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Hans Rosenström has been announced to take part in Helsinki Biennial 2025.

The Helsinki Biennial 2025 will be held from 8 June to 21 September 2025 on Vallisaari Island, in Esplanadi Park, and at HAM Helsinki Art Museum. Curated and produced by HAM Helsinki Art Museum, the theme of the 2025 edition of the Helsinki Biennial will be Shelter.

The head curators of the Helsinki Biennial 2025 are Blanca de la Torre and Kati Kivinen. Over 30 artists or artist groups will participate in the Helsinki Biennial 2025. Artists from around the world will be included, with a particular focus on South America and Northern Europe. Among the first artist names confirmed in December 2024 alongside Hans Rosenström are artists Olafur Eliasson (DK/IS), Otobong Nkanga (NG/BE), Ernesto Neto (BR), nabbteeri (FI) and Sara Bjarland (FI/NL), to mention a few.

Hans Rosenströms' practice centers around installations that are carefully produced in relationship to the sites where they are experienced in. Utilising a variety of different mediums; from the ephemeral yet tactile qualities of sound, the intricacies of language, to architectural constructions and light, he aims to build sensitive and nuanced milieus that enable confrontations. By blending the fictive with the real, he wishes to acknowledge that we share our lives with a multitude of other sensuous beings, human and other, therefore he also often invites the viewers to become part of the work, to feel their presence, to pay attention and reflect upon their interconnectedness with the world around them. Hans Rosenström (b. 1978, Lohja, Finland) studied in both the Malmö Art Academy (Sweden) and the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, from where he received his MFA in 2007. Currently he lives and works in Stockholm. 

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Hans Rosenström. Photo: Nordic Embassies / Bernhard Ludewig