13.5.–17.6.2026

The seventh edition of PUBLICS COUPLING, featuring Félicia Atkinson and Aino Lintunen, presents an exhibition of drawings by both artists alongside a public event, running May 13–June 17, 2026.

On June 4 PUBLICS commissions a live performance by Félicia Atkinson as part of the Coupling Exhibition.

Coupling exhibition is open at PUBLICS Wednesdays – Friday between 12–16.00pm and by appointment until June 17 2026.

Initiated in 2021, Coupling is an expanding series of curatorial projects, collaborations, or pairings, where two artists/ practitioners are introduced to one another for the first time and show together because of some common concerns within their work.

For Félicia Atkinson, human voices inhabit an ecology alongside and within many other things that don’t speak, in the conventional sense: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas. The French electro-acoustic composer and visual artist makes music that animates these other possible voices in conversation with her own, collaging field recording, midi instrumentation, and snippets of essayistic language in both french and english. Her drawings and installations are at the frontier of abstraction and figuration, thorugh a singular point of view, one, maybe animal or vegetal, or the myopic person she is when she removed her glasses, where objects and creature , as the Middle Age poet Sei Shonagon could put looking appear as ” things that are far yet near”. Her visual works is inspired by the drawings of John Cage as well as the works on paper of an Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell or Milton Avery: a landscape, or perhaps the blurred dream of it.

Atkinson is graduated with a MFA with honours from Les Beaux Arts de Paris. She lives on the wild coast of Normandy and has played music since the early 2000s.She has released many records and a novel on Shelter Press, the label and publisher she co-runs with Bartolomé Sanson. She has collaborated with musicians including Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Chris Watson, Christina Vantzou, and Stephen O’Malley, and with ensembles including Eklekto (Geneva) and Neon (Oslo). She has performed at venues and festivals including INA GRM/Maison de la Radio and the Philharmonie (Paris), Issue Project Room (NYC), the Barbican Center (London), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), Atonal (Berlin), Henie Onstad (Oslo), Unsound (Krakow), and Skanu Mesz (Riga). Her work has been commissioned by filmmakers (Ben Rivers, Chivas de Vinck) and fashion houses (Prada, Burberry).

She has exhibited in museums, galleries, and biennials including RIBOCA Biennale (Riga), Overgaden (Copenhagen), BOZAR (Brussels), Espace Paul Ricard (Paris), and MUCA ROMA (Mexico City).

Aino Lintunen (b.1990) is a visual artist based in Helsinki. She works with painting, text and sound.

Lintunen has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki (MFA), Aalto University, Helsinki (MA) and the Slade School of Fine Arts in London. She is part of the working group of artist-run space SIC, located in Helsinki.