The sixth Research Pavilion celebrates the current multiple, polyphonic, contradictory and lively state of artistic research

The current condition of artistic research calls for a pluriformity of approaches and manifestations, while eluding attempts towards a uniform definition. RP#6 aims at intensifying the fruitful moments of insight that artistic research can offer, especially the possibility of producing other imaginaries and alternative futures.

The sixth Uniarts Helsinki Research Pavilion in Helsinki marks the 10th anniversary of the Research Pavilion project, an international and cross-institutional platform for artistic research. RP#6 presents a string of events that highlight the rich variety of research activities in the field of arts during the summer and autumn of 2025. 

The RP#6 programme will expose art-as-research via research exhibitions and performative presentations. Discursive and conceptual dimensions are fostered within symposia, workshops, publications and discussion events. A year-long artistic research seminar nurtures the pedagogical rooting of artistic research, while a field trip and outdoor events are organised to delve into its material entanglements, and language-based approaches explore its textual opportunities. This string of 11 events engages with the intrinsic polymorphic vitality of artistic research. 

The sixth Uniarts Helsinki Research Pavilion invites everyone to celebrate the current polyphonic, contradictory and lively state of artistic research!

Events and timeline

Entire academic year 2024-2025 – Idiorrhythmic Imaginaries Doctoral Seminar

2-3 June 2025: Research retreat to the Finno-Russia frontier

20-23 August 2025: Artistic research supervisor summer school

11-12 September 2025: A line drawn on water – adventures and exchanges at the art-academia interface. Symposium in collaboration with the Trace as a research agenda for climate change, technology studies, and social justice (TRACTS) COST Network

9-10 October 2025: Kirjoittaminen taiteellisena tutkimuksena / Writing as artistic research, seminar

November 2025: Syn­zoo­chory, itinerant exhibition and seminar

November 2025: Publishing Artistic Research: concepts, opportunities and challenges

November 2025: Syvälle, folk music improvisation laboratory

4-5 December 2025: Aesthetic, Poetic, Performative: Artistic Thinking and Practices of Writing

December 2025: Idiorrhythmic Imaginaries, research exhibition

December 2025: Discursive programme within the Idiorrhythmic Imaginaries research exhibition, in cooperation with Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts Research Days on 9-12 December

All Research Pavilion events are free of charge. Each RP#6 event has its own modalities of participation. While exhibitions and performances are open to the public, workshops and participative settings may require prior registration or application. RP#6 takes place within and around Uniarts Helsinki premises and the larger Helsinki urban area, and it also involves a trip to Parikkala at the eastern frontier of Finland.

Background of the Uniarts Helsinki Research Pavilion 

The Research Pavilion is an ongoing biennial project coordinated by Uniarts Helsinki, which aims to connect the field of artistic research with major events of contemporary art. The Research Pavilion has been organised in conjunction with the Venice Biennale in 2015, 2017, and 2019. From the summer 2021 onwards, the Research Pavilion has been organised in Helsinki.   

Find all information on the Research Pavilion website: https://www.uniarts.fi/en/research-pavilion/