Kiasma’s miniramp opened to the public in june as part of URB 08

Kiasma is the sympathetic museum of modern art of Helsinki, built 10 years ago by architect Steven Holl. It has a remarkable position on one of the two main axes of Helsinki, near central station, Stockmann department store and mbar, hang out for skaters, hackers and (non-)hipsters. With 200.000 visitors annually, Kiasma is the most popular museum of Finland. With numerous skaters, goths, young tourists and drunk teenagers crowding the adjacent grass, it is also one of the coolest museums of Europe.

Kiasma celebrates urban culture by hosting the URB festival. Already in its ninth year, national and international makers of urban culture and art are presented in and outside of the museum, as installation, performance, website, workshop etc. This year URB will take place concurrently with Kiasma’s tenth-year anniversary exhibition, The Fluid Street.

One of the installations is the miniramp that opened to the public in June, with activities including skating, competitions, and skate lessons. The closing of the skating season, in turn, will be celebrated in typical Finnish style: sauna, ‘olut’ and skating on September 21st. The ramp has been created in cooperation with the Finnish Skateboarding Federation, and the ramp itself has been designed by Antti Yli-Tepsa. For those who cannot visit Helsinki this summer: the ramp will be back next summer.

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