Schedule 2025

Monday 29th – PUBLICS

*Optional program please see below for Monday morning and evening events!
13:30 – 14:00Welcome notes – Paul O’Neill & Annabelle Antas
14:00 – 14:30Lisa Rosendahl – ‘Something Moves In the Space Between’
14:30 – 15:00Nkule Mabaso – ‘Curating Photography and Other Discourse Gaps’
15:00 – 15:30Moderator Paul O’Neill & PUBLICS with Respondent + Final word Max Hannus
15:30 – 16:00Coffee + Snack
16:00 – 17:20For the Record 1 – Moderator Taru Elfving
Nella Aarne, Satu Herrala, Kaisa Karvinen, Itha O’Neill, Evelyn Raudsepp, Eveliina Tuulonen
17:20 – 17:30PUBLICS Thank you (Please see optional programme below)

Tuesday 30th – Amos Rex

09:00 – 09:30Nari Tea
09:30 – 10:00Welcome Intro Paul O’Neill + Kieran Long
10:00 – 10:40Catherine David – ‘documenta X 1997–2025’
10:40 – 11:10Moderator Paul O’Neill with Respondent + Final Word Bassam El Baroni
11:10 – 12:10Lunch
12:10 – 12:50Nick Aikens with Charles Esche – ‘L’Internationale: A Mission Statement in Times of Emergency’
12:50 – 13:15Museum Why Network – Christian Skovbjerg Jensen, Evelyn Raudsepp, Anne Thomasen
13:15 – 13:40Moderator Marti Manen with Respondent + Final word Giovanna Esposito Yussif
13:40 – 15:00For the Record 2 – Moderator Antra Priede
Ramiro Camelo, Marcia Harvey Isaksson, Solvita Krese, Sten Ojavee, Satu Oksanen, Ingrid Orman
15:00 – 15:30Nari Tea ’Steeping Points’
15:30 – 16:10Maria Lind – ‘A walk in the Forest’
16:10 – 16:40Liisa-Rávná Finbog – ‘Geažideami: Curating a decolonial aesthetics (from a Sámi perspective)’
16:40 – 17:00Moderator Paul O’Neill with Respondent + Final word Nkule Mabaso
17:00 – 17:50PUBLICS Introduction to artists – Film Screening;
Agnė Jokšė, Unconditional Love, 2021
Shubhangi Singh, Birth of a Grenade, 2022
Noor Abed, A Night We Held Between, 2024

Wednesday 1st – Amos Rex

09:30 – 10:00Nari Tea
10:00 – 10:15Intro to day’s schedule – Paul O’Neill
10:15 – 10:55Serubiri Moses – ‘Travel as Method’
10:55 – 11:25Moderator Marcia Harvey Isaksson with Respondent + Final word Ute Meta Bauer
11:25 – 12:45For the Record 3 – Moderator Marti Manen
Miina Hujala, Piia Oksanen, Irina Mutt, SunnySide space, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Sakari Tervo
12:45 – 13:45Lunch
13:45 – 14:05Mia Wennerstand – Reading from ‘All Your Names Are Fiction’
14:05 – 14:35Ann Mirjam Vaikla – ‘Curatorial | Corporeal’
14:35 – 15:05Valentinas Klimašauskas – ‘Regarding generosity as an institutional methodology’
15:05 – 15:30Moderator Max Hannus with Respondent + Final word Solvita Krese
15:30 – 16:00Nari Tea ’Steeping Points’
16:00 – 16:30Mi You – ‘Art in a Multipolar World’
16:30 – 17:00Tom Holert – ‘Curatorial Thought and Epistemic Politics’
17:00 – 17:30Moderator Bassam El Baroni with Respondent + Final word Kieran Long
17:30 – 18:00Outro Toast with Paul O’Neill & PUBLICS
18:00 – 18:30Live Performance – Natalia Beylis with Lau Nau and Cucina Povera (Marja Ahti and Olli Aarni)

Thursday 2nd – Kiasma

10:10 – 10:30Welcome words – Kiira Miesmaa, Intro – Paul O’Neill
10:30 –11:00 11:00-11.30Cătălin Gheorghe – ‘Curatorial transformations’
Biljana Ciric – ‘Positioning’
11:30 – 12:00Moderator Antra Priede with Respondent + Final word Marti Manen
12:00 – 13:00Lunch
12:30

10:00-18:00 		Exhibition Intro – Saara Karhunen & tour ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’
(Meet at Lobby by Info Desk)

Screening ‘The Future Futures Talk Show 2024’ Next to the Theatre space.
13:00 – 14:20For the Record 4 – Moderator Anne Szefer-Karlsen
Anne Julie Arnfred, Mélanie Bouteloup, Taru Elfving, Bilge Hasdemir, Helen Kaplinsky, Nontobeko Ntombela
14:20 – 15:00Ute Meta Bauer – ‘The Curatorial – Architectures of Discourse’
15:00 – 15:30Moderator Paula Toppila with Respondent + Final word Catherine David
15:30 – 16:00Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30Mariam Elnozahy – ‘Art After Defeat’
16:30 – 17:00Annie Fletcher – ‘Self-Determination: A Global Perspective’
17:00 – 17:20Moderator Paul O’Neill with Respondent + Final word Bassam El Baroni
17:20 – 17:50Final Words Bassam El Baroni with Paul O’Neill, PUBLICS team
18:30 – 21:00Drinks – Sinne gallery (Iso Roobertinkatu 16, 00120 Helsinki. More information on visiting Sinne.)
*Optional Programme
Monday 29th 10:00 – 11:30IHME Helsinki 2025: Zhanna Kadyrova – The Forest -guided tour for visitors of Positioning Symposium Sign up here. More information on the exhibition here.
18:00 – 21:00 As part of “Publishing as Scaffolding” series, Rab-Rab Press, in collaboration with Tom Holert, is organising an exhibition and talk titled “Harun Farocki as Publisher” at the Museum of Impossible Forms on 29 September at 18:00. Holert will give a lecture on the importance of writing and publishing to Farocki’s film practice. This will also be an occasion for the opening of the exhibition, displaying issues of Filmkritik, a magazine that Farocki edited from 1974 to 1984, as well as the Harun Farocki Institute pamphlet series. As part of the event, we will also screen Filmbooks, a 1986 essay film by Farocki, and launch About Narration, a recent book published in collaboration between Rab-Rab Press and the Harun Farocki Institute. Address: Aallonhalkoja 9 L1, 00540, Helsinki – Finland. More information here
Friday 3rd 13:30 – 14:30Leevi Haapala offers a guided tour of the BFA exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts’ main building Mylly (12 September – 5 October 2025). More information here

Exhibitions

Addresses and Further Information