26.05.2012 – 26.05.2012
A trio consisting of an illustrator, guitarist and accordion player create fascinating new art. The musicians’ improvised jazz sound is complemented by a third, soundless instrument, while the live comic drawing takes its inspiration from the music.
09.05.2012 – 23.05.2012
A group of women moves in the wastelands between the private and the social, the personal and the political, paying particular attention to the soft spots where the boundaries of the self become porous and let things through.
25.04.2012 – 28.04.2012
The title of this year’s international Là-bas biennial of performance art and new media is Concept of Performance.
14.04.2012 – 18.04.2012
On Ice is Maija Hirvanen’s choreographic performance, built around an unhinged female protagonist. On stage, Anna-Maija Terävä is seen negotiating the slippery surfaces of identity wearing a cheerleader’s uniform.
24.03.2012 – 01.04.2012
NAPOLEON PINK HORSE works like a band. A dancer, actor, writer and musician form a quartet, where each artist’s area of expertise is approached as an instrument.
17.03.2012 – 17.03.2012
The Tampere Film Festival International Competition has been running since the festival’s debut in 1970. Now a Kiasma Theatre tradition, the Best of Tampere screening showcases a selection of the best entries from each year.
10.03.2012 – 18.03.2012
Infantile amnesia is a performance about children, parenthood, ephemerality and guilt.
09.03.2012 – 09.09.2012
Young comics artists search for new ways to present comics three-dimensionally. The works in the exhibition are characterised by a tension between everyday reality and a certain surrealism.
17.02.2012 – 20.05.2012
The Murder of Crows by the Canadian artist couple offers pictures for the ears. Installed on the fifth floor in Kiasma, the work is a powerful sound experience produced with the aid of nearly a hundred loudspeakers.
09.02.2012 – 26.02.2012
What is the significance of Chekhov, post-dramatic theatre? What would conceptual Chekhov look like? The Chekhov concept explores the act of performing Chekhov today.
24.01.2012 – 29.01.2012
In January, the 11th DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival will be screening a series of documentary films exploring good and bad design at Kiasma Theatre. The series forms part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programme.
20.01.2012 – 17.06.2012
The artists in the exhibition pay tribute to their teenage idols, parody the megastars of pop music in a spirit of humour, or give visual expression to their personal relationship to music.
27.11.2011 – 18.12.2011
Sanna Kekäläinen´s latest production premieres at Kiasma Theatre. The beast – A Book in an Orange Tent is a work of exaggeration and catastrophe.
16.11.2011 – 16.11.2011
The opening screening of the Lens Politica festival. A festival of political film, media activism and contemporary art.
05.11.2011 – 06.11.2011
Exposition Universelle is an insightful solo piece by Rachid Ouramdane in which he depicts the gap between ideologies and the individual.
01.11.2011 – 02.11.2011
A performance by the multi-talented French dance prodigy Noé Soulier. Noé Soulier composes disparate theoretical argumentations through the use of choreographic, musical or cinematic tools.
30.10.2011 – 30.10.2011
Moving in November presents three short dance films by composer and filmmaker Thierry De Mey.
22.10.2011 – 22.10.2011
The Africa series at Cinema Orion is a tribute to the masters of African film history and to the masterpieces of contemporary African cinema. Family Day on 22 October with ARS and the National Audiovisual Archive.
11.10.2011 – 15.10.2011
Compagnie Philippe Genty´s Voyageurs Immobiles is an enchanting fantasy that combines theatre, dance, circus acts and magic.
10.10.2011 – 16.10.2011
/theatre.now offers a breather for performance artists, inviting them to take a holiday in Kiasma between 10 and 16 October.
06.10.2011 – 09.10.2011
Kiasma Theatre’s /theatre.now Festival presents Brett Bailey’s live exhibition.
23.09.2011 – 23.09.2011
ARS 11 artist Barthélémy Toguo’s short film The Third Hand.
11.09.2011 – 11.09.2011
“Africa through Finnish eyes – who has the right to tell about Africa?” – Seminar and film screening in cooperation with the Finnish Documentary Guild.
09.09.2011 – 09.09.2011
Poverty is valuable – at least a great many people profit by it. A film by Dutch artist Renzo Martens.
26.08.2011 – 26.08.2011
On the Night of the Arts, Kiasma presents two video documentations of performances by the South African artist Steven Cohen. Also interviews and discussions with writers at Café Kiasma.
29.07.2011 – 07.08.2011
With a wide selection of approaches to contemporary urban art, the URB festival returns to Kiasma and to the streets of Helsinki.
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