Helsinki Biennial 2025 is a major contemporary art event showcasing 37 artists or collectives from Finland and around the world. Roughly half of the featured works will be site-specific new commissions premiering in Helsinki.

The third edition of Helsinki Biennial envisions art as a source of shelter and compassion, both conceptually and physically. With animals, plants, insects, minerals as their protagonists, the artworks employ various interspecies perspectives in exploring the significance of nonhuman actors to the wellbeing of our shared planet.

Standing over twelve meters tall, Giuseppe Penone’s work in Helsinki Biennial is a sculptural representation of metamorphosis through which the artist reflects on the inseparable connection between humans and nature.