Finlands kulturinstitut i Danmark

Dynamo - Workspace for circus & performing arts is hosting Kauri Honkakoski Company for a residency, performance and workshop!

Kauri Honkakoski Company will perform their work-in-progress version of the show “HIGH TIDE” at DYNAMO on the 3rd of July. The piece is described as an apocalyptic drawing-room drama set on the last shore of paradise, inviting the audience to confront the aching themes of climate change within a sensory and collective landscape.

Also on the 3rd of July, Kauri Honkakoski Company organizes the workshop “Exploring Physical Theatre” - a hands-on workshop where you’ll explore mime-based physical theatre and its rich expressive possibilities.

Deadline for signing up to the workshop is the 29th of June.

More information and tickets can be found on DYNAMO’s web page: https://dynamoworkspace.dk/en/program/workshop-exploring-physical-theatre-with-kauri-honkakoski-company/

Photo: Laura Vuoma

New studio and networking residency programme in Copenhagen!

A collaboration between the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark and Fonden FABRIKKEN for Kunst og Design.

The Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark are merging their residency programmes into a joint 2x two-month studio and networking residency aimed for Finnish or Finland-based visual artists.

The purpose of the residency programme is to accelerate the residency artist’s international career by offering curatorial mentoring and organising portfolio meetings with Danish or Denmark‑based professionals in the visual arts field. The duration of the residency programme is two months, and will be organised twice a year, in late spring and early autumn. The grantees will receive a working grant and a travel grant.

The first open call for the programme will be in August 10-31, 2026. More info about the open call and the contents of the programme can be found on Suomen Kulttuurirahasto and Finlands kulturinstitut i Danmark webpage.

Photo: Fonden FABRIKKEN for Kunst og Design

Copenhagen Photo Festival is approaching!

Between the 11th and the 21st of June, Copenhagen Photo Festival invites us to celebrate photography, camera-based art and documentation through exhibitions, events and activities around the city.

This year Mari Mäntynen participates in the exhibition FUTURES Nordic Talent with her project “Stranger”. Also participating at CPH Photo Festival are Essi Maaria Orpana & Kukka-Maria Rosenlund with the exhibition “Maid, Mother, Monster”.

In “Stranger”, Mäntynen questions the unspoken roles and preconceptions around meeting people, and the effects these have on our interactions with one another. The exhibition can be seen between 11.-17.6 at VÆKST.

Curated by DISIR, a trans-Nordic network for women and gender minorities, “Made, Mother, Monster” examines three reaccuring female archetypes which have shaped our history and our collective visual culture. The exhibition can be seen between 10.-14.6 at ODP3.

More info about the exhibitions can be found on the CPH Photo Festival webpage!

A Prima Vista 10.–12.6.2026 - Lokal Gallery’s participation at 3daysofdesign co-produced with the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark.

Gammel Strand 48, Copenhagen

The expression A Prima Vista is borrowed from musical terminology; playing directly from the notes at first sight (in other contexts, e.g. “amore a prima vista”). The theme of the exhibition is the blossoming of new life in late spring and early summer – that annual miracle. In typical Lokal fashion, the group exhibition consists largely of worlds and work ensembles that combine the traditions of fine arts, crafts and design.

Artists & Makers:
Ville Aakula, Paul Flanders, Saija Halko, Antrei Hartikainen, Hemmo Honkonen, Tatu Laakso, Nathalie Lautenbacher, Waltter Mahlberg, Santeri Mortti, Outi Martikainen, Rasmus Palmgren, Riikka Piippo, Carlo Raymann, Renata Schirm, Milla Vaahtera, Sini Villi, Didi NG Wing Yin

Curated by Lokal’s founder Katja Hagelstam
Exhibition architecture by Hanni Koroma
Tastes by artist and chef Sami Tallberg

With support from: The Finnish-Danish Cultural Foundation, Embassy of Finland in Denmark, Asko Foundation, Huonekalusäätiö, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Gustaf Packaléns Mindefond

Thank you: Ateljee Sami Tallberg, Genelec, Harri Koskinen, Shimber, Kakola Brewing, Blend Beverages

The exhibition can be seen between 10.–12.6 from 10:00–17:00. On Wednesday 10.6. 17:00–20:00 everyone is welcome to celebrate the opening of the exhibition in the atmospheric courtyard at Gammel Strand. Attendees can meet the designers, enjoy drinks and music, and experience a taste of Finland with wild-food maestro Sami Tallberg.

Klang Festival is approaching!

Klang is Denmarks largest festival for experimental music, each year offering a ray of concerts and sound experiences all over the city. Klang Festival will take place between the 8th and the 13th of June.

This year at Klang, Oblivia is participating with their piece “Dreaming Turtles”, setting out to create an entire world out of movements, words, songs, rhythm and live ensemble music. In the piece, the audience are asked to imagine an era where humankind on this planet is over and instead turtles – slow, friendly, ancient – roam the earth and the sea. Would they dream of these strange primates once called humans who had their chance on this world, but failed so miserably?

Oblivia will perform at Teatret Zeppelin on the 8th of June between 20:00 and 21:30.

Read more about Klang and Oblivia and get your tickets through the link below:

https://klang.dk/program

Photo: Dreaming Turtles, Oblivia. Credits: Santiago Villar

We are very excited to announce Alice Leteissier and Lana Haga as the recipients of the 2026 portfolio residency program PortRe!

PortRe is the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark’s 1-week long residency program in Copenhagen with focus on the artist’s portfolio, operated in collaboration with the Stina Krook Foundation (FIN). The purpose of PortRe is to create an opportunity for emerging Finnish, or Finland-based, visual artists to come to Copenhagen and present their portfolios to a number of established actors on the Danish cultural field. The artists are selected by The Stina Krook Foundation’s board from candidates suggested by the foundation’s art experts. Alice Leteissier’s and Lana Haga’s periods will take place during 2026-2027.

Presentations of the artists and more info about the program can be found via the link below:

https://finin.dk/projekter/2026/portre-selected-artists-8dkgn

On the 8th of May, Frans Nybacka’s solo exhibition “Feeling Small, Bug Pirates” opens at Bricks Gallery. Join us for the opening this Friday between 5-8 PM!

Frans Nybacka is a visual artists whose practice centers around worldbuilding through painting. In his works, Frans combines poetic visual storytelling and imaginative juxtaposition in the creation of personifying places, objects, and environments. His characteristic works, which often resemble loose storyboards or stills from imagined video games, are a wonderful combination of ethereality, chaos, childlike innocence and mysticity.

“Feeling Small, Bug Pirates” is Nybacka’s debut exhibition in Denmark. It’s the third chapter in thenarrative “Wind is Rising”, an ongoing theme across Nybacka’s solo exhibitions, tracing an imagined world in stages of decay.

Read more about Frans Nybacka and the exhibition on Brick’s website:

https://www.bricksgallery.dk/exhibitions/85-frans-nybacka-feeling-small-bug-pirates/

The exhibition can be seen between 8.5-6.6.2026.

📷: Hornet’s Egg, Frans Nybacka, 2026

Congratulations to Aala Nyman, selected as FIDA Artist in Residency 2026!

Aala Nyman selected as FIDA Artist in Residency 2026

We are delighted to announce that visual artist Aala Nyman has been selected as the FIDA Artist in Residency 2026. Aala Nyman (FI, b. 1996) is based in Helsinki and graduated with a Master's degree in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki in 2025.

The FIDA jury motivated their choice of the artist with the following statement:
"Aala Nyman has a promising and materially sensitive practice, and her motivation persuasive in relation to the residency framework. She seems genuinely ready to benefit from curatorial support, new professional connections, and access to a different working environment. She is early in her development, but that is also part of her strength here: the residency could have a meaningful impact on the next stage of her practice. Her work is excellent and has a little bit of magic to it."

FIDA is funded by the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark, which offers Finnish know-how and facilitates cultural exchange in contemporary and performing arts, with the aim of developing and strengthening the dialogue between professional artists and institutions from Finland and Denmark and to the general public.

FIDA is Finlands kulturinstitut i Danmark // the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark’s residency programme for visual artists. The purpose of the programme is to accelerate the resident’s career by offering active curatorial support, by building networks between professional artists on the contemporary Finnish and Danish art scenes, and by introducing the resident to a Danish art market.

Read more about Nyman and the FIDA residency program via our website: www.ffkd.dk/news/fida-2026-aala-nyman

Don’t miss Yes Person at DYNAMO this Thursday to Saturday, April 23-24.

Yes Person is a co-production between Based on Kimberly, DYNAMO and the w/ network. Inspired by the concept of “killing one’s darlings”, Yes Person celebrates the discarded ideas that are too peculiar to realise, yet too wonderful to bury. This is satirical, physical and delightfully absurd contemporary circus at its finest.

🗓️: 23.4 at 20:00, 24.4 at 17:00 and 25.4 at 20:00

More info and tickets on DYNAMO’s website!

Yes Person - Dynamo Yes Person er en cirkusforestilling, der fejrer alle de idéer, der er for besynderlige til at føre ud i livet, men for skønne til at lægge i graven.

Between the 23rd to 26th of April, the world’s largest theatre festival for young audiences, KLAP - Theatre Festival, takes place in Kolding.

Nordic Puppet Ambassadors (FI) and Teater Tidsrum (DK) will be performing Sea Stories: a puppet theatre adventure which invites the whole family on a journey among sea monsters and floating plastic waste, in a production exploring environmental awareness.

More info can be found on KLAP festival’s web page!

https://www.klap.nu

Image: Kari Vienola