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For Pixelache Festival 2026, Social Choreography Lab Helsinki will arrange and lead two workshops, infused by the haunting live music soundtrack of Kuupuu / Jonna Karanka. Both workshops treat the body as something made together with others: porous, relational, tangled up in other people rather than sealed off on its own. The first uses the […]

The set of installation and public interventions deal with the industrial heritage of the Suvilahti post-industrial district and the neighbouring Hanasaari Power Plant, which is located near the Kalasatama area. With its closure in 2023 and the Finnish divestment from coal planned for 2029, the artist tries to cope with the area’s ambiguous past, from […]

“Archival Tendencies” is a participatory project that explores how cultural memory, particularly within grassroots media arts communities, is preserved, shared, and passed on. Blending pedagogical approaches with oral traditions, the project utilizes the primal format of the campfire to create pluri-voiced conversations. The goal is to bridge generations of cultural producers—from “uploaders” to “deleters”—by treating […]

Workshop by Saša Nemec The artist Saša Nemec will conduct an artistic digitization and historization workshop on the cultural heritage of the Suvilahti area and the recently closed-down Hanasaari Power plant.  The participants of the workshop will familiarise themselves with the artist’s work in the field of so-called “artistic digitization”—a term she coined herself. Her […]

By Kristina Laine This workshop offers participants an explorative experience in crafting masks using natural and recycled materials, combining creativity, personal insights and nature awareness. Most of the materials will come from nature: branches, roots, plants, etc. Additionally, we will use recycled materials such as fabrics and cardboard. Iron wire or string will be applied […]

Daily one-hour of Doing Nothing Online performance One Hour of Doing Nothing, daily. It changes nothing, fixes nothing, proves nothing. The work consists of a daily one-hour livestream in which I sit silently in front of the camera and do nothing. There is no point. It resolves nothing. It responds to nothing. No result. No […]

A two-day workshop with Katia Skylar in Oranssi A two-day workshop with Katia Skylar When: 20 October 16:00–19:00 & 22 October 16:00–19:00(20) 2026Where: Oranssi (Helsinki, Kaasutehtaankatu 1 Building 11) This workshop is an invitation to see yourself and everything around you through movement, stillness, and devoted attention. Together, we will observe, interact, listen, and taste […]

SHARED FREQUENCIES 2026 | 𝟐0-𝟐4.10 Smith is a California-born, half Iranian artist, mother, and activist based in Finland. She holds a BA in Photography from Parsons School of Design in New York and an MA in Public Art from the HSLU in Switzerland. She has lived and worked in South Africa, Palestine, and Switzerland. Recent […]

Shared Frequencies

‘The view of evolution as a chronic bloody competition among individuals and species, a popular distortion of Darwin’s notion of “survival of the fittest,” dissolves before a new view of continual cooperation, strong interaction, and mutual dependence among life forms. Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking. Life forms multiplied […]

Meet Reset! Helsinki – Reclaiming the Digital 19 October 2026 Reclaiming the Digital, organised by Pixelache, Aavistus Festival, Culture Cooperative TIcAS and the Reset! network on 19.10.2026 at Oranssi (Kaasutehtaakatu 1/20) in Helsinki, invites artists, cultural practitioners, and experts to explore alternatives and practical pathways towards greater digital autonomy. Participation is free of charge but requires registration via link in […]

Meet Reset! Helsinki – Reclaiming the Digital 19 October 2026 Reclaiming the Digital, organised by Pixelache, Aavistus Festival, Culture Cooperative TIcAS and the Reset! network on 19.10.2026 at Oranssi (Kaasutehtaakatu 1/20) in Helsinki, invites artists, cultural practitioners, and experts to explore alternatives and practical pathways towards greater digital autonomy. Participation is free of charge but […]

Opening Friday September 11th at 18:00 at Museum of Technology

‘The view of evolution as a chronic bloody competition among individuals and species, a popular distortion of Darwin’s notion of “survival of the fittest,” dissolves before a new view of continual cooperation, strong interaction, and mutual dependence among life forms. Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking. Life forms multiplied […]

Aerial Repair Futures is an international residency exploring repair as a collective artistic practice through aerial dance, textile art, performance, and community participation. Five artists from Slovenia (Saša Nemec), Italy (LINEAdARIA), and France (Mécistée Rhea) come together in Loviisa to develop new interdisciplinary work while engaging local communities through workshops, open rehearsals, and participatory artistic encounters. Throughout […]

ENG.Kristina Laine and Albert Laine’s Memories in the Clouds is exhibited in Oodi’s Kuutio space on June 15, 2026- 2.8.2026. The glass walls of Kuutio expand the experimental film to surround the viewers. Memories in the Clouds visualizes Kristina (Žičkutė) Laine’s childhood memories in the Soviet occupied Lithuania. The film brings forth Kristina’s worldview as […]

ENG.Kristina Laine and Albert Laine’s Memories in the Clouds is exhibited in Oodi’s Kuutio space on June 15, 2026- 2.8.2026. The glass walls of Kuutio expand the experimental film to surround the viewers. Memories in the Clouds visualizes Kristina (Žičkutė) Laine’s childhood memories in the Soviet occupied Lithuania. The film brings forth Kristina’s worldview as […]

WHO GOES HUNTING DOES NOT COUGH curated by Kisito Assangni for Pixelache Helsinki, will open its doors at Museum of Technology on 11.9.2026 with a group exhibition, and a screening with a live performance will follow at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, on 16.9.2026. The activities are a prelude to Pixelache Helsinki Festival’s […]

On 24.4. at 8:00 Egle Oddo was on Radio Helsinki, interviewed by Lassi Varinen during his program Radio Helsingin Aamu. She spoke about Another Story, a long term project she designed for Pixelache Helsinki and supported by Kone Foundation. Over the course of a three-year program, three invited curators will delve into international media art […]

Pixelache in collaboration with Station of Commons organises a series of dinners inviting diverse cultural and artistic collectives at Villa Eläintarha.  Build a larger table is a project which 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. These talks […]

Jiyoun Lee and Arlene Tucker’s Contamination Lab hosts Georgie Goater’s workshop ‘life in the ruins’, a task-based exploration of movement and text. During the workshop we will attune our bodily senses and playfully engage with contamination as collaboration, through the lens of life in the ruins and the art of encountering the unexpected. An embodied […]

Fri. 28.11. 11.00-13.00 where: Panimokatu 1, 00580 Helsinki Bioart Society’s last seasonal breakfast of the year starts a little later in the day on this occasion and invites you to join us for brunch with Pixelache.  With an interest in providing environments for peer exchange, our seasonal breakfast gatherings are intended as an informal setting […]

20th of November 18.00-20.00 where: Panimokatu 1, 00580 Helsinki This iteration of SOLU dialogues brings together Bioart Society members Andrew Gryf Paterson and Adam Zaretsky to discuss bioart archival and conservation practices. The event connects with Andrew Gryf Paterson’s SOLU micro residency working on the Pixeache ‘Archival Tendencies‘ project. International bioart provocateur Adam Zaretsky comes […]

Wed. 19.11.  18.00-20.00 where: Panimokatu 1, 00580 Helsinki Part organic farm, part BDSM dungeon, part biotech corporation, the pFARM has been in Woodstock, NY since the early 2000s. The pasture-raised, mutagenic brain-child of bio-artist Adam Zaretsky and his collaborators, the power Farm or pFarm synergizes the power dynamics (and massages the ethical boundaries) of the […]

Mon-Wed. 17-19.11 & 24-26.11.  13.00-16.00 Andrew Paterson welcomes members/former active persons & producers of Bioart Society & Pixelache to an Archival Drop-In Clinic, with a particular focus on the intersecting histories and shared productions of the associations as a part of his Andrew Gryf Paterson’s SOLU micro-residency  where: Panimokatu 1, 00580 Helsinki andrew gryf paterson […]

Bioart Society member Andrew Gryf Paterson’s micro residency brings the Pixeache ‘Archival Tendencies‘ project to SOLU Space in November with a focus on our shared past and productions. As part of this, international bioart provocateur Adam Zaretsky will be a guest of Pixeache, examining an artwork of his donated to the Finnish National Galleries Collection […]

Pixelache has never had a centralised archiving system. For the first years of the Festival, an independent Finnish server was used for our websites and files. Since around 2007 onwards, with the rise of platform capitalism, and our pragmatism, our data has been mostly scattered around in different corporate platforms (Google, Flickr, Vimeo, Youtube, Bambuser, […]

For October’s gathering Build a Larger Table radio broadcast team will meet with Kutikuti, the Finnish non-profit contemporary comics association and artist collective formed in Finland in 2005. As guests we will have the comic authors  Hannele Richert, Terhi Adler, Johanna Rojola (roju), and Kati Rapia. The dinner conversation live streaming will be available on Station of Commons website, from 7:30 […]

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵..  𝐇.𝐎.𝐌.𝐄 (𝐇ᵒˡᵈⁱⁿᵍ 𝐎ᵘʳ 𝐌ᵉᵐᵒʳⁱᵉˢ 𝐄ᵛᵉʳʸᵈᵃʸ) is a series of events that explores the home as a living archive of diasporic memory, bonding, care and ways of being. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘪𝘵, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳? Across four weekends in […]

In 2025, Pixelache Helsinki commissioned a new artwork from Antti Silventoinen and Arttu Manninen. The piece called Digital Mortality took life as a responsive webpage continuously changing, morphing and composting data, while information is updated on its body. The webpage will host digital artworks on its main page, and we will soon publish the modalities to participate. You can […]

T̻͝h͇͐e̼̍ S͔ͦ͟h͉ͭ͜a̬̹̕d͚͂ͥo̬͚̽w̷ͬ͋,͊ ă̟ f͓͢oͬ̿r͉͋͢g͓ͪ͢e̝̤d̦̆ e̝͟c̃ͩh̾o̷̟ o̮͌f̼̐ t̘ͥ͞h͓̒e͟ s̶̤e͂l͍̝ͫf̫͜,̓ s̺ͦ̽t̡̫̎i̜̊͞r͚̔rͣ͌͢i̴ͮ̌n̺͂g̢̕ in t̠ͫͅh̻eͭ͡ depths o̷̜̔f m͛e̳̳̔m̗̄͠oͣ͟r͕̆ͣẙ.̞ A g̫͠r̯ͬi̷n̵̻͆n͚̾͑i̶̇n̼̋g̵ͭ p̰̰ͪa̯̅͡r̴̫̺a̠̾ͪsi̡̙ͦte̴̫ͯ,̲͑ fe̴eͯ̎d̢͈i͈͗n͍̩ͣg̵̳̚ o͕n t̛hĕ̅ d̴̻e͕ͧ͝n̝̐͑i̡͕ͫȅ̝͓d̸ a̻̔͡n̛̰ͪd t̻̔he̮ͩ f̺̹ͮǫ̻̇rb̼̳͘i͓̿̈dd̠̅͞e̠n̡̍.̠͞ T̢̼ͤo͓ f̘ͩ͠aͣc̝͔͌e̦ t̴ẖḛ͝ S̳̳͞h̳̓ͬa̠̺͋d̢͉͞o̩͞w̯ i̫̍͢s t̪͑ͣo̲̤̿ s̢͍ͨt̺̻ͩa͍͆̍r̰ͬ̋ę i͚̲ͬn̢̗͗t̅͟o̲͗̚ ṫ̢̝h̲e d̴̜̓a̝ͣ͜r̥ͬ͢k s̩̪͊t̶ͬͥī̴l̕l̺̮̽n̸̬ͩe̪ͮ͏s̓s̰ w̝̺̄i͕̕ṯ̑̾h͖ͣͦo̸̼̾u̶͍ͪt̢̠ fl͓ͧ̕i͉ͪ͏n̫̔͟c̡̩ͨhͩͤ͢i͓ͨ̄n̴̢͌g̯͚̕.͓ There is n̨͔ͪo̹͡ r͖̅ͮe̴̗̳v͟ē̱̓l̗̹̏a͎t̵̟ͧi̛̺͛ő͚͟n̷͍ͪ w̹̍͟i̵̪͂t̴͉̋hͨ̏͜o͞ư̙t̘͜ ă r̳͑͡e͈ͬ͢c̪̾ͅk̴̞ͬo̜̗̓n̡͓̽i̻ͭ͞n̼̘ͦgͣ.̯ I̲̿n̪̏ t̸̝͐h̡̤͋e̸ͯ b͕̻ͭl̩̞ͥa̶͉ͮc̨̺͟k m̺͠i̪̇͡r̢͈ͮr̛̙̄o͈͐ͯr̵̪̚,͜ w̨̜̌e s̢̲ͣe̝̰̅e̪͆͝ t͍̓͜h̫̥͛e̲ ū̸̘n̴s̻͛͠p̺͋o͕k̥ͥe̶̦n̜̅,̨ ȁ̺͡n̮d̪ͯ͠ t͔ͣh̻ͪe̼ͬ̌ s̢̲̫e͉̍͢l͉̾͟f̨̪͌ […]

Exhibition open 25.–31.8. mon–sat 12–18, sun 12–17Vernissage and a performance on Thursday 28.8. 18.00 – 20.00Myymälä2 Gallery, Uudenmaankatu 23 Helsinki Contemporary art exhibition brings together artists from Art School Maa into Myymälä2, exhibiting video works and installation. The themes of the exhibition circle around nostalgia, community and long term illness. Unearthed Youtube-videos long for a past […]

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.