Comprising of over 50% new commissions and site-specific works, the first participants to be announced include:
Matti Aikio (Fl), Dineo Seshee Bopape (ZA), Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (UK), Sasha Huber (CH/FI) & Petri Saarikko (FI), Keiken (UK), Sonya Lindfors (CM/FI), Lotta Petronella with Sami Tallberg & Lau Nau (Fl), Tuula Närhinen (Fl), Diana Policarpo (PT), Sepideh Rahaa (IR/Fl), Emilija Škarnulytė (LT), and Adrián Villar Rojas (AR).
For 2023, the biennial expands beyond the island of Vallisaari to the city of Helsinki – the world’s northern-most metropolitan area – to embrace its position in the Gulf of Finland. With an emphasis on outdoor spaces on the island, the biennial additionally sprawls across the mainland. Other biennial locations include HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki Central Library Oodi, Cultural Centres across the city, and online, with more sites to be announced.
This future-orientated vision is manifested in the practices and ethics of the Helsinki Biennial itself, which maintains a commitment to responsible exhibition-making, as well as socially sustainable and inclusive principles. Following its inaugural edition, Helsinki Biennial is building a new, bespoke environmental responsibility programme to improve the monitoring and assessing of its production and impact, in line with the City of Helsinki’s strategy to be carbon neutral by 2030.
The 2021 impact study(Link leads to external service)
The full artist list and details on the new commissions will be announced in Spring 2023.