Artist Talk with Venla Helenius
Artist Talk with Venla Helenius
Oct
23
Thu
18:00 – 20:00
7–9°C
light intensity drizzle
23.10.2025, 18:00–20:00
Join us to delve into the secrets of DESTINA!
We warmly invite you to a meeting with artist Venla Helenius, which will take place on Thursday, 23 October, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at SIC.
The evening will begin with a screening of DESTINA, followed by a moderated conversation with the artist. At the end, we will open the floor for questions and discussion. During the meeting, we will serve autumn tea and vegan banana bread. The conversation with Venla Helenius will be moderated by curator and art educator Hanna Tokaj.
ABOUT
Venla Helenius’s new video work Destina takes as its starting point the femme-enfant figures painted by surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning in the 1940s and 1950s – figures that once rebelled against their prescribed role in art history, celebrating their unruly potential and creating autonomous surreal realities within domestic-like spaces. Developed through a six-month workshop period with the work’s six young performers, the work has emerged from a process in which the group interpreted the secrets and latent desires of Tanning’s paintings, and constructed scenes through these interpretations.
WORKING GROUP
Concept and Direction: Venla Helenius
Performers: Aniis Hilja Riska, Emily Ida Sonneborn, Ever Harmoni Morshed Solouk, Hannah Everitt, Selya-Melek Özer, Sheila Sadigova
Music, Sound Recording, and Sound Design: Johannes Birlinger
Cinematography: Venla Helenius
Editing: Venla Helenius
Theatre Educator: Minna Partanen
Post-production dramaturg: Martta Jylhä
Production: Venla Helenius in collaboration with Johannes Birlinger and Minna Partanen
Exhibition text: Aleksandra Kiskonen
Thu 23 Oct 2025 18:00 – 20:00
7–9°C
light intensity drizzle
Address:
Malmi Old Station
Vanha asemarakennus
Latokartanontie 1, 00700 Helsinki