Frame is collaborating with HAM Helsinki Art Museum in arranging the Helsinki Biennial Professional Preview on 6–8 June 2025. We are happy to welcome a group of international curators to the preview week in the context of Frame Visitor Programme.
The Helsinki Biennial professional programme includes a diverse range of exhibitions, discussions, events, guided tours, and meetings with artists and curators. It brings together art institutions, such as museums, galleries, and independent art spaces, offering visitors a comprehensive overview of the local artistic scene.
Frame hosts a group of international curators for the preview week in the context of the Frame Visitor Programme. Guests include Sandrine Colard, Curator-at-Large at KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels; Emma Enderby, Director, KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Josephine Fity, freelance curator, Copenhagen; Aliyah Hasinah, Founder of the Black Curatorial Network, London; Pauline Koffi Vandet from curatorial duo Koffi & Højgaard, Copenhagen; Cliff Lauson, Director of Exhibitions at Somerset House, London; Christina Lehnert, Senior Curator at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Curator of GIBCA – Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2025; Sarah Lookofsky, Director of Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Gabi Ngcobo, Director at Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Deborah Smith, Curator and former Director of the Arts Council Collection, London; and Pia Zeitzen and Sasha Shevchenko, Curatorial duo, Kollektiv Collective, London. Read more about the guests here.
Additionally, numerous international professionals are attending the preview week hosted by the Helsinki Biennial, other initiatives, and independently.
“We are happy to welcome this wonderful group to Helsinki and offer them an inspiring overview of the local artistic scene. Besides the exciting Helsinki Biennial Preview, there will be a diverse selection of studio visits, screenings, and exhibitions for them to explore. The interest towards Helsinki Biennial has been delightful, and we look forward to this week filled with cross-pollination of ideas and practices”, says Frame’s Programme Coordinator Arvid van der Rijt.
The visitor programme at the preview week is organised in partnership with the Finnish Institute in Germany, the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, the Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute, the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark, and in collaboration with AV-arkki – the Centre for Finnish Media, Kohta, Bioart Society, Pitted Dates, and Galleria Huuto.
Annually, Frame hosts 20–30 international curators, researchers, and contemporary art professionals from museums and biennials as part of our International Visitor Programme to support international networking and future collaborations in Finnish contemporary art.
Helsinki Biennial 2025 brings together 37 artists and collectives on Vallisaari Island, in Esplanade Park, and at HAM Helsinki Art Museum. Titled Shelter: Below and Beyond, Becoming and Belonging, and curated by Kati Kivinen and Blanca de la Torre, this year’s edition runs from 8 June to 21 September 2025.
The Helsinki Biennial preview programme is available for accredited guests. Please see more information here or contact Helsinki Biennial at preview@hamhelsinki.fi.
If you have questions regarding Frame’s Visitor Programme, please contact Programme Coordinator Arvid van der Rijt and Programme Assistant Mathilde Palenius at programme@frame-finland.fi.
Learn more about Frame’s Visitor Programme and upcoming guests on our website.
Photo: HAM / Helsinki Biennial / Sonja Hyytiäinen. Curatorial School of May: Mapping the belonging, Curated and facilitated by Clément Beraud. Helsinki Biennial 2023, Vallisaari Island.