Guarding the Baltic Sea: Field Guide Launch Event

We warmly invite you to celebrate the results of Guarding the Baltic Sea Residency 2025-2026 at the launch of the publication Field Guided!

After immersing themselves in ecosystems and research stations of the Finnish archipelago, the program’s artists from Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, and Poland have now gathered their findings into a unique field guide, presenting how science and art can both enrich each other in order to raise awareness of the Baltic Sea's ecological challenges.

Field Guided documents and reflects on the artists' fieldwork in dialogue with scientists and other experts encountered in the brackish waters and along the shores of the Finnish Archipelago.
Join us at Hanaholmen Cultural Center or online to gain insight into Baltic Sea ecology and celebrate this unique publication and the role of fieldwork in art and science!

PROGRAMME

4.00 pm: Coffee Reception

4.30 pm: Opening Words
Victor Andersson, Programme Director, Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre Hanaholmen 
Katarzyna Drozd, EUNIC Finland / Embassy of the Republic of Poland
Julia Lohmann & Taru Elfving, curators of Guarding the Baltic Sea and editors of Field Guided

4.45 pm: Video | Guarding the Baltic Sea 2026

4.50 pm: Case Examples From the Field Guide
On-site or online interventions by the project artists Laure Vigna, Mia Tamme, Noora Sandgren, Rasa Weber, Robert Fusco, and Weronika Zalewska

5.15. pm: Panel Discussion: Art and Science meet in Fieldwork
Moderators: Julia Lohmann, Taru Elfving
Elin Dahlgren, Department of Aquatic Resources (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Ilppo Vuorinen, Archipelago Research Institute (University of Turku)
Project artists: Laure Vigna, Mia Tamme, Noora Sandgren, Rasa Weber, Robert Fusco, and Weronika Zalewska

6.00 pm: Q&A with the Public

Practical information & registration

The event will kick off with a coffee reception at 4.00 pm. The discussions start at 4.30 pm, and we kindly ask you to arrive early in order to start the event as planned.

The event will take place in Hanaholmen Cultural Center (Hanasaarenranta 5, 02100 Espoo). Free entry upon registration - reserve your spot here.

You can also participate online through a Teams link that will be published on this page. No pre-registration is needed for online participation.

The event will be held in English.

Guarding the Baltic Sea is a project by EUNIC Finland and Goethe-Institut Finnland, French Institute of Finland, the Polish Embassy in Helsinki, and the Estonian Embassy in Helsinki.

EUNIC — European Union National Institutes for Culture — is Europe’s network of national cultural institutes and organisations, with 39 members from all EU member states and associated countries.