Past events

Exhibition opening 16.7. at 6pm

Opening hours

Tue-Fri 14-19

Sat-Sun 12-17

Closed on Mondays

"I was cycling home on a path by lake Saimaa. In the rainy and windy september dusk I saw something wrapped around a tree trunk. Glancing at this object fluttering in the wind I decided to come back later. The following day I returned to find a piece of fabric, some plastic sticks and white rubber band entangled into a bundle. The fabric had collected subtle shades of green and brown from algae and soil by the shore. Upon closer examination, it became clear that I was holding a tent for kids. It had been discarded as useless somewhere around lake Saimaa or flown away with wind. I collected the fabric and took it away with me. At some point, I would know what would become of it.

The exhibition consists of items at different stages of disintegration. I’ve collected them whilst moving from one place to another in nature and rural areas. Some of the materials I will gather up in the vicinity of Yö Galleria and work on in the gallery space during the exhibition. When working with the items I first inspect the surface by looking closely and touching. I add my mark on them by drawing with coal, engraving and sewing.

It is the destiny of all that exists to decompose after a short while of blossoming. Both us and everything we touch. In the midst of life we often want to forget and get rid of degrading structures and replace them with new. When approaching the materials I tried to work with the decaying surface rather than against it. Some of the items have been long and visibly worked on whilst others are left almost untouched. You can trace the marks I made with black and gray shades of coal.

Whilst working I wrote arising thoughts down on paper notes. These notes are shown with the works."

- Noora Ahonen

Exhibition opening on 28.5.2026 at 18:00–21:00

29.5 - 16.6.2026
Yö-Galleria, Lönnrotinkatu 33, Helsinki
Tue - Fri 14-19 Sat - Sun 12-17

Mikro-Kosmos is a part of Kosmos Festival, a gathering of Finlands firends of psychedelic culture, which brings hobbyists of alternative electronic music and art to the northern woods from all across the world.

Yö-Galleria is transformed into an enchanted wood,when the visual artists of Kosmos Festival bring the spirit of the woods to the urban environment of Helsinki. Mikro-Kosmos is a rare opportunity to see the spectrum of visionary and surrealist rave-art gathered in one exhibition.

The exhibition, constructed into an immersive experience of space combines painting, sculpting, ceramics and installations. A shared vision travels through the artworks: The spirit of northern woods as interpreted through the vision of people from cities.

The thirteen creatives behind the exhibiton represent the living visual art field of Finnish alternative culture, where self making, imaginative aesthetics and psychedelic visuals have sound a strong voice of their own. 

Participating artists: Jussi Löf, Suvi Parrilla, Nox Felix, Emmi-Riikka Vartiainen, Ilari Vanhatalo, Mermaid Slaughterhouse, Anni Murtosaari, Mira Niittymäki, Hexagon, Riikka Arte, Sanjai Sammaleinen, Jukka Salovaara, Saga Rantanen and Neo J. Kaski

Curators: Ilari Vanhatalo ja VV-machine (Veera Vartiainen)

Sold-out Kosmos Festival is organized in Närhilä, Ristiina on 9.–12.7.2026. Aside from music, the festival offers visual arts, circus performances as well as workshops and lectures.

Opening: 9.4.2026 klo 18-21

Welcome!

Kalle Ahonen, Andi Balogh, Jenna Broas, Cia Karlsson, Aleksi Marjamaa, Milja Veini, Mirva Niskanen, Nita Virkki, Noora Ylipieti, Aletheia w/ Inari Virmakoski, Lau Rämö, Sasa Saastamoinen, Anja Snellman, Pietu Tamminen, Reetta Willberg, Mermaid Slaughterhouse

Posters artwork: Milja Veini: Helping hand, 2024

The multidisciplinary art festival of the member artists of the Artists' Association Yö ry continues with the exhibition vol. 6.4. 

Yö Fest, a two-month event that enriches and enlivens Helsinki's cultural offering, is being held for the sixth time and is free for everyone.

A wide and high-quality range of contemporary art is on display. The works are curated into four group exhibitions. The colorful festival culminates in an Event Week focusing on the performing arts in April.

The event is supported by the City of Helsinki.

Come, see and experience the Spring of Yö!

Opening night on Mar. 26th, 6-9pm

Harri Ahvenainen ja Ronda Lindberg, Krista Blomqvist, Katri Hämäläinen, Roope Laine, Hanna Lehikoinen, Janne Martola, M-L Muukka, Matilda Palmu, Aino Säävälä, Tanja Vanhala, Maiju Vigren, Lotta Suomi ja Heli Keskikallio, Henriikka Pöllänen, Jussa Pennanen

The multidisciplinary art festival of the member artists of the Artists' Association Yö ry continues with the exhibition vol. 6.3. 

Yö Fest , a two-month event that enriches and enlivens Helsinki's cultural offering, is being held for the sixth time and is free for everyone.

A wide and high-quality range of contemporary art is on display. The works are curated into four group exhibitions. The colorful festival culminates in an Event Week focusing on the performing arts in April.

The event is supported by the City of Helsinki.

Come, see and experience the Spring of the Night!

What would springtime be in Helsinki without Yö Fest?  

Yö Fest vol.6. is a multi-diciplinary art festival, being arranged for a sixth time at Yö Galleria. The two month event invigorating  Helsinki's art scene is accessible and free to attend for all.

Artworks of Artists' Association Yö ry:s members have been curated into four themed group exhibitions. A wide and high-quality art is being put on display. The colorful festival culminates in an Event Week focusing on the performing arts in April.

Yö Fest vol. 6 

 27.2.-26.4.2026 at Yö Galleria, Lönnrotinkatu 33. Helsinki

The world burning in installations, photographs and paintings. 

As the world order is in an in-between state, it projects into art as well. In the midst of change we can allow art to both shake us up and soothe us. An array of stance-taking works as well as art exploring visual states of mind are put on display. Paintings, photographs, installations, textiles and glass art also contain a sense of humor and hope for the future. 

Video art, performances and art music.

The festival offers plenty of audiovisual art as well. During this beginning spring, Yö has the pleasure to host a space for performance art, dance and music. Come and experience new meetings and the new coming of avant garde.  Yö Fest invites you to surrender yourself to its multifaceted art. 

This event is supported by the City of Helsinki.

The up-to-date programme and schedules can be found on this website ( www.yory.fi )

ADDITIONAL INFO and PR-IMAGES

Yö ry's association co-ordinator

producer@yory.fi

YÖ FEST VOL 6.1 | 27.- 8.3.2026

Maailman ympäri päivässä – Voyage

Opening: 26.2.2026 at 6pm - 9pm

Pauliina Aarnio, Heli Halme, Annaleena Huhtaniska, Jaakko Vallivaara, Sara Juvonen, Pauliina Korpi, Anu Nirkko, Kimmo Reinikka, Valo Vairio, Sanna Vakkilainen, VV-Machine, Inari Virmakoski

YÖ FEST VOL 6.2 | 13.-22.3.2026

Unohduksen ilta – Happy Mellow

Opening: 12.3.2026 at 6pm -9pm

Tomi Åberg, Paloma Bautista, Milja Huimala, Soile Kortesalmi, Saara Lakso, Maire Keinänen, Marianne Monto, Jukka-Pekka Niemi, Ulla Prami, Melina-Alexina Rantanen, Sanna Ulvila, Tony Åman

Additional program:  Sat 21.3. at 7pm Katja Luhtala and Missy Cat: Lepäävät Naaraat

YÖ FEST VOL 6.3 | 27.3.-5.4.2026
Aamuöiseen sateeseen – Rain Effect
Opening: 26.3.2026 at 6pm-9pm

Harri Ahvenainen and Ronda Lindberg, Krista Blomqvist, Katri Hämäläinen, Roope Laine, Hanna Lehikoinen, Janne Martola, M-L Muukka, Matilda Palmu, Aino Säävälä, Tanja Vanhala, Maiju Vigrén, Lotta Suomi and Heli Keskikallio, Henriikka Pöllänen, Jussa Pennanen

YÖ FEST VOL 6.4 | 10.-19.4.2026
Kirkas hetki – Crystallize
10.-19.4.2026
Opening: 9.4.2026 at 6pm-9pm

Kalle Ahonen, Anne Balogh, Jenna Broas, Cia Karlsson, Aleksi Marjamaa, Milja Veini, Mirva Niskanen, Nita Virkki, Noora Ylipieti, Aletheia w/ Inari Virmakoski, Lau Rämö, Sasa Saastamoinen, Anja Snellman, Pietu Tamminen, Reetta Willberg, Mermaid Slaughterhouse

YÖ FEST VOL 6.5 | 21.-26.4.2026
Event week
21.-26.4.2026

Program:

21.4. ANTTI TOLVI: concert 

22.4. ELLA TAHKOLAHTI: Wait room 

23.4.SOILE KORTESALMI: I will draw until I

24.4. PIRJO HOUTSONEN, SOILE LAHDENPERÄ and JAANA IRMELI TURUNEN: Improvisation on an unfinished painting 

25.4. RØNTGEN MEETING 

26.4. SAKSMAN & RENVALL: Newborn babies

I AM A WEAVER

Tue-Fri 14–19, Sat-Sun 12–17

Exhibition opening Jan 30th, 6pm-8pm

Aoi Yoshizawa’s exhibition presents a series of loom installations and sculptural works that explore the traditional practice of hand-weaving, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. The exhibition brings together works from her current projects I AM A WEAVER and Weaver’s Landscapes; focusing on the tools, processes, and physical experiences surrounding the act of weaving.

The loom installations incorporate ancient weaving methods transformed into self-designed, handmade tools. These installations balance themselves along the gallery space, holding tension within the warps. The sculptural works, on the other hand, resemble looms but do not function as tools. Instead, they capture shifting sceneries that emerge during the act of making, highlighting moments within the process. 

“When we think about weaving, we usually picture a weaver seated at a loom, feeding the weft into the warp. I would like to present weaving as a far more holistic process with multiple states; guided by specific tools, and distinct physical movements. These are largely unseen, but essential to the practice.” 

The exhibition reveals the hidden and unspoken aspects of the weaving process, highlighting the potential of a slow, repetitive, and time-intensive craft often overshadowed by the finished work. Rather than focusing solely on woven textiles, Yoshizawa emphasises the experiences, atmospheres and sensations that arise throughout her creative process.

Aoi Yoshizawa is a visual artist based in Helsinki, engaging in experimental approaches to traditional craft techniques within the contemporary textile practice. Her artistic work investigates ancient weaving techniques and reimagines tools in order to test the limits of hand-weaving. She is particularly interested in the repetitive actions, mechanisms, and time-intensive processes inherent to weaving. Since 2018, working in her studio at Harakka Island has been central to her artistic practice. Yoshizawa holds an MA from Aalto University (2015,) and a BFA from the Bergen National Academy of Arts (2011). 

Yoshizawa’s artistic work has been supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.

“I would like to deeply thank everyone who helped me to realise this exhibition. Special thanks to Virpi Vesanen-Laukkanen, Walter Götch, Silvia Hentila, Marika Maijala, Anna Broms, Eeva-Liisa Puhakka, Noora Sandgren, Heidi Karanta, Mark & Kira Vicuña and my parents for your kind support and both technical and personal guidance.

I am also grateful to the Finnish Cultural Foundation and Arts Promotion Centre Finland for making my work possible, and to HIAP for providing a residency that allowed me to create some of the works included in this exhibition.”

- Aoi Yoshizawa

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Alert vol.2 

Micro Analogue Fest

January 20-25

Live Argentic Cinema Performance 

Where: Yö gallery 

Time: Every evening starting at 19:00

ALERT vol.2 is a five-day micro-festival dedicated to analogue film, live cinema, and experimental performance. Featuring local and international artists working with argentic processes, expanded cinema, and live improvisation. Formulated in 2023 by Helsinki based analogue media artists Marek Waldemar Pluciennik, the festival now returns for its second edition. Alert vol.2 unfolds as a sequence of surprise evenings where moving image, sound, and gesture meet in real time and share the same space of the gallery Yö.

Program to follow:

Tuesday, January 20

Klo 19:00 

Opening Night of the Festival  / Finnissage of Analogue Film Installations 

We meet in the gallery for the Finnissage of the analogue film installations by Marek Waldemar Pluciennik, Severi Haapala and Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki TEMPUS Lux, Draw a/the line and Light in the machine.

We open the night of the ALERT Fest with the performance art by Tomasz Szrama (PL/FIN), with music, drinks, food, and being together. 

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Wednesday, January 21

Klo 19:00

Riojim  (FR)
Paola Guzman (CO/FIN)

Expanded-cinema performances exploring material of film, rhythm, optical perception and narrative traced across family generations.

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Thursday, January 22

Klo 19:00

Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki (PL/FIN)

Luis Macias (ES)

An evening of experimental analogue cinema that uses the machinery of 16mm film, overhead and slide projectors as optical instruments to presents the works; Warm Data (2024) by Natalia and Inside-Outside-Around (2024) by Luis. 

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Friday, January 23

Klo 19.00

Lasse Vairio (FIN)

Marek Waldemar Pluciennik (PL/CAN/FIN)

Live film performances at the intersection of sound, light and mechanical projection.

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Saturday, January 24

Klo 19:00

Seppo Renvall (FIN)

Marek Waldemar Pluciennik (PL/CAN/FIN)

Francesco Carella (ITA) 

A night of analogue cinema performances, dance, movement and collaborative energies. 

Sunday, January 25

Klo 19:00

70FPS / Andrea Saggiomo (ITA)

Last Cine Impro -by All Artists 

The night ignites with an electrifying performance by 70FPS and unfolds toward a collective film and sound improvisation, where all participating artists of ALERT vol.2 Fest stands together for final live analogue cinema session. 

Welcome to three weeks of celebrating analogue film, projected light, kinetic sculpture, sound, and performances — a micro festival with a big heart powered by the bold red shout-out name of Alert Live Art!

We kick off with a Helsinki Lux–dedicated exhibition featuring Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki, Marek Pluciennik and Severi Haapala. Their works, Tempus Lux and Draw a/the Line, honour the power of analogue film, the beam of projected light, and light as kinetic art.

During the festival’s final week, the space will transform into live the performances including expanded-cinema, light and sound featuring local and international artists:

Etienne Caire (Riojim, France), Andrea Saggiomo (70FPS, Italy), Luis Macías (Spain), Francesco Carella (Italy), Lasse Vairio (Finland),  Paola Guzmán (Colombia/Finland).

Follow the red mark of Alert Live Art to discover the full programme. 

TEMPUS LUX, an analogue film and light installation by Natlia Kozieł-Kalliomäki and Marek Pluciennik, pays homage to the two most vital components of cinema: light and film. It explores a simple, profound truth—that without light, film remains a dormant medium. By accentuating the role of light (LUX), the installation illuminates its primary function, inviting us to re-discover the very magic of the moving image.

Draw a/the line -art piece by Severi Haapala explores the notion of transformation over time. The kinetic line drawn by the light is never exactly the same — it is in constant transformation. The line is guided from above by thin threads that reshape its form. History is often depicted as a straight line where events follow one another; however, history is sometimes rewritten or shaped to appear differently, and it also matters whose history is being examined. By changing the article, we can turn the line into a boundary — either a personal one or one that concerns broader communities. Like history, these boundaries are also in constant flux.

Short biography of the artists

Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki is a Polish-original, Finland-based visual artist exploring the core substance of print through analog optical machinery and alchemy of film processes. She aims to uncover how traditional film projecting can be reinvented to tell layered stories within images, where simple illusions become enigmatic and impossible gets present.

Working with 16mm film, light installations and expanded-cinema performances, she examines the sensation of synaesthesia – the neurological crossovers like feeling the color, or seeing the sound. 

Marek Pluciennik is a Polish/Canadian filmmaker and cinema artist based in Helsinki. His work focuses on the material and ephemeral nature of the film medium. In his latest works, he interfaces traditional projectors with digital micro-controllers as he explores visual motion perception

in the frame-based medium. The works are a meditative study at the extreme boundaries of apparent movement. Pluciennik refers to it as liminal flicker, where the viewers' motion perception is tested by a "meltdown" of classic motion perception; a similar phenomenon to liminal space, where an empty space can feel unsettling and familiar at the same time.

Severi Haapala, worked as a light, sound and video designer for dance, theatre, events and exhibitions. In addition to traditional performance spaces, he has also become familiar with non-electric drying barns, stone churches and lakes. He has always been fascinated by the relationship of the works to the spaces where they are at any given time. In his artistic designs, he often used elements that transform in real time. ‘

Alert vol.2 

Micro Analogue Fest

January 20-25

Live Argentic Cinema Performance 

Where: Yö gallery 

Time: Every evening starting at 19:00

ALERT vol.2 is a five-day micro-festival dedicated to analogue film, live cinema, and experimental performance. Featuring local and international artists working with argentic processes, expanded cinema, and live improvisation. Formulated in 2023 by Helsinki based analogue media artists Marek Waldemar Pluciennik, the festival now returns for its second edition. Alert vol.2 unfolds as a sequence of surprise evenings where moving image, sound, and gesture meet in real time and share the same space of the gallery Yö.

Program to follow:

Tuesday, January 20

Klo 19:00 

Opening Night of the Festival  / Finnissage of Analogue Film Installations 

We meet in the gallery for the Finnissage of the analogue film installations by Marek Waldemar Pluciennik, Severi Haapala and Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki TEMPUS Lux, Draw a/the line and Light in the machine.

We open the night of the ALERT Fest with the performance art by Tomasz Szrama (PL/FIN), with music, drinks, food, and being together. 

Wednesday, January 21

Klo 19:00

Riojim  (FR)
Paola Guzman (CO/FIN)

Expanded-cinema performances exploring material of film, rhythm, optical perception and narrative traced across family generations.

Thursday, January 22

Klo 19:00

Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki (PL/FIN)

Luis Macias (ES)

An evening of experimental analogue cinema that uses the machinery of 16mm film, overhead and slide projectors as optical instruments to presents the works; Warm Data (2024) by Natalia and Inside-Outside-Around (2024) by Luis. 

Friday, January 23

Klo 19.00

Lasse Vairio (FIN)

Marek Waldemar Pluciennik (PL/CAN/FIN)

Live film performances at the intersection of sound, light and mechanical projection.

Saturday, January 24

Klo 19:00

Seppo Renvall (FIN)

Marek Waldemar Pluciennik (PL/CAN/FIN)

Francesco Carella (ITA) 

A night of analogue cinema performances, dance, movement and collaborative energies. 

Sunday, January 25

Klo 19:00

70FPS / Andrea Saggiomo (ITA)

Last Cine Impro -by All Artists 

The night ignites with an electrifying performance by 70FPS and unfolds toward a collective film and sound improvisation, where all participating artists of ALERT vol.2 Fest stands together for final live analogue cinema session. 

Informator

Opening hours 12.-18.1.2026

Monday -closed

Tuesday-Thursday 12-17

Friday-Sunday 15-19

ALERT LIVE ART - Expanded Argentic Live Cinema Performances

Week of live performances  (20.-25.1.2026)

Tuesday-Sunday 17-22

Yö’s Winter Salon VOL.2

The Artists’ Association Yö’s second annual Christmas sales event will be twice as long as before. Yö’s Winter Salon VOL. 2 is, as the name suggests, an art sales exhibition where works are hung salon-style—abundantly and playfully—on the walls. Small-scale paintings, photographic prints, graphic works, and sculptures by our member artists are available for sale at prices friendly to art consumers.

Yö’s Winter Salon offers visitors an engaging installation that serves as a cross-section of current trends in contemporary art. Art collectors will find true discoveries and unique Christmas gift ideas here. Buyers can take the artwork with them from the gallery walls — in a take-away style. During the event, you may also have the chance to witness a delightfully peculiar gift performance. Konst paketering, an interdisciplinary christmas performance, will happen on Saturday 20th at Yö Galleria.

Winter Salon opening party: 4.12.25 at 18:00–20:00

The opening programme includes the Wandering Angel Parade. Bring your own angelness - or someone else's!

Yö’s Winter Salon opening hours: Tue–Fri 14:00–19:00, Sat–Sun 12:00–17:00

Yö Galleria

Lönnrotinkatu 33

00100 Helsinki

Participating Artists:

Abdessamad Hassimi

Aino Säävälä

Aino Salmi

Aleksi Marjamaa

Ame Indigo Kärkkäinen

Andi Balogh

Anja-Maria Snellman

Annaleena Huhtaniska

Anne Kaski-Klove

Anne-Mari Alrsumi

Anttoni Halonen

Anu Nirkko

Arttu Hartikainen

Cia Karlsson

Eetu Kylmälä

Helena r

Heli Halme

Henriiikka Pöllänen

Ida Malmi

Ines Masanti

Isabel Pathirane

Janne Martola

Jenni Hämäläinen

Jermu Lakka

Jone Mutka

Katarina Alho

Katri Hämäläinen

Kimmo Reinikka

Krista Blomqvist

Liina Länsiluoto

Liisa Kuusela

Lotta Esko

Maija Kivi

Maija Lassila

Maija Saksman

Maiju Vigrén

Maire Hellevi Keinänen

Marianne Monto

Marja-Leena Muukka

Matilda Palmu

Melina Rantanen

Milja Huimala

Misa Saraste

Nita Virkki

Noora Ylipieti

Paloma Bautista Sanchez

Pasi Pehkonen

Pauliina Aarnio

Reetta Willberg

Rosamai Kirjokangas

Saara Lakso

Saara Nurmi

Sahar Ajami

Sanna Ulvila

Sekular Tomasz

Seppo Renvall

Sini Hodju

Sofia Vuorenmaa

Soile Mottisenkangas

Soile Voima

Tanja Nyo

Tanja Vanhala

Tero Somes

Tomi Åberg

Valo Vairio

Veera Vartiainen