14 October 2026 – 21 March 2027

We are excited to announce that the next edition of Southnord Artfest lands in Helsinki in 2026. While the full programme is still under development, plans are already underway for a headline exhibition and a dynamic series of events in collaboration with one of the city’s leading art institutions. More details to follow in the coming months.

5 November 2026

Conviction, resistance, and belonging are not only theorised but felt, carried, and performed in everyday life. We invite you to an evening exploring embodied politics together with Marie-Louise Richards and body_hacker, bringing together two distinct practices in conversation: thought and movement, proposition and gesture.

7-8 November 2026

A weekend celebration of Afrodiasporic voices in literature, bringing together poets, authors and researchers from across the Nordic countries for readings, dialogues and exchanges with the Helsinki public. Over two days, Oodi becomes a gathering place for writers who share an African heritage and a Nordic context, and who use literature to examine what it means to live between cultures, languages and histories.

10 November 2026

Migratory Notes – Helsinki Edition explores migration, memory and belonging through taste. Artist Emeka Ogboh, whose work can be seen in The Other Side of the Mountain, has developed a gin with Nordic Premium Beverages that serves as a kind of sensory map. The gin combines Finnish botanicals with ingredients that have travelled here along migration routes.