We have received more then 70 applications from all over the Nordic countries for the HYBRID MATTERs production grant. The quality of the applications has been generally high and so it was really difficult for the HYBRID MATTERs team to come to a conclusion. Finally we settled on the exciting proposals TROUBLED ATMOSPHERE by Hanna Husberg and FOLDING by Lawrence Malstaf. We are looking forward to produce these new works in collaboration with them and keep you updated on the develoments.

Hanna Husberg (b.1981, Finland) is a Stockholm based artist. She graduated from ENSB-A, Paris in 2007, and is currently a Phd in Practice candidate at the academy of fine arts Vienna. Through a practice of video and installation projects she investigates how we perceive, and relate to our environment in...

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The first HYBRID MATTERs exhibition will open on the 19th of March at Kunsthall Grenland. The exhibition will presents five artworks that exist in this conceptual landscape of HYBRID MATTERs. It will premiere the HYBRID MATTERs commissions given to Hanna Husberg and Lawrence Malstaff, new works by HYBRID MATTERs partners Laura Beloff and Jonas Jørgensen of IT_University Copenhagen and Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindström from Malmö University. The exhibition will also feature a new work by Hege Tapio.

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The second HYBRID MATTERs exhibition will open on the 19th of May at Nikolaj Kunsthal. The exhibition will presents artworks that exist in the conceptual landscape of HYBRID MATTERs. It will show the HYBRID MATTERs commissions given to Hanna Husberg and Lawrence Malstaff, works by HYBRID MATTERs partners Laura Beloff, Jonas Jørgensen, Christian Brems and Malena Klaus of IT_University Copenhagen and Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindström from Malmö University. The exhibition will also feature a new work by Hege Tapio, Rosemary Lee and Jens Lee Jørgensen and Carl Emil Carlsen.

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Welcome to the opening of IN VITRO AGENCIES, a prototyping exhibition by Guy Ben-Ary and Nathan Thompson on March 22nd, 17-19h at SOLU Space Luotsikatu 13, Helsinki.

Artist talk March 27th 19h - the exhibtion will run until March 31st.

Opening times: Wed 13-17h, Th 13-20h, Fr 13-17h, Sat 11-16h, Sun 12-16h

The exhibition features Bricolage and documentation of cellF.

Bricolage is a research project involving the production of a new work by artists Nathan Thompson and Guy Ben-Ary at SymbioticA. With Bricolage, they attempt to create microscopic, autonomous, biological robots that eventually have the ability to self-assemble in the space during the exhibition duration. These biobots, or living kinetic sculptures, are derived from sources loaded with the engrained cultural associations of...

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