Past events

Our Place
1.-12.11.2023

Our Place is an exhibition surrounding queer, nomadic, and othered experiences in and around different forms of spatiality. I was interested in how queer people occupy and take up space, but also how one's parallel experiences of queerness and moving around in different countries impact how one moves in between and through different spaces, their sense of self, and their relationships. I was thinking about when one starts to feel at home in a place or country, and how to also feel at home with or as a community; do queer nomadic people feel at home here? Do we feel belonging or non-belonging? How can we create a form of space that allows these experiences? For ourselves and for each other. A large part of this I also feel is how we contextualize ourselves, and perhaps a connecting issue would be how we contextualize ourselves in our current culture, and, as an extension, queer history. 

Anna Emilia Järvinen ́s (b. -90 in Oulu) and Eetu Kylmälä ́s in collaboratively created exhibition in Yö Gallery (30.10. - 12.11.2013) ”Salonkikelpoista sekamelskaa (Salon-worthy mess)” with mixed media paintings, drawings and sculptures talk to each other present in this time.
The artists noticed that they shared similar feelings and values when getting to know each other a couple of years ago in the eastern Helsinki, and these experiences are primal, collective and universal.

The core of it all is the message of human dignity that everyone automatically has and sentence ”everyone has the same starting point” -is a lie. Modern man ́s strange idea of separateness in relation to nature also comes to the fore.

This unadorned exhibition is full of life ́s contradictions, fear, the constant presence of death and love.

ALETHEIA
HYPERBOREA: IN THE GARDEN OF APOLLO
Fri 27.10.2023

doors open at 18.30
performance at 19.00
duration of the performance 45 minutes

On Friday, October 27th, at Yö Galleria, we step back in time into the ancient hyperborean temple ritual. Hyperborea was a mysterious land, hidden behind the snowy Rhipai Mountains. The northern wind, Boreas, came from the mountains, but beyond the mountains, peace prevailed.

To 26.10. klo 19:00 alkaen:

The Helsinki Harps Folk Group: Thinning the veil
Maija Saksman ja koollekutsutut: Salaperäinen seurue

handle with care
Yö Galleria Wed 18.10.23 at 16.30-18 (on going)

A long-lasting and partially participatory performance that explores the present and listening encounter through physical and non-physical touch. Can we find ways of caring and caring, gestures of acceptance that create bridges? What kind of culture of touching do we need to cultivate in order to have more empathetic encounters in today's world? Can we trust that we want to face each other with care and gentleness?

Five artists from various art fields come together to present their work and collaborate with each other.
It is an experiment in creating live art forms oscillating between individual and collective actions.

The artists are:

Abdissa Mamba Assefa, percussion
Parsa Kameshkhosh, performance art
Analiá Beltrán, performance art
Anna Wilhelmus, live colours
Oliver Whitehead, poetry and dance

Artists: Serafiina Edelmann, Sunna Kangas, Maire Keinänen, Saara Lakso,  Marja Rosenberg, Satu Metsola,  Marianne Monto, Tanja Nyo, Pola Laamanen, Gabriella Presnal, Roope Laine, Misa Saraste, Pietu Tamminen, Taira Tiger, Tiina Mononen, Sanna Ulvila, Sofia Vuorenmaa 

ESITYSTAIDEILTA VOL. 2.1 
Fri  6.10. at 19 

Performances:

Mai Pesonen: Lepäävä nyyrikki
Ama Zing & Mike Azid: Wake Up and Smell the Magic 
Hanna-Maija Pääkkönen : PULSO – syke

4.-11.10.2023

Jermu Lakka, Krista Blomqvist, Henriikka Pöllänen, Ilari Vanhatalo , Laura Kopio , Kristiina Lähteenmäki-Hein, Iikka Lehtinen , Jukka-Pekka Niemi, Anu Nirkko, Outi Ruottinen , Otto Santala , Veera Vartiainen Blake Weston, Ninni Wager

Yö Kekri Vol.2 is an multi-art festival organized at Yö Galleria, in the center of Helsinki from October 2th to October 29th, 2023. The event brings together different fields of art from visual arts and music to live poetry and from dance to performance art. The theme of Kekri Vol.2 is "Carnival". As a cross-cultural phenomenon carnival is a festival of anarchy, laughter and transgression, a temporary release from social obligations and hierarchies.