Pixelache Helsinki

24/04/2026

Egle Oddo interviewed by Lassi Varinen about Another Story project on Radio Helsinki.

Another Story is a long term project designed by Egle Oddo for Pixelache Helsinki and supported by Koneen Säätiö - Kone Foundation. Over the course of a three-year program, three invited curators will delve into international media art archives to curate annual exhibitions and public programme. The first invited curator is Kisito Assangni who will present Who Goes Hunting Does Not Cough, a group exhibition at Tekniikan museo and a screening with live performance at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art .The project will see the light at the beginning of September 2026.

Introducing the public to the works of fifteen international artists from different contexts who take on the concepts of power relations, decolonial aesthetics, affective spaces, resilient communities, and new technologies. They reflect about new visualities conducive to look towards the future of the museum as a lived experience.

Link to the interview:

Suomen kaupunkilaisinta aamuradiota juontavat maanantaisin Anikó, tiistaista torstaihin Njassa ja perjantaisin Lassi Varinen. Radio Helsingin aamujen seurassa on turvallista ja kutkuttavaa herätä uuteen päivään monipuolisen juontajien itsensä kuratoiman musiikin ja parhaiden puheenaiheiden ka...

09/02/2026

Residency at BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts!!!

BEK announces a funded three months residency for Autumn 2026 Deadline: 15 February 2026, selected artists will be notified in March 2026 Residency period: 3 months, mid-August until mid-November 2026 (with flexible starting date, if need be)

21/12/2025

As we wrap up this year, we want to take a moment to thank you all for supporting Pixelache and our members’ events, projects, and initiatives. This year has been filled with new perspectives and exploration, and we are deeply grateful for all the support you have shown us.

We’ll be back next year with many exciting announcements, so stay tuned!

❤️ 𝐻𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝒾𝒹𝒶𝓎𝓈 ❤️

21/12/2025

A little sneak peek behind the mics at episode #3’s dinner, featuring Nadiye’s chocolate peaches, a comestible artwork they created.

Thank you to everyone who tuned in to the broadcast at Station of Commons for Build a Larger Table #3, with our guests / Nadiye, Clément Beraud, and Kari Yli-Annala.

Pixelache, in collaboration with Station of Commons, organises a series of dinners inviting diverse cultural and artistic collectives to

Build a Larger Table is a project that aims to bring people together in a relaxed setting, with food and drinks, to hold conversations and share recipes around social sustainability and experiences of working together.

credits: Sjors Hoogerdijk

28/11/2025

A little BTS from Build a Larger Table #2 with !

Thank you to everyone who tuned in to the broadcast at Station of Commons!

Remember to check out today’s exciting episode featuring our special guest . The dinner conversation live streaming will be available on Station of Commons website, from 7:30 pm EET onwards.

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.

25/11/2025

Build a larger table #3 with Kiila

Friday 28th of December from 7:30 pm onwards (EEST time zone)

Pixelache in collaboration with Station of Commons will organise a series of dinners inviting diverse cultural and artistic collectives at Villa Eläintarha. 

For December’s gathering and chapter 3 of the series, we will invite Kiila, Finland’s longest-running left-wing, writers’ and artists’ organization.

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 will be broadcasted and shared to the public domain through the Station of Commons website. An edited podcast will be accessible  later on Pixelache website and Soundcloud.

The title Build a larger table comes from an apocryphal quote that says “when you have more than you need build a larger table not a taller fence”.The concept resonated with the intentions of this project, where we wanted to share a moment of togetherness and joy around food, in order to have conversations with collectives that have been shaping the cultural context in Helsinki for a long time.

The dinner conversation live streaming will be available on Station of Commons website, Friday 28th of December from 7:30 pm onwards (EEST time zone)

Join us on this series and get a glimpse on dynamics and strategies for surviving as collectives!

18/11/2025

Life in the Ruins

December 13th from 14-15:45
Veeran Verstas, Lossikuja 6, (Tuira), Oulu.

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 matrix of movement and text-based tasks, relational scores, and reflection facilitates a safer playground for bodymind inquiry, with an invitation to experiment, be present with the emergent, and, hopefully, ask more questions.

Register by emailing [email protected].

When & Where: Saturday, December 13th from 14-15:45, Veeran Verstas, Lossikuja 6, (Tuira), Oulu.

Accessibility: The workshop is open to all interested, however, unfortunately, there is no sign-language interpreter. For further inquiries please get in touch.

For more information, go to Arlene's website: https://www.arlenetucker.net/news/life-in-the-ruins-with-georgie-goater

This workshop is funded by Arts Council Korea 한국문화예술위원회. Bioart Society provides advisory support to Contamination Lab. Veeran Verstas provides the space and community outreach.

17/11/2025

Andrew Gryf Paterson’s SOLU micro-residency: Bioart Society and Pixelache 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 Pixelache, examining an artwork of his donated to the Finnish National Galleries Collection from Pixelache Helsinki Festival in 2010.

Several events will be arranged during this time. Details on these below.

PROGRAMME

Archival Drop-in Clinics Mon-Wed. 17-19.11 & 24-26.11. 13.00-16.00

‘pFarm’ (2022, 55mins) film screening & discussion with Adam Zaretsky Wed. 19.11. 18.00-20.00

SOLU dialogues: Andrew Gryf Paterson and Adam Zaretsky on conservation. 20th of November 18.00-20.00

Pixelache x Bioart Society BRUNSSI Fri. 28.11. 11.00-13.00

where: Panimokatu 1, 00580 Helsinki.

is a self-styled ‘artist-organiser’ & ‘autoarchaeologist’, cultural producer, curator, educator, archivist and independent researcher. Specialised in developing and leading inter- and trans- disciplinary projects exploring connections between art, digital culture and science, cultural activism, ecological and sustainability movements, cultural heritage and collaborative networks.

Adam Zaretsky is a former researcher at MIT’s Department of Biology and an experimental bioartist with over a decade of teaching experience. His art practice critically explores the legal, ethical, social, and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods, with a particular focus on transgenic humans.

is a Helsinki-based association working at the intersection of art, science and society. Established in May 2008 Bioart Society currently has over 150 members in Finland and other countries. The association is committed to developing, producing and facilitating activities around art and natural sciences with an emphasis on biology, ecology and life sciences.

Read more about the ongoing and upcoming programme from our website, link on bio!

12/11/2025

Andrew Gryf Paterson’s SOLU micro-residency

Bioart Society and Pixelache 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 from Pixelache Helsinki Festival in 2010. 

PROGRAMME
Archival Drop-in Clinics Mon-Wed. 17-19.11 & 24-26.11.  13.00-16.00
‘pFarm’ (2022, 55mins) film screening & discussion with Adam Zaretsky Wed. 19.11.  18.00-20.00
SOLU dialogues: Andrew Gryf Paterson and Adam Zaretsky on conservation. 20th of November 18.00-20.00
Pixelache x Bioart Society BRUNSSI  Fri. 28.11. 11.00-13.00
where: Panimokatu 1, 00580 Helsinki

Adam Zaretsky is a former researcher at MIT’s Department of Biology and an experimental bioartist with over a decade of teaching experience. His art practice critically explores the legal, ethical, social, and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods, with a particular focus on transgenic humans. Known for his engaging, hands-on bioart labs, Zaretsky creates dynamic spaces for bioart production.

andrew gryf paterson is a self-styled ‘artist-organiser’ & ‘autoarchaeologist’, cultural producer, curator, educator, archivist and independent researcher. Specialised in developing and leading inter- and trans- disciplinary projects exploring connections between art, digital culture and science, cultural activism, ecological and sustainability movements, cultural heritage and collaborative networks.

Bioart Society is a Helsinki-based association working at the intersection of art, science and society. Established in May 2008 Bioart Society currently has over 150 members in Finland and other countries. The association is committed to developing, producing and facilitating activities around art and natural sciences with an emphasis on biology, ecology and life sciences

Read more about the events in our website! Find the link in our bio ⛓️‍💥

31/10/2025

PIXELACHE HELSINKI NEWSLETTER

As the Pixelache festival 2025 continues under the theme Turmoil, with a decentralized approach, exploring resistance to capitalism, neocolonialism, and neofascism through art, dialogue, and collective action. House4Resistance: H.O.M.E., part of the festival’s program, curated by Phan Nguyen, invites reflection on the home as a living archive of diasporic memory, care, and belonging.

Dinner and dialogue with Build a Larger Table, a collaboration with Station of Commons, streams its second episode this Friday, featuring artist collective Kutikuti live from Villa Eläintarha. During his SOLU micro-residency, Andrew Gryf Paterson continues the Archival Tendencies series with guest Adam Zaretsky, revisiting a Pixelache 2010 donation to the National Galleries Collection. Meanwhile, Exploring Contamination Lab by Jiyoun Lee and Arlene Tucker hosts movement and text workshops with Georgie Goater, delving into contamination as collaboration.

Pixelache member Egle Oddo joins SOIL & WATER in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, where artists, scientists, and communities come together to imagine sustainable futures.

Thank you to everyone who joined our recent events, and we hope to see you in the upcoming ones!

To stay updated on Pixelache’s happenings, please visit our brand new website pixelache.com

27/10/2025

Build a larger table episode # 2 with kutikuti
31.10.25 from 7:30 EEST onwards

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 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 will be broadcasted and shared to the public domain through the Station of Commons website. An edited podcast will be accessible  later on Pixelache website and Soundcloud.

For October’s gathering we will meet with Kutikuti, a 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 pm onwards (EEST time zone)

Join us on this series and get a glimpse on dynamics and strategies for surviving as collectives!
KUTI is a 4-color quarterly focusing on comics and their authors. The main reader group of the magazine are culturally active young adults. Kuti does not present any political or religious connections. The magazine is circulated through cafes, galleries, art museums, libraries, comic stores, schools, restaurants, book and comic fairs. In Finland the circulation covers ca. 250 places in 12 cities – Helsinki, Tampere, Turku, Lahti, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Oulu, Pori, Imatra, Kotka, Rovaniemi, and Lappeenranta. Abroad Kuti is distributed in several countries through our partners in crime.

Kutikuti is a non-profit contemporary comics association and artist collective formed in Finland in 2005. The core of Kutikuti consists of around 60 members who create, teach, and publish comics. Kutikuti has over a hundred supporting members around the world and has quickly become one of the most recognised stars of the Finnish comics scene abroad.

Image by Roju

27/10/2025

NEW WEBSITE ANNOUNCEMENT
Digital Mortality
 
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 consult our 20-year digital archive at pixelache.ac while our new page is pixelache.com .
 
We’ve grown comfortable with the illusion of digital permanence—that there are no real consequences in digital spaces. Files don’t rot. Websites don’t age. Pixels don’t fade like photographs left in sunlight.
                                                                   

But what if they did?
                                                                   
The Digital Mortality artwork exists as a study on digital entropy—a living contradiction to our assumptions on the almost eternal nature of online spaces. Built to respond, erode, programmed to forget, designed to die.

The degradation process remains largely invisible for now. Like a slow poison or cellular ageing, the structures of decay are present but almost invisible. Built to resist usage.

Every interaction you make contributes to this process of compounding effects—a slight degradation and consequence that will unfold over the years. The site feels every user, not as data to be analysed, but as accumulated wear on its digital fabric.

Over the course of the pages lifespan, the decay will become more and more visible and visceral. This renders the site increasingly unstable as it ages toward its inevitable death.

After collapse comes dormancy. After dormancy, rebirth. The cycle continues, powered by the very interactions that destroyed what came before.
 
This art study is about making visible the hidden costs of our digital consumption.