Eija-Liisa Ahtila Parallel Worlds 19.4.–1.9. Eija-Liisa Ahtila has since the early 1990s introduced new creative idioms into moving image art. Using images, sounds and stories, she constructs installations that embody alternating viewpoints. The viewer is swept into the stories. In her most recent works, Ahtila addresses the themes of globalisation as well as relations between [...]
Minna Parikka – the flagship store Back in November of 2012, Minna Parikka, the acclaimed ‘Scandi Queen of Shoes’, opened her flagship store on Helsinki’s trendiest shopping street, Aleksanterinkatu. To ensure her store reflected all that the Minna Parikka brand is best known for, Minna chose the Helsinki based Joanna Laajisto Design Studio, whose work [...]
Following the success of his restaurants in Tampere and Turku, American Top Chef finalist Stefan Richter has opened a third restaurant, the latest located near the top of the Esplanade on Korkeavuorenkatu in Helsinki. The newest Stefan’s Steakhouse opened mid November 2012, and is already garnering rave reviews from customers. Stefan Richter first came to [...]
The largest Finnish event featuring contemporary music, Musica Nova Helsinki will be held for the 22nd time between the 8th and 16th of February. This year’s festival will present a veritable smörgåsbord of music from Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. The theme in for the 2013 event is “Orient-Occident”, one of the most [...]
Lux Helsinki – The Light is Loose: 4–8 January 2013 The city event Lux Helsinki invites residents and visitors to enjoy brilliant light installations during the darkest time of the year. Thirteen impressive and surprising light installations will light up a route stretching from the Olympic Stadium to Baana via the Amphitheatre at the Finnish [...]
Organised every year since 1997 by the non-profit Night Visions, with support from the Finnish National Council for Cinema and the Cultural Office of Helsinki City (among others), the Night Visions Film Festival is the oldest, biggest, and most prestigious film festival in the country that focuses on fantasy, horror, and science fiction, with an [...]
This Sunday Helsinki will once again host its oldest traditional event, the Baltic Herring Fair, which has been held every year since 1743. Helsinki may be celebrating 200 years as capital of Finland, but this event is celebrating 270 years! From the 7th to the 13th of October, Helsinki’s Market Square will attract fishermen from [...]
The Finnish National Gallery The largest art museum institution in Finland, the Finnish National Gallery is comprised of three museums and the Central Art Archives. The three museums are the Ateneum Art Museum, the Sinebrychoff Art Museum and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. The stated aims of the FNG is to further the cultural heritage [...]
// Of all the many available choices of accommodation in Finland, perhaps the most exotic are the many places where visitors can spend a night in a room fashioned from snow and ice. Indeed, this option has proven to be one of the winter’s most popular as can be seen by the increase in the [...]
// The Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy was launched in 1988, with the aim of promoting the art of film making by screening inventive, visually stunning (and often controversial) new movies, as well as showing films that would otherwise not be screened in Finland. HIFF has been held every year since then, [...]
