Projects

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.

Ongoing Projects

Breakfast@Goethe

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.

Breakfast@Goethe © Goethe-Institut Finnland

Northwestern Europa
Vorzeichen. Whom, What, and How We Read.

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.

© Goethe-Institut/ El Boum
Cosmoperceptions of the forest

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.
Our guests in Germany

Here we present artists in residence who spend a longer period of time in Germany at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut.

Photo: Jason Leung | Unsplash.com
Our guests in Finland

Our guests are residence writers and authors who spend a long time in Finland. Here, they report in text and pictures on their experiences in Finland, their work and the residence stay.

Photo: Goethe-Institut

Previous projects

DRIN - Visions for Children's Books

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?

© EL BOUM
Climate Justice, Indigenous Rights and Culture
The Right to Be Cold

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.

© Susanne Hætta
Crowd - international dance exchange

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.

© Goethe-Institut London
Artificial Intelligence, bias and translation
Artificially Correct

How does bias get into the translation and what can we do about it? The Artificially Correct project connects translators, activists and AI experts to reduce the problem of bias in translation in the context of artificial intelligence.

Illustration: El Boum/ Copyright: Goethe-Institut