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Roots En Route and The House She Built

The Artfest unfolds across the city in seven partner locations including Amos Rex over five months. Helsinki Central Library Oodi anchors the public programme as the Artfest's central hub, with workshops, screenings, panels and an Afro-Nordic literary weekend. Amos Rex will be home to various artist talks around the exhibition and rich and varied programming in their Bio Rex and Studio Rex.... READ MORE...

Matt Copson’s Flowers

The temporary intervention consists of eight colorful laser projections illuminating the entire exterior facade of the Fridericianum. Using projectors typically found in clubs and stage productions, animated flowers bloom, wilt, and dissolve into abstraction in a constant loop. Together, their amorphous forms transform the building into an artificial landscape as the lasers continuously redraw lines of light through the darkness.... READ MORE...

DATe 2026 conference: Territorial Overlaps

In this first edition, the central theme will be “Territorial Overlaps,” a title that aptly helps us analyze global conflicts from a spatial perspective. To delve deeper into this question, DATe will be joined by Samia Henni (Canada), Nina Kolowratnik (Austria), Léopold Lambert (France), Elis Mendoza (Mexico), Pelin Tan (Turkey), Paulo Tavares (Brazil), Alfredo Thiermann (Chile), and Ines Weizman (UK).... READ MORE...

The World is Not Enough: Tarot & the Arts in the 21st Century

In exploring the Tarot’s history, its mystical and religious underpinnings, its queer, postcolonial, and feminist potentials, its psychoanalytically compelling iconography, and the inner reflection it evokes, this gathering aims to bring fresh insight to the complex and subtle syncretisms—digital, analog, and etheric—through which the world becomes—every once in a while, at least—much more than it seems. ... READ MORE...

Capitaloceno

Capitaloceno brings together works by more than 30 Peruvian and international artists around a central question: how do contemporary economic, technological, and environmental systems shape the ways we live, think, and relate to the world?... READ MORE...

Superglue, or Inventing the Friend

Bringing together historical and contemporary works, Superglue, or Inventing the Friend reflects on encounters with the other through different notions of otherness, the emergence of the posthuman figure, and contemporary art itself as something not entirely knowable—something foreign... READ MORE...

Dansbana! Amos Rex

Dansbana! is a joyful work that blends architecture, urban planning, and technology, while raising important questions about how we build cities today. The three architects behind the project create spaces for dance and self-expression for diverse social groups.... READ MORE...

Aria Dean: The Color Scheme

Set in Berlin’s Tiergarten shortly after the First World War, artist and writer Aria Dean’s performance The Color Scheme imagines a dialogue between two African American expatriates—the Poet and the Philosopher—as their date in the park becomes a broader meditation on the relationship between Black avant-garde aesthetics and the nascent political movements of the twentieth century.... READ MORE...

Generative Codes

The exhibition offers a synthetic overview of Paul Neagu's artistic trajectory, from his early experiments with tactile art initiated in Romania and continued in the United Kingdom to the construction of complex artistic systems articulated through drawing, objects, performative actions, and sculpture.... READ MORE...