Art on an Island / Island as a Shelter: Towards Α More Sustainable Βiennial Curating and Production. The Helsinki Case.
The Helsinki Biennial, a newcomer on the European contemporary art events map, is heading towards its third iteration. In the summer of 2025, the biennial once again showcases outstanding contemporary on the main stages of the Biennial, Vallisaari island and the HAM Helsinki Art Museum, and on locations around Helsinki. The third edition of the Helsinki Biennale, curated by Blanca de la Torre and Kati Kivinen, will present about 35 contemporary artists from both Finland and abroad.
In her talk, Helsinki Biennial 2025 Co-Curator Kati Kivinen, will examine the Helsinki Biennial’s ambitions in relation to ecological and social responsibility in curatorial work, production and everything built around it.
The talk is realized in the framework of the ΕΜΣΤ International Curators Visiting Programme.
BIOGRAPHY
Kati Kivinen (PhD) is an art historian and curator, currently holding the position of Head of Exhibitions at HAM Helsinki Art Museum. Previously she has been Chief Curator for Collections at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki (2017-2022) and Curator for Temporary Exhibitions also at Kiasma (2003-2017). Between 2009 and 2010 she served as Artistic Director for AV-arkki – Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art curating screening programs for Tampere Film Festival. Her independent curatorial work includes numerous interdisciplinary exhibitions. In her curatorial practice, she examines contemporary artistic approaches in relation to socio-political and ecological issues, within the specific framework of an art exhibition.
Some of her recent curatorial projects include Coexistence – Human, Animal and Nature in Kiasma’s Collections (2019, in collaboration with S. Hacklin & S. Oksanen), and Fragile Times at Galerie im Körnerpark in Berlin (2020, with Dorothee Bienert).
ACCESS
Entry is free with admission tickets that will be distributed on a first-come first-served basis half an hour before the event.
ΕΜΣΤ INTERNATIONAL CURATORS VISITING PROGRAMME
GREECE 2.0
The ΕΜΣΤ International Curators Visiting Programme is part of the Project SUB 6.4 “Actions to promote Greek cultural exports and strengthen the Greek cultural name by the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens”, which is implemented within the framework of the National Recovery Plan and Resilience, “Greece 2.0”, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs: Mar Efstathiadi
