Bioart Society, PanimoKatu 1, 3 krs, Helsinki (2026)

24/08/2026

Join us for a late summer afternoon reading and listening session 28 Aug 2026 16:00 — 18:00
~ Helsinki's Kaisaniemi Botanic outdoor gardens and on the OOO Radio airwaves

With live readings from Follow the Plants book contributors Joana Quiroga, Joss Allen and Sirkku Rosi, and recordings shared from those further afield including Alana Hunt, Annalee Davis, Christian Thompson, Mariana Martínez Balvanera and Zayaan Khan.

Bring your own planty readings, recipes and stories to share, a blanket and some snacks for the table, and a set of headphones if you have them!

Plant infused syrups cordials will be served alongside some light snacks.

To listen in remotely, join via the OOO Radio live broadcast.

This event is a collaboration between Bioart Society, Food Art Research Network (FAR), OOO Radio and Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden.

Venue / Location:
Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden (Kaisaniemenranta 2, Helsinki) outdoor garden on the side of Kaisaniemenranta, in the surroundings of a small glass pavilion opposite Café Viola. Please note that there are not many benches nearby but the seating will take place on the grass.
Booking is not required for this event, and you can turn up anytime between 16:00-18:00
For more info on the contributors and access visit the link in BAS’s bio.

Images:
1,2: Slides by mariana martínez balvanera
3: Jorge Menna-Barreto and Marcelo Wasem, Restauro: Environmental Sculpture, 2016-17
4, 10, 12: Location of event: small glass pavilion opposite Café Viola
5. Zayaan Khan invitation in Follow the Plants
6. Mariana Martínez Balvanera and Keg de Souza contribution in Follow the Plants
7. Joss Allen poem in Follow the Plants
8. Jorge Menna-Barreto invitation in Follow the Plants
9. Sirkku Rosi contribution in Follow the Plants
11. Christian Thompson contribution in Follow the Plants.
12. Alana Hunt contribution in Follow the Plants
13. Joana Quiroga contribution in Follow the Plants
14. Annalee Davis / contribution in Follow the Plants

20/08/2026

Our books have arrived! Sharing a little sneak peak before our Research Assembly launch events in Helsinki next week.

Hope to see you there where you can meet these beauties in the flesh!

We could not be more grateful to all of the artists, thinkers and plants that have contributed to bringing this book into being

Edited by Madeleine Collie and Yvonne Billimore with contributions from AK Wane, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Alana Hunt, Annalee Davis, Banu Subramaniam, Beatriz Paz Jiménez, Christian Thompson, Clare Qualmann, Diana Vieira, Elia Nurvista, Franswa Tibere, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Grace Gloria Denis, Joana Quiroga, Johanes Jamil, Jorge Menna Barreto, Joshua Gebert, Joss Allen, Keg de Souza, Kristina Jones, Kyriaki Goni, Leone Contini, Lucy Davis, Madeleine Collie, Marta Fernández Calvo, Margherita Pevere, Matti Aikio, Mariana Martínez Balvanera, Nathalie Muchamad, Nida Sinnokrot (Sakiya), Nick Anderson, Rain Wu, Rubiane Maia, Shalini Krishan, Sirkku Rosi, Yvonne Billimore, Zayaan Khan and Zheng Bo.
Design Zenobia Ahmed

For those who can not be there next week Follow the Plants is now available to preorder via our wonderful co-publishers. To order you can visit Onomatopee Projects for Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe and Discipline for Australia and NZ.

Madeleine Collie

AyKay

Alana Hunt
Annalee Davis
Beatriz Paz
Christian Thompson
Clare
𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕒 𝕟𝕦𝕣𝕧𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕒

Grace Gloria Denis
Joana Quiroga
Jorge Menna Barreto
Vince Gebert
NTU CCA Singapore
Joss Allen
Keg de Souza
Kyriaki Gonicontini
Lucy Davis
Marta Fernandez Calvo
Matti Aikio
Sakiya-ساقية
Rain Wu
Rubiane Maia
questioncurl
Edible Archives
sirkku rosi
Z A Y A A N

Creative Australia
Saastamoinen Foundation
Frame Contemporary Art Finland
The University of East London
Stanley Picker Gallery
Kingston School of Art

18/08/2026

On Saturday August 29, the last day of our Follow the Plants Assembly we welcome you to come and experience this very special sequence of works with us at HIAP Gallery Augusta on Suomenlinna.

Breadfruit: Recipes of a Recalcitrant Seed
14:00–16:00: Nathalie Muchamad participatory workshop cooking breadfruit recipes
Booking required

Follow the Plants Evening of Performance
17:00–20:00 Rubiane Maia Performance
19:00–19.30 Margherita Pevere Performance
20:00–20:30 Sepideh Rahaa Performance
Booking not required

Join us on Saturday afternoon for a participatory workshop cooking breadfruit recipes hosted by artist Nathalie Muchamad Nathalie Muchamad. The workshop builds on Muchamad’s growing archive of breadfruit as both an agroecological agent and an intimate ingredient for communities in tropical climates. Breadfruit will be brought from South London markets by book contributors to be steamed, fried and roasted as we share stories of colonial crossings, global adaptations and acts of resistance.

Following the workshop we invite you to gather for an evening of performances by Margherita Pevere, Rubiane Maia Rubiane Maia and Sepideh Rahaa Sepideh Rahaa. Each enacting distinctly rigorous, beautiful and moving bodies of research with plants, their performances will unfold over the evening in correspondences of love, grief, breath, ritual and resilience.

We welcome you to come and experience this very special sequence of works with us.

Booking is required for the workshop but not for the performance programme

More information and details on how to book via the link in Bioart Society bio.

This event is a collaboration between Bioart Society, Food Art Research Network and HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme.

Venue: HIAP Gallery Augusta, Suomenlinna B 28/2, 00190 Helsinki

Images:
1,2,4: Slides by mariana martínez balvanera
3: Portrait of Nathalie Muchamad by Séverine Fernandes, Ville de Malakoff.
5: Rubiane Maia, ”Blackboard Diagram”, 2026.
6: Rubiane Maia, ”Book Performance, Chapter VI”, 2023.
7: Margherita Pevere, ”Lament”, 2024.
8: Sepideh Rahaa, ”A Cube Inside A Cube: Not Too Close Not Too Far, Somewhere Between Standing and Departure, A Performance”, 2021.

17/08/2026

We warmly welcome you to join us on Night of the Arts Taiteiden yö for a film screening of MAR/MÆR on Thursday, 20 August, from 16-20! Free entry.

Performance art duo MAR/MÆR turn toward lichens as companions in being-with, thinking-with, and performing-with, seeking new ways of understanding the complexities of symbiosis through interspecies collaboration.

Since 2017, their Camouflage Strategies series has explored dissolving into surroundings and transcending the boundaries between bodies and space. The film screening exhibition depicts their ongoing performance cycle BEDROCK : : ROCKBED.

Screening-exhibition continues at SOLU Space for the rest of the week:
Fri 21.8. 16-20
Sat 22.8. 12-16
Sun 23.8. 12-16

14/08/2026

Follow the Plants x Kenno Filmi film program
Friday 28 August, 11:00–14:00
Venue: Cinema Orion
Booking required

Plants have long offered filmmakers ways of thinking through longing, memory, resistance, and power in different political contexts and through diverse cinematic formats. The film programme consists of eight short and medium-length films that were produced over the last seventy years, blending various chrononologies and traditions from film history, such as lyrical cinema, q***r experimental film, militant documentary, experimental fiction and essay film.

Curated by Danai Anagnostou, featuring moving image work by AK Wane, Alana Hunt, Barbara Hammer, Catriona Gallagher, Elia Nurvista, Otar Iosseliani, Theo Panagopoulos and Yugantar Collective.

This event is a collaboration between Bioart Society, Food Art Research Network, Kenno Filmi and Cinema Orion.

More information and details on how to book via the link in Bioart Society bio

Images:
1,2: Slides by mariana martínez balvanera

3: AK Wane, “How to Eat a Mango”, 2024. AyKay

4: Alana Hunt, “Surveilling a Crime Scene”, 2023. Alana Hunt

5. Yugantar Collective, “Tobacco Embers”, 1982.

6: Barbara Hammer, “Women I love”, 1976. Courtesy of the Estate of Barbara Hammer, New York and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. The Estate of Barbara Hammer

7. Elia Nurvista, Plantation Tragedy, 2026, behind-the-scenes photograph. Photo: Wimo A. Bayang. 𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕒 𝕟𝕦𝕣𝕧𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕒

8. Theo Panagopoulos, “The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing”, 2024. Theo Panagopoulos

9. Otar Iosseliani, “Sapovnela (Song about a Flower)”,1959. Otar Iosseliani

10. Catriona Gallagher, “Daphne was a torso ending in leaves”, 2024. catrigallagher

11/08/2026

Kitchen Correspondences from Goa to Helsinki Wednesday 26 August, 18:00-21:00  Venue: Koekeittiö / Test Kitchen .o.e.k.e.i.t.t.i.o  Booking: via link in BAS bio
Event is free

Follow the Plants Research Assembly begins, as it should, with a meal.

Join us for a special menu designed through a correspondence between Goa based artists Shalini Krishan questioncurl and Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar anumitra (Edible Archives) Edible Archives, and Helsinki based artists Joona Sorsa and Sonja Donner Sonja Donner (Koekeittiö) with some ingredients especially grown by Kulomaan palstat holders in the Kivinokka area.

Celebrating culinary and cultivational forms of research, which span the processes of growing, sourcing, preparing and eating plants, the menu is ingredient-driven and cuisine-agnostic, weaving ingredients local and traditional to Southern Finland with those in Goa.

This event is a collaboration between Bioart Society, Food Art Research Network, Edible Archives, Koekeittiö and Kulomaan palstat holders.

1–2: slides by mariana martínez balvanera
3: Event Kaunas Picture Gallery (Kauno paveikslų galerija), Lithuania, 2025. Photo by Sonja Donner
4: Courtesy Edible Archives
5: Event “Final Mix”, 2025. Photo by Jani Luoma
6: Courtesy Edible Archives
7: Exhibition “Night Cafe”, 2025. Photo by Inka Kynkäänniemi
8: Colocasia leaves, Goa, courtesy Edible Archives
9: Beans growing in Kivinokka

07/08/2026

Follow the Plants book launch
Thursday 27 August, 17:00-18:30
Venue: HAM - Helsinki Art Museum
Booking required via link in BAS bio

Come raise a glass with us in an evening of readings and reflections to celebrate the launch of our newly published book Follow the Plants, published by Discipline and Onomatopee.

During the event, editors Madeleine Collie and Yvonne Billimore will introduce the book and expand on how contributors approach following plants across time and terrain.

Contributor Matti Aikio reads sections from “Reindeer Follow Plants, Mushrooms and Lichen (and We Follow Reindeer)” reflecting the fragile inter-dependencies of plant, animal and human life in Sámpi under threat an era of rapid climate change. Invited as a correspondent, Julia Kemppinen who studies tundra plants and microclimates in Sámpi in her role as assistant professor in biodiversity change, University of Helsinki, speaks to how scientific methods of following plants might benefit from being in dialogue with artistic methods and indigenous ways of knowing.

Kyriaki Goni also thinks with plants and erasure in her text “Intertwined Silphium Dreams: Bodies and Territories as Contested Sites of Extraction” entangling storytelling, speculation, scientific data and traditional knowledges. Her performative reading conjures a doula’s dream following syphilium across millennia as it is pushed to the edge of extinction from over harvesting. She weaves this with the process of pregnancy, becoming a mother and thinking with the body while writing about this plant.

Foraged and fermented drinks will be served by curator Katie Lenanton as part of her project Bar Tender, a mobile pop-up art bar, and a long-term relational artistic and curatorial project, drawing parallels between the labour and social dynamics of a curator and a bartender.

This event is a collaboration between Bioart Society, Food Art Research Network and HAM - Helsinki Art Museum.

Images:
1,2,4: Slides by Maríana Martínez Balvanera
4: Book cover Zenobia Ahmed.
3: Katie Lenanton, drinks-service, 2024. Photo: Bec Gallo
5: Matti Aikio, Reindeer Calf and Buttercup, 2009
6. Kyriaki Goni, Dreaming of silphium, 2025

05/08/2026

Join us on Wednesday 12.8. between 9:30–11:00 for the autumn edition of our seasonal SOLU breakfast club, embracing a slow and gentle start of the autumn season. SOLU breakfast is a low threshold and casual gathering for connecting with people in the bioart circles.

Members, peers, partners, and people keen to learn more are welcome to join. With an interest in providing environments for peer exchange, our breakfast gatherings are intended as an informal setting for our communities to connect and grow, sharing with each other what they are currently working on and/or thinking with. We also welcome this as a space for reflection and feedback on the society’s activities.

The breakfast is free, and is vegan with gluten options. Should you have allergies or other dietary requirements, please contact us in advance. During the breakfast, Bioart Society’s reference library is also open for people to browse. Welcome for the whole morning or to drop by for a quick cuppa!

SOLU Autumn breakfast
Wednesday 12.8.2026, 09:30 – 11:00
Location: SOLU, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), 00580 Helsinki

03/07/2026

This week we visited Learning Materials partners with our pilot residency artists & Kamilė Vasiliauskaitė, Krišjānis Elviks and for an end of residency retreat and reflection.

Visiting clear cut forests set against uncut pines and mossy mounds, and spoiled by the best of spreads, was the perfect setting to think about material industries, infrastructures and extraction, while holding dear the precious relationship between making and thinking in material processes!

As this interation on the project supported by Nordic Culture Point comes to an end we look forward to our new chapter beginning in August as we continue with HIAP, .circuit, and , with new partners FIBRA Colectivo, ⓁⒶⒷⓋⒶ and Scottish Sculpture Workshop

More coming in August.... After a little summer break for the BAS team!

29/06/2026

We are thrilled to end this month by announcing the contributors, partners and events programme for Follow the Plants Research Assembly, 26 – 29 August 2026, Helsinki (and radio broadcast).

As the perfect accompaniment to the Follow the Plants publication, the assembly seeds correspondences between plants, people and places in the book and those situated in Helsinki. Joining us are artists, writers and activists who have long been following plants through/with plantations, labs, kitchens, wildfires, hedgerows, dreams, reindeer, love and ancestors, and who, in different ways, position and perform their research as a lively and living practice

°°°Contributors°°°
Event programme curated by Madeleine Collie and Yvonne Billimore, featuring: Edible Archives (Shalini Krishan and Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar), Joana Quiroga, Joona Sorsa, Katie Lenanton, Kyriaki Goni, Margherita Pevere, Matti Aikio, Nathalie Muchamad, Rubiane Maia, Sepideh Rahaa, Sirkku Rosi, Sonja Donner.

Film programme curated by Danai Anagnostou, featuring: AK Wane, Alana Hunt, Barbara Hammer, Catriona Gallagher, Elia Nurvista, Otar Iosseliani, Theo Panagopoulos, Yugantar Collective.

For the outline of the programme and more information on the contributors, visit the link below.

All Follow the Plants Assembly programme is free of charge but some venues have limited capacity. Registration opens in early August.

The assembly programme is realised in a city wide partnership and will take place at HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Programme, Helsinki Art Museum, Kaisanemi Botanic Garden (outdoor garden) with OOO Radio, Cinema Orion with Kenno Filmi, and Koekeittiö / Test Kitchen.

The assembly is generously funded by Saastamoinen Foundation with support from the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland.

Images:
1,2,5: Designed by Maríana Martínez Balvanera
3: Shalini Krishan, courtesy Edible Archives
4: Nathalie Muchamad. photo: Séverine Fernandes, ville de Malakoff
6: Sepideh Rahaa, Songs to Earth, Songs to Seeds, part of a media art installation, Vallisaari, Helsinki biennial 2023, photograph by Kirsi Halkola
7: Margherita Pevere, Lament, 2024, performance view. Photo: Romane Iskaria.

https://bioartsociety.fi/projects/follow-the-plants/activities/follow-the-plants-research-assembly

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