 15–19 April Main workshop)
Working hours approx....

Allotment Garden Event Series: Crocodile Seeds by Lucy Davis / The Migrant Ecologies Project
16 March 2024 at 15:00–16:30
Museum of Finnish...

SOLU Dialogues: You contain more-than-culture: Inheriting microbial communities through the senses
14 March 2024
18:00–20:00
SOLU Space, Panimokatu...

MicroMatters workshop
29 Feb — 1 March 2024
Working hours approx. 10:00-17:00 each day
SOLU Space, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), Helsinki
Are you...

Starting from January, Bioart Society welcomes members, peers, partners and publics to join our monthly breakfasts at our SOLU Space in...

As part of the second SOLU Dialogues series, Aaro Murphy hosts A Nose is a Nose, an open dialogue between peers and colleagues around the subject...

Aaro Murphy
Fickle (Gritty) Memory
7 December – 31 January 2023
SOLU Space, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), Helsinki Tue–Sun 12–18h or by appointment
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SOLU Dialogues: Koelleven
23rd November 2023
18:00 - 20:00
SOLU Space, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), Helsinki
Bartaku is presenting the Koelleven...

WORKSHOP – 3D EXPLORATION
2–3 November 2023
Working hours approx. 10:00-17:00 each day
SOLU Space, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), Helsinki


A workshop...

Film screening and fundraiser
Organised in collaboration by Kairos Helsinki, Feminist Culture House & Bioart Society
Doors open 18:00, films...

The Fells – A Soundwalk through Timescapes of the Kilpisjärvi area
with Jacek Smolicki
at 17:00-18:30 & 19:00-20:30 on 19th October 2023
SOLU...

Do Trees Dream of CO
at 18:00 on 13 October 2023
SOLU Space, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), Helsinki Researchers have learned that plants rest at...

[suomenkielinen teksti sivun lopussa] Brewing tea and conversations – Night of the Arts at SOLU Space
at 17:00-00:00 on 17th August 2023
SOLU...

State of the Art – Elements for Critical Thinking and Doing
at 17:00 on 21 June 2023
SOLU Space, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), Helsinki Join us for...

We invite you to join us at SOLU Space on Monday 5th of June at 18:00 for a presentation about the work of the Critical Gardening Collective. The...

aRzu & Maria Lepistö
North Escaping residency presentation & discussion
24th May 2023
SOLU Space, Panimokatu 1, 3rd floor
at 19:00 aRzu and...

WORKSHOP – MAKING FISH LEATHER
7–9 March 2023
Working hours approx. 10:00-17:00 each day
Kuusiluoto, Helsinki A fish leather workshop with Hanna...

DOWN TO EARTH: THE MAPPING SESSION
31 October – 1 November 2022
Aalto Design Factory, Espoo A soil chromatography and mapping workshop withAino...

More Than Living is an exhibition illustrating the links between contemporary art, health, biomedical research and the way in which, in a post...

The Bioart Society has had its base camp at SOLU Space in Katajanokka from October 2018 onwards. Since then, we have been privileged to work with a...

[suomenkielinen teksti alla] Emilia Tikka, Oula A Valkeapää & Leena Valkeapää
MNEMONIA
18 August – 8 September 2022
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13,...

Marta de Menezes, Pekko Vasantola & Margherita Pevere
m/other becomings exhibition – Instalment II
9–30 June, 2022
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13,...

m/other becomings – symposium
9–10 June 2022
Aalto Design Factory, Betonimiehenkuja 5 C, Espoo
Please register via the link below!
THE SYMPOSIUM...

Emergence, Microbes, Governing Bodies mini festival
1-5 June 2022
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13, Helsinki & other locations
Emergence, Microbes,...

Riina Hannula, Lyndsey Walsh & Rian Ciela Hammond
m/other becomings exhibition – Instalment I
5–28 May, 2022
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13,...

[suomenkielinen teksti alla] Wednesday 27th April 2022 at 17.00 SOLU Space
Luotsikatu 13, Helsinki Atthe Perm Regional Museum, theentomological...

Soil chromatography workshop with Aino Johansson and Sirja Moberg Down to Earth II is a two-day hands-on workshop at Bioart Society's SOLU space on...

Imagining the Baltic Sea: Online seminar 7–8 April 2022, 13.00-16.00 (EET) Zoom link Welcome to this online seminar focused on the Baltic Sea –...

[Suomenkielinen teksti alempana] The Língua Plantae sessions
27 March 2022, at 13.30-16.30 Ines Montalvao andAnnina Antinranta are inviting...

Call for onsite and online participants and contributors m/other becomings workshop – exploring the notions of m/otherhood and reproduction under...

What kind of art is created from seaweed, artificial intelligence in space, bird sounds, seawater acidity levels, radioactivity, or mutated frogs?...

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

Soil chromatography workshop with Aino Johansson and Sirja Moberg Down to Earth is a two day hands-on workshop at Bioart Society's SOLU space on...

During November and December, an online lecture series will explore the themes and curatorial aspects of m/other becomings. The lecture series is...

OnNovember, 2nd from 19hto 20h30, HAB artistsNoora SandgrenandTill Bovermannwarmly welcome you to an evening of soundscapes and discussions in...

Microbial prospecting workshop with Melissa Grant
October 8, 2021
10-16h at SOLU Space This is an introductory workshop and no previous knowledge...

High Altitude Bioprospecting (HAB): Atmospheric Encounters
Till Bovermann, Anna Dumitriu, Melissa Grant, Hannah Imlach, Alex May, Oliver de Peyer,...

Seaside Arts and Low-Trophic Imaginaries
30 September – 1 October 2021
Ornö, Stockholm Archipleago, Sweden + online All through the extended...

Quimera Rosa
Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll be with/in you
2.–25.9.2021
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13, Helsinki
Wed–Sat 12–16h or by appointment

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In Dialogue: Ariane Koek & Erich Berger
Thursday, August 26, 2021 | 17-18:30h
Location: SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13, 00160 Helsinki
Free entry,...

BioFutures – Process Prototype Showcase
June 12–18, 2021
Sat–Sun 10–14h, Mon–Fri 12–17h
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13, Helsinki The Multispecies Dance
...

BioFutures - A physical narrative workshop [suomenkielinen teksti alla] The BioFuturesworkshop will take place from June 7-11(10-17h) in Helsinki,...

TICK ACTs
June 2-3, 2021 | 15–20h, for one visitor at a time
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13, Helsinki For visitors of one at a time over two days, TICK...

Full Moon Presence workshop
with the Independent AIR
May-June, 2021
In this workshop we will begin to move into a space where we can sense and...

#SOLUspa with Ernest Truely
May 17–30, 2021
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13, Helsinki
Appointments available daily from 9:00h to 21:00h Welcome to...

Talking BIO·FICTION
on Wednesdays
via Zoom | in English

April 14, 19–21h (Finnish time, UTC+2)
with Kaisu Koski and Peter Lloyd Jones

April 21,...

BIO·FICTION Shorts

[Suomenkielinen teksti alla] BIO·FICTION Shorts is a touring collection of short films exploring the theme of Futurebody....

BIO·FICTION Panel
with Riitta Hari, Pia Tikka, Markus Schmidt and Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka (moderator)
Thursday, April 8, 19–21h (Finnish time, UTC+2)...

Soil workshop with NOBA - Norwegian Bioart Arena
March 24–26, 2021 | Online
Hosted byRoland van Dierendonck and Hege Tapio

In Norse mythology, in...

Maija Annikki Savolainen
/d a t a c e n t r e
In collaboration with curator Yvonne Billimore and media artist Otso Havanto
Jan 13– Feb 20, 2021
...

TICK TALKs is aseries of conversations by artistsLaura Beloff and Kira O'Reilly with experts from the biosciences and the humanities concerning...

/d a t a c e n t r e Reading Circles on Thursdays: 3 December 6-8pm: Reading Circle I with curator Yvonne Billimore (EN) - Online via zoom
17...

Photosonic Landscapes panel
with Minna Långström, Leah Beeferman, Mika Taanila and Tytti Rantanen (moderator)
Thursday, November 12, 18h– (Finnish...

[suomenkielinen teksti alla] Minna Långström & Leah Beeferman
PHOTOSONICLANDSCAPES IN COLOR
16.10.–21.11.2020
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13,...

Yeastograms are living images made with yeast, growth media, UV light and rasterized images. During this three-eveningworkshop, participants will...

Bioart Society has started a collaboration withAnnantalo, an arts centre for children, young people and families in Helsinki. The first fruitof the...

Johanna Rotko: Living Images
13.8.–13.9.2020
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13, Helsinki
Open from Wed–Sat 12–16h or via appointment ** The exhibition has...

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and postponed activities, our European collaboration project Biofriction is setting up a a series ofonline...

The event have been moved to Jitsi,please joinhttps://meet.jit.si/FragileLifeAndCelestialMatters
Please switch off your camera and mic when...

The bird, the beetle, the chicken, the human, the mushroom, and the aspen tree .. We place them in fixed terms, often in singular form, classified...

Art as We Don’t Know It Erich Berger, Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka, Kira O’Reilly, Helena Sederholm (eds.)
Publisher: Aalto ARTS Books
What worlds are...

What happens when matter really matters? Materials are ubiquitous in our life and we are increasingly interested in where they come from, the...

FIELD RECORDING WORKSHOP WITH ALAN COURTIS
Sunday, February 16, 2020,14–17h
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13, Helsinki The same way photography is now...

Crossroads – New Views on Art and Environment offers a kaleidoscopic view of artistic practices that respond to the complex, at times contradictory...

Time and River are alike
12.12.2019–31.1.2020
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13
WED12–17h |THU12–19h |FRI12–17h |SAT-SUN12–16h [Suomenkielinen teksti alla]...

Welcome to the finissage of Christina Stadlbauer's exhibitionNarratives of Imperfection on Saturday, November 30, from 15–17h! During the event,...

Christina Stadlbauer: Narratives of Imperfection
November 8–30, 2019
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13
WED12–17h |THU12–19h |FRI12–17h |SAT-SUN12–16h

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Join us for a talk byPekka Niskanen and Mohamed Sleiman Labat,artists behind PhosFATE project!

Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 17–19h
SOLU Space,...

In Dialogue: Martin Howse & Erich Berger
April 12, 2019, 17h
SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13 Martin Howse is occupied with an artistic investigation...

Merry CRISPR II – artistic investigations into CRISPR/Cas9 Merry CRISPR is a workshop produced by the Bioart Society in collaboration with Biofilia...

Merry CRISPR is a workshop produced by the Bioart Society in collaboration with Biofilia laboratory - Aalto University, and supported by Aalto...

Growing Cellulose - a workshop with Margherita Pevere 1st session 11th November 14-18h
2nd session 18th November 14-18h Location: Pixelache,...

Live sound performance during the Night of the Arts at the Oulu Museum of Art on the 17th of August 2017 Antye Greie [AGF, poemproducer] (DE/FI) is...

The SPLICE re_examining Nature international exhibition produced by Finnish Bioart Society and the Oulu Art Museum focuses its gaze on our...

20th May 2017 10-15h Oulu Museum of Art Kasarmintie 9, 90100 Oulu, Finland Seminaari on englanninkielinen. The seminar will be held in English. The...

During the openig of theSPLICEexhibition, Helsinki based artistKira O'Reillywill performBe-Wilderment (Nature Drag). The opening is onFriday 19 May...

The workshop is part of the Hybrid_MattersSymposium, and took place at Forumbox Helsinki and was held by Asa Stahl and Kristina Lindstrom. How do...

The exhibition took place at Forum Box with: participating artists: Hanna Husberg FI/SW, Lawrence Malstaf BE/NO, Laura Belof FI/DK, Jonas...

HYBRID MATTERs investigates hybrid ecologies, the convergence of our environment with technology and essentially the intentional and unintentional...

The exhibition investigates current hybrids of biology, technology and art. The exhibition looks at today's brave new world in which genetically...

The detritus from human activity has reached such proportions, both in extent and amount, that there is scarcely a single place Earth that is pure...

Field_Notes – HYBRID MATTERs is an art&science field laboratory organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart at the Kilpisjarvi Biological...

In the seminar, Making_Life participants gave an introduction to synthetic biology and why and how they are interested in engaging with it....

An exhibtion with artistic responses to synthetic biology The exhibtion Making_Life was the presentation of the artistic prototyping workshop...

Making_Life I (May 2014) introduced the molecular biological foundations of synthetic biology. Making_Life II (November 2014) looked into proto-...

The lecture was part of Making_Life, a project by the Finnish Society of Bioart in collaboration with Biofilia – Base for Biological Arts – Aalto...

The Commons consist of any common resource that is available to all, narrowing basically to two: physical resources or man-made. A plenitude of...

Dr. Markus Schmidt, founder and team leader of Biofaction in Vienna Austria, gave a keynote lecture on the Bio-Commons as a kick-off for the...

The Curie’s Children [glow boys, radon daughters] workshop allowed the uninitiated to easily enter into a physical and intuitive relation to...

Vanouse, Professor of Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo, NY, presented works from over two decades of experience working with emerging...

The yeast printing workshop introduced 12 participants to a novel experimental imaging process for creating animations. Living yeast cultures were...

Led by Markus Decker and Peter Wagenhofer Produced in collaboration with Pixelache In his Ars Bioarctica residency Markus Decker investigated...

Deep Time / Deep Futures was a symposium on artistic responses to the dichotomy between human time-perception and time in biological,...

“Field_Notes – From Landscape to Laboratory – Maisemasta Laboratorioon” Edited by Laura Beloff, Erich Berger and Terike Haapoja This publication is...

Hosted by Oron Catts, Antero Kare, Leena Valkeapaa, Tere Vaden, Elisabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse “Field_Notes – Deep Time” was a week-long...

The Field_Notes residencies have been research and preparation residencies prior to the “Field_Notes Deep Time” field laboratory. Oron Catts,...

This trans-disciplinary expedition and production workshop took place in Pyhäjoki, Northern Finland, where the sixth nuclear power plant (NPP) in...

PRIMA MATERIA – 4 artistic positions on ecology Exhibition at Helsinki University Think Corner Participating artists: Laura Beloff (FI), Ursula...

This activity, enabled through a grant by the Canadian Arts Council, had six researchers from the art collective Arctic Perspective visiting...

German artist Ursula Damm presented her recent artistic work and research into synthetic biology. She has become known for her installations...

Under the umbrella “The Art of Gathering Environmental Data” the Finnish Society of Bioart organised a series of events concerned with collecting,...

This workshop was held by the Finnish Society of Bioart together with Helsinki University Centre for Environment – HENVI, in the context of the...

This work combines the approaches of environmental art and scientific experiment. Planted cuttings of cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) and...

Hosted by Oron Catts, Marta de Menezes, Anu Osva, Tapio Makela and Terike Haapoja “Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds” was a week-long field...

EPAC is the European Public Art Centre. It is a collaborative engagement between organisations across eight European countries, with the aim to...

Ars Bioarctica participated in the project "Weather Tunnel". It was a translocal project envisioned as a participatory, interventionist component...

Held by Anu Osva (FI) and Laura Forsström (FI) Arctic Waters was a workshop on nature, research and art, directed by an artist and a scientist....

Until the end of 2010 the Finnish Society of Bioart was the producer of the project Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea, by Capsula for European...

Bioart Society invited Jens Hauser to give a lecture on Staging Authenticity: Transhistorical Approaches to Biotechnological Art on 27th of May...

Hacketeria: Bioelectronix for Artists workshop
8–12 March 2011
Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
Workshop leaders: Andy Gracie (UK/Spain) and Marc...

Art&HENVI was organised by the Finnish Society of Bioart in collaboration with the Helsinki University Centre for Environmental Research...

Together with the former Environmental Art Programme at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Prof. Markku Hakuri and Ars...

ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE CONFERENCE
24-25 March 2010
Auditorium, Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki (Kaikukatu 4) The beginning of the 21st century is...

A seminar focusing on the interaction between arts and biology has been one of the important goals for Ars Bioarctica from the beginning. The...

Teachers in collaboration: Leena Valkeapää (Aalto University), Anu Osva (Finnish Bioart Society), Tuula Häyrynen (Finnish Bioart Society), Maria...

During spring 2009 Ars Bioarctica took part in the international project 80+1 - A Journey Around the World organized by the Ars Electronica Centre...