YÖ FEST VOL 6.5 | 21.-26.4.2026
Tapahtumaviikko - Event week
21.-26.4.2026
Antti Tolvi, Ella Tahkolahti, Soile Kortesalmi, Pirjo Houtsonen, Soile Lahdenperä & Jaana Irmeli Turunen, RØntgen Meeting, Maija Saksman & Seppo Renvall, Lepäävät Naaraat(21.3)
Poster artwork: I Will Draw Until
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 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!
Tuesday 21.4.2026 Antti Tolvi
Music, performance and sound art piece
Hey
I am a sound artist, composer, musician ja performance artist
I will present 21th April 2026 6pm-7pm in Yö gallery Helsinki music which I have composed, one performance and one sound art piece
So welcome!
Yours, Antti Tolvi
Wednesday 22.4. at 6pm
Ella Tahkolahti: Waiting Room
Thursday 23.4. at 6pm-9pm (duration of approx. 2 hours)
SOILE KORTESALMI: I Will Draw Until
The artist will be drawing a piece per approx.1-2 h.
Soile Kortesalmi
I will draw until I -drawing performance
I will draw until I is a process-like performance, which explores the layers of time and construction of identity. The performance originates itself in 2025 Sydney, at the BigCI- Artists' residence, and it continues for an undefined amount of time in the countries the artist has lived in.
The starting point of the artwork is old photographs, which the artist has returned to their places of origin and adapted to contemporary landscapes. The places on video – former homes and everyday places with sentimental value in Sydney, Australia – carry personal history within them. The performance id a return to these meaningful, already passed thresholds.
The threshold takes form on a bordering wall, where a projected video, a sheet of paper and the person drawing meet. They share several time dimentions, atmospheres and actions. The artist traces moving image onto paper and draws herself; the repetitive action, drawing and the layering of the videos turn into a ritual, which aims to scan memories colored by nostalgia into true experiences.
Finally, the video will stop and the projectors light turn off. What remains is the drawing born in the momen – physical traces on paper, trying to mark the past. Drawing is an attempt to find a converstaional connection between what is lost and waht is; it is a reach for the past to become reality and integrate to identity here and now.
Friday 24.4. at 6pm
Improvisation for an Unfinished Painting
Performers: PIRJO HOUTSONEN, SOILE LAHDENPERÄ and JAANA IRMELI TURUNEN
Improvisation for an Unfinished Painting is an improvisation-based performance event for three persons and a painting. The process is based on long-term continuity, shared skills, friendship and previous collaborative art projects. The work suggests views and situations that take shape in the unpredictability of a moment.
Pirjo Houtsonen is a visual artist. She works with the techniques and medias of painting, comics, textile materials and dance projects.
Soile Lahdenperä is a dance choreographer and a teacher of the Alexander technique. The centrak focus of her work is the interaction between the impulses of the present moment, reactions and choices.
Jaana Irmeli Turunen is a performer and a choreographer. She investigates the relations of the body: The relation of movement to the self, others and the environment.
Saturday 25.4.2026 at 6:30pm, doors open at 6pm
RØNTGEN MEETING
The unhallowed union of music and performance art - Experience the new
advent of avant-garde at Yö Fest vol. 6:
Røntgen Meeting
The addition of the 'Ø' character pays homage to the Røntgen Meeting
family's Scandinavian heritage and imparts a European flair to the
brand.
For the faint-hearted only!
Sunday 26.4.2026 at 3pm
MAIJA SAKSMAN & SEPPO RENVALL: 1 environmentally political vocal warm-up /2 Songs for the trees, the angels, the flowers and the animals
Welcome to any and all of these events!