Past events

In 2024, ABOAGORA kicked off a new thematic series, The Planets. The first Planet to take the center stage was Mars, the Bringer of War.

In 2019, Aboagora launched a five-year thematic plan under the title "The Five Rings".

ABOAGORA Void was the culmination of the five-year thematic plan “The Five Rings” (2019–2023).

In the fourth symposium of the thematic series The Five Rings, Aboagora approached wind and air both literally and metaphorically.

The Symposium was held on August 18–20 2021 as a hybrid event, taking place both at the Sibelius Museum in Turku and online.

In 2020, because of COVID-19, the tenth ABOAGORA Symposium held 19–21 August adopted a new, hybrid form: parts of the programme at the museum were conducted remotely.

ABOAGORA 2019 was held on August 21–23 at the Sibelius Museum in Turku. Via art and various academic disciplines, the Symposium investigated the element of “Earth” – a fundamental aspect of human life, spanning the past as well as our present situation, and our hopes for the future.

ABOAGORA 2018 was held at the Sibelius Museum in Turku on August 22–24. The Symposium analysed different perspectives, utopian as well as dystopian, on the future and how the legacies of past generations lay claims on and model the possibilities of coming generations.

ABOAGORA 2017 was held on August 23-25 at the Sibelius Museum in Turku. Via art and various academic disciplines, the Symposium discussed the significance of “becoming,” the idea of incompleteness and being in the making with reference to humanist, scientific, economic, and social aspects.

ABOAGORA 2016 was held on June 15-17 at the Sibelius Museum in Turku. The symposium explored the ways in which agency is understood in relation to the past. What possibilities do we have in our lives and how are we bound by the past?

The theme for ABOAGORA 2015, held on August 11-13 at the Sibelius Museum, was “Precious Moments, Extreme Events.” Under this theme, the Symposium addressed questions of time, changes in society, and significant and extreme events in the course of individuals’ lives and the history of humanity.