4 Jun 2025

Events

HIAP Open Studios 2025

  • Five visitor in resident studio looking at the art of an resident partaking in the open studios.

    HIAP Open Studios Winter 2025 - Panu Räisänen Panu Räisänen at HIAP Open Studios / Winter 2025. Photo by Siavash Minaravesh @siavashgraphy

  • a gallery space with hanging pieces of art that is brown taken during Open Studios / Winter 2025.

    Imane Zoubai at HIAP Open Studios / Winter 2025. Photo by Siavash Minaravesh

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Welcome to the Spring edition of the HIAP Open Studios!

Date: June 28th

Come and meet our current residents, explore works-in-progress, and get a glimpse into the diverse practices developing during the residency period. The event is informal, friendly, and open to all.

 

Programme

SAT 28 JUNE | 15:00–19:00
🌊 We recommend taking the 14:40 ferry 🌊

📌 15:15
Tour: Short introductions by the residents
Meeting point: Gallery Augusta

📌 Live Events

More programme and event information to be added soon. Open Studios offers the opportunity to meet up and engage with resident artists and curators, get to know more about their practice and view the work that they are developing as part of their residency.

Participating HIAP Residents

Anton Karyuk
Dragon’s Teeth — A miniature sculptural installation of 36 triangular granite pyramids, referencing anti-tank obstacles and geopolitical symbolism.
Instagram →

Julian Turner
Plain minimalist sculpture — A humorous sculptural work with no hidden meaning, exploring everyday forms and urban aesthetics.
Website →

Clíodhna Timoney
A display of works-in-progress using imagery and assemblage, staged with overhead projectors as part of an evolving studio practice.
Website →

Maaijke Middelbeek
Homo Photosynthesis — An immersive bioart installation with algae cultures and photosynthetic skins, exploring human-algae symbiosis.
Website → | Instagram →

Iden Sungyoung Kim
A two-channel video and installation engaging with nuclear discourse, historical memory, and political contradiction.
Instagram →

Lara Salous
A video-sound installation featuring stories of weaving and memory from Palestine, interweaving oral history with projection and reconstructed artifacts.
Instagram → | Website →

Madeleine Eve Collie
A series of research fragments — film, fermentation-based installations, and drawings — exploring plants, islands, and correspondence.
Website →

Nataliia Kushnir
If There’s a Place to Return — A 5-minute stop-motion clay animation on themes of home, memory, and nature, followed by a short discussion.
Instagram →

Location
HIAP Suomenlinna Studios
HIAP Gallery Augusta & Project Space

 

Routes to the event locations on Google Maps:
Suomenlinna ferry platform to HIAP Gallery Augusta & Project Space
Suomenlinna ferry platform to HIAP Studios
HIAP Studios to HIAP Gallery Augusta

 

Event locations on the Suomenlinna map
HIAP Gallery Augusta & Project Space: Building nr. 33
HIAP Studios: Building nr. 34

 

ACCESSIBILITY / HIAP Suomenlinna
Accessing part of the HIAP studios, office, Gallery Augusta & Project Space by wheelchair is possible but we recommend to be accompanied by a person assisting because the entrance doors are not step-free. The HIAP toilets are not wheelchair-accessible but you can find accessible toilets on five different locations on the island indicated on this map. The closest one to the HIAP Studios is located in the Summer Theatre (building nr 36 on the Suomenlinna visitors’ map). We are happy to help you plan your visit. Please contact us for additional information!

 

A map indicating more accessible routes on the island can be found here. Please note that no signposts designate the accessible route in the terrain.

 

Find more information about accessibility on Suomenlinna here. If you prefer to follow a more accessible route towards the HIAP studios upon your arrival, please let us know.