CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS
HELSINKI CULTURE - CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF HELSINKI 2024
HELSINKI PRIDE WEEK
Helsinki Pride Week is the biggest cultural and human rights event in Finland. The pirde month will be celebrated throughout June, and the week itself will take place from 24-30th of June 2024, and the parade and park celebration will take place as usual on the Saturday of Pride week, 29th of June 2024.
The LGBTQI+ scene in Helsinki is active and open to all. From coffee shops and clubs to museums to Helsinki Pride celebrations, not to mention our gorgeous archipelago, and because of this, the capital of Finland has a lot to offer.
picture: Museovirasto
ATENEUM EERO JÄRNEFELT
Exhibition presents the extensive oeuvre of Eero Järnefelt (1863-1937), who grew up in a cosmopolitan cultural family, and the artist's importance to Finnish art and Finnishness. Järnefelt's diverse nature portraits make us wonder whether the nature he depicted in the 19th and 20th centuries still exists. Helsinki Culture.
The exhibition this summer is between 5.4.–25.8.2024
picture: Järvenpään taidemuseo / Matias Uusikylä.
35TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NIGHT OF THE ARTS
The Night of the Arts, which kicks off Helsinki's festive weeks and offers a free program will be celebrated all over Helsinki on Thursday, August 15. The motto of the festival weeks "art belongs to everyone" gets a new interpretation this year, when the concerts of the first nights of the festival play in real time in three parks in the center of Helsinki to the delight of the city's residents.
The event, which will be spread throughout Helsinki and the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, will be built together with the city's residents. Any art project, large or small, is warmly welcome to the Night of the Arts.
picture: LetterboxMedia
TALL SHIPS RACES HELSINKI 2024
The annual Tall Ships Races, an international large sailing boat race for thousands of young people, is held every four years in the Baltic Sea.
The event aims to promote education and cooperation among young people regardless of nationality, cultural background, religion or social background through a common sailing event and brings dozens of large and spectacular sailing vessels and their crews to the city, around which a large public event is built.
Helsinki will be one of the host ports of the competition from 4 to 7 July 2024 and the event is expected to attract around 500 000 visitors to the city. The event will take place in the city centre, in the area of the South Harbour, the Market Square, Katajanokka, Kanavaranta and North Beach.
https://tallshipsraceshelsinki2024.fi/en/
SIMON FUJIWARA: PIENI MAAILMA
What does it mean to be the real me in the 21st century? This question lies at the heart of the work of British-Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara.
The Small World exhibition covers the artist's key works from the early stages of his career. Also included is Fujiwara's latest project Who the Bær.
The sympathetic cartoon bear Who transforms in search of his true self into an art genre or any kind of person or object - including an Aalto vase or a Poppy figurine.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
1.3.-13.10.2024
Tue-Fri 10-20.30, Sat 10-18, Sun 10-17
https://www.myhelsinki.fi/fi/n%C3%A4e-ja-koe/tapahtumat/simon-fujiwara-pieni-maailma
Admission 20/12€, under 18s free
picture: The English artist Simon Fujiwara at the opening of his exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fujiwara#/media/File:Simon_Fujiwara_-_2016.jpg
OPEN HOUSE HELSINKI
Open House Helsinki opens the doors to fascinating places in Helsinki that are usually inaccessible.
The event organises guided tours of interesting buildings, interiors, urban sites and new and old architecture. The tours are free of charge and guided by designers and experts.
16.-19.5.2024
https://openhousehelsinki.fi/
Free admission
