fRinge in 2025

Müge Yıldız — i was a ghost myself

12 April-18 May 2025

I Was a Ghost Myself presents a layered exploration of spectrality, materiality, and psychogeographic narratives through three interconnected forms: the moving image, the materiality of film, and the film as a book. Together, these elements create a poetic and tactile dialogue that transcends the boundaries of presence and absence, human and nonhuman, material and immaterial.

Ela Kazdal — cameRa shy

24 May-22 June 2025

Fringe Gallery presents Ela Kazdal's first solo exhibition camera shy from 24 May-22 June. Working without a camera, Kazdal unsettles the frame and rejects its function as a boundary between inner and outer spaces. Across the works on display, film asserts its tactile, three-dimensional presence—fractured traces of the visual emerge as the filmstrip and other objects undergo reworking, obscuring, and decay.

LoRena ARticaRdi — DiscouRse at 16 fps

2 -31 August 2025

In Discourse at 16 fps, Lorena Articardi examines the interplay of error, material agency and the constructed-ness of discourse. In an expanded approach to photography and film through photochemical processing and material experimentation, her practice positions light as both subject and medium –content and form.

we aRe an ARtist-Run galleRy space based in vaasa, finland

Fringe is a contemporary artist-run gallery specialising in bold uncompromising innovative experimental expanded moving image, alternative photography and everything that can exist on its fringes.

Alongside the exhibitions, Fringe presents a monthly series of events complementing and expanding the programming through film screenings, sound, live cinema performances, artist talks and lectures.

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UPCOMiNg events

Müge Yıldız. i was a ghost Myself

Opening of the exhibition 12 April at 18:00

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Expanded Cinema with gReg Pope, Oona Libens, Heli HaRtiKainen & Heidi PiiRoinen

Greg Pope (NO/UK) is an artist and filmmaker based in Oslo, Norway. After dabbling in punk rock bands and absurdist performance, he founded film collective ‘Situation Cinema’ (Brighton 1986) and ‘Loophole Cinema’ (London, 1989). Working collaboratively and individually, Pope has made video installations, live art and single-screen film works since 1996.

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Ela Kazdal. cameRa shy

24 May at 18:00
Ela Kazdal (b. Istanbul, Turkey) is a London-based artist working across moving image, sculpture, installation, and print. She engages with film as both material and experience, deconstructing its forms to explore how images exist beyond the screen.

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The Finnish DaRKRoom Association

June 28 - July 27. 2025

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ExhiBiT wiTH US

Fringe accepts exhibition proposals once a year after an open call. Next open call in May 2025 for exhibitions in 2026.

Curator for the exhibitions in 2025 is Julian Ross, curator, researcher, writer and currently Head of Film Programming & Distribution at Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam.