SLOW – Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds is a project that explores the relationship between art making, geographies, and social organising.
The Laboratories are launching a series of public studio visits hosted in artists’ workspaces across the region!
During the events, the artists present the behind-the-scenes of their practice in conversation with a researcher, a professional, or a local project that are working on similar topics. Together, we come closer to the processes of artistic work and inhabit them as spaces of learning within and outside the arts. We will gather there where the work happens – in studios, living rooms, shared workshops, local libraries – to explore how making, imagining and learning take place alongside each other.
In collaboration with Catalysti and Globe Art Point, SLOW opens a call for artists living outside Helsinki but within the Uusimaa region.
Would you like to work with a curator and be in conversation with other fields of work and research?
Does your practice explore social questions such as identity and belonging, the politics of urban and suburban spaces, mental health, land use and alternative economies?
Are you interested in reaching out to your locality and sharing work-in-progress with your neighbours?
Apply with your portfolio by 23.8.2026 through this form.
Details:
The artists will be informed of the selection in September.
They will develop the events in collaboration with curator Micol Curatolo from September 2026. The public program will take place in January-May 2027.
Each artist will receive a fee of 350 euro for the collaboration and a budget of 150 euro for the production of the event.
The working language is English. The work in preparation to the event will take place both online and in person.
About:
SLOW – Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds was initiated in 2025 by Micol Curatolo with the collaboration of the Museum of Impossible Forms and the support of Kone Foundation.
In 2026, the program is supported by Suomen Kulttuurirahasto.
Micol Curatolo (she/they) is an art worker, curator and producer based in Finland. Her practice explores the politics of space, labour, and learning, with a focus on feminist and antiracist work.
Micol is the Chair of SKY The Finnish Curators Association and the Vice Chair of Arte ry the artists organisation running Titanik, a contemporary art gallery in Turku, Finland. In 2025, she developed a practice-based research on ‘Border politics in contemporary curatorial practice’ and initiated the project SLOW – Seasonal Laboratories for Other Worlds in collaboration with the Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki. Previously, she worked as the coordinator of the educational program of PUBLICS, Helsinki. www.micolcuratolo.com