Museum of Impossible Forms

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Museum of Impossible Forms

Cultural center committed to nurture anticolonial, antipatriarchal, and non-fascist practices and futures. Address: Aallonhalkoja 9 L1, 00540 Helsinki

MIF was founded in 2017 and has been shaped as an antiracist and queer-feminist project, a heterogeneous space developing experimental and migrant forms of expression, as a platform for experiences and a laboratory for critical thought. It is an expanding archive – real, imagined and embodied – in constant flux. MIF has hosted numerous events and significant interventions through cinema, performan

ce, music, spoken word, discourse, visual arts, and activism-based practice, discourse, and pedagogy. Due to its commitment to decolonial work, the Museum of Impossible Forms was awarded the Tutkijaliitto Award in 2019 and the State Art Prize 2020 in the field of multi-disciplinary art by The National Arts Council and the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike).

22/05/2026

Last two weeks on view!! | Diego Bruno: Productive Unit

Developed through research with Argentina’s MTD – Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados (Unemployed Workers Movement), the exhibition brings together experimental film, installation, and archival materials to reflect on collective organisation, political subjectivity, and the conditions through which histories are represented and encountered.

📍 On view until 31 May 2026
Thu–Fri 14–18
Sat–Sun 12–16
Or by appointment
Warmly welcome!

09/05/2026

Building power from below.
Lecture and artist talk
Mariano Pacheco & Diego Bruno
Thursday, 14 May, 2026
16:00–18:00

As part of the exhibition Productive Unit at the Museum of Impossible Forms, writer and militant Mariano Pacheco will deliver a lecture followed by a conversation with the artist Diego Bruno.

Departing from the question of what a people can do when they move from victimhood towards struggle and self-organisation, the lecture traces the transformations of popular movements in Argentina over the past fifty years against the backdrop of neoliberal restructuring and the contemporary rise of the far right and authoritarian politics. Moving from the 1976 military coup and its project of state terror and economic liberalisation, the talk reflects on how the destruction of industrial labour and organised working-class life gave rise to new territorial and community-based forms of political organisation, from the Madres de Plaza de Mayo to the piquetero movement, feminist struggles, and the popular economy. Through these experiences, the presentation examines how collective infrastructures of care, self-management, and social reproduction emerged as forms of resistance to capitalist precarity and social fragmentation, while simultaneously shaping new political subjectivities and forms of militancy. It foregrounds the importance of studying and translating these experiences in order to imagine new political strategies and forms of solidarity across different contexts.

Mariano Pacheco is a writer, journalist, and militant whose work spans cultural criticism, political education, and social movement organising. His work moves between philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, and the history of Argentine social and political struggles, which he develops through research, publishing, and pedagogical initiatives. Over the years, he has contributed to political formation processes across Latin America. This marks his first visit outside Latin America.

10/04/2026

Diego Bruno: Productive Unit
On view: 18 April – 31 May 2026
Thu–Fri 14–18
Sat–Sun 12–16
Or by appointment

Warmly welcome to the opening of Diego Bruno’s exhibition Productive Unit on Friday, 17 April 2026 from 17:00 to 20:00 at Museum of Impossible Forms.

Productive Unit is a 57-minute experimental film and installation by Diego Bruno, developed through a research process in collaboration with militants from the MTD – Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados (Unemployed Workers Movement) in Argentina. Emerging in the late 1990s, the MTD developed forms of social organisation grounded in self-management, autonomy, and communal production. Over time, it has contributed to worker-run cooperatives, recuperated factories, and grassroots structures sustaining alternative economic and political models.
The work brings together archival documents and newly produced footage to reflect on the political capacity of the movement, while interrogating the forms through which such histories are communicated. It asks to what extent experimental moving-image practices can offer compelling modes for representing radical political processes. By insisting on the materiality of language, image, and spatial arrangement, Bruno situates the exhibition as an active site where aesthetic propositions are not only shown but tested in their capacity to circulate, to sediment, and to re-emerge within the social and political fabric of their reception.
Diego Bruno lives and works in Helsinki. His multidisciplinary practice spans moving image, writing, drawing, and photography, emphasising the friction between artistic forms and political awareness within their respective narratives, and engaging with the epistemological, artistic, and political disputes of the present.

Read more about the exhibition on the link in bio!

The film has been produced and edited with support from AVEK, Koneen Säätiö, Linnamon Säätiö and Carbon Copy ky.

03/03/2026

Universes of Images
Screening series and talks
With Kerstin Schroedinger and Angela Melitopoulos
Thursdays 5, 12 & 19 of March, 2026
17:00 - 20:00

In this series of three screenings we will seek to understand image practices that aim to rework archival and found footage that allow for a narration of ‘minor histories’. The ability of image practices to produce facts and the dissolve community have become operative and media agents in the current structures of biopolitical governance. We will watch works that are concerned with the interwoven processes of industrialisation, the formation of modern nationalism, and the violent ruptures modernity implied in the shaping of societies.

The series accompanies the Universes of Images thematic course at the Academy of Fine Arts, led by Miak Elo, Marjaana Keller, and Kerstin Schroedinger. The screening series is programmed and introduced by Kerstin Schroedinger and follows the visiting professorship of artist Angela Melitopoulos at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Schedule:

Thursday, 5 March, 17:00 - 20:00
Introduction by Kerstin Schroedinger
Kamal Aljafari, A Fidai Film, 2024, 76 min
Miranda Penell, Man No. 4, 9 min, UK 2024

Thursday, 12 March, 17:00 - 20:00
Mareike Bernien/Kerstin Schroedinger, Rainbow’s Gravity, Ger/UK 2014, 33 min
Angela Melitopoulos, The Language of Things, 2007, 37 min
Followed by a conversation with Angela Melitopoulos and Kerstin Schroedinger

Thursday, 19 March, 17:00 - 20:00
Angela Melitopoulos/Maurizio Lazzarato, Assemblages, 2010, 62 min
Followed by a conversation with Angela Melitopoulos

Warmly welcome!

25/02/2026

Mä Lupaan, Mä Vannon
Saban Ramadani
Screening and conversation

Tuesday, 3rd March, 2026
18:00-20:00

Mä lupaan, Mä vannon emerges from an inquiry into whiteness as a social structure. The project examines how whiteness operates within space, particularly within institutional contexts, and how it shapes belonging, visibility, and recognition. It asks: how does one become white in Finnish society? Is immigration ever complete, or does it remain an ongoing condition? What forms of transformation, adaptation, or erasure does this process entail?

This work is situated within artistic research through which Saban Ramadani reflects on his own position in Finland—tracing a trajectory from arriving as a refugee to becoming a middle-class subject. Through performance, embodiment, and narrative, the project considers whiteness not as a fixed identity, but as a structure that is learned, negotiated, and imposed.

Saban Ramadani (b. 1991, Kosovo) is an artist based in Helsinki working across performance, acting, video, sound, and writing. His practice engages with embodiment, memory, and the politics of perception. His current research focuses on the phenomenology of whiteness and its manifestation within social and institutional life.

The performance will take place at on Friday 27 February and Saturday 28 February at 17:00. Each performance has a duration of approximately 25 minutes.

On 3 March at 18:00, the Museum of Impossible Forms will host a screening of Ramadani’s video work connected to the project. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the artist, opening space to reflect on the work’s artistic and research dimensions, and on the broader questions it raises around race, migration, and institutional belonging.

19/01/2026

Publishing as Scaffolding Talks # 6 : Sarasija Subramanian presenting Reliable Copy
Wednesday, January 28th | 18:00 - 20:00
Museum of Impossible Forma

Welcome to a talk by .subramanian on organized by Rab-Rab Press at .

Sarasija will introduce Reliable Copy’s publishing practice over the years, focussing on their (Fine) Arts Dissertations Series, facsimiles of graduate-level college dissertations by artists from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (Gujarat, India), the first art college established in India post-Independence. Functioning as an early mode of artists’ writing which encouraged articulation, research, reflection, rigour, and documentation as key modes of learning within the largely studio-based programme, the dissertation was—and continues to be—a component which encouraged students to reflect on their studio practice and processes.
She will also discuss their book ‘Modernism/Murderism: The Modern Art Debate in Kumar’ which compiles (and presents for the first time in English) a debate around modern art’s emergence into the Indian subcontinent from 1959 to 1964 between Jyoti Bhatt, then a young artist in Baroda, Pherozeshah Mehta, an art connoisseur and writer from Karachi, and readers and respondents of the Gujarati periodical ‘Kumar’.

Sarasija Subramanian is an artist based in Bangalore, India, where she is also the editor of Reliable Copy, a publishing house and curatorial practice for works, projects, and writing by artists. Reliable Copy was founded in 2018, and publishes books and documents, curates exhibitions and screenings, undertakes research projects, and hosts a wide variety of public programming. It is represented by the artists Nihaal Faizal and Sarasija Subramanian.

This is the sixth Publishing as Scaffolding talk organised by Rab-Rab Press.
The talks are supported by the Kone Foundation

02/10/2025

Welcome to the public program of Wey Dey Move!

📆 Saturday, October 11th, 16:30-17:30
Remember Dancing Cosmologies: Talk with Dele Adeyemo
Online | Register at the link in bio

Dele Adeyemo joins us online to expand on the research behind his works on show at Wey Dey Move. At the intersection of everyday resistance, embodied knowledge, and Black radical thinking, Adeyemo formulates what he calls ‘the Black radical spatial imaginary’. Within a geography shaped by the historical infrastructures of colonialism, Adeyemo portrays the possibilities of a different spatiality performed through dance and indigenous spirituality amongst the architectures of racial capitalism.

📆 Saturday, October 18th, 10:40-12:30
Dance Workshop with Ama Kyei
Sign up at the link in bio

Inspired by Wey Dey Move, Ama Kyei leads a dance workshop focused on finding moments of flow, belonging and a sense of togetherness. The group will groove closely together, attuning and dancing like a school of fish. They will also connect with Hermes Chibueze Iyele who performed and choreographed some of the works in the exhibition.

The workshop is for BIPOC people interested in dance and movement practices.

Visitors are welcome to the exhibition at 12:00 to witness the last part of the workshop.

📆 Wednesday, October 22nd, 17:30-18:30
Visit to Lagos Studio Archives
Kaapelitehdas

Join a studio visit to Lagos Studio Archives, where Karl Ohiri and Riikka Kassinen open their photographic archives consisting of thousands of film negatives of studio portraiture and vernacular photography from Lagos, Nigeria. The initiative presents the contribution to Nigerian photographic history of photographers who captured the life of everyday Lagosians, from the 1970s to post millennium.

Meeting in the courtyard of Kaapelitehdas at 17:20.

Wey Dey Move by , 9.10.-9.11.2025, is part of SLOW — Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds, curated by with .
Supported by . Visual identity by .

30/09/2025

Wey Dey Move: Remember Dancing Cosmologies
Dele Adeyemo

October 9th to November 9th, 2025
Opening times
Thu-Fri 14:00-18:00
Sat-Sun 12:00-16:00 or by appointment

Wey dey move is a Nigerian Pidgin term said to describe the way things constantly shift, as different bodies intersect and circulate, drawing the outlines of places in a complex choreography.

While the process of urbanisation in West Africa rapidly unfolds, sand, people, waters and ecologies are in constant flux along the Nigerian coast.

On a watery edge of Lagos, the residents of the indigenous settlement of Oworonshoki live the rhythms of endurance of the lagoon, intersecting with the extractive processes of real-estate development that voraciously dredge sand for urban expansion. A group of young people in Oworonshoki finds in dance a space of resistance and political expression.

Between colonial infrastructures and the ruins of petro-capitalism, urban theorist and artist Dele Adeyemo portrays the existence of this other worldview: the ancestral memory of a cosmology that people enact by performing their ecological and social relations through dance.

If colonialism fractured and dis-membered the African social body, as novelist Toni Morrison first and philosopher Achille Mbembe later have described, to re-member is a process of putting back together its disparate parts. The subtitle of the exhibition, Remember Dancing Cosmologies, describes how the works on show invite healing and repair through the engagement with embodied knowledges that are archived in movement practices. In the shadow of the mangroves, the youth of Oworonshoki continues to rehearse a choreography of refusal and re-membrance.

Opening on Thursday 9 October at 17:00-20:00!
Information about the public program in the following post.

The exhibition is part of SLOW — Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds, curated by with .
Supported by . Visual identity by .

25/09/2025

Tom Holert: Harun Farocki as Publisher
Monday, September 29th, 2025 | 18:00 - 21:00
Museum of Impossible Forms

Publishing was central to Harun Farocki’s film practice. In this lecture, art historian, writer, and curator Tom Holert will reflect on the importance of writing and editing to Farocki’s filmmaking. The evening will include a display of Filmkritik (the magazine Farocki co-edited between 1974–1984), the Harun Farocki Institute pamphlet series, and a screening of Filmbooks(1986), Farocki’s essay film on books about movies. The event will also mark the launch of About Narration, a new publication by Rab-Rab Press in collaboration with the Harun Farocki Institut

Tom Holert works as an interdependent researcher in the fields of art history and cultural studies. He has taught at art schools and universities in Stuttgart, Vienna, Hamburg, Berlin and elsewhere. In 2015, he co-founded the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. He has curated several thematic exhibitions (on educational architecture, interwar avant-garde art and theory, the genealogies of glamour and more) and publishes on subjects ranging from contemporary art to epistemic politics. His ca. 1972. Gewalt - Umwelt - Identität - Methode (2024) was awarded the prize of the Leipzig book fair. Currently, he is preparing an introduction to “art and politics”.

This is the fourth Publishing as Scaffolding talk organised by Rab-Rab Press.
The talks are supported by the Kone Foundation.

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