Programme

Our Programme

 

The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux encourages and supports artistic and critical collaboration and exchange between the Benelux and Finland. Our programme is infused with contemporary, sustainable, and cross-disciplinary cultural initiatives.

We work with artistic projects as well societal and topical themes, aiming for equality, inclusivity, and anti-racist efforts within our programming. Our focus ranges from visual arts and contemporary design to creative performances – from expertise exchange to discussion forums on current issues. We produce our own content as well as collaborate with different partners, and we are actively involved in networks such as MoveMen, and the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) clusters in Belgium and the Netherlands.

For more information please contact our Head of Programme, Malin Bergströmmalin.bergstrom@finncult.be

Programme 2023

Reflecting Light in Helsinki

Reflecting Light in Helsinki

Reflecting Light – an artistic and research project centered on lighting is currently on a residency at Mad House and UniArts Helsinki.

Programme 2022

Celebrate 10 Years of Subba with Emma DJ

Celebrate 10 Years of Subba with Emma DJ

Finnish native, Emma DJ, will be joining the 10 year anniversary celebrations of Subbacultcha! Join the party, 7 October from 23:00 CET onwards at C12 in Brussels.

SALWA GATHERING #3: Homemade Seeds

SALWA GATHERING #3: Homemade Seeds

The third and final SALWA Gathering of 2022, explores the notion of a home away from home. Seeking to create stories, connections and new kinships, Homemade Seeds takes place at Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 29 & 30 October.

TelepART: September 2022

TelepART: September 2022

In September, TelepART support allocated by The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux has been given to traverso player Vera Plosila and theatre and puppetry professional Neville Tranter / Vaurioteatteri.

New European Bauhaus in the Nordics

New European Bauhaus in the Nordics

The Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland and The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux invites you to explore what the New European Bauhaus could mean in the Nordics at the Festival of the New European Bauhaus, on the 10th of June!

Healing & Dealing Pilot in Brussels and Helsinki

Healing & Dealing Pilot in Brussels and Helsinki

Healing & Dealing is a two-part project taking place this spring in Brussels and Helsinki. Dealing will be part of the Stop Hatred Now festival in Helsinki, focusing on white people and encouraging them to take responsibility for their part within structural white supremacy.

Oxi Koskelainen, Daniel Palillo & Emmi Venna: Kitchen Sink

Oxi Koskelainen, Daniel Palillo & Emmi Venna: Kitchen Sink

Kitchen Sink consists of fantastic bric-a-brac and scraps of theatre history piled up in a giant sink. On top of all this a mystery play has been assembled, about the everyday; about dreams, poetry, and the real. 19-24.4.2022 at Sinne, Helsinki.

Elastic Alliances exhibition opens in Hanasaari

Elastic Alliances exhibition opens in Hanasaari

The Elastic Alliances exhibition will take place 8 April – 22 May 2022 at Gallery Hanaholmen. In conjunction with the exhibition, a seminar focusing on new forms of artistic collaboration will be arranged at Hanasaari Auditorium. Join us for the half-day seminar on Thursday the 28th of April at 1-6pm.

Fair P(l)ay – Fair practices in the cultural sector

Fair P(l)ay – Fair practices in the cultural sector

FAIR P(L)AY is a cycle initiated by the EUNIC-NL cluster focusing on fair practices in the cultural sector, aiming to discuss and implement new and existing ways of creating fair environments in terms of funding, remuneration, copyright and mobility in Europe.

SALWA Gatherings

SALWA Gatherings

All Good Things Must Begin: Roots and Routes In response to the pandemic, the heightened precarity of artists, and a series of catalytic scandals that recently shook the art world in the  Netherlands the past year, we would like to direct our attention in 2022 to...

Ritual City by Benjamin Orlow at the Horst Exhibition for 2022

Ritual City by Benjamin Orlow at the Horst Exhibition for 2022

We are delighted to announce the Horst Exhibition for 2022: The Act of Breathing will infuse the unique terrain of Asiat, Vilvoorde. The institute takes part in the exhibition by supporting the production of the commissioned work Ritual City by Benjamin Orlow, a Finnish-Swedish visual artist based in London, UK.

ART & LAND – EU-SÁMI Week in Brussels

ART & LAND – EU-SÁMI Week in Brussels

On the occasion of Sámi National Day, we bring you the news that the first-ever EU-Sámi Week will be held in Brussels, in June. The aim of the ESW2022 is to increase awareness of Sámi culture, create networks and heighten the knowledge of Sámi issues among the policymakers in various sectors that affect Sámi interests.