Helsinki Biennial and its organiser HAM Helsinki Art Museum honor the City of Helsinki’s strategic goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2030. HAM seeks solutions to ecological, cultural, and social challenges through museum and exhibition practices. HAM guides and develops its sustainability work holistically and concretely through a dedicated responsibility program, accompanied by specific objectives, actions, and indicators.
The biennial’s sustainability plan builds on HAM Helsinki Art Museum’s ESG work. Helsinki Biennial 2025’s sustainability plan aims to reduce the climate and environmental impact of the project through a comprehensive course of action, while also fostering a systemic change within the community. By establishing the biennial as a symbolic space that is “inhabited”, it emphasises the need for genuine engagement with socioecological issues and responsibility in local partnerships.
Helsinki Biennial adheres to a scheme based on accountability and transparency across three pillars: Reduced climate and environmental impact; Monitoring, evaluation and reporting; and long-term commitment and renewal of the goals. Along with the three axes, Helsinki Biennial 2025 curators have created a sustainability decalogue that reflects the philosophy behind the biennial, emphasizing principles of looking ‘below’ and ‘beyond’ and fostering a sense of ‘becoming’ and ‘belonging’.
Accessibility is important to us; we want all visitors to the museum to be able to fully enjoy their visit. Helsinki Biennial’s accessibility information can be found here.
We are committed to improving the accessibility of our digital services. We overhauled our website in 2023 and one of the key foundations for the overhaul was ensuring accessibility. There are still areas for improvement in terms of accessibility, and we are systematically working our way through the shortcomings identified in our Accessibility Statement.