Veleposlaništvo Republike Finske
Ajdovščina 4/8, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 300 2120
Pekka Metso, Ambassador
Embassy of the Republic of Finland in Slovenia
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Cultural cooperation
The Embassy of Finland has collaborated in preparation of several cultural events in Slovenia. Actually the most complex were design exhibitions Tapio Wirkkala - a legend of Finnish design in 2005 and Alvar Aalto – Timeless Expressions as an accompanying event of the Biennial of Design (BIO) 2010. In 2012 an exhibition of modern Finnish glass art from years 2005–2010 was on view in the National Museum of Slovenia, organised in collaboration with the Finnish Glass Museum in Riihimäkiwas and the Embassy of Finland in Ljubljana.
Stefan Lindfors, who moves between design, architecture, art, sculpture and film directing, participated in the Month of Design 2011 conference. Ilkka Suppanen from the progressive Snowcrash Design Co-operative, presented the Finnish successful design story for the Creative Cities event in Ljubljana organised by the Ljubljana Regional Development Agency.
Finnish architecture has been presented to Slovenia mostly by the ARK - Institute for Architecture and Culture and Museum of Architecture and Design in the context of the lecture cycle/book Architectural Epicentres: Inventing Architecture, Intervening in Reality.
Literary events are organised regularly as several works by Finnish authors (e.g. Aarto Passilina or Petri Tamminen) have been translated into Slovenian. Finnish writers Jyrki Kiiskinen, Kari Klemelä, Sanna Karlström and Leena Krohn are just a few authors to name who were hosted by Slovene literature festivals. Finnish film historian and director Peter van Bagh took part on the 21st Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) with his lyrical documentary Helsinki Forever screened as part of the Retro - City Symphonies' programme.
The Animateka International Animated Film Festival in Ljubljana focused on Finnish animation in 2009 and invited Matti Hagelberg as a resident artist to make also a design for the edition of the festival.
In the frame of the Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012 programme the Finnish-Estonian month was organised in cooperation with the Turku 2011 Foundation, the Embassy of Finland in Ljubljana and the Embassy of Estonia in Budapest. In June 2011 already the Finnish group Puunkuokkijat exhibited a series of wood sculptures in Vetrinjski dvorec, where later Markk Haanpää, an artist-in-residence in Maribor, presented his work that also focused on environmental issues. The Arts Academy in Turku, which is famous for its study programs of circus, dance, theatre and puppetry arts, prepared the opening ceremony Fire Acrobatics Sirkus Sudenkuoppa. The programme of the Cultural Embassy Finland included also a jewelry and fabrics exhibition, comic art, films as well as electronic club music by Jimi Tenor and Esko Routamaa and the Baltic-Hungarian Jazz Quartet concert.
The embassy welcomes also presentations of Finnish artists invited by Slovene cultural operators. In 2011 the Alkatraz Gallery at Metelkova presented Ulla Karttunen's opus, the Maribor Festival's programme included the Finnish Myth Saturday with a violinist Satu Vänskä, while a young Finnish violinist Petteri Ivonen played as a guest soloist with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra at the Slovene Philharmonics in February 2012.
On the occasion of a Kalevala Day, 28 February, named after the Finnish national epic, the Embassy of the Republic of Finland in Slovenia organises various cultural events.
See also
External links
- Embassy of the Republic of Finland in Slovenia website
- Embassy of Finland in Slovenia on Facebook
- Useful data about Finland on the Slovene Ministry of Foreign Affairs website
- Aalvar Aalto exhibition at the National Museum of Slovenia
- Stefan Lindfors at Month of Design 2011 in Ljubljana
- World Design Capital Helsinki 2012
- Creative Cities event in Ljubljana
- Matti Hagelberg at Animateka
- Finland Arts & Culture
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