Welcome to three weeks of celebrating analogue film, projected light, kinetic sculpture, sound, and performances — a micro festival with a big heart powered by the bold red shout-out name of Alert Live Art!
We kick off with a Helsinki Lux–dedicated exhibition featuring Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki, Marek Pluciennik and Severi Haapala. Their works, Tempus Lux and Draw a/the Line, honour the power of analogue film, the beam of projected light, and light as kinetic art.
During the festival’s final week, the space will transform into live the performances including expanded-cinema, light and sound featuring local and international artists:
Etienne Caire (Riojim, France), Andrea Saggiomo (70FPS, Italy), Luis Macías (Spain), Francesco Carella (Italy), Lasse Vairio (Finland), Paola Guzmán (Colombia/Finland).
Follow the red mark of Alert Live Art to discover the full programme.
TEMPUS LUX, an analogue film and light installation by Natlia Kozieł-Kalliomäki and Marek Pluciennik, pays homage to the two most vital components of cinema: light and film. It explores a simple, profound truth—that without light, film remains a dormant medium. By accentuating the role of light (LUX), the installation illuminates its primary function, inviting us to re-discover the very magic of the moving image.
Draw a/the line -art piece by Severi Haapala explores the notion of transformation over time. The kinetic line drawn by the light is never exactly the same — it is in constant transformation. The line is guided from above by thin threads that reshape its form. History is often depicted as a straight line where events follow one another; however, history is sometimes rewritten or shaped to appear differently, and it also matters whose history is being examined. By changing the article, we can turn the line into a boundary — either a personal one or one that concerns broader communities. Like history, these boundaries are also in constant flux.
Short biography of the artists
Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki is a Polish-original, Finland-based visual artist exploring the core substance of print through analog optical machinery and alchemy of film processes. She aims to uncover how traditional film projecting can be reinvented to tell layered stories within images, where simple illusions become enigmatic and impossible gets present.
Working with 16mm film, light installations and expanded-cinema performances, she examines the sensation of synaesthesia – the neurological crossovers like feeling the color, or seeing the sound.
Marek Pluciennik is a Polish/Canadian filmmaker and cinema artist based in Helsinki. His work focuses on the material and ephemeral nature of the film medium. In his latest works, he interfaces traditional projectors with digital micro-controllers as he explores visual motion perception
in the frame-based medium. The works are a meditative study at the extreme boundaries of apparent movement. Pluciennik refers to it as liminal flicker, where the viewers' motion perception is tested by a "meltdown" of classic motion perception; a similar phenomenon to liminal space, where an empty space can feel unsettling and familiar at the same time.
Severi Haapala, worked as a light, sound and video designer for dance, theatre, events and exhibitions. In addition to traditional performance spaces, he has also become familiar with non-electric drying barns, stone churches and lakes. He has always been fascinated by the relationship of the works to the spaces where they are at any given time. In his artistic designs, he often used elements that transform in real time. ‘
Informator
Exhibition opening reception:
Tuesday 6.1.2026
17-22
Opening hours during Lux Helsinki (6.-11.1.2016)
17-22
Opening hours after Lux Helsinki (12.-18.1.2026)
Monday -closed
Tuesday-Thursday 12-17
Friday-Sunday 15-19
ALERT LIVE ART - Expanded Argentic Live Cinema Performances
Week of live performances (20.-25.1.2026)
Tuesday-Sunday 17-22