Soil Dwellers
Exhibition at Villa Elfvik Nature House, Espoo
2. 10. – 26. 11. 2025
What is the invisible life beneath the forest floor? How do we form a connection with what remains unseen? In what ways are soil, forests, and microbes intertwined with the wellbeing of our planet?
Exhibition is looking at these questions together with artists Liina Aalto-Setälä, Alma Heikkilä, Riikka Keränen and Teemu Lehmusruusu – whose artworks and practises are deeply rooted with forest multispecies communities through connective notions, play, research, and storytelling. Here the soil keeps on grounding as a partner in the artist’s process, while its organisms intertwine forming subtle, dreamlike suggestions of life.
The exhibition and public program creates a dialogue with art and science, the artists and the MUUMAA researchers, asking: How do human activities shape the diversity of forest soil microbial communities, and how could we understand the soil differently? The exhibition looks at forest soil ecosystems and its organisms through imagination, speculation and visual narratives, raising curiosity about our coexistence with them.
The public program of the exhibition consists of workshops for schools, guided tours, and Forest soil organisms and biodiversity course day (held in Finnish) for teachers and educators.
Guided tours:
Sun 2.11. (in English) & Sun 23.11. (in Finnish) at 13:00.
Opening hours:
Monday – Friday 9–15
Sunday 10–16 (Saturdays closed)
https://www.evolutioninaction.fi/exhibition.html
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