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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.