We combine art, science and climate work

IHME Helsinki is a contemporary art commissioning agency that unites the worlds of art and science and offers hope amid the environmental crisis.

Screenshot of The Beetle (2018) film by Henrik Håkansson that was the IHME Commission of 2018. Image: Henrik Håkansson.

Image of Zhanna Kadyrova. A dark haired woman wearing black clothes and sitting on a rock by a river.

Zhanna Kadyrova. Photo: Elias Jurvanen.

Image of a hall in an old Steam Power Plant with high windows. Sun shines through the windows. In the middle is an old black steam turbine. Around the turbine is a black table covered with small screens with videos. There are people around the table looking at the videos and reading the texts.

IHME Helsinki Commission 2025, Zhanna Kadyrova: The Forest at the Steam Power Plant of the Power Plant Museum in Helsinki. Photo: Veikko Somerpuro.

Image of hall in Steam power plant. In the middle is an old turbine. Around the turbine goes a black table with small screens. There are people around the table watching the screens. Behind is projection of a video that shows a boat in the middle of a forest, on the level of the trees.

IHME Helsinki Commission 2025, Zhanna Kadyrova: The Forest at the Power Plant Museum in Helsinki from 24 August to 2 October 2025. Photo: Veikko Somerpuro.

Photo of a hall in an old Steam Power Plant. In the middle is an old turbine. Around the turbine is a black table covered with texts and images of maps. Behind the turbine, in the wall is a projection of a video that shows a boat in the middle of a young forest. There are people around the table exploring the materia.

IHME Helsinki Commission 2025, Zhanna Kadyrova: The Forest. Photo: Veikko Somerpuro.

Image of a man with jeans, brown coat and a black cap looking at a material on table that surrounds an old steam power turbine. Behind on the wall is a projection of a video that shows a boat in a middle of a young forest at the level of the trees that are swaying in the wind.

IHME Helsinki Commission 2025, Zhanna Kadyrova: The Forest. Photo: Veikko Somerpuro.

IHME Helsinki Commission 2025

Zhanna Kadyrova: The Forest

IHME Helsinki Commissions are made together with an artist or artist group and Finnish and foreign partners, in public space in Finland and abroad. Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova’s IHME Helsinki Commission 2025 was The Forest exhibition at the Power Plant Museum, in Vanhankaupungikoski, Helsinki, from 24 August to 2 October 2025.

Kadyrova examined the consequences of Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka dam, the past and future of Zaporizhzhia region, and nature’s regenerative ability. Kadyrova is interested in waterways and energy infrastructures, which connects her work with the history, present and future of Vanhankaupunginkoski Rapids.

Image of a beetle about to lift off and fly. The beetle is on a light blue background and it's image is mirrored under itself.

Hylochares Cruentatus. The protagonist of Henrik Håkansson’s IHME project 2018. Film still of THE BEETLE by Henrik Håkansson.

Event

The Night of Science 2026: THE BEETLE – film screening and discussion

Welcome to a film screening and discussion on The Night of Science, 22 January 2026, at Cinema Orion (Eerikinkatu 15, Helsinki) at 17:00 – 19:30.

We will be showing Swedish artist Henrik Håkansson’s IHME Project 2018, THE BEETLE, and discuss it with Professor Jyrki Muona. The main character in THE BEETLE is an endangered species, the only one of its kind in the world – the halavasepikkä beetle (Hylochares cruentatus), which lives in the Mätäoja former riverbed in Vantaa, Finland. The experimental electronic music is a recording of a concert by Mika Vainio in 2015.

News

What’s happening in IHME now

News

IHME Helsinki Commission 2025: The Forest – to Poland and Berlin

15.12.2025

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News

Lilja Oikarinen on working-life orientation at IHME Helsinki

10.11.2025

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News

Introducing Ines Oreschnikoff – a future sustainability expert

05.11.2025

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IHME blogs and podcasts

Insights into the world of art, science and climate work

Curator’s texts Essay

Curator’s Essay: The Forest

22.08.2025

Image of Jorma Saarikko sitting in an exhibition room in front or a video installation. Jorma Saarikko is a middle aged man with short brown hair. He is wearing a black t-shirt and light brown shorts with black sneakers.

Ecoblog

On the sustainability of video art

27.05.2025

Collage of two photos. Photos include the host of Art, Science, Ecology Podcast Paula Toppila and guest Felicity Fenner. In the photo Paula Toppila is leaning into a door frame and smiling straight to the camera. She has a mid-length brown hair, glasses and a black shirt. Felicity Fenner has a light brown mid-length hair. She is smiling and wearing a blue sweater.

Podcasts

Art, Science, Ecology Podcast 2: Sustainable Curatorial Practices

15.04.2025

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Commissioned texts

Stories that Separate, Stories that Bind

05.04.2024

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We produce art sustainably

We produce art that offers opportunities to deal with feelings and information related to the environmental crisis. We implement IHME Helsinki Commissions and events while saving natural resources.