HIAP Open Studios Spring 2026
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☀️ HIAP’s Open Studios for Spring 2026 is happening soon ☀️
Midsummer is here — come celebrate it with an evening of art at HIAP Suomenlinna!
On Wednesday 24.6. at 16:00–21:00 HIAP’s Spring season's residents open their studio doors to the public. Get to know our artists in residence, learn about their practices and see the work that's been developing over the past months ✨
📍 HIAP Gallery Augusta + HIAP Studios, Suomenlinna B28 & B44-45, 00190 Helsinki
🗓️ Wednesday 24.6. at 16:00–21:00, programme below
🎟️ Free entry
The participating artists are Assem Attoun, Liisa Helander, Nseabasi Akpan, Paula Zvane, Krišjānis Elviks, Katie Watchorn, Luka Berchtold, Harriet Gillies, Juliana Irene Smith, Anastasia (A) Alevtin, Olha Drozd, Aistė Gaidilionytė and Kamilė Vasiliauskaitė.
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Programme:
(we recommend taking the 15:30 ferry)
16:15–17:15 Tour: Short introductions by the residents | Meeting point: HIAP Gallery Augusta
17:30–17:45 & 20:00–20:15 Reading: Excerpt from Anticipated Collapse, a play-in-progress by Harriet Gillies | HIAP Studios
18:00–18:30 Learning Materials Lab: The table has landed from the sky by Paula Zvane | field outside the HIAP main building | first come, first served, join the table as space becomes available | language: English | the session will be documented on video
The event takes the form of a surreal and slightly unsettling communal meal. Through food, textures, and conversation, participants are invited to consider ideas of disgust, transformation, decomposition, and material intimacy.
The installation includes highly tactile bio-materials, sculptures, food elements, and storytelling. Participation is welcome at your own pace. Observing is as valid as tasting.
Ingredients may contain wheat, soy, beans, tea, sugar, vinegar, seeds, egg, mushrooms, and pickles. Please consider any allergies before participating.
19:00–19:45 Performance reading: 'these tomatoes are so green, i need to write it down in burgundy ink' with Anastasia (A) Alevtin, Yvonne Billimore, Death By Landscape | HIAP Studios
The reading is the first in a series that tests the tunes and characters of a phytocrip radio play, which follows three friends who share a hospital ward and daydream about an allotment to tend to. Crip poetics of movement and fragmentarity, intervals, repetitions, pauses, blue lemon, blackcurrant and green tomatoes beginning to world the play.
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HIAP’s Spring Open Studios is a great opportunity to get to know the Spring season’s residents and their artistic processes. There will be a tour of the Open Studios from 16.15 onwards in English. The meeting point for the tour is in Gallery Augusta.
The event is informal, friendly, and open to all. We are looking forward to welcoming you all!
Read more about the event:
https://www.hiap.fi/event/hiap-open-studios-spring-2026/
Midsummer is here — come celebrate it with an evening of art at HIAP Suomenlinna!
On Wednesday 24.6. at 16:00–21:00 HIAP’s Spring season's residents open their studio doors to the public. Get to know our artists in residence, learn about their practices and see the work that's been developing over the past months ✨
📍 HIAP Gallery Augusta + HIAP Studios, Suomenlinna B28 & B44-45, 00190 Helsinki
🗓️ Wednesday 24.6. at 16:00–21:00, programme below
🎟️ Free entry
The participating artists are Assem Attoun, Liisa Helander, Nseabasi Akpan, Paula Zvane, Krišjānis Elviks, Katie Watchorn, Luka Berchtold, Harriet Gillies, Juliana Irene Smith, Anastasia (A) Alevtin, Olha Drozd, Aistė Gaidilionytė and Kamilė Vasiliauskaitė.
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Programme:
(we recommend taking the 15:30 ferry)
16:15–17:15 Tour: Short introductions by the residents | Meeting point: HIAP Gallery Augusta
17:30–17:45 & 20:00–20:15 Reading: Excerpt from Anticipated Collapse, a play-in-progress by Harriet Gillies | HIAP Studios
18:00–18:30 Learning Materials Lab: The table has landed from the sky by Paula Zvane | field outside the HIAP main building | first come, first served, join the table as space becomes available | language: English | the session will be documented on video
The event takes the form of a surreal and slightly unsettling communal meal. Through food, textures, and conversation, participants are invited to consider ideas of disgust, transformation, decomposition, and material intimacy.
The installation includes highly tactile bio-materials, sculptures, food elements, and storytelling. Participation is welcome at your own pace. Observing is as valid as tasting.
Ingredients may contain wheat, soy, beans, tea, sugar, vinegar, seeds, egg, mushrooms, and pickles. Please consider any allergies before participating.
19:00–19:45 Performance reading: 'these tomatoes are so green, i need to write it down in burgundy ink' with Anastasia (A) Alevtin, Yvonne Billimore, Death By Landscape | HIAP Studios
The reading is the first in a series that tests the tunes and characters of a phytocrip radio play, which follows three friends who share a hospital ward and daydream about an allotment to tend to. Crip poetics of movement and fragmentarity, intervals, repetitions, pauses, blue lemon, blackcurrant and green tomatoes beginning to world the play.
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HIAP’s Spring Open Studios is a great opportunity to get to know the Spring season’s residents and their artistic processes. There will be a tour of the Open Studios from 16.15 onwards in English. The meeting point for the tour is in Gallery Augusta.
The event is informal, friendly, and open to all. We are looking forward to welcoming you all!
Read more about the event:
https://www.hiap.fi/event/hiap-open-studios-spring-2026/
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HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP), Suomenlinna B 28, FI-00190 Helsinki, Suomi, Helsinki, Finland
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