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Recently added to our library, the Scratching the Surface series explores critical approaches to learning, teaching, and collective knowledge-making. Across these titles, education is approached through feminist thought and experimental pedagogies that contest how knowledge is produced, shared, and institutionalised:

❋ Unlearning with Translation: A Critical and Collective Practice, Virginie Bobin
❋ Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionalization, Anna Colin
❋ Feminism, Pedagogy and the Studio: Reflections Across Four Decades, Griselda Po***ck

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟴 or by appointment. Come by to browse these titles or explore more than 8000+ books across 16 categories our library holds 📚

❋ The series, named after a chapter in Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, Scratching the Surface presents writing from scholars, historians, theorists, and curators concerned with educational strategies following the legacies of feminism, civil rights struggles, and decolonisation. Scratching the Surface is published by with Villa Arson, Nice.

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

Meet 𝗔𝗶𝗻𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗻, one of the artists featured in the seventh edition of 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 exhibition, presenting drawings in dialogue with the work of artist Félicia Atkinson🌟 Join us for the exhibition opening on 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟮 𝟭𝟳:𝟯𝟬-𝟭𝟵:𝟯𝟬 𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗦!

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.

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.

Exhibition opening times:
13 May - 17June , 2026
𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆–𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟲.𝟬𝟬
And by appointment until June 17 2026.
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Photo credit: Aake Kivalo

Read more about the two exhibitions and related events at publics.fi

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

Introducing Félicia Atkinson, one of the artists featured in our upcoming 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 exhibition at 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗦! Join us for the exhibition opening on 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟮 𝟭𝟳.𝟯𝟬-𝟭𝟵.𝟯𝟬 and explore Atkinson’s new series of drawings in dialogue with the work of artist Aino Lintunen. ✨

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

Exhibition opening times:
13 May - 17June , 2026
𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆–𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟲.𝟬𝟬 
And by appointment until June 17 2026.

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Read more about the two exhibitions and related events at publics.fi. 

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028

PUBLICS is looking for an assistant for a fixed term contract. The applicant must be an unemployed job seeker in Finland and have a right to 100% pay subsidy. We kindly ask that applicants contact TE-services to discuss the opportunity for a pay subsidy before applying.

PUBLICS is a curatorial and contemporary art commissioning agency with a dedicated library, exhibition space and event space in Vallila, Helsinki. As an assistant you would:

- Assist in updating online website (SHAPE Art Map, Publics, Positioning)
- Assist in coordination of PUBLICS programme strands
- Assist with the organisation’s administration tasks
- Marketing and communications tasks together with the Coordinator & Programme Manager
- Work with the library
- Make sure public events run smoothly together with the PUBLICS team

Previous experience in similar work and knowledge of contemporary art are strongly favored.

The position is part-time (65%). This is a fixed term contract of 10 months. The working language is English. PUBLICS follows TAKU wage guidelines according to experience and percentage of salary.

START DATE: As soon as possible
TO APPLY: send a short application and CV to [email protected]
DEADLINE: 26.4.2026. Interviews will take place in the first weeks of May.

For further questions please contact:
Amanda Ripatti, Coordinator [email protected]

Learn more about our programme and what we do at PUBLICS at publics.fi

This week’s Library highlights turn to Open Editions, a publisher whose catalogue has been influential in shaping discourse around curating, education, and research. Our library holds almost the full Open Editions catalogue, texts engaquestions around self-organisation, modes of study, distributed knowledge, and the evolving role of curatorial practice as a site of research and pedagogy:

❋ Curious, Paul O’Neill & Gerrie van Noord (Eds.)
❋ Distributed, David Blamey & Brad Haylock (Eds.)
❋ Specialism, David Blamey (Ed.)
❋ Politics of Study, Sidsel Meineche Hansen & Tom Vandeputte (Eds.)
❋ Curating Research, Paul O’Neill & Mick Wilson (Eds.)
❋ Self-Organised, Stine Hebert & Anna Szefer Karlsen (Eds.)
❋ Curating and the Educational Turn, Paul O’Neill & Mick Wilson (Eds.)
❋ Curating Subjects, Paul O’Neill (Ed.)

Founded by David Blamey in 1992, Open Editions .editions operates as an independent publishing platform for creative collaborations between artists, designers, academics, writers, curators and critics. An ethos of experimentation and equality underpins this work: theory and practice are combined and artists and writers exchange ideas on a level playing field.

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟴 or by appointment. Come by to browse these titles or explore more than 8000+ books across 16 categories our library holds 📚

Our collection of books are in English, available to read, to study and to browse on site. For visitors planning to return, we invite you to compile your own collection of books that are reserved until your next visit!

🔍Search books & categories: libib.com/u/publics
🏷️ Our non-profit bookstore is available in connection to our Library opening hours. The bookstore offers various beloved titles from our Library collection, including a bunch of rare finds and books PUBLICS has co-published.

PUBLICS partners with Saastamoinen Foundation 2023-2028