Research Pavilion
The sixth Uniarts 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 during the summer and autumn of 2025 that highlight the rich variety of research activities in the field of arts.
Research Pavilion #6: Polymorphic vitality
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.
News about Research Pavilion
Research Pavilion events
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Research Retreat to the Russian Border
In our Research Retreat to the Russian border, we shall study this tensional space as a multi-sensorial and multi-layered phenomenon. By retreating to the frontier, we seek to study the border as a site of encounters between the actual and virtual, discursive and non-human, memories and utopia. The event is part of the sixth Research Pavilion.
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Doctoral Supervisors’ Summer School
The summer school’s focus will be on the doctoral supervision in the arts, specifically on questions of quality. The summer school is part of the sixth Research Pavilion.
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Symposium: a Line Drawn on Water — Adventures & Exchanges at the Art-Academia Interface
This event will bring together researchers and artists working at the art-academia interface to co-explore the prospects and challenges of creative modes of academic research as well as academic modes of artistic creation. The TRACTS symposium is hosted by the sixth Research Pavilion.
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Seminar: Writing as artistic research
The seminar is part of the sixth Research Pavilion. Read more about this seminar in Finnish.
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Publishing Artistic Research: concepts, opportunities and challenges
The event discusses topical problems related to publishing artistic research with local and international experts in the field. “Publishing artistic research” is part of the sixth Research Pavilion.
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Folk music improvisation laboratory
The event is part of the sixth Research Pavilion. Read more about this event in Finnish.
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Aesthetic, Poetic, Performative: Artistic Thinking and Practices of Writing
The aim of this Research Pavilion event is to explore and discuss recent developments in art writing, language-based artistic research, and literary artistic research.
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Idiorrhythmic Imaginaries research exhibition
How can we imagine future in a time that seems determined by various crises? And what will be the role of artistic research in this? The exhibition is part of the sixth Research Pavilion.
Research Pavilion 2023 partners
Research Pavilion 2025 is made possible by our funders Niilo Helanderin Säätiö and TRACTS network.
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Niilo Helanderin Säätiö
Niilo Helander’s foundation is a non-profit grant foundation operating in Helsinki that promotes Finnish science and art as well as industry and trade. Read more about it on the foundation website in Finnish.
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TRACTS network
TRACTS brings together scholars from disciplines of the social sciences and humanities with artists, decolonial activists, memorialization experts and legal professionals to bridge current cultural, political and geographical gaps in research on traces.
Previous Research Pavilions
In 2015, 2017 and 2019, Uniarts Helsinki hosted the Research Pavilion in the context of the Venice Biennale, one of the world’s most prestigious forums for contemporary art. The fourth Research Pavilion was organised in Helsinki in summer 2021 during the first-ever Helsinki Biennial.
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The Research Pavilion project
The Research Pavilion has been organised in Venice in 2015, 2017, and 2019, and in Helsinki in 2021 and 2023.
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Read our article series about artistic research
The series of articles interviewed artist-researchers who participated in the Research Pavilion in Venice in 2019 and in Helsinki in 2021.
Contact us
Send an email to researchpavilion@uniarts.fi.
Working group
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Otso Aavanranta
- Professor, Tutkimusinstituutti, Research Institute
- +358469216117
- otso.aavanranta@uniarts.fi
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Mika Elo
- Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts
- +358503473969
- mika.elo@uniarts.fi
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Leena Rouhiainen
- Head of the Research Institute, University of the Arts Helsinki;
Professor of Artistic Research, Theatre Academy - +358400792093
- leena.rouhiainen@uniarts.fi
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Michaela Bränn
- Specialist, Study services Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts
- +358406313553
- michaela.brann@uniarts.fi
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Heta Muurinen
- Coordinator, Shared communications services, University of the Arts Helsinki
- +358505692904
- heta.muurinen@uniarts.fi