News and Events: Sustainable Visual Arts Day, 2024

Event programme

9:30 Morning coffee at TeaK Tori

10:00 Circulating Abundance, Rhythms of Rest, artist Alyssa Coffin

10:15 Programme in the Auditorium 1

• Welcome, Raija Koli, Frame Contemporary Art Finland and Mika Elo, The University of the Arts 
• Introducing the Sustainable Visual Arts Network, Paula Toppila, IHME Helsinki
• Keynote speech: ‘The role of culture in the sustainability transition’, researchers Karoliina Lummaa & Paavo Järvensivu, BIOS
• Keynote videospeech: ‘The Sacred, the System and the Place of Shelter’, curator, Head of Ecologies Lucia Pietroiusti, Serpentine Galleries

11:25 Break

11:45 Programme in the Auditorium 1

• Introducing the Green Art website and calculator (vihreataide.fi), Sara Salminen, Sitowise and Saara Korpela, Frame Contemporary Art Finland
• How did you do it? How shall we do it? Short presentations on advancing ecological sustainability
• ⬝ Ecological sustainability in the work of a visual artist, Satu Kalliokuusi, Helsinki Artists’ Association
• ⬝ Sculpture as a carbon sink, Eero Merimaa, Turku UAS’ Arts Academy
• ⬝ Sustainable model for lens-based art biennale, Henri Airo, Utopias Lahti
• ⬝ Green handprint, Kersti Tainio, Sinebrychoffin museo, The Finnish National Gallery
• ⬝ Living through postfossil search, Saara-Maria Kariranta, Mustarinda Association
• ⬝ Walking the talk: Extinction Rebellion’s challenge to cultural organisations, Maria Pääkkönen, Extinction Rebellion
• ⬝ LuoTo: Sustainability actions in the cultural sector, Jaana Eskola, Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council
• ⬝ Where to find support for sustainability transition?, Kalle Korhonen, Kone Foundation

12:45 Lunch at TeaK Tori

1:45 Workshops in the Auditorium 1

The afternoon workshops will network and work on future utopias and concrete actions from the perspective of each arts organisation. The workshop will be led by foresight expert Noora Vähäkari and global education expert Anna Kivimäki-Pelluz, Fingo. Fingo is an umbrella organisation for around 260 Finnish NGO’s and an expert on global development.

3:30–4:00 Workshop wrap-up and the next steps of the network

The event is part of The Green Art project led by Frame which has received support from the Ministry of Education and Culture for the renewal of culture and creative industries. The funding is part of the Next Generation EU programme.

The project involves operators in contemporary art and art education in Finland: Frame Contemporary Art Finland, The Mustarinda Association, Kunsthalle Helsinki, the Artists’ Association of Finland, the Academy of Fine Arts of the Uniarts Helsinki and the Arts Academy of Turku University of Applied Sciences. Other expert partners include the EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme, IHME Helsinki, the Finnish National Gallery, Finnish Museums Association, Pro Artibus Foundation and the Finnish Artists’ Studio Foundation.

Accessibility

The building is fully accessible, with lifts to the floors and five accessible seats in the auditorium.

Our office follows our safer space guidelines. We appreciate all the participants for taking the guidelines into account.