Helsinki Biennial 2025, Vallisaari island, Helsinki
8.06. — 21.09.2025
In Vallisaari, Põld has created large-scale ceramic tree trunks, whose branches shelter mushroom-like forms, which serve as water receptacles for local birds to drink and bathe.
The third Helsinki Biennial, titled “Shelter: Below and Beyond, Becoming and Belonging,” seeks to shake us out of anthropocentrism in order to better understand the delicate and severely imbalanced relationship between humankind and nature. The curatorial concept questions human dominance by foregrounding non-human actors such as plants, animals, fungi, elements, and minerals. Curators Blanca de la Torre and Kati Kivinen believe that this shift in perspective can foster new awareness and compassion for other living beings. By displacing the anthropocentric gaze, the Biennial aims to uncover a plurality of ways to sense and mediate experiences that embrace the ecosystem.
Photos by HAM/Helsinki Biennial/Sonja Hyytiäinen
