Compost

Open call

For the September gathering we invite the electronic collective Koelse, who has been active for over 20 years, organizing music and art events in Finland. The dinner conversation live streaming will be available on Station of Commons website, Friday September 26th from 7:30 pm onwards (EEST time zone) Koelse: Association of experimental electronics is a […]

Collaboration with Station of Commons

Pixelache in collaboration with Station of Commons will organise a series of dinners inviting diverse cultural and artistic collectives at Villa Eläintarha.  Build a larger table is a project that aims to gather in a relaxed environment, with food and drinks to hold conversations and share recipes on social sustainability and experiences on working together. […]

Who Goes Hunting Does Not Cough is a group exhibition and a series of public events curated by Kisito Assangni for Pixelache Helsinki. Realised in collaboration with the Finnish Museum of Technology and with EMMA Museum, the exhibition will see the light in Autumn 2026

published in June 2022, now relevant again!

Kisito Assangni is a Togolese-French curator and consultant who studied museology at Ecole du Louvre in Paris. Currently living between UK, France and Togo, his research interests gravitate towards the cultural impact of globalisation, psychogeography and critical education.

How We Are Entering a New Era: The Case of Pixelache Helsinki

Disentangling archives give us the ability to enter a new era as we disposition between organic and artificial telepathic communication. In this article, the aim is to overcome digital colonization of the human brain by analyzing the 20 years of the Pixelache archive.

Sustainability through collective actions

Forum Pixelache x lumbung RadioThe state we are in; Sustainability through collective actions2.- 3. September 2023 MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre (Kaapelitehdas) and broadcasted on lumbung Radio platform Organised as a Forum, guests and participants will gather to discuss the current crises we are facing in our society as; the rise of the far right […]

Kinki kioski 24 th and 25 th May. Myös Studios. “The post-porn movement is the process of becoming a subject of those bodies that until now have only been abject objects of pornographic representation: women, sexual minorities, non-white bodies, transsexual, intersex and transgender people, deformed or disabled bodies. It is a process of empowerment and […]

Fatherhood, different forms of rebirth, community, cityscape and the relationship between religion, body and gender

Radical Imagination Workshop by Antonia AtarahThursday 28.8 at 17:30-20:00Start and finish at Meurman park / Käpylän KiskaSwedish / English / Finnish This workshop explores rewriting history and imagination as radical practice. Through a guided walk in Käpylä, participants will visit local monuments such as Taivaskallio and the Evacuee Mother sculpture, using these sites as inspiration […]

On the last weekend of August students of Art School Maa and Pixelache organize I thought the earth remembered me, a contemporary art event series pondering questions around digital storage and memory. Art School Maa, Myymälä2-gallery and the caves of Suomenlinna are filled with video art, performances, installation and sound art. Maa’s neighbour HIAP will host […]

The 19th edition of Pixelache Festival explores the theme of distributed systems and decentralized models for organizing society, technology, and creative practice. Through exhibitions, performances, workshops, and talks, we examine how peer-to-peer networks, commons-based approaches, and collective intelligence can help address ecological and social challenges.

Nyrkkeilijät (The Boxers) – Workshop/performance by Vega Adsten16 August, Saturday, 14:00 – 16:00 (join at any time / leave when you need)Paasivuoren puistikko, Siltasaari/HakaniemiSwedish / English  Vega Adsten’s participatory performance/workshop takes place at The Boxers statue in Paasivuoren puistikko, off the Hakaniemi square. This site has been intentionally chosen for its depiction of a violent encounter between two […]

Live Soundtrack Performance by Jonna Karanka (Kuupuu)15 August, Friday, 21:00Meurman park / Käpylän Kiska Kuupuu presents a new live score around the theme of Monuments in Helsinki, pairing archival film footage with lullaby drones and textured soundscapes. This atmospheric performance combines moving image, voice, text, and electronic music, inviting audiences to reimagine the stories embedded […]

Summer Fest26 July, Saturday, 13:00–18:00Meurman park / Käpylän Kiska Join us to greet summer and support free grassroots spaces with the community of the Social Choreography Lab Helsinki. The Summer Fest is free and open to everyone, people who have been part of the Lab in the past years, and all our friends, so don’t hesitate to […]

BARD (Body As Receptive Divinity) – performance by Elias Berglund12 July, Saturday, 17:00Johan Ludvig Runeberg’s Memorial, EsplanadiSwedish / English / Finnish Elias Berglund’s dance performance takes place at the monument of Runeberg, regarded as Finland’s national bard. Using the sensitive, social, and expressive dancing body as a departure point, the piece navigates through tensions caused […]

Monuments is a programme of events curated by the Social Choreography Lab Helsinki for Pixelache Festival 2025

Warmly welcome to Persona, the first event from Dunya, which will take place at Alimus on Friday November 22nd 2024. Persona reflects on the ways marginalized individuals and communities often craft personas as protective masks to navigate hostile environments, societal expectations and discrimination. Simultaneously, can moments of self-expression and masks unveiling challenge dominant narratives and […]

Limbo is a programme of events curated by the Social Choreography Lab Helsinki, which will be showcased in Energia Saali at The Museum of Technology over the weekend of November 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The three-day program, situated at the intersection of live music, cinema, and performance, features artist-led workshops, performances, and screenings where live soundscapes merge with silent classic films. Musicians […]

Past festival 2024 excerpt

GLITCH

This year the festival will explore the idea of glitch as possible tactic for resisting oppressive social systems. How can we disrupt the code? The festival will examine this question using artistic strategies and tools; creating through open source, copying, pasting, sharing, distributing, remixing, and sampling.  When the system normalizes injustice, the glitch can be […]

Another Story is a long term project designed by Egle Oddo. Over the course of a three-year program, three invited curators will delve into international media art archives to curate annual exhibitions. Initiated to instigate emerging trends and explore new narratives, the project aims to critically examine contemporary media art practices and compare curatorial approaches. By showcasing the evolving field, the project’s ambition is to create meaningful connections to diverse global archives, and to unleash valuable repositories of knowledge that warrants further exploration and revitalization.

In October 2017 the Collective Intelligence group was invited to spend one month in Palermo and work together with Dimora Oz, an artists-run association focusing on relational art and place-making processes. This initial choice led to a chain of fruitful events and activities, the process lasted from October 2017 to November 2018. From the beginning of its activity, […]

a series of deep dive sessions with public outcomes

Collective Intelligence project is a series of deep dive sessions up to one month long; encounters where artists, thinkers and activists work on parallel and shared projects, influencing each other in a convivial frame.