Together with Kunsthalle Kohta, Pitted Dates, Galleria Huuto and Bioart Society, Frame invites everyone to end the Helsinki Biennial Preview week at Teurastamo area in Helsinki. The event takes place on Saturday, 7 June from 6 pm to 11 pm.
Once an old meat district area of Helsinki, nowadays Teurastamo houses several art spaces, restaurants, and bars. At the event, all mentioned art spaces are open until late and have organised programme. See details below.
The event requires no registration or accreditation and is open for all to participate.
Frame is collaborating with HAM Helsinki Art Museum in arranging the Helsinki Biennial Preview on 6–8 June 2025. The Preview programme includes a diverse range of exhibitions, discussions, and events. It brings together art institutions, such as museums, galleries, and independent art spaces, offering a comprehensive overview of the local artistic scene. The full Helsinki Biennial Preview programme is available for accredited guests.
Address: Työpajankatu 2, 00580 Helsinki
See here how to arrive with public transportation.
Please find each space’s accessibility information below
Oscar Chan Yik Long, Tranferred Resurrection (2024), road paint on asphalt. Photo: Angel Gil
Pitted Dates: And those sweaty, ragged kids…
+ Book launch by Ville Laurinkoski
Pitted Dates is an exhibition platform founded in 2023 and located at Teurastamo area since 2024.
Currently on view: Group exhibition And those sweaty, ragged kids… with works by August Joensalo, Inga Meldere, Jaakko Pietiläinen, Goro Shintami, Bogna Luiza Wisniewska, Denise Ziegler, and a commissioned poem by Ville Laurinkoski.
During Saturday event, Pitted Dates will be open for visiting all evening. It will also host a book launch of Oiseau de la nuit by Ville Laurinkoski.
Oiseau de la nuit is a poetic monologue navigating queer nightlife, desire, and identity in the shadowy corners of urban Paris. Adapted from a 1977 text by Guy Hocquenghem and translated into a contemporary, reflective voice, the publication blends social critique with narrative, observation, and fiction. Written by Ville Laurinkoski and first published by Pitted Dates in 2025 as part of the exhibition And those sweaty, ragged kids…
Oiseau de la nuit by Ville Laurinkoski
44 pages, edition of 50, 8€
Accessibility: Unfortunately, the space is not wheelchair accessible.
Installation view of And those sweaty, ragged kids… at Pitted Dates
Kohta: Lasse Juuti and Anastasia Sosunova: But it’s not finished
Kohta is a privately initiated kunsthalle in Helsinki that presents uncompromising contemporary art in all its forms.
Kohta’s current exhibition ‘But it’s not finished’ brings together new and recent work by Lasse Juuti and Anastasia Sosunova. Both artists navigate the choppy waters of the complete and the open-ended, the articulate and the visceral, mediation and immediacy.
In the studio, Nina Sikkersoq’s exhibition Rare Earth.
Accessibility: Unfortunately, Kohta is not fully accessible. Visitors with physical disabilities are advised to contact the gallery before their visit.
Installation view of ‘But it’s not finished’ at Kohta. Photo: Jussi Tiainen
Bioart Society: To Notice is to Remember – members screening
Bioart Society is a Helsinki-based association working at the intersection of art, science and society.
At the Saturday event, Bioart Society is hosting a moving image screening event at SOLU Space from 4–8 pm.
The screening showcases a collection of short films and moving image works by Bioart Society members. The programme highlights a plurality of mediums and matters being dealt with across our membership, each offering a lens attuned to the quietly urgent and the often overlooked. From the microscopic and the bodily to the marco-scale of climate change, the films invite viewers to slow down, be surprised, and observe. Read more
Location: SOLU / Bioart Society, Panimokatu 1, 3rd floor, 00580 Helsinki
Still from the video work “A Flagellate Searching for Love” by Leena Pukki.
Galleria Huuto: Various exhibitions and a performance by Anna Broms
Galleria Huuto is an independent artist collective founded in 2002 and located adjacent to Teurastamo since 2023.
Currently, Huuto is hosting four exhibitions which will be open for all on Saturday evening. Additionally, artist Anna Broms’s performance Mind the Grid, ritual will be presented occasionally from 6 pm onwards.
Currently on view:
Erkki Nampajärvi: Spiritual Nervous System
Petri Juntunen: One Hundred Thousand Years Later
Henrik Härkönen: Small Death Angel
Mette Matilda: Ancient Fears Under the Streetlights
Location: Panimokatu 1 (in the same building with Bioart Society)
Accessibility: You can reach Huuto with a ramp from the yard to the first-floor lobby, where you can take an elevator or walk the stairs to the first floor.
In the gallery space, there is a toilet for the disabled, with a door 90 cm wide.
Erkki Nampajärvi: Something Spiritual (detail)