An evening gathering of salon-style conversations hosted by an artist whose visual artistic practice has recently pivoted to encompass hair and make up artistry.

William Greaves (dir.), First World Festival of Negro Arts

(New York, distributed by William Greaves Productions, [1966] 2005)

40 mins, sound, black and white, 4 3/4 inch. English.

The film is introduced by Minna Henriksson and Nora Sternfeld and the screening will be followed by a short discussion

In January 2020 Museum of Impossible Forms & Society of Cinema collaborates with CEREN (The Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism) and presents Hassane Mezine's Fanon hier, aujourd'hui (Fanon Yesterday, Today).

Father Frost Against is a cultural and political festival, focused on critical thinking, reflection and development of new activism strategies. Held in Helsinki, Finland from the 3rd to the 5th of January and organized by local activists, as well as participants from Russia and the post-Soviet space.

Museum of Impossible Forms invites you to LAAAAAAAAA JALEBI PARTY on Friday, November 22, 2019. Doors open 19:00. 

At 19:30 Abhinit Khanna will present #ArtWorldMemes in his talk, Rise of TikTok Celebrities & Meme Culture in India. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session and a brief TikTok meme-making workshop.

At 21:00 M{if} will open the dance floor with an immersive audio-visual set by Amrish Kondurkar (Filth Avenue) and music mixed by Abhinit Khanna. 

“Puppy is warm
Puppy is boundless
Puppy is soft and sharp
Puppy is a body that doesn’t obey”

Sam Conlon is an artist working with photography, particularly focusing on ideas of queer visiblity and representation.

Museum of Impossible Forms will host sound artist Elvin Brandhi, who will perform a live collage of sounds drawn from every corner of her haphazard roaming, presenting a polymorphic body of sounds all derived from her most recent dwellings, Istanbul-Kosovo-Uganda-Russia to Finland.

Museum of Impossible Forms together with Aman Askerizad have invited Nima Naderi, an accomplished and talented Iranian musician, and Tar and Setar Master, for this session to talk about Iranian classical music and listen to his performance.

‘The exploration of sustenance and sustainability is the Third gesture of Hospitality’

In collaboration with Museum of Impossible Forms, artist collective Asematila has invited Bread Omens (initiated by Elina Rantasuoand Jani Purhonen) to take part in the week of Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities. Bread Omens is working around bread, fantasies of kinship, and playing with the idea of the nearly vanishing culture of communal bread ovens–while expanding their artistic practice through collecting bread starters, stories and engaging in encounters.

Redrum is the alter hard dance act of Fadescha. They are a sound artist, conceptual producer and a DJ.

Redrum will play at Stidila from 2:00 to 4:00 am as the closing gig on the Saturday Night’s programme. The Performance will take place at Kaiku as part of the Today is Our Tomorrow Festival.

Vidisha Fadescha’s practice as an artist curator has evolved to include public engagments as a form of political discourse. Through parties and by investigating sites of nightlight, Vidhisha creates spaces for healing, for discourse and for norm-critical future forward thinking.

During her talk , Vidisha Fadescha will present her praxis of looking at ‘party as a form, and clubs as sites for art and politics’. 

Devising together the tools required to counter Institutional Hegemony is the Second gesture of Hospitality’.

Museum of Impossible Forms has invited nynnyt, a queer feminist curatorial duo consisting of Selina Väliheikki and Orlan Ohtonen, to host a workshop on ‘How to work responsibly with Imperfect Tools’.

Producing and Transmitting Knowledge is The Fifth gesture of Hospitality

Museum of Impossible Forms and Asematila present Bread Archive: a multi-sensory installation as a method to bridge two programs through epistemological knowledges, using bread and its histories within Finnish Cultural memories, within its contemporary fabric and the entanglements of purity, immigration, refuge, borderless-ness, community and participatory knowledge gathering.

To participate with and involve those who live amongst us is the Fourth gesture of Hospitality.

Along with community artist and activist Heidi Hänninen from Kontula Art School (KAS!), the Museum of Impossible Forms will work with sister institutions (D-Asema, Kontula Library, Luuppi – Kontula Youth Center ) within Kontula to host a series of workshops in Kontula.

The First gesture of Hospitality is to invite and welcome people into one’s own space, of relinquishing agency and authorship

Museum of Impossible Forms welcomes and opens its doors to the organisers, invited speakers, and guests of Frame Contemporary Art Finland’s ‘Rehearsing Dialogues’, a series of conversations, discussions, presentations, and happenings performed daily.

A peer group for trans-, non-binary, gender-non-conforming and other non-cis-gendered people working in the arts. Also artists who are questioning their gender are welcome.

Part of the the Pixelache festival, join us for a series of workshops by artist Jan Lütjohann.

Join us for an unique set of audiovisual performances during Kontula Electronic.

Breaking the Fifth wall focuses on inclusiveness before specialisation, difference before identity and play before culture.

Welcome to the zine launch of Up with Trans! Zine was made during the Trans Week of Action.

**** Before the launch the space hosts a peer support discussion session concerning the denial of care for non-binary people. The discussion is open for transpeople only. Discussion starts at 3 pm and ends at 5 pm. Welcome!****

This call is for writers young and old, teachers, activists who are interested in thinking with us within the context of children’s literature and children’s culture but also around pedagogy.

Ramy Essam's songs spread in like wildfire among the demonstrators on Tahrir Square  during the height of the Egyptian uprising in 2011. His song Irhal, in which then Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was urged to resign, is referred to as the anthem of a whole generation of young Egyptians’ struggle for a better future. 

The Museum of Impossible Forms together with Kontula Electronic Music Festival invites you to experiment with Tohu-Bohu electronic music instruments!

Saturday 21st of April 2018 from 15h00-20h30

Museum of Impossible Forms is proud to host events as part the Trans Week of Action organized by Pink&Black Helsinki collective on the theme of How to survive in a transphobic world?

Welcome to three weekends of textile experiments with materials, colours and textures in the Weaving Kiosk at Museum of impossible Forms in Kontula.