Helsinki Biennial 2025
8 June – 21 September 2025
Vallisaari island, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Esplanade Park
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Helsinki Biennial is an international art event that brings outstanding contemporary art to Helsinki’s archipelago nature. The John Nurminen Foundation is a partner of the event and supports the artwork production of LOCUS / Thale Blix Fastvold and Tanja Thorjussen.
In their work, the LOCUS artists envisage a hopeful, speculative, utopian future for common eelgrass, which they imagine as blooming and thriving in the Baltic Sea. Common eelgrass, thriving on sandy bottoms, is a key species in the Baltic Sea. However, the meadows have declined and are in danger of disappearing, mainly due to eutrophication.
The theme of the biennial’s third edition, Shelter, takes inspiration from the habitat of Vallisaari Island, which has been preserved from human habitation for decades.
The work of LOCUS can be experienced at Helsinki Biennial in Vallisaari and HAM Helsinki Art Museum.
LOCUS
LOCUS est. 2006 by artists Thale Blix Fastvold (b.1978) and Tanja Thorjussen (b.1970), based in Oslo, Norway, works from an ecofeminist perspective with performance and public art in long term collaborations with the more-than-human cohabitors of the earth like rivers, trees, eelgrass and pollinators.
