Events

Nina Wakeford | We are here because we are queer, we are queer because we are here.  Performance, screening and conversation. Tuesday, March 29, 2022  From 18:00 -21:00 At Museum of Impossible Forms   Museum of Impossible Forms warmly welcomes you to an evening with artist Nina Wakeford. Nina is an artist based in London… Read More »Nina Wakeford | We are here because we are queer, we are queer because we are here.

Kirpilä Art Collection offers guided queer tours throughout the year, including during Helsinki Pride Week. The guided tour in Finnish is on Thursday, June 27 from 5 PM to 6 PM, and the English tour is on Sunday, June 30 from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM. Guide Antti Solin invites guests to view the collection… Read More »Kirpilä Art Collection: Guided Queer Tour in English

Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 18:00–19:00 FIX Arena, Design Museum (1st floor) Fee: 20/10/0 € or Museum Card | Pre-regstration Meet the artist of the FIX: Care and Repair exhibition, Jessica Andrey Bogush. Jessica Andrey Bogush’s work “Speculative Absences as Queer Care (An Invitation) ” is an installation and a kind of alternative museum collection. Bogush examines the… Read More »Meet the artist at Design Museum: Jessica Andrey Bogush

Nordic Network for Queer History and Activities and The Finnish Labour Archives in collaboration with Friends of Queer History present the webinar:   The Archiving of the Early Queer Activism in Finland In this online seminar archivist Iris Olavinen from the Finnish Labour Archives will talk about the archival work: organizing and cataloguing the material of some early… Read More »The Archiving of the Early Queer Activism in Finland

During the Queer History Month Via Ruuska´s works Self care self cure and Lifeline will be on display on the artelaiset wall. ”The works express queer joy through self-discovery and ways and platforms for this expression. In Self care self cure a make-up brush kit serves as a protective case for my playful self-portrait. The red and black hearts, borrowing their… Read More »Via Ruuska | Self care self cure & Lifeline, 2024

Helsinki City Museum will highlight the experiences of sexual and gender minorities in a new exhibition on LGBTQAI+ migration in the Baltic Sea region from the 1960s to the present day.   The M/S Baltic Queers exhibition, opening at the City Museum on 15 November, will shed some light on the theme of LGBTQAI+ migration, which has not… Read More »Exhibition: M/S Baltic Queers – Experiences of LGBTQAI+ Migration

Performance artist Ron Athey will be visiting Helsinki for the first time in November. He will be speaking at the invitation of Uniarts Helsinki and Kiasma. Ron Athey is an American artist and pioneer in Queer transgressive performance art. A self-learned artist, Athey’s artistic path stems from their activities in the subcultural post-punk and pre-goth… Read More »Artist talk: Ron Athey in con­ver­sa­tion with Jamie Mac­Don­ald