About us

Museum of Impossible Forms - M{if} is a cultural centre located in Kontula, East-Helsinki. For us the Museum is a space in flux – a contested space representing a contact zone, a space of unlearning, formulating identity constructs, norm-critical consciousness and critical thinking, already containing within it the potential for the para museum, the counter museum, the anti museum. ‘Impossible Forms’ are those that facilitate the process of transgressing the boundaries/borders between art, politics, practice, theory, the artist and the spectator.

M{if} was founded in spring 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.Envisioned as a response to the issues of the margins, but also the marginalisation of time, space, and bodies – to shift the site of culture away from a centralised and elitist position. As a free space, M{if} is a method for making visible the cultures of the margins, by engaging the performativity of its own culture and as a contemporary institution remaking its own center.

Museum of Impossible Forms opens up a broad horizon though its political character, its accessibility and openness, its multilingual library, an ongoing archive, and through its projects and events. Through its four years, we have hosted numerous events and significant interventions through cinema, performance, music, spoken word, discourse, visual arts, activism-based practice, discourse, and pedagogy.

M{if} is the coming together of a collective of people – an independent group of Helsinki-based artists, curators, pedagogists, philosophers and facilitators art and cultural workers, who believe in building anticolonial, antipatriarchal, and non-fascist commitments and futures.

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).

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Museum of Impossible Forms stands against all forms of oppression, othering, and discriminations, such as Racism, Ethnic segregations, Casteism, Colourism, Sexism, abuse caused through Patriarchy, Ablism, Body Shaming, Ageism and Adultism, Classism and Elitism.

The Team

Museum of Impossible Forms is the coming together of a collective of people – artists, curators, pedagogists, philosophers and facilitators – art and cultural workers who believe in the need for building anticolonial, antipatriarchal, and non-fascist commitments and futures.

Artistic Director 2021 -

Giovanna Esposito Yussif

TKOK ry

Taiteen, Kulttuurin ja Oppimisen Edistämisen Keskus ry (Center for Promotion of Arts, Culture and Teaching) (TKOK) is the association responsible for the Museum of Impossible Forms.

The central mission of Taiteen, Kulttuurin ja Oppimisen Edistämisen Keskus ry (TKOK) is to oversee and maintain the Museum of Impossible Forms (M{if}) culture centre.

It comprises a board elected by the general members during the Annual General Meeting, consisting of:

Board (2022)

Marianne Savallampi (Chair)

Soko Hwang

Vishnu Vardhani Rajan

Danai A. Anagnostou

Raine Aiava

Ali Akbar Mehta

David Muñoz Alcántara

The board is tasked with creating a mandate for the Artistic Director(s), and ensuring the work executed is within the parameters of the association’s values.