The exhibition invites you to imagine the future together

How can we imagine the future in a time defined by crises? And what role does artistic research play in this process? These questions are explored in Kuva/Tila’s December exhibition, running from 5 to 21 December 2025. The exhibition is part of Uniarts Helsinki’s Research Pavilion and the Academy of Fine Arts’ Research Days. 

Idiorrhythmic Imaginaries serves as a platform for knowledge in the making. It examines how an exhibition can itself function as a form of research – a space where thinking, making and collective imagination occur side by side. The exhibition experiments with curatorial approaches such as performances, discussions and other forms of gathering that seek connections between individual rhythms (idiorhythms) and collective imaginaries. In this way, the exhibition opens as an experimental space where artistic research and shared reflection meet. 

During the exhibition, visitors will have the opportunity to engage with street art emerging in Kontula, presented by the community art initiative KAS! Kontula Art School. Performances will also take place in the gallery throughout the exhibition. Dancer Elina Valtonen and choreographer Favela Vera Ortiz’s performance Becoming a Forest relates to Kristiina Koskinen’s short film Definition of Forest (2024). Composer Jaime Belmonte and visual artist Paola Fernanda’s collaboration Aquatic Universes with musicians from the Sibelius Academy’s Global Music Department challenges traditional discipline-based approaches to art-making. Noora Karjalainen and Ursa Minor Ensemble’s The Disobedient Rhythm draws on embodied and sensory ways of being in the world developed within Deaf communities. Further details on performances can be found on the website. 

Explore the exhibition and its programme

Working Group 

Concept: Henk Slager (Visiting Professor, Uniarts Helsinki) 

Amanda Beech (Residency keynote speaker) 

Jaime Belmonte & Paola Fernanda (Uniarts Helsinki) 

Sophie Durand (Vilnius Academy of Arts) 

Kerry Guinan (HDK-Valand) 

Heidi Hänninen (Uniarts Helsinki) 

Marleena Huuhka (Tampere University) 

Joanna Kalm (Estonian Academy of Arts) 

Noora Karjalainen (Uniarts Helsinki) 

Kristiina Koskinen (University of Lapland) 

Veli Lehtovaara (Uniarts Helsinki) 

Christian Nyampeta (Residency keynote speaker) 

Dominik Schlienger (Uniarts Helsinki) 

Kerstin Schroedinger & Angela Melitopoulos (Uniarts Helsinki) 

Whyte & Zettergren: Rut Karin Zettergren & Orlando Whyte (Uniarts Helsinki)