2040: Where will we be?
Director Laura Boxberg discusses the cultural field as well as a vision for the Finnish institutes in the years to come.
An overland adventure to Oslo… How did it go? Well, it went rather smoothly.
A greener way? Our Head of Programme, Malin Bergström, shares her overland journey from Brussels to Oslo to attend the Spring Days of the Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes.
We need to invest more in the promotion of Finnish art and culture abroad
Laura Boxberg, Director of the Institute voices the need for greater investment in the export and mobility of Finnish art and culture.
Taina Latvala’s Välimatka (2012) on the FinnCultBlx Bookshelf
Taina Latvala’s Välimatka(2012) tells the bittersweet story of a mother-daughter trip from Synkkylä to Tenerife. This is what our book critic had to say about it.
FinnCultBlx Bookshelf: Miehiä ja Ihmisiä (2014) by Olli Jalonen
A coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1927 in small-town Finland – let’s see what our resident book critic thought of it.
Sofi Oksanen’s Norma on the FinnCultBlx bookshelf
Described in the English publication as “the hair-raising mash-up of feminist X-Men, gothic fairy tale, family saga and biting social criticism”, let’s see what our in-house critic had to say.