Publics, SturenKatu 37-41 4b, Helsinki (2026)

22/04/2026

Recently added to our library, the Scratching the Surface series explores critical approaches to learning, teaching, and collective knowledge-making. Across these titles, education is approached through feminist thought and experimental pedagogies that contest how knowledge is produced, shared, and institutionalised:

❋ Unlearning with Translation: A Critical and Collective Practice, Virginie Bobin
❋ Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionalization, Anna Colin
❋ Feminism, Pedagogy and the Studio: Reflections Across Four Decades, Griselda Po***ck

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟴 or by appointment. Come by to browse these titles or explore more than 8000+ books across 16 categories our library holds 📚

❋ The series, named after a chapter in Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, Scratching the Surface presents writing from scholars, historians, theorists, and curators concerned with educational strategies following the legacies of feminism, civil rights struggles, and decolonisation. Scratching the Surface is published by with Villa Arson, Nice.

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

20/04/2026

Meet 𝗔𝗶𝗻𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗻, one of the artists featured in the seventh edition of 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 exhibition, presenting drawings in dialogue with the work of artist Félicia Atkinson🌟 Join us for the exhibition opening on 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟮 𝟭𝟳:𝟯𝟬-𝟭𝟵:𝟯𝟬 𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗦!

Aino Lintunen (b.1990) is a visual artist based in Helsinki. She works with painting, text and sound. Lintunen has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki (MFA), Aalto University, Helsinki (MA) and the Slade School of Fine Arts in London. She is part of the working group of artist-run space SIC, located in Helsinki.

Initiated in 2021, Coupling is an expanding series of curatorial projects, collaborations, or pairings, where two artists/ practitioners are introduced to one another for the first time and show together because of some common concerns within their work.

Exhibition opening times:
13 May - 17June , 2026
𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆–𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟲.𝟬𝟬
And by appointment until June 17 2026.
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Photo credit: Aake Kivalo

Read more about the two exhibitions and related events at publics.fi

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

17/04/2026

Introducing Félicia Atkinson, one of the artists featured in our upcoming 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 exhibition at 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗦! Join us for the exhibition opening on 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟮 𝟭𝟳.𝟯𝟬-𝟭𝟵.𝟯𝟬 and explore Atkinson’s new series of drawings in dialogue with the work of artist Aino Lintunen. ✨

For Félicia Atkinson, human voices inhabit an ecology alongside and within many other things that don’t speak, in the conventional sense: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas. The French electro-acoustic composer and visual artist makes music that animates these other possible voices in conversation with her own, collaging field recording, midi instrumentation, and snippets of essayistic language in both french and english. Her drawings and installations are at the frontier of abstraction and figuration, thorugh a singular point of view, one, maybe animal or vegetal, or the myopic person she is when she removed her glasses, where objects and creature , as the Middle Age poet Sei Shonagon could put looking appear as “ things that are far yet near”. Her visual works is inspired by the drawings of John Cage as well as the works on paper of Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell or Milton Avery: a landscape, or perhaps the blurred dream of it.

Atkinson is graduated with a MFA with honours from Les Beaux Arts de Paris. She lives on the wild coast of Normandy and has played music since the early 2000s. She has exhibited in museums, galleries, and biennials including RIBOCA Biennale (Riga), Overgaden (Copenhagen), BOZAR (Brussels), Espace Paul Ricard (Paris), and MUCA ROMA (Mexico City).

Exhibition opening times:
13 May - 17June , 2026
𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆–𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟲.𝟬𝟬
And by appointment until June 17 2026.

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Read more about the two exhibitions and related events at publics.fi.

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

15/04/2026

This week we’re highlighting our library’s Small Publications category, bringing together a selection of independent publications, journals and print platforms moving across visual art, contemporary culture, critical theory and political imagination. Our library holds an extensive collection of small publications, including a complete run of Paper Visual Art, Makan Culture & Space Journal, and NO NIIN:

❋ Paper Visual Art Journal Vol. 1-16
❋Makan Narratives
❋ Makan #3 Synthetic Agencies
❋NO NIIN Volume 1: Imagined Collectivities
❋NO NIIN Volume 2: Long Before Justice
❋NO NIIN Volume 3: Representation of Disobidient Bodies
❋NO NIIN Volume 4: Rebellion is on Their Way

❋ Established in 2009, Paper Visual Art (PVA) has been publishing journals, books, and online texts that focus on visual art, contemporary culture, and literature. PVA is edited by Adrian Duncan, Niamh Dunphy, and Nathan O’Donnell, with editorial assistance from Jack Delaney.

❋ MAKAN Journal of Culture & Space is a trilingual print journal critically engaging with contemporary architecture, urban conditions, and cultural scholarship from and about the SWANA region. Edited and published by Think Tanger a non-profit arts organization based in Tangier, Morocco, MAKAN brings together diverse authorial approaches, visual practices, and geo-cultural perspectives.

❋ NO NIIN is an independent online magazine at the cusp of art, criticality, and love; founded in Helsinki in 2021 by Elham Rahmati & Vidha Saumya. In addition to the online issues, the magazine publishes annual anthology-format print publications with editors’ picks of contributions from the online issues.

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟴 or by appointment. Come by to browse these titles or explore more than 8000+ books across 16 categories our library holds 📚

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

14/04/2026

Mark your calendars for the opening of two, simultaneously running exhibitions: PUBLICS invites 𝗙é𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝗔𝘁𝗸𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻 & 𝗔𝗶𝗻𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗻 to exhibit together as our seventh 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 exhibition alongside a 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 with publishers 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁(𝗲) & 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀, opening on 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟮 and running until June 17✨

Save the date:

✦ 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟮 17:30-19.30 Coupling exhibition preview opening
✦ 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟰 Sound Performance by Félicia Atkinson

Initiated in 2021, Coupling is an expanding series of curatorial projects, collaborations, or pairings, where two artists/ practitioners are introduced to one another for the first time and show together because of some common concerns within their work.

✦ COUPLING Félicia Atkinson & Aino Lintunen brings together an exhibition of drawings by both artists. .lintunen

✦ COUPLING Semiotext(e) & Shelter Press is a curated selection of publications by Chris Krauss / Semiotext(e) and Bartolomé Sanson & artist Félicia Atkinson / (Shelter Press). The exhibition comprises publications and records, and a pop up shop for the duration of the exhibition.

A record playing station wil be available at PUBLICS to play copies of Shelter press recent releases.

The exhibitions are open at PUBLICS 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆–𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 between 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟲.𝟬𝟬 and by appointment until June 17 2026.

Read more about the two exhibitions and the artists at publics.fi.

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

08/04/2026

This week’s Library highlights continue our Book Series focus with the Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series, a collection of concise, provocative and engaging texts across philosophy, politics, art, and cultural theory. Our library holds a growing selection of these sharp, portable volumes, including:

❋ The Coming Insurrection, The Invisible Committee
❋ The Violence of Financial Capitalism, Christian Marazzi
❋ The Screwball Asses, Guy Hocquenghem
❋ Where Art Belongs, Chris Kraus
❋ The Making of the Indebted Man, Maurizio Lazzarato
❋ The Uprising, Franco “Bifo” Berardi
❋ Factories of Knowledge, Gerald Raunig
❋ Nietzche Apostle, Peter Sloterdijk
❋ Governing by Debt, Maurizio Lazzarato
❋ To Our Friends, The Invisible Committee
❋ Campus S*x, Campus Security, Jennifer Doyle
❋ Carceral Capitalism, Jackie Wang
❋ Gore Capitalism, Sayak Valencia
❋ How the World Swung to the Right, François Cusset
❋ The Intolerable Present, the Urgency of Revolution, Maurizio Lazzarato

Published by Semiotext(e) , the Intervention Series packs urgent and influential voices into editions that are both straightforward and intellectually rigorous and reflect Semiotext(e)’s long-standing commitment to translating critical theory into lived, contemporary contexts.

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟴 or by appointment. Come by to browse these titles or explore more than 8000+ books across 16 categories our library holds 📚

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

07/04/2026

𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰-𝗕𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 & 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 in 𝗚𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴 & 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗺:
𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿
𝟭𝟭-𝟭𝟮𝘁𝗵 HDK-Valand with the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm)
𝟭𝟯-𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 CuratorLab, Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm

𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗦 expands 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 activities to cohost the second in its series of four annual large scale international symposia focusing on contemporary art’s relationship to Curatorial Thinking and Publicness in, across and in relation to Finland, Nordic-Baltic region and beyond.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰-𝗕𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 is the second cooperative symposia organised over four-years (Curatorial Thinking, Learning, Instituting, Collaborating) alongside a series of artist commissions and collaborations exploring Curatorial Thinking across Finland, the Nordic-Baltic region and internationally.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 gathers past and present thinking, knowledge, and critique within practices of the curatorial. In turn, creating a space for much-needed dialogue between diverse local and international contemporary art scenes and practitioners to generate new opportunities for Finnish artists and cultural workers in the Nordic-Baltic region.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 Asks what specific modes of curatorial thinking-as-learning are taking place across the expanding contemporary art curatorial field and enabled by such an expanding educational provision.

𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰.

Read more at www.positioningsymposium.com

Design: Valerio di Lucente / Jono Lewarne

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

06/04/2026

PUBLICS is looking for an assistant for a fixed term contract. The applicant must be an unemployed job seeker in Finland and have a right to 100% pay subsidy. We kindly ask that applicants contact TE-services to discuss the opportunity for a pay subsidy before applying.

PUBLICS is a curatorial and contemporary art commissioning agency with a dedicated library, exhibition space and event space in Vallila, Helsinki. As an assistant you would:

- Assist in updating online website (SHAPE Art Map, Publics, Positioning)
- Assist in coordination of PUBLICS programme strands
- Assist with the organisation’s administration tasks
- Marketing and communications tasks together with the Coordinator & Programme Manager
- Work with the library
- Make sure public events run smoothly together with the PUBLICS team

Previous experience in similar work and knowledge of contemporary art are strongly favored.

The position is part-time (65%). This is a fixed term contract of 10 months. The working language is English. PUBLICS follows TAKU wage guidelines according to experience and percentage of salary.

START DATE: As soon as possible
TO APPLY: send a short application and CV to [email protected]
DEADLINE: 26.4.2026. Interviews will take place in the first weeks of May.

For further questions please contact:
Amanda Ripatti, Coordinator [email protected]

Learn more about our programme and what we do at PUBLICS at publics.fi

02/04/2026

𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰-𝗕𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 & 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗺ö & 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻:

𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿
𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 Malmö Konstmuseum
𝟮𝟴𝘁𝗵 Simian
𝟮𝟵𝘁𝗵 PASS – Center for Practice-based Art Studies, University of Copenhagen

𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗦 expands 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 activities to cohost the second in its series of four annual large scale international symposia focusing on contemporary art’s relationship to Curatorial Thinking and Publicness in, across and in relation to Finland, Nordic-Baltic region and beyond.

The series of symposia happens in collaboration with a network of museum institutions, local art organisations and actors in the Nordic Region and the curatorial network of 100+ cultural actors in the Nordic-Baltic regions actively taking part in 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴, already since 2023.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 is an evolving new networked organisational framework for collaboration, one that is de-centered across the Nordic and Baltic region involving multiple partners, curatorial agencies, art institutions and learning organisations.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 gathers past and present thinking, knowledge, and critique within practices of the curatorial. In turn, creating a space for much-needed dialogue between diverse local and international contemporary art scenes and practitioners to generate new opportunities for Finnish artists and cultural workers in the Nordic-Baltic region.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 asks what specific modes of curatorial thinking-as-learning are taking place across the expanding contemporary art curatorial field and enabled by such an expanding educational provision.
𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰.
More announcements www.positioningsymposium.com

Design: Valerio di Lucente / Jono Lewarne
PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

01/04/2026

This week’s Library highlights turn to Open Editions, a publisher whose catalogue has been influential in shaping discourse around curating, education, and research. Our library holds almost the full Open Editions catalogue, texts engaquestions around self-organisation, modes of study, distributed knowledge, and the evolving role of curatorial practice as a site of research and pedagogy:

❋ Curious, Paul O’Neill & Gerrie van Noord (Eds.)
❋ Distributed, David Blamey & Brad Haylock (Eds.)
❋ Specialism, David Blamey (Ed.)
❋ Politics of Study, Sidsel Meineche Hansen & Tom Vandeputte (Eds.)
❋ Curating Research, Paul O’Neill & Mick Wilson (Eds.)
❋ Self-Organised, Stine Hebert & Anna Szefer Karlsen (Eds.)
❋ Curating and the Educational Turn, Paul O’Neill & Mick Wilson (Eds.)
❋ Curating Subjects, Paul O’Neill (Ed.)

Founded by David Blamey in 1992, Open Editions .editions operates as an independent publishing platform for creative collaborations between artists, designers, academics, writers, curators and critics. An ethos of experimentation and equality underpins this work: theory and practice are combined and artists and writers exchange ideas on a level playing field.

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟴 or by appointment. Come by to browse these titles or explore more than 8000+ books across 16 categories our library holds 📚

Our collection of books are in English, available to read, to study and to browse on site. For visitors planning to return, we invite you to compile your own collection of books that are reserved until your next visit!

🔍Search books & categories: libib.com/u/publics
🏷️ Our non-profit bookstore is available in connection to our Library opening hours. The bookstore offers various beloved titles from our Library collection, including a bunch of rare finds and books PUBLICS has co-published.

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

31/03/2026

𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦
𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰-𝗕𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 & 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶 & 𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗼:

𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿
𝟮𝟰𝘁𝗵 Architecture & Design Museum Helsinki
𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵 Emma - Espoo Museum of Modern Art
𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵 Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts

𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗦 expands 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 activities to cohost the second in its series of four annual large scale international symposia focusing on contemporary art’s relationship to Curatorial Thinking and Publicness in, across and in relation to Finland, Nordic-Baltic region and beyond.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰-𝗕𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 is the second cooperative symposia organised over four-years (Curatorial Thinking, Learning, Instituting, Collaborating) alongside a series of artist commissions and collaborations exploring Curatorial Thinking across Finland, the Nordic-Baltic region and internationally.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰-𝗕𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 reflects upon how the relationship between learning, curatorial thinking, exhibitionary practices, and discourses of the curatorial have become increasingly entrenched.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 gathers past and present thinking, knowledge, and critique within practices of the curatorial. In turn, creating a space for much-needed dialogue between diverse local and international contemporary art scenes and practitioners to generate new opportunities for Finnish artists and cultural workers in the Nordic-Baltic region.

𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰.

More info at www.positioningsymposium.com

Design: Valerio di Lucente / Jono Lewarne

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

30/03/2026

Since the Autumn of 2018, PUBLICS has given space within its curatorial program to the work of others, and to those individuals, initiatives and organisations who are in need of space to practice and to support the realisation of their projects publically. Within this structure of Parahosting, Publics takes on the role as parahost and the guest is referred to as a paraguest. Ever since PUBLICS has continued to be the parahost to other people, bodies and ideas, and be taken over and on multiple levels as a way and means of decentering its organisational activities. Parahosting is now an on-going program strand, a practice of listening and taking care of paraguests, para-sites, and para-institutions. It is an exploratory workspace for other curatorial initiatives, artists, curators and cultural workers supported by PUBLICS.

A couple of weeks ago as part of our Parahosting programme Rikke Bank invited artists, curators and cultural workers to participate in Organised Care, a participatory workshop on caring infrastructures and collective grieving within the cultural field.

The session explored care not only as an ethical stance, but as an organisational and infrastructural condition. Partciipatns reflected on responsibility, exhaustion, maintenance, and what may need to be laid to rest in order to imagine more sustainable ways of working. Thank you to and all the participants.

Rikke Bank (she/her) is a curator and consultant working between Helsinki and Copenhagen. Her practice explores curating in an expanded field, with a focus on participatory methodologies, regenerative thinking, and cultural ecologies.

Bank holds a BA in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and an MA in Leadership for Sustainability from Malmö University, and is currently completing the Nordic Master in Visual Studies and Art Education at Aalborg University and Aalto University. Recent collaborations include Frame Contemporary Art Finland (FI), Naturkraft (DK), Villa Kultur (DK), and TaM (BG). In 2021, she co-founded the collaborative platform Along Projects.

Images by Hanna Tokaj

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