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KUBU summer 2025 program consist of two exhibitions and workshop, event and performance program. This page is your light pocket guide to all relevant information for the program

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THE GARDEN AND THE HEDGE

PIHA, PYHÄ, METSÄ, MAA

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The Garden and The Hedge marks Kulturhus Björkboda (Kubu), inaugural curated programme with an international curator. Spanning 12 weeks, from the opening weekend on Thursday, June 5th, to the closing on August 31st, the programme is led by artist and researcher Teresa Dillon.

Focusing on the garden and the hedge as interfaces and borderlines that shape our understanding of nature and our relationship to it, Kubu’s setting—a former school building nestled in the rural heart of the Kimitoön municipality on an island in the Archipelago Sea, Southwest Finland—provides a unique and rich context for exploring these themes. The Garden and The Hedge is a part of New Rural Schools plan on co-designing Kubu grounds during the coming years. The year 2025 is conceptually encapsulated by the elemental theme of soil followed by water, metal, fire and wind in the following years. The annual theme encompasses the life-long learning curriculum and its topics in the workshop programme.

TERESA DILLON

The Garden And The Hedge

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ANDY BEST & MERJA PUUSTINEN (UK/FI)

Fleurs Du Mal, 2022

Andy Best-Dunkley and Merja Puustinen are an Espoo-based artist duo whose transdisciplinary media practice spans over three decades of collaborative works, ranging from early Internet art, there lead the field in creating 3D online words, and used game and mobile platforms to create works that tackle social and political themes in playful, provocative and physical ways. Combining sculpture, performance and installation, since the mid-2000s they have been creating large-scale interventions that take the form of inflatable sculptures for museums and urban spaces. In 2012, the duo founded Espoo Kunsthalle, an initiative to bring critically engaged art to suburban areas, and are currently running an artistic residency to investigate the environmental challenges facing the Baltic Sea. Best-Dunkley leads on sculpture teaching and development within the Center for General Studies, Aalto ARTS.

Flowers of Evil

What form will plants take if their genetic structure has changed as a result of exposure to soil contamination, radioactive radiation, pollution and human population overload and artificial changes to the natural environment? Clambering and climbing over the roof and sides of the Kubu building, Merja Puustinen & Andy Best’s large inflatable scuplture, draws on poisonous plant formation, arrangement and aesthetics, the French poet Charles Baudelaire’s collection Les fleurs Du Mal (Flowers of Evil, 1857), Freudian dream logic, death visions and streams of consciousness, to create a speculative and potentially prophetic vision of future plant morphology.

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THE GARDEN AND THE HEDGE

PIHA, PYHÄ, METSÄ, MAA

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VISITOR INFO

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AND PROGRAM

TERESA DILLON

The Garden And The Hedge

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ANDY BEST & MERJA PUUSTINEN (UK/FI)

Fleurs Du Mal, 2022

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Piha, Pyhä, Metsä, Maa

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