• Thursday January 5th 2023

    Cyberspeed: / Katvyl / & Cake & / Lempi

    Free before 23 / 10€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Friday January 13th 2023

    Emma DJ / All Night / Long

    Emma DJ https://soundcloud.com/emmadeejayy

    Emma DJ is an interesting one. On one hand his critically acclaimed "club" rap album ‘Godrime’ got him performing live at art museums in Paris. On the other hand he used to throw the sickest raves on the outskirts of the very same city, in addition to releasing some beautifully out-there music on L.I.E.S. But the guy's originally from Finlandia. So what the heck?

    It's sometimes hard to tell what's going on. But it's easy to tell that what's going on is good. Enter the mind of Emma DJ.
    Free before 23 / 12€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Saturday January 14th 2023

    Uha / & Snamu & / Jimi

    Uha https://soundcloud.com/uhaahu

    Snamu https://soundcloud.com/snamu

    Are you ready for some of the best god damn house music the city has to offer? Have you been waiting to get your groove on? Well, the wait is over.

    Uha, Snamu and Jimi: three conoisseurs of ultra groovey, extra moody, and oh sooooo goody house music. The untz has spoken.

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 12€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Friday January 20th 2023

    Dekmantel Club Tour: / Interstellar Funk (NL) / & Casper Tielrooij (NL) & / Kristiina Männikkö

    Interstellar Funk https://soundcloud.com/interstellarfunk

    Kristiina Männikkö https://soundcloud.com/kristiinamannikko

    One of the most widely known electronic music multi-outlets today, Dekmantel, is hitting the road in 2023. The Dekmantel Club Tour sees a rotating list of artists affiliated with the dutch entity play all around Europe, kicking things off in Helsinki at Post Bar with Artificial Dance label head and space explorer Interstellar Funk, Dekmantel co-founder Casper Tielrooij and our local champ Kristiina Männikkö.

    This one should be mooi lekker.
    Free before 23 / 12€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Friday January 27th 2023

    DJ Smokey / & Ima Iduozee

    This Friday we're going on a bouncy trrrip through amapiano, afrotech, afrohouse and kwaitooo with Ima Iduozee and DJ Smokey. Start doing your exercises cause this is gonna be a major rump jump of an event.

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 10€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Saturday January 28th 2023

    Suski / & Juhani Oivo & / Emma Valtonen

    Saturday we're graced by the presence of a key player in northern Finland's capital city Oulu. Juhani Oivo has been pushing this dance music thing for longer (20+ years) and deeper than most, in an environment that's not the easiest. Most recently he's been behind the Elektroni night's, which have been running for 12 years now. Expect expertise.

    Kicking things off for the night is local techno thunder Emma Valtonen. Juhani Oivo sticks the middle landing and Suski is on closing duties.

    Big techno, big house.

    Suski https://soundcloud.com/suskidj

    Juhani Oivo https://soundcloud.com/jaydayalldayeveryday

    Emma Valtonen https://soundcloud.com/emmavaltonen

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 12€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Friday February 3rd 2023

    Tama Sumo (DE) / & Katerina

    What can we say here? Berlin dance music royalty. OG Panorama Bar rez, long time Tresor rez.

    Tama Sumo started out in a bar called Drama in Berlin’s Kreuzberg, and soon she started doing the gay Saturdays at Café Moskau, eventually ending up a resident at Globus/Tresor in 1994. When Panorama Bar opened ten years later, she was one of the first residents on the PBar side. Alumni stuff over here.



    Tama Sumo https://soundcloud.com/tama-sumo

    Katerina https://soundcloud.com/katerina

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 12€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Friday February 17th 2023

    Planet Euphorique: / D. Tiffany (CA) / & emkay & / Denzel

    One of our very first international guests ever (oh summer of '18), D. Tiffany finally makes a come back on Friday. This time in Planet Euphorique label showcase style.

    Founded around 2018 in Vancouver by D. Tiffany, Planet Euphorique has since gone on to release 20 records, establishing a dedicated following of dance music aficionados and party people alike. The latest release, a compilation called Tiny Planet Vol. 4 features a collaborative track by emkay and Denzel, hence they're along for the ride with D. Tiff this Friday.

    But we can't spell fun without U. So you should also hop on the ride with us and make the planet dance. Whaddaya say there old pal, should we?

    Planet Euphorique https://soundcloud.com/planeteuphorique

    D. Tiffany  https://soundcloud.com/d-tiffany

    emkay https://soundcloud.com/emkaybymk

    Denzel https://soundcloud.com/denzelmyman

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 12€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Saturday February 18th 2023

    VC-118A (NL) (LIVE) / & Kaspiann & / Steve Duncan

    Machine funk on a dubby, atmospheric and driven tip. VC-118A has been on the background of the forefront (if that makes sense) of intricately woven dance music for the past ten years, with releases on Delsin, Frustrated Funk, Tabernacle and Radio Matrix to name a few. The Dutchman carves out sonic pockets that are difficult to mimic, taking you in and squeezing you softly. Sonic pleasure bumps. Don’t take it lightly when we say that his live performance is something you don’t want to miss out on.

    Local lords Kaspiann and Steve Duncan take good care of the deejaying aspects of the night, Kaspiann warming up for the live set, Duncan seeing the night off into bliss.
    VC-118A https://soundcloud.com/mohlao

    Kaspiann https://soundcloud.com/soundsofkaspiann

    Steve Duncan https://soundcloud.com/steve-duncan

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 14€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Friday March 24th 2023

    Daniel / Kayrouz / & Justus / Valtanen

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 12€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Sunday April 9th 2023

    Ima Iduozee / & DJ Smokey

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 12€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Sunday April 30th 2023

    Vappu: / Jacob & Julius / All Night Long

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 14€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Friday June 2nd 2023

    Niffi D & / Newhouse / & Cimac Sound & / Alessia Lee

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 12€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Friday June 9th 2023

    Post Bar / 5 Years: / Into The / Weekender

    Friday 9th June 20:00 - Sunday 11th June 08:00

    Ben UFO
    Binh
    Vlada
    LNS
    Cool DJ Pinball
    Daniel Kayrouz & Justus Valtanen
    Denzel & Joni DJ
    DJ JVS & DJ GL4
    emkay
    Hanna Ojanen
    Irma
    Jacob & Julius
    Jeku LIVE
    Katerina
    Suski

    Single entry 15€
    Weekend entry 25€
    3,5€ sec fee.

  • Saturday June 10th 2023

    Post Bar / 5 Years: / Into The / Weekender

    Friday 9th June 20:00 - Sunday 11th June 08:00

    Ben UFO
    Binh
    Vlada
    LNS
    Cool DJ Pinball
    Daniel Kayrouz & Justus Valtanen
    Denzel & Joni DJ
    DJ JVS & DJ GL4
    emkay
    Hanna Ojanen
    Irma
    Jacob & Julius
    Jeku LIVE
    Katerina
    Suski

    Single entry 15€
    Weekend entry 25€
    3,5€ sec fee.

  • Saturday June 17th 2023

    ddwy (UK) / & Denzel & / Joni DJ

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 12€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Saturday July 15th 2023

    r.nikolajev (EE) / All Night / Long

    https://soundcloud.com/nkljv

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 13€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Saturday July 22nd 2023

    elllliot (FR) / & Daniel / Kayrouz / & Justus / Valtanen

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 13€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Thursday July 27th 2023

    OK SOUND

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 5€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Saturday July 29th 2023

    Ima Iduozee / & DJ Smokey

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 13€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Saturday August 5th 2023

    Joni DJ / & Hanna / Ojanen & / Irma

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 13€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Sunday August 13th 2023

    Post Bar Posse

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 15€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Friday August 25th 2023

    DJ Plead (AU) / & Mary Young & / Essi Eirene

    DJ Plead https://soundcloud.com/1djplead

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 15€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Saturday September 2nd 2023

    Suski / & DJ ALEKSI & / Justus Arvelin

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 12€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Friday October 27th 2023

    Ima Iduozee / & DJ Smokey & / Joseysradios

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 13€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Thursday November 9th 2023

    New Event

  • Saturday November 25th 2023

    Jacob & / Julius / & Irma / & Helmz

    Irma & Helmz https://soundcloud.com/heatstation

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 13€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Saturday December 2nd 2023

    Daniel Kayrouz / & Justus Valtanen & / djrubio

  • Tuesday December 26th 2023

    Tapanin / Dance

    Post Bar Posse

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 10€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

  • Friday December 29th 2023

    post êxistance: / Anaco (FR) / & SUE818 & / MORA & DJ Alvie

    Anaco https://soundcloud.com/anacoooo

    sue818 https://soundcloud.com/sue818

    MORA https://soundcloud.com/mora_exe

    Doors: 22-05
    Free before 23 / 15€ after. 3,5€ sec fee.

    Keeping in mind the surrounding sorrows, a portion of the ticket income of this event will be donated to humanitarian aid and relief for Palestinians, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

  • Saturday December 30th 2023

    Into The / 2024—I

    If the previous years weren’t tumultuous enough, 2023 sure levelled it up a few pegs. So if there’s one way to bring this year to a gracious end, it’s with a 36-hour party. Immerse yourself in a continuous celebration that transcends time and dissolves those demons (if only just a little bit).

    Let go, turn up, and take this ship into the year 2024.

    Starting off at 20:00 on Saturday evening the 30th and going full circle into Monday 08:00. Jump in at the beginning, in the middle, at the end. You can choose your own adventure and we’ll do our best to facilitate you with a selection of dandy locals, international acts, and a technically enhanced Post Bar environment.

    CEB
    DENZEL
    DJ JVS
    EMKAY B2B JEKU
    EMMA VALTONEN
    KATERINA
    MAD MIRAN
    MAMA SNAKE
    PAULA KOSKI
    POST BAR POSSE
    XAMPLE (LIVE)
    ROI PEREZ
    SAMULI KEMPPI
    SEBASTIAN HOLM
    SOONJA B2B TUOMAS RF
    WOODY92

    Tickets:

    Pre-sale weekend entry tickets: https://ra.co/events/1824702

    Weekend Entry: Saturday to Monday - €20 (weekend bracelet, come and go as you please)

    Saturday Entry: Saturday 20:00 to Sunday 08:00 - €12 (stamp provided for re-entry during these hours)

    Daytime Entry: Sunday 08:00 to 20:00 - Free entry (no stamp provided)

    Sunday Entry: Sunday 20:00 to Monday 08:00 - €15 (stamp provided for re-entry during these hours)

  • Sunday December 31st 2023

    Into The / 2024—II

    If the previous years weren’t tumultuous enough, 2023 sure levelled it up a few pegs. So if there’s one way to bring this year to a gracious end, it’s with a 36-hour party. Immerse yourself in a continuous celebration that transcends time and dissolves those demons (if only just a little bit).

    Let go, turn up, and take this ship into the year 2024.

    Starting off at 20:00 on Saturday evening the 30th and going full circle into Monday 08:00. Jump in at the beginning, in the middle, at the end. You can choose your own adventure and we’ll do our best to facilitate you with a selection of dandy locals, international acts, and a technically enhanced Post Bar environment.

    CEB
    DENZEL
    DJ JVS
    EMKAY B2B JEKU
    EMMA VALTONEN
    KATERINA
    MAD MIRAN
    MAMA SNAKE
    PAULA KOSKI
    POST BAR POSSE
    XAMPLE (LIVE)
    ROI PEREZ
    SAMULI KEMPPI
    SEBASTIAN HOLM
    SOONJA B2B TUOMAS RF
    WOODY92

    Tickets:

    Pre-sale weekend entry tickets: https://ra.co/events/1824702

    Weekend Entry: Saturday to Monday - €20 (weekend bracelet, come and go as you please)

    Saturday Entry: Saturday 20:00 to Sunday 08:00 - €12 (stamp provided for re-entry during these hours)

    Daytime Entry: Sunday 08:00 to 20:00 - Free entry (no stamp provided)

    Sunday Entry: Sunday 20:00 to Monday 08:00 - €15 (stamp provided for re-entry during these hours)

Artist of the month

Laura Karolina

Laura Karolina (b 1987) is a self taught visual artist living and working in East Helsinki. She earned her Master’s degree in the University of Helsinki majoring in Art research and Aesthetics. As a way of procrastinating graduating, she rediscovered her love for drawing and painting.

Currently she is heavily inspired by a Japanese 1970s underground movement named  “Heta-Uma”, which could be translated as “bad-but-good”. Furthermore she enjoys everything weird, absurd and surreal + she also likes yoghurt. She feels that the most underrated way to make actual change is happening on many subtle levels within the flow of everyday life.

“For me art isn’t all that serious, but rather a way to retreat from everyday demands.. I believe in kindness and maybe my intention is to further contribute to a friendlier and sillier atmosphere through bright colors, simple shapes and a humanistic vibe.” :o)

Laura Karolina describes her work done for Post Bar:

2022 was quite a rough one, and thus I wanted to create something representing some shy optimism for the upcoming year: A friendly genie in the bottle granting the viewer three wishes.

Maybe today it’s some coffee and cake.

Artist of the month

Marina Veziko

Marina Veziko (b. 1988, Kyiv) is a Helsinki-based graphic designer specializing in branding and art direction. Veziko’s practice moves between cultural and commercial fields, ranging from visual identities, images and packaging to publications and digital applications. Her work leans on nuanced typography and arresting imagery, and fluidly alternates between sleek minimalism and radiant maximalism.

Marina Veziko describes her work done for Post Bar:

“Branding projects typically stretch over months, sometimes years, and tend have quite a lot of preconditions. So working on this poster commission felt like a breath of fresh air! Quick, instinctive, spontaneous – no overthinking or endless iteration rounds. Just stream of thought – February, end of winter, beginning of spring, melting ice, grass peeping underneath, joyful anticipation of springtime. ✿”

Kristoffer Ala-Ketola

Kristoffer Ala-Ketola anchors his art practice in the dark milieu of uncertain forms of existence. His interest in the formation of identity merges with the genre of portraiture and gives way to a slew of new and unknown characters. Ala-Ketola marks these personas with camp, queerness, and absurdist humor, and the grotesque, fixating on the boundary between the fantastical and human. Kristoffer Ala-Ketola is a multidisciplinary artist from Oulu, Finland who graduated from Yale School of Art with a Master of Fine Arts in 2019. His works have been exhibited in 4th Ward Project Space in Chicago, Shin Gallery in New York, and Kunsthalle Helsinki, and he has also participated in video screenings at the Helsinki International Film Festival and Video Art Festival Turku. Ala-Ketola’s work engages in various psychological phenomena, structures of identity, and queer theory with recurring themes of longing, coping, and dreaming.

Ala-Ketola describes the work done for Post Bar:

“I chose the image from my personal archive and re-edited it to suit the new context. The photo was originally part of my installation TBH, which I think captures something special at the core of my practice. I often use my own archival material when producing new work, and I love to switch the context of an image in order to play with the emotional and affective values it has, or potentially will have.

The image is a self-portrait dealing with bodily exhaustion in reference to the hormonal changes the body endures during heartbreak. When I got this commission I was looking at hundreds of images and felt like this could be the one that changes the most when taken out from its original context and transformed into a club poster. The heartbreak suddenly gives way to a different kind of bodily exhaustion–the aftermath of dancing really hard. Metaphorically speaking, I feel like I remixed the image from a melancholic beat into a joyous one.”

Artist of the month

Shanti Celeste

Shanti Celeste is a Chilean-born, London-based DJ and producer who is making waves in the electronic music scene. Shanti has made her mark in various creative fields which is reflected on the platforms she shares her craft through. From her regular NTS radio shows to promoting her own vibrant club shows Peach Party inviting her friends to join her on the decks such as Moxie, Call Super, and Amaliah. Of late, her lockdown born illustration project Queen Tangerine has seen Shanti’s artworks brought to life with the exclusive Queen Tangerine x Magic Castles capsule clothing collection. Through her various creative endeavors, Shanti Celeste has proven to be a multitalented artist with a boundless passion for creativity and self-expression.

Shanti explains the work done for Post Bar: “I decided to create this piece as recently I’ve been enjoying playing around with different ways in creating sunset illustrations and incorporating these tones and colours. These hues bring me back to summer evenings and brighter days and so I wanted to reflect that in this drawing as we are entering Spring.

I usually draw using RBK colour ways but enjoyed changing it up and using the tones and colour ways of CMYK to create the sunset piece.”

Artist of the month

Iisa Pappi

Iisa Pappi is a Helsinki-based designer whose work shifts between illustration, graphic design and visual art. Her work is a constant dialogue between analogue and digital techniques, always looking for the sweet spot between harmony and imperfections. Pappi’s trademarks are vibrant colourways, organic shapes and balancing between the abstract and representational. Pappi mainly works as a designer and art director in the cultural field.

Pappi describes the work done for Post Bar: ”My initial inspiration came from vintage concert flyers. I wanted to do something fun and instantly recognizable with a good rhythm to it. In my books this work is rather minimalistic which I quite enjoyed. I love the Post Bar poster design in itself so I wanted to work with it, not against it. This illustration is simply celebrating a carefree time getting sweaty and silly on the dancefloor.”

Artist of the month

Viivi Prokofjev

Viivi Prokofjev is a graphic designer, art director and illustrator based in Helsinki & Hanko. While working – if card board has run out and the glue is missing – she creates subtle digital movements. She messes things up.

Viivi describes the work done for Post Bar:  “The Post Bar birthday poster gives everybody a five leaf clover of eternal happiness. And some rhubarb.”

Artist of the month

Otso Reitala

Otso Reitala is a Helsinki-based multimedia artist, and a designer, whose work delves deep into the realms of digitality, exploring the intersections between digital worlds and our tangible reality.
Common themes for his works are immersion and interaction, as well as exploring the gap between the computer generated imagery and something we might perceive as organic.

Alongside installations and video art, he works a lot with electronic music in Helsinki, and internationally. He brings his artistic vision to life through album art, branding, and live visuals or sound design.

Reitala describes the work done for Post Bar: “The concept of the poster was to imagine something completely different from electronic music and clubs in general. So I illustrated a mundane archiving of surreal everyday objects, with all the elements laid out with their info labeled out next to them. I am deeply fascinated by the idea of having an intangible “fake” 3D object be portrayed as something real, and then printing it out as a poster, making the “fake objects” part of a “real object”.

Artist of the month

Matilda Diletta

Matilda Diletta (b. 1994), a Finnish-Italian creative from Helsinki, specializes in design and illustration, with experience in both commercial and artistic fields. Diletta’s artistic style, influenced by horror movies and manga obsessions from her teenage years, merges with her family’s artistic heritage, resulting in a sleek, minimalist body of work imbued with nostalgia and a grunge aesthetic.
Diletta describes her work done for Post Bar: “The poster design is an abstract take on all the things summer ’23: Barbenheimer, wildfires, heat, and sun-bleached surfaces.”

Artist of the month

Jack Sachs

Jack Sachs is a visual artist / animator from london, living in Berlin.

Jack describes the work done for Post Bar: “The inspiration for this poster comes from a summer spent laying face down in the grass, getting up-close and personal with the small plants and bugs.”

Artist of the month

AJ Fusco

AJ Fusco is an American artist based in Helsinki. His work combines painting and drawing with digital processes and a conceptual approach. Informed by the human tendency to seek patterns, meaning, or forms, even in the absence of a concrete object, his work is characterized by visual indeterminacy— images that suggest recognizable subject matter but elude clear identification. By eschewing specific motifs while retaining pictorial elements associated with representational art, his work seeks to embody the in-between, the queer, and the unclassifiable.

Fusco describes the work done for Post Bar: “I wanted to celebrate the start of the Halloween season, and I chose this graphite drawing from my archive because it variously evokes writhing, ragged flesh, spiraling flames, and the bones of bare trees against the sky.”

Artist of the month

KADRI-ANN KIVISILD

Kadri-Ann Kivisild (born in 2000) is an Estonian artist based in Amsterdam. Her practice focuses on art direction, photography and music, drawing inspiration from romance, drama, and peripheral angst. Building upon her experiences as an Estonian working in Western Europe, Kivisild works with issues related to Western rhetoric and misconceptions about the Soviet Union, modern Russia, and the history of Communism.

Kadri-Ann explains the work done for Post Bar: “The work is part of a series called ‘Altars’, that I have been creating over the years. This one is titled ‘Alttari’, dedicated to the unforgettable 4 years of my life when I used to live in Helsinki.”

Artist of the month

Rakastaja Robert

“Rakastaja Robert is the Marvin Gaye of illustration. His blissful work looks like all the colours on the palette just had a steaming hot orgy, where no one was left unsatisfied. It will surely turn you on.

Robert describes the work done for Post Bar: “I wanted to create something tropical to get us through December darkness”.