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SHAPE Helsinki Art Map

SHAPE map is a website resource for Helsinki’s contemporary art landscape. SHAPE highlights current public events, spaces, times and locations.

SHAPE Helsinki Art Map is a website resource for Helsinki’s contemporary art landscape, a mapping of art spaces and public events across the city. SHAPE is a useful tool for local residents and visitors to navigate the diversity of Helsinki art scenes and to find out what’s happening, where and when. Users and visitors can browse upcoming activities as well as find out more about their initiating

organisations. SHAPE is organized around eight main categorizes of activity: Events, Exhibitions, Festivals, Initiatives, Museums, Publications, Supports, and Workspaces.

26/05/2026

Updated weekly, SHAPE introduces and highlights a variety of current public events and exhibitions throughout the city.

This week’s highlights include four exhibitions:

📅 At ‘Softcore’ is the first collaborative exhibition by visual artist Reija Meriläinen and sound artist Minna Koivisto. It moves around questions of what it is to be a body and where desires arise. Meriläinen’s soft textile sculptures meet Koivisto’s layered sonic world, forming a multisensory installation that reflects experiences of q***r, off-kilter desire. Softcore presents desire as something incomplete, vulnerable, and at times awkward – a state of ongoing transformation.

📅 ‘TIME and CREATURE’ is a collective exhibition on view at by Rusto Myllylahti, Sini Silveri and Tuomo Tuovinen. The trio is united by a long friendship and the inevitable connection brought forth by artistic endeavor. The reflection about creatureliness is palpable in all their works. Creature here is just a word to speak about (ontological, physical, aesthetic) form. It’s a DIY-philosophical attribute, which anyone can apply to any form, from the skin-like appearance of a wall to the corporeality of images in society, to the biggest or faintest of sounds, even to ourselves. Taking place on May 27 as part of the exhibition is TIME and CREATURE zine publishing party.

📅 At Timo Vaittinen’s ‘Tason-kulkija’ is composed of paintings and sculptural elements that move within these in-between spaces. The works observe the connections through which we move between different planes, detaching and returning, often without noticing. A fictional perspective runs through the working process. An idea of how the world might appear and feel through the experience of a character from a fantasy world.

📅 On view at Sofia Okkonen’s exhibition ‘Thoughts, Feelings, Behaviour’ ,consists of staged photographs, presents an anonymous, fully painted n**e female figure. The body appears heavy, often reclined and passive. When active, the figure’s actions are directed towards herself, performed for her own sake, or focused on posing.

19/05/2026

Updated weekly, SHAPE introduces and highlights a variety of current public events and exhibitions throughout the city.

This week’s highlights include one events and three exhibitions:

📍 .helsinki presents Indexing for Disability Justice on Pleasure – Compensation, Compression & Weighted Blankets, a presentation and discussion by Ren Loren Britton at Trans Library Helsinki on 19 May at 5pm. The presentation will discuss Ren’s ongoing artistic index “Indexing for Disability Justice”. This index understands Disability Justice as an orientation that makes space and place for all non-normative bodies and minds trans*crip agency will be centered throughout their presentation.

📅 Curated by on view at is ‘Fluids Puzzle’ by Niklas Feinik. The exhibition functions as a virtual game space, where a character has come through one image but failed to enter another, becoming stuck in the gallery space. Time has passed, without moving forward.

📅 At ‘Generation 2026’, The Generation triennial, held for the fourth time brings together 50 artists and collectives to explore identity, belonging, and power structures. They amplify marginalised voices, examine the impact of technology, and use humour and absurdity as a form of resistance, showing a generation that looks at the world with a critical eye and claims its place in it openly and without compromise. See the full program and read about the artists and collectives included at amosrex.fi.

📅 Opening this week is ‘half time, over time’, the graduation exhibition of ’s third year students, in which 14 artists explore decay, formation, and traces left by time. The exhibition makes visible the ways in which the past, the present and the future haunt us and our surrounding structures. It is a collection of decelerations where the artists, each through their own practice, pause to examine the meanings absorbed into experience, peeling back its layers.

13/05/2026

Updated weekly, SHAPE introduces and highlights a variety of current public events and exhibitions throughout the city.

This week’s highlights include one exhibition and three events:

📅 Opening at .uniarts is the annual exhibition ‘Kuvan Kevät’ showcasing the works of 45 students completing their Master’s degrees at the Academy of Fine Arts. This year’s iteration brings together a diverse range of artistic work and provides insight into the artistic thinking of a new generation. Although the exhibition is not thematic, many works examine issues of materiality, identities, self-expression, technologies, and the pressing issues of our times.

📍At , as part of the exhibition ‘Productive Unit’ by Diego Bruno, writer and militant Mariano Pacheco will deliver a lecture followed by a conversation with the artist Diego Bruno. Departing from the question of what a people can do when they move from victimhood towards struggle and self-organisation, the lecture traces the transformations of popular movements in Argentina over the past fifty years against the backdrop of neoliberal restructuring and the contemporary rise of the far right and authoritarian politics.

📍 and present ‘Light House’, a two-day performance event featuring four different works by Haliz Yosef, ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS, Salla Valle, and Viljami Nissi & Aeon Lux. See the full programme at madhousehelsinki.fi.

📅 with several collaborating art and cultural organisations organise , an intercultural and anti-racist platform organised once a year. This year’s programme seeks answers to the following questions: What role and responsibility does art play in a cultural transition? How do different choices shape our lived reality—what do the representations seen on stage, the curatorial choices made in museums and other institutions, or the direction of cultural policy reveal about our times? To whom do power, freedom, and responsibility in the art world fall? The event is free of charge. Majority of the programme is also streamed live. See the full programme at stophatrednow.fi

05/05/2026

Updated weekly, SHAPE introduces and highlights a variety of current public events and exhibitions throughout the city.

This week’s highlights include one event and three exhibitions:

📍At .o.e.k.e.i.t.t.i.o ‘Clothes mean stains’ is a 2-day event in which a menu of dishes especially effective at staining clothes has been created. Guests will be given clothes to wear on top of their own, to collect all the drips and spills. On May 8, there is a free-of-charge set menu. Spaces are limited, reserve a spot by e-mailing [email protected] (max 2 guests per reservation). On May 9 the event is cafe-style. The event is part of Kasia Zofia Gorniak’s doctoral research which looks into how shared experiences between people can create meaningfulness in clothes.

📅 presents ‘Kiss kiss’ by Emma Jääskeläinen, an exhibition bringing together sculptures that explore themes of farewell and the fragility of life in different ways, the show’s title alludes to gentle encounters and intimacy. Focusing on inherited objects – bird whistles, jewellery, dried flowers – the works examine their significance as carriers of memory and hope, and as traces left by loved ones.

📅 At Axel Straschnoy’s new work collides political utopia with scientific theories of space exploration. The work is a multi-part installation spanning the entire exhibition and an artistic research project that examines a marginal political movement of Posadism. Straschnoy revisits Posadas’ ideas in a time marked by deepening political, military and ecological crises. The exhibition space is punctuated by excerpts from a speech by Posadas published in 1968, in which he sets out his vision of communist extraterrestrial beings.

📅 At ‘Crossing Boundaries’ marks the first solo exhibition in Finland by Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017), one of Poland’s most acclaimed artists. The exhibition is divided into HAM’s two grand arched halls: first one features the artist’s early woven pieces, rope works and Abakans. The second part of the exhibition focuses on burlap sculptures, which the artist began making in the early 1970s.

28/04/2026

Updated weekly, SHAPE introduces and highlights a variety of current public events and exhibitions throughout the city.

This week’s highlights include three exhibitions and one event:

📅 Opening this week at is ‘Unbreak My Heart’, an exhibition featuring artists Ida Nisonen, Kukka Maria Rosenlund, Laura Kopio, Valo Vairio, Vilja Joensuu, Hanna Arvela, Jenna Jauhiainen, Tapani Pirog and Elina Helkala. The exhibition is accompanied with workshops, conversations and events where the subject of political agency and art’s ability to create impact are discussed. The workshops include working with memes, zines, utopias and looking into ways to strengthen one’s political voice. See the full programme at yory.fi.

📍Open for one weekend only, is organsing an art sale with artworks from Anna-Stiina Korhonen, Salla Sillgren, Heli Lundström, Formless, Niina M, Tuuli Kujoi, Laura Rajalin, Robert Ra, Emilia Hakkarainen and Kaisa Nykänen.

📅 On view at is Felix Bardy’s exhibition ‘ ’ that examines the relationship between rap culture, capitalism, and identity in today’s image-saturated world. The exhibition explores a reality where identities are shaped by the logic of social media.Visibility, aesthetics, and algorithms guide choices, and our experience of reality is constantly filtered through images, references, and imitations.

📅 Organised by ‘PLAKAT!’ is a group poster exhibition at featuring typographic posters inspired by the theme of slow craft by students and alumnis of Aalto Arts and UniArts.

21/04/2026

Updated weekly, SHAPE introduces and highlights a variety of current public events and exhibitions throughout the city.

This week’s highlights include three exhibitions and one event:

📅 At the first large-scale solo exhibition by knitting artist Juha Vehmaanperä, ‘Craft Punk’ brings together the artist’s key works from recent years, material experiments, insights into the artist’s working process and participatory, community-based artworks. Juha Vehmaanperä is a knitting artist whose work focuses on slow fashion, q***r theory and craft-based knowledge. Their projects combine traditional handcraft techniques with contemporary approaches and technologies. Vehmaanperä’s practice is characterised by community-oriented working methods, the promotion of DIY culture and the renewal of craft traditions.

📅 On view at is ‘Web Weavers’, a group exhibition by Heta Bilaletdin, Laura Hetemäki, Aura Nurmi and Hanna Råst. The four artists have sought common denominators in their artistic practices and built the exhibition from these foundations. Webs and weaving are central symbols in the exhibition. Weaving represents the process of finding and structuring connections. Web weaving is presented as a ritual that is calming, but which is also fragile and delicate.

📍 and present as part of Art School Maa’s Lecture Series Spring 2026 Talk with Helen Kaplinsky “Reclaiming Historical Femininity in Practice and Criticism”. The talk at 10-11.30 (on Zoom) will look at how artists and writers are drawn to so-called ’proto-feminists’ and what it can tell us about gendered experiences in different contexts. Request link for the talk via [email protected].

📅 At on view is ‘Echo, Echo, Echo 回声回声回声’, a multi-channel sound and video project by Tianjun Li that explores the primal and poetic power of the human voice to connect beyond language, culture, and ideology. In a time of deepening political division, censorship, and conflict, the project uses site-specific wordless vocal performances acorss time and space as an attempt to build shared resonance and emotional connection across fragmented worlds.

14/04/2026

Updated weekly, SHAPE introduces and highlights a variety of current public events and exhibitions throughout the city.

This week’s highlights include three exhibitions and one event:

📅 Opening at is ‘Productive Unit’, a new body of work of Diego Bruno. ‘Productive Unit’ is a 57-minute experimental film and installation developed through a research process in collaboration with militants from the MTD–Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados (Unemployed Workers Movement) in Argentina. The work brings together archival documents and newly produced footage to reflect on the political capacity of this movemen, and asks to what extent experimental moving-image practices can offer compelling modes for representing radical political processes.

📅 Opening at is Hanna Valle’s ‘Control Room’. Forming a control room of ceramic works, Hanna Valle examines the aesthetics of future interfaces and invites us to consider how design organises everyday experience and the technological infrastructures of society. It asks what kinds of visual forms make an interface appear unfamiliar or novel, as an expression of an alternative social order.

📅 opens its third season with ’Section’ by Liisa Ryynänen. In the exhibition, a scale model resembling a Pantheon-like archetype is carried on the back of a life-sized pony. Ryynänen employs recognizable imagery and forms drawn from historical architecture, combining them with industrial materials. The work examines whether these familiar symbols retain their cultural weight, or whether their overabundance has diminished their significance.

📍As part of Helsinki Analog Festival 2026 in collaboration with -arkki and present Analog Film Screenings, taking place on 18 and 19 April. The curated selection of short films, made through an open call which received films over 39 different countries, celebrates the bold and diverse ways of contemporary artists working with film formats. See the full programme of the two days at helsinkianalogfestival.com.

07/04/2026

Updated weekly, SHAPE introduces and highlights a variety of current public events and exhibitions throughout the city.

This week’s highlights include three exhibitions and one event:

📅 Opening at is Katya Lesiv’s ‘I am going home to eat mulberries from the tree’, an exhibition rooted in sensory memory, myth, and the maternal body. The exhibition gathers around the triad ‘milky / bloody / muddy’ — echoing the taste and stain of mulberries while tracing a layered language of fertility, motherhood, loss, and the cycle of life. Bringing together performative photography, text, and sculptural objects, the exhibition moves between instruction, spell, and poem.

📅 Among three other exhibitions opening this week is ‘Sing Finnish Karaoke with Mamou’ by Dora Dalila Cheffi. Invited to Finland to film a special episode,the flamboyant TV personality Mamou sets out to teach the world how to integrate into the happiest country on Earth—through karaoke. An interactive video installation, the work invites viewers to join Mamou, step into the spotlight, and become part of the show.

📅 The first exhibition of the newly opened is ‘Kuu ja kuusi penniä’, a group show featuring works from Sara Blosseville, Mariam Falaileh, Yoonsik Kim & Lassi Kontiainen, Kate Ruck, and Lumi Tuomi.

📍The gallery tour takes place on 12 April, starting at 13:30 at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre . The tour will be held in English and includes visits to: MUU Helsinki nykytaidekeskus: E75 exhibition, Forum Box : Marloes van Son, Aaro Murphy, Ida Palojärvi / Mediabox: Ville Koskinen, Galleria Duetto : Kuutti Lavonen, and Galleria Halmetoja : Peetu Liesinen.

31/03/2026

Updated weekly, SHAPE introduces and highlights a variety of current public events and exhibitions throughout the city.

This week’s highlights include two exhibitions and two events:

📅 Opening this week at is a duo exhibition ‘Salt in the Mouth of the Stone’
by Julija Pociūtė & Xiyao Chen. The exhibition premise unfolds as a shared artistic inquiry into land, body, and modes of sensing beyond language, originating in a collaboration in Iceland.

📍 presents Helsinki Analog Festival 2026, an international festival celebrating analog and handmade practices in photography, moving image, and book art. This week opening are ‘Handmade Books Exhibition’ curated by .temporary.bookshelf and at Helsinki Central Library Oodi and ‘Strategy of Gestures – Analog Practice Exhibition’ curated by Clément Beraud and Natalia Kopkina at , featuring nine international artists. See the full programme of the month-long festival at helsinkianalogfestival.com.

📅 Opening at is Aaro Murphy’s exhibition ‘As light as catching air’ bringing together new works across film, sculpture and scent, and exploring relationships between memory, landscape and emerging olfactory technologies. At the centre of the exhibition is Prototype for Listening, a newly developed sculpture that gently diffuses an orchid scent into the gallery. The same day also marks the opening of solo exhibitions of Ida Palojärvi, Marloes van Son’s, and Ville Koskinen (Mediabox).

📍 .helsinki together with present ‘Inside and after asses.masses: A Conversation’, an evening of discussion, games and shared reflection with artists Patrick Blenkarn and Laurel Green, Creative Directors of STUDIO FUNFUG and two of the artists from the team behind asses.masses performance presented at Espoo Theatre March 28-29. The conversation will be moderated and expanded by Helsinki-based performance maker and game designer Harold Hejazi. Read more at m-cult.org.

24/03/2026

Updated weekly, SHAPE introduces and highlights a variety of current public events and exhibitions throughout the city.

This week’s highlights include four exhibitions:

📅 On view at is ‘Closer’ by Kalle Nio and Emilie Largier. Susan Sontag writes in On Photography (1977) that the camera places us at a distance from its subject. Through the photographic image, another person can be observed without reciprocity. In this exhibition, the encounter emerges in the space between two images and separate timelines. Two performers appear on overlapping screens, and a relationship unfolds between them, shaped by camera movement, choreography, and spatial composition.

📅 Opening this week at ‘We Who Remain: Sámi Art in Focus’, organised jointly by Kiasma and the Sámi Museum Siida, the exhibition presents contemporary art by and about the Sámi community across the Sápmi territories of Finland, Sweden, and Norway. The Sápmi region, which today spans four countries, existed long before the emergence of Nordic nation-states or national ideologies. The exhibition invites viewers to explore Sámi identity as expressed by the Sámi themselves. The exhibition highlights the complexities of Sámi experience, showing how Sámi identity endures and remains vibrant despite externally imposed pressures, and features more than 20 artists and works created from the 1970s to the present day.

📅 On view at is ‘Season’, an exhibition by Aala Nyman and Tuomas Lehtomaa. Split into multiple parts, or seasons, the collaboration in sculpture takes shape through material processes of the everyday and the window display space itself. The exhibition is accompanied by a text written by Isa Lumme, appearing in parts alongside the exhibition. The text can be picked up from Bar Limbo across the square where Alkovi is located.

📅 Opening at is Antti Immonen’s exhibition ‘Ecdysis’, thematised around moulting – the moment when an old, stiffened form breaks open and something new and vital emerges from within. In the works, the biological process of shedding skin is paralleled with moments of change and growth in life.

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