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 an elderly lady with grey hair, pink pullover and black trousers sitting on a wooden bench in the rowing stadium and looking at the sea. In front of her are standing two big loudspeakers.
Norwegian artist Jana Winderen’s IHME Helsinki Commission 2020 Listening Through The Dead Zones at the rowing stadium in Helsinki in August 2021. Photo: Veikko Somerpuro.
A crowd of people in a park filled with autumn leaves on the ground. In the middle are two adults and a child kneeling to smell an incense that the other one of the adults is holding.
Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s IHME Helsinki Commission 2021 To Burn, Forest, Fire incense ceremony at the garden of Observatory on Sept 31, 2021. Kuva/ Photo: Veikko Somerpuro.
Image of Amar Kanwar's IHME Helsinki Commission 2022 screen shot of a log in page, tree in a field
Screenshot of Indian artist Amar Kanwar’s IHME Helsinki 2022 Commission, Learning from Doubt online course’s log in page.
Image of a group of people smiling, laughing and waving hands high together at the final public rehearsal of Chicago Boys - While We Were Singing, They Were Dreaming in the theatre hall of Stoa Cultural Centre. The group is standing and sitting on colorful persian carpets. Behind them is a screened text saying IHME Helsinki Commission 2023 Chicago Boys - While We Were Singing, They Were Dreaming 17.4. - 27.5.2023.
Kurdish artist Hiwa K’s IHME Helsinki Commission 2023 Chicago Boys – While We Were Singing, They Were Dreaming happened in Helsinki during 15 April and 27 May 2023. Photo: Tomi Tähti.
A group photo of fourteen people standing behind yellow stands holding different types of bread.
The finalists of the Maaleipä Challenge – Cooking Section’s IHME Helsinki Commission 2024 – from left to right: Jutta Varis, Anne Kiuru, Anu Horttanainen, Jella Bertell, Aila Kiiskinen, Merja Teräsvuori, Anna Luttinen, Rami Oksanen, Satu Engström. Jani Anders Purhonen, Seppo Lindén, Malin Furu and Suvi Tiihonen. Photo by 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 by Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova: The Forest. Photo: Veikko Somerpuro.

IHME Helsinki Commissions

IHME Helsinki Commissions are made together with an artist or artist group and Finnish and foreign partners, in public space in Finland and abroad. The Commissions are open to everyone, free of charge, and often participatory.

The artists selected to create the works are internationally recognized and award-winning, and they share our ethos of ecological sustainability and the power of art in the sustainability transition. The works demonstrate how art can evoke a wide range of emotions and how art has the power to transform thinking and action.

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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.

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