The ZineKone explores the commercialization of the literary scene by challenging the user to reflect on the value they place on poetry, prose, and other forms of textual art. How much are you willing to pay for a poem? Is the size of a book reflective of its value? We also see a lot of beauty in using an old cigarette vending machine for something essential to life.
CURRENT LOCATION:
Mitä jää / What Remains
We’re Working Here! Zine Library
13.12.2025-8.1.2026
Helsinki Central Library Oodi 2. floor, Kuutio
Free Entrance
Opening event 12.12.2025 17-20
Zine Exchange 12.12.2025 19-20
More information: https://www.helsinki.today/en-FI/page/692e8036fafad1b3a6eddf7f/Art%20exihibition:%20Mit%C3%A4%20j%C3%A4%C3%A4%20~2F%20What%20remains
Each installation’s books are available to download as a pay-what-you-want PDF:
2025 Zines:
- Little Book of Sacred Trees vol. 1 by Reetta Ranta & Riika Haru: https://ko-fi.com/s/13826f97dd
- sanan lasku / word slide by rebeka lukošus & jurjis tatarkins: https://ko-fi.com/s/baad05be28
- a guide / ohje by Petra Vallila: https://ko-fi.com/s/fe9770e979
- Journey / Turas by Maggie Breen: https://ko-fi.com/s/3ede609cda
- [blank perkele notebook]
PREVIOUS LOCATIONS:
Ink & Paper
Fiskars Printmakers Collective Show
September 3–28, 2025
Open Wed–Sun, 11–17
Onoma Cube, Fiskarsintie 360, Fiskars, Finland
Free Entrance
More information: fiskarsprintmakers.com
Welcome to the opening on Saturday, September 6, 2025 from 5 to 7 PM.
UTOPIA
June 15 – August 31, 2025
Open: Mon-Sun 11-18
Kuparipaja exhibition space and its surroundings, Fiskars, Finland
Tickets: 12€ / 8€ / Museum card / Smartum / ePassi
Work group: Anna Ruth, curator / Antti Yli-Tepsa, architect / Lulu Halme, graphic
artist / Matleena Kalajoki, Risto Musta & Kati Sointukangas, production.
More information: https://onoma.fi/en/anna-ruth-to-curate-utopia-summer-exhibition-2025/#more-10144
Call for Submissions – Deadline April 15, 2025
The ZineKone / Zine Machine is a 1930s cigarette vending machine repurposed to dispense zines. It will be installed from June – September 2025 at the Onoma Summer Exhibition in Fiskars, Finland curated by Anna Ruth. We are accepting submissions for inclusion in the machine on the theme of Utopia (read more about the exhibition here). You may submit either a zine/artist book you will make for the machine or writing to be made into a zine for the machine.
For zine / book artists: Each zine / book must fit inside a standard cigarette pack (max: 5.4cm x 8.4cm x 3cm). Books will be placed into a blank cigarette box (provided). The accepted artists will need to create a minimum of 20 copies of the zine and deliver them ready to go. Up to €50 of printing/photocopying costs can be subsidized based on individual arrangements.
For writers: Poets and other writers are also invited to submit content in any language (but must include a translation to English) to be turned into a zine by E. Mena, co-organizer of the Zine Machine. These are very small books so one or two poems is the approximate limit.
Submit by sending an email to: zinekone@proton.me with either a 100-word proposal for a zine or artist book you will make, or your poems, flash essays, or flash fiction attached as PDFs.
Examples of the project may be seen on Instagram at @zinekone
Deadline: April 15, 2025.
E. Rowan Mena 