Index – February 2025

CALL IT MUSEUM observes a moment where the artistic ecosystem is in a process of redefining its structures, proposing shifts in the idea of what the museum is, as well as its role in society, its language and DNA.

With artworks, interviews and material from: Simon Fujiwara, Rubén Grilo, Flo Kasearu, Clara Amaral, Madeleine Andersson, Apparatus 22, Izabella Borzecka, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Jacob Fabricius, Maria Elena Guerra Aredal, Stefanie Hessler, Julia Morandeira, Paul O’Neill, Julie Robiolle, Manuel Segade, Elena Tzotzi & Carl Lindh, Ar Utke Acs, Kiasma, LOUISIANA, MACBA, Moderna Museet, MoMA, Museo Reina Sofia, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

An extensive program of activities accompanies the exhibition to monitor and present some of the questions behind CALL IT MUSEUM. The full program can be found here

The exhibition remains open until 23 March.

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Bookshop Situation Series: Pontus Pettersson
9 February 2025, 13:00–16:00

Welcome to Index for the release of As If They Had A Spirit – the first comprehensive monograph covering artist Pontus Pettersson. During the release, the book will be activated in different ways, so please join us in reading, drawing and drinking coffee.

Using drawing and narration, the book expands on Pettersson’s sculptural, poetic and choreographic practice through the accounts and fabulations of long term collaborators. As If They Had A Spirit centers the acts of re-membering, re-telling and re-tracing as situated methods for documenting and studying the protracted and evolving nature of process-based artistic practices.

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The Museum of Impossible Forms
20 February 2025, 18:00

Giovanna Esposito Yusiff, artistic director of the Museum of Impossible Forms will enter CALL IT MUSEUM to talk about institutional possibilities beyond traditional forms. Located in East Helsinki, the Museum of Impossible Forms – MIF is a cultural center and the coming together of communities of art and cultural workers working to build anticolonial, anti-patriarchal, and non-fascist commitments and futures.

Giovanna Esposito Yussif is a curator with a background in art history, museology and critical theory, practising since 2003. Giovanna has a long-standing commitment to nondominant praxes, dissentient imaginations, epistemic plurality and epistemologies in resistance.

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Launching the Future Future’s Talkshow: The Battle of the Narrative
22 February 2025, 17:00–21:00

Index Teen Advisory Board (ITAB) welcomes you to the launch of the first chapter of The Future Futures Talk Show!

“Hello and welcome to ITAB’s public premiere of the first chapter of our Future Future’s Talkshow – Through the Lens. We will be offering a light dinner and snacks, where you can mingle, watch behind the scenes, or even confess in our confession booth, reality-show style. After this, we will show our short film and have a live Q&A with participants from ITAB.”

Through the Lens is a talk show about gaze, images and power produced by Index Teen Advisory Board, Praksis Teen Advisory Board and Publics Youth Advisory Board, in the Future Futures network.

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Index seeks a Curator of Learning

Join the Index team!
Index is recruiting a Curator of Learning (vikariat / temporary position).

This is a 50% position, responsible for the overall planning and execution of a well-conceived and articulated learning program, including ongoing monthly meetings with Index Teen Advisory Board. The role also entails coordinating and facilitating learning activities across all of Index’ programming – from public events and workshops to research projects, and collaborations with academic partners among other things.

Applications are due by: Thursday 27 February 2025

More information about the position here:
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LISTEN: Diaries, notes and sketches

Those who missed the 3-part series of talks noting the centennial of Lithuanian poet and filmmaker Jonas Mekas arranged by Index and Ord&Bild, are given a new chance to listen in on the conversations – either on a limited-edition cassette tape or in its entirety online. Using Walden as a point of departure, the series spotlighted Mekas’ important role as enabler, organizer, connector of people, and devout advocate for art.

The podcast, with an introduction to the series by Isabella Tjäder and Jonatan Habib Engqvist, can be found here.

The cassette and accompanying podcast as well as the conversations that took place at Index were made in collaboration with Lithuania’s cultural attaché in Sweden, Finland and Denmark Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson. It is produced in partnership with Lithuanian Culture Institute.

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