Helsinki Biennial 2023 comprised exhibitions, a discursive and performative public programme, film screenings, publications, and an online programme. The programme supported the 2023 edition’s three main conceptual threads: contamination, regeneration and agency
The programme included projects created by HB23 curatorial intelligences Critical Environmental Data, Museum of Impossible Forms, and ViCCA@Aalto Arts, as well as participating artists. You can see the events produced in collaboration with the curatorial intelligences below. The events related to artists’ artworks are linked on the respective artist page.
The audiotour can still be experienced online. Photo: © HAM/Helsinki Biennial
Museum of Impossible Forms: Polyphonic Entanglements, Curator Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Polyphonic Entanglements Discursive programme, 2023, Helsinki Biennial 12.6.-17.9.2023, Stoa Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Photo: © HAM/Helsinki Biennial/Sonja Hyytiäinen
Museum of Impossible Forms, Polyphonic Entaglements 1.-2.9.2023, Commemoration for Ilma Lindgren by Lotta Petronella. Helsinki Biennial 12.6.-17.9.2023 Photo: © HAM/Helsinki Biennial/Kirsi Halkola
Curatorial School of May: Mapping the belonging, Curated and facilitated by Clément Beraud, All events were organised and led by a group of students from ViCCA (Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art MA major, Aalto University), Helsinki Biennial 12.6.-17.9.2023, Vallisaari, Helsinki, photo: © HAM/Helsinki Biennial/Sonja Hyytiäinen.
Helsinki Biennial 2023 Symposium, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, HAM Hall 9.12.2022 Photo: © HAM/Helsinki Biennial/Sonja Hyytiäinen
Screenshot from the work 616 by Timo Vaittinen