Museum of Impossible Forms is delighted to collaborate with Wasla Collective, who will be our 2022 on-site research residency during March and April. During this time there will be a series of talks, screenings and gatherings as part of their Islamia Queerist (Queering Islam) project.
You can follow their residency program at @islamiaqueeristi / @museumofimpossibleforms
Read MoreMuseum of Impossible Forms is thrilled to begin its series of on-site research residencies with FEMMA Planning, an urban planning collective specialized in participatory planning.
Read MoreMuseum of Impossible Forms announces Giovanna Esposito Yussif as Artistic Director
Read MoreThe National Arts Council and the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) have awarded the State Art Prize 2020 to the Museum of Impossible Forms in the field of multi-disciplinary art.
We share with you this joyous news and thank The National Arts Council and the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) for the recognition and encouragement of our work over the past four years.
Read MoreMuseum of Impossible Forms is excited to announce resuming its operations in August 2020 with the continuation of An Entry to Iranian Music, an eight-session workshop as part of our Alternate Pedagogy program and to further the curatorial focus of ‘The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (For Insurgents, Citizens and Untitled Bodies)’. M has invited Aman Askarizad to devise a series of lectures, workshops, and performances, jointly conducted by Farshad Sanati, Aman Askarizad and guest lecturers.
Following the first session of this highly anticipated project, with Musician Mohsen Namjoo and his performance and lecture and Museum of Impossible Forms, the project now seeks your participation.
Read MoreAnnouncing the list of artists/collectives selected for the 2020 edition of Performance LAB. This year Performance LAB will function as a seven-month long incubation laboratory, where the selected artists will work with artist-duo Varia Sjöström and Hatz Lambo to work on projects and realize ideas which will be showcased at the Museum of Impossible Forms in November 2020.
Read MoreThe revised program for Museum of Impossible Forms’ Society of Cinema’s accommodates the current online working condition while focusing on audience participation and bidirectional exchanges. We are re-inaugurating our program for 2020 with a scriptwriting seminar with Brenda Robles: The Conversational Anti-Hero.
Read MoreMuseum of Impossible Forms is excited to announce An Entry to Iranian Music, an eight-session workshop as part of our Alternate Pedagogy program and to further the curatorial focus of ‘The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (For Insurgents, Citizens and Untitled Bodies)’. M(if) has invited Aman Askarizad to devise a series of lectures, workshops, and performances, jointly conducted by Farshad Sanati, Aman Askarizad and guest lecturers.
Read MoreIn 2020, artist-duo Varia Sjöström and Hatz Lambo will transform Performance LAB into a seven-month laboratory for artists based in Helsinki at the Museum of Impossible Forms (M).
We are looking for unusual ideas for unusual places. It can be just an idea or something you have been working on for a while or something you feel you can’t finish alone.
Read MoreWe had a great 2019 ❤️ with 100 events and over 5000 visitors.
A big thank you to all the #friendsofmif who have supported us, encouraged us and have been a part of this amazing journey.
Read MoreDelighted and Excited to Announce that today Museum of Impossible Forms is the recipient of Tutkijaliitto-palkinto, the Annual award from the Finnish Association of Researchers. The award is “given to a person/organisation whose practical and/or conceptual work has recently been politically significant (in Finland).”
We are happy to recieve this award and the recognition of having made some kind of a dent within the Finnish Art and Cultural Scene in Helsinki and Finland.
Read MoreFor Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities, Museum of Impossible Forms will non-perform ‘A series of soft gestures towards Hospitality’ These gestures will be the result of direct/indirect collaborations between Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Museum of Impossible Forms, nynnyt (consisting of Orlan Ohtonen and Selina Väliheikki), Asematila, Artist Collective Bread Omens (consisting of Jani Anders Purhonen and Elena Rantasuo), Heidi Hänninen, as well as other invited guests and participants from Kontula.
Read MoreMuseum of Impossible Forms in collaboration with Academy of Moving People and Images and Aalto University/Critical Cinema Lab, warmly welcomes filmmaker Heiny Srour to Helsinki. Heiny Srour (1945) is one of the important female filmmakers in the Third Cinema movement of the 70s. She has advocated for women’s rights through her films, her writing, and by funding other filmmakers.
Read MoreMuseum of Impossible Forms announces its new curatorial theme titled ‘An Atlas of Lost Beliefs: for Insurgents, Citizens, and Untitled Bodies‘.
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