We promote cultural exchange between Germany and Finland. We initiate film series, exhibitions, concerts, seminars and festivals that focus on joint artistic production, reception and reflection.
Guarding the Baltic Sea is a multidisciplinary art project set on the island ofVartiosaari, located in the Helsinki archipelago in Finland. It aims to raise awareness of the ecological challenges facing the Baltic Sea and other bodies of water, including climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. The project brings together artists from Finland, Estonia, Poland, Germany, and France.
Breakfast@Goethe is a series of gatherings where cultural professionals from Germany meet fellow artists and experts based in Finland and exchange ideas about current topics while enjoying vegan breakfast together.
With the support of 18 Goethe-Institutes across Europe, this bi-monthly workshop series covers the fields of Visual Arts, Music, Narratives, and Handicrafts, highlighting technologies such asAI, Web3 & Blockchain, Immersive Technologies, Machine Learning, Digital Fabrication, Generative Art, Creative Coding, and more.
Forests have a long history intertwined with human agents. The cosmoperceptions of the forest project brings, community and Indigenous leaders from the North and South together, in residences to create narratives and evidence connecting the forests. The outcomes, uniting science, traditional knowledge, and art, will be showcased at COP30 in 2025, highlighting the resistance of forest peoples and the conservation of biomes.
Children’s books shape the world view we grow up with. It is important for children to be able to recognize themselves in stories, illustrations and narratives and, at the same time, to learn about the different realities of life around them. Does children’s literature in Germany, Finland and other (Northern) European countries today reflect the increasingly diverse societies in which we live, or does it make a growing proportion of its young population invisible?
Through online readings and talks at the intersection of scholarship with the literary scene, as well as book reviews on Instagram, the series intends to open up spaces for texts and readers, different ways of reading and new perspectives on literature.
A cross-border, interdisciplinary project focusing on the Arctic and Boreal regions: It negotiates questions of Indigenous rights, ecology, climate justice and culture. To this end, voices from different perspectives are heard on this website.
CROWD is a dance residency programme developed together with European partners in a time when international sharing and human togetherness is needed more than ever.
