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Most of the enquiries generated by this list concern Finnish architecture. There is still no one comprehensive updated site to refer you to.
The magazine of The Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) is partially on the web.
I also found the
exhibition
Finland Builds 9.
"Finnish Architecture 1992-1997 is the prime
national exhibit for the best recent architecture
and building. This exhibition covers architecture of the
last five years, and is the ninth in
succession..."
"The Alvar Aalto Museum specialises in architecture. It preserves, researches and maintains a permanent display of material related to Aalto's work as an architect and designer. It also oversees building conservation, arranges exhibitions and distributes information, principally on topics related to Aalto."
"The Museum has large collections of drawings and photographs of Finnish Architecture, and an extensive architectural Library. The Museum arranges exhibitions in its own spaces, elsewhere in Finland and abroad. It publishes architectural books, arranges lectures and provides an information service. The Museum participates in international collaborative projects in its field."
Includes a pictorial tour of the new embassy
building.
..."The embassy building has rapidly established itself
as the newest
landmark of Washington DC, as well as a showcase of the
essence of Finnish
architecture and design - "the face of Finland to the
United States", to
quote
Ambassador Jukka Valtasaari."...
Guided tours to Finnish Architecture
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"...In 1971 the Amos Anderson Art Museum in Helsinki
arranged an
international
comics exhibition, and at the same time the Finnish
Comics Society was
founded. Members of the Society are comics artists,
readers, collectors,
critics and researchers. The Society gives information
about comics to
public as well as to different governmental and cultural
organizations...
The Society publishes a quarterly called Sarjainfo...
The site includes links to the major international comics sites and maintains a comprehensive list to Finnish sites.
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"The Information Centre for Dance in Finland was established in 1980
to produce and provide information about
dance in Finland and to
promote international co-operation in the
sector. The Information
Centre serves both professional and
amateur dancers as well as anyone interested in dance".
This site really does what it promises. A comprehensive and timely list of
links to Finnsh Dance is
included.
A very matter of fact categorized link list.
"Following pages introduce dance photo archives of photogarapher Veikko Kankkunen"
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This stylish and comprehensive site aims to be the definitive place for
information on Finnish Design on the web.
The collaborators are Design Forum, The University of
Art and Design Helsinki, The Design Museum, and Ornamo - The Finnish
Assosiation of Designers.
(Updating seems to be a bit scetchy.)
The Museum of Art and Design, established in 1873, is a national specialist museum and internationally recognized exhibition centre. In addition to its permanent collections, it arranges several special exhibitions every year. The picture archives and database contains up-to-date information on designers and all areas of Finnish design.
The UIAH conducts work in many fields of Design.
This list is a part of the
UIAH Art Navigator.
"The Faculty of Art and Design at the University of
Lapland was
founded in
1990. It is the youngest of four faculties at Finland's
northernmost
university...
The Faculty offers three degree programs: Art Education,
Media Studies
and Industrial Design."
The Boreus Collection clothing and accessories catalog.
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The Theatre Academy of Finland
University of Lapland This university has a Faculty of Art and Design. Currently I can't find anything about it in English.
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Finland Festivals is a cooperation organisation for the principal cultural events in Finland. Its 62 member festivals attract a combined annual audience of more than 1.8 million visitors to events involving more than 20,000 performing artists.
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(Needs javascript running even to browse - so I don't know what's in here. Should be comprehensive, though.)
"The main purpose of the department is to support and develop the traditions of cinematic expression and the philosophy of the cinema. Consequently, the focus in all teaching is on the importance of professionalism and the distinctive characteristics of the cinema as an art form. The department is also committed to developing and strengthening the education, sensitivity and originality already shown by the new generation of film makers spawned at UIAH."
The Media Centre Lume, one of a kind in the world, is a
centre for training, research and production in
the in the field
of audiovisual media. It provides a setting for
excellence in
film and television production, new media and
scenography
all under one roof. Offering state-of-the-art
premises and
equipment for teaching and research, it allows
professionals
and students in the Finnish content production
sector to
focus on the growing challenges of communication,
audiovisual culture and entertainment.
Lume is part of the University of Art and Design Helsinki.
"AVEK was established in 1987 to promote cinema, video
and television
culture. It is responsible for the management of funds
which arise from
authors' copyright entitlements,...
AVEK's support activities cover
the entire field of audiovisual culture, emphasis
being on the production support of short films and
documentaries."
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This museum has exhibitions on the web.
The Bonk site is now perhaps appropriately a Defunctioned Disinformation
System and no longer available.
"From the humble beginnings of an anchovy fishermans family more
than 150 years ago, Bonk Business Inc. has grown into a multiglobal
industrial enterprise at the forefront of 3rd millennium technologies. The
company is the world leader in fully Defunctioned Machinery, Cosmic
Therapy applications, Advanced Disinformation Systems (ADS), Repacked
consumer products and LBH
(Localized Black Hole) technology."
Information on the exhibitions of the Association is available.
An extensive collection of works organized by year
of creation.
... "Stenvall gained a lot of publicity with his duck
paintings which he
started to paint in the late 80's. Besides the nordic
countries, Ducks
have been seen in St. Petersburg, Madrid and London."
...
A collection of short biographies of some noteworthy Finns, mostly artists. Pictures by Pekka Vuori. Maintained by Finfo.
"Ama Gallery is owned by the cultural cooperative Kulttuuriteko based in Turku, Finland." "... the gallery presents monthly exhibitions of Finnish contemporary art, mainly graphics."
"... a channel (from) painters to the art audience." A gallery of paintings on the web.
"Please find hereby info for the gallery. Gallery is situated on the centre of Oulu."
"Welcome to the Chemistry Art Gallery containing spectacular visualization and animations in chemistry done at the Visualization and Animation Laboratory at The Centre for Scientific Computing (CSC) by the Visualization Group." This site also contains an extensive list of links to other sientific visualizations.
"
NoVision (also known as Noviisikilta Ry. ) is a community
of
young artists and scientists, formed 1987. We have
been making
alternative artwork and multimedia productions,
including
Artshows, short films (8mm, 16mm, 35mm, TV, video)
etc. ..."
The site includes a Virtual Gallery.
"First there is clean / puhdas / ren - an analogue experience transferred into the bitworld. It is based on a sculpture-performance given at Galerie Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland...or you can choose your way through one of the three dusty stories..."
"Tic Box Interaction for the Verbally Gifted:
These pages
dealing with submission are ready for your texts. By
carefully controlled
selection process will be placed in
The Golden Box of Wonders or in The Honorary
Shitbox."
(The authors of re-evolution are involved in this).
The site is in Finnish, but you might look at the Digital Graffiti Gallery.
Web art by Best and Puustinen. One of the most advanced Finnish sites using the web as an art medium.
40 DAYS IN THE WILDERNESS is an photographic exhibition arranged by Centre for Creative Photograhy, town parish and rural parish of Jyväskylä.
Paintings by Helena Juntila
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..."The Knot at the Cable is a pilot project in the field
of
equal access to electronic information,
an electronic publishing house for the non-governmental
organisations,
cultural movements and individuals which form the
membership
of Katto-Meny, the cooperative society which maintains
the technical system,
and the Internet node of the Cable Factory"...
From the literature list on their home page you can
access e.g.
Electric verse written by living Finnish and Finland-
Swedish poets,
The Finnish Literture Forum.
This site maintains lists of Finnish Culture sites, too.
Mostly in Finnish.
"Our main goal is to gather all the publishers and
bookstores in Finland
under a same Internet address. Other goals concern
Finnish film industries
and movie theatres and
Finnish business life."
"In digital media, such as hyper- and multimedia, it is
possible to combine the expert knowledge of
ethnographic data collections, visual and graphics
design, and the latest computer technology in
innovative, advanced and sophisticated ways. In the
EtnoLab, this concept is applied to the study of
Folkloristics, Visual Anthropology and the Anthropology
of Art."
Have patience and navigate through the Finnish.
The texts of these books in Finnish.
Many of the libraries listed here also provide information in English.
A site for almost anything concerning Finnish Libraries on the net.
Project Runeberg, founded in December 1992, is an open and voluntary initiative to create and collect free electronic editions of classic Nordic literature and art.
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@ A complete list of Magazines and Publications can be found in Lisko, a Finnish Subject Catalog. Below some examples.
"Kudos - Finnish Culture and Beyond"
"Kudos is a new webzine devoted to Finnish culture in all its forms
- literature, comics, movies, music, architecture, industrial design,
philosophy..."
"Eko.fi is an internet magazine published by the Green Cultural Association with focus on ecological philosophy and environmental thinking...
... "Tästä lehdestä löydät kaiken olennaisen
kirjallisuudesta, kuvataiteista, sarjakuvista,
musiikista, elokuvista,
animaatiosta... Vihkojen sivuille mahtuvat kaikki
kulttuurin muodot"...
A culture magazine.
City-lehti on vuodesta 1986 ilmestynyt urbaanin Suomen maksuton pää-äänenkannattaja. Se ilmestyy Helsingissä joka toinen viikko ja Turussa, Tampereella, Lahdessa, Oulussa, Jyväskylässä, Porissa, Vaasassa sekä Joensuussa kerran kuukaudessa. City kertoo kaupungin tapahtumat, ilmiöt ja nostaa esiin ihmisiä ja puheenaiheita.
Kunnianarvoisan Yliopisto-lehden WWW-versio.
Helsinki University's Magazine
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The lists are basically in Finnish with the English names of the museums added on. Bare with us. Many of the museum sites this list leads to do have proper pages in English.
"The Gallen-Kallela Museum stages special exhibitions 3-4 times a year on various themes."
"The Alvar Aalto Museum specialises in architecture. It preserves, researches and maintains a permanent display of material related to Aalto's work as an architect and designer. It also oversees building conservation, arranges exhibitions and distributes information, principally on topics related to Aalto."
Two museums in the City of Turku, Aboa Vetus is
archeology and
Ars Nova is modern art.
"Turkuun avataan 3. huhtikuuta 1995 kaksi uutta museota.
Aboa Vetus eli
vanha Turku esittelee Turun ja koko Suomen historiaa 1300-
luvulta
nykypäivään. Ars Nova eli uusi taide keskittyy nimensä
mukaisesti
nykytaiteeseen."
Valtion taidemuseo (in Finnish), Statens konstmuseum (in Swedish)
"You can learn about the Gallery's past and present,
and also visit the
collections at its
three specialist museums - the Museum of Foreign
Art, Sinebrychoff,
the Museum of
Finnish Art, Ateneum, and the Museum of
Contemporary Art - which
cover a period
of eight centuries. Children can take their own
special routes
through the Ateneum. The
page called News and Exhibitions tells you more
what is going on
at the various
museums at the moment."
The site includes lots of pictures of the exhibits.
The Finnish National Gallery has a new building for
contemporary art in the middle of Helsinki.
The web site itself will probably be very state-of-the-art, too.
The Tampere Art Museum is renowned for its active exhibition policy, the Young Artist of the Year event, wide-ranging publication activities and Moominvalley, which can be found in the city library. The Tampere Art Museum presents important themes from art history and phenomena of contemporary art in both its Finnish and international exhibitions. The museum's collections consist mainly of domestic art from the early 19th century onwards.The Tampere Art Museum also serves as the Regional Art Museum of Pirkanmaa and organizes art events and services for the area.
The Moomin collection is based on author-artist Tove Jansson's original Moomin production: Moomin books, illustrations and three-dimensional tableaux. The pearl of the collection is the blue, five-storey miniature Moomin house.
Look here for other sites in Tampere e.g. The Sara Hildén Art Museum, the only normally operating Lenin Museum in the world, and the Tampere International Short Film Festival.
Lusto is a national forest museum and an exhibition and activity centre. Lusto and its surroundings form a many-faceted whole, a story covering the millennia of the interaction between mankind and the forest.
Heureka organizes exhibitions on various scientific themes.
The museums of Northern Finland and Scandinavia are groupped together in the list Nordkalottmuseets medlemsmuséer - Pohjoiskalottimuseon jäsenmuseot which is not yet available in English. The list includes:
The Arctic Centre and The Arktikum
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The Sibelius Academy maintains a superb list of Music Resources which includes a section covering Finnish Music and Music in Finland . Their other web resourse lists are very good, too.
"RockData is a WWW-database about Finnish Rock scene
with hundreds of
contacts. RockData includes information about
Finnish record
companies, booking
agents, bands and artists, venues & festivals,
rock-zines,
newspapers, local radio
stations.."
An awesome site for fans of Finnish rock.
Presentation and opera, ballet and concert programs
"Concerts, Musicians, Tours, Gallery" ...
From
YLE - The Finnish Broadcasting Company.
"This is the domain for all Finnish music. Choose from the four
sites for different kinds of music. Choose Watt for live music.
Enjoy your ride with RealAudio plug-ins."
Probably the most stylish music pages in Finland.
A page in English to introduce this association in an otherwise Finnish site.
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These
pages contain a wealth of information on Finland.
I've listed them in
the section Organizations, since they are published by the
Ministry for
Foreign Affairs of Finland.
The main page lists picks of the month of which four out of
five where art and culture sites in the month
this was written - culture is high on their agenda.
From the main page I suggest going to Finfo - Finland Information Pages and from there to the Arts and Entertainment section.
Their Virtual Finland Approved Links selection is very impressive. The best starting point for anyone interested in Finland. It includes a section for links to Arts and Entertainment.
The Newsroom Finland section also includes the Arts Weekly. Don't be intimidated by articles being listed by date only.
"The Artists' Association of Finland (AAF) is the umbrella organisation of Finnish visual artists. Visual artists are members of associations of professional artists, viz. the Finnish Painters' Union, the Association of Finnish Sculptors, the Society of Finnish Graphic Artists, the Society of Artist Photographers and the Union of Finnish Art Associations, formed by local art and artists' associations. AAF and its member organisations have together founded Kuvasto, the Visual Artists' Copyright Association..."
"The Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation ARS FENNICA was established in 1990. The Foundation is intended to promote the visual arts and to open up new avenues for Finnish art in the international arena."
Suomen Kulttuurirahasto on vuonna 1939 perustettu yksityinen säätiö. Se edistää suomalaista kulttuuria jakamalla apurahoja ja palkintoja sekä järjestämällä ja tukemalla kulttuuritilaisuuksia. Suomen Kulttuurirahasto on maamme yksityisistä apurahoja jakavista säätiöistä suurin. Se tukee kaikkia tieteen ja taiteen aloja.
Sisältää mm. Apurahat . TKT:n Tiedotus- ja tutkimusyksikön alla on mm. EU ja kulttuuri -tietopalvelu
Christian Artists Finland CAF is a non-profit organisation, aiming to bring artists and art lovers and friends together, to support their identity based on christian faith and ethics, and to promote interaction of art with cultural and society life.
"Welcome to Seattles FinnFest USA 99 home page!"
This site maintains a comprehensive list of links to anything concerning Finland.
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The Gallery links to the web pages of the Department of Photography and the Computer Aided Photography Laboratory.
Coming up on the web. The site will have information also in English soon.
Finnish Landscape at a glance.
The Picture Gallery is brought to you by Studio Pitkänen
Ky, which is a
prominent picture archive in Finland. Our selection is
based on Matti A.
Pitkänen's photograps (FRPS, EFIAP, APSA, Finnish
Academician) which amount to 40 000 color slides.
Apertuura on kuvalliseen viestintään erikoistunut palveluyritys, jonka toimipaikkana on Joensuu. Yrityksen toiminta-ajatuksena on tuottaa kuvallisia ja eri aistein nautittavia tiedollisia elämyksiä.
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This site includes Even ts in Helsinki in 1995 and Arts and Culture in Helsinki.
Art in Turku. A comprehensive site which is actually
updated. One of the best art sites in Finland.
Includes art links elsewhere, too.
A school's project on culture in the city of Raahe. "Seminaarin yläasteen projektityö. Projektin tarkoituksena on tutustuttaa oppilaat oman paikkakunnan kulttuuriin."
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The Theatre Academy (TeaK) is the highest art university of its kind in Finland that offers training in the fields of theatre and dance. Graduates of the Academy are either versatile visionary theatre professionals, qualified teachers or leading researchers in the fields of theatre or dance.
Introduction, Calendar, Tickets, Program, ...
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..."The Knot at the Cable" is a pilot project in the
field of
equal access to electronic information,
an electronic publishing house for the non-governmental
organisations,
cultural movements and individuals which form the
membership
of Katto-Meny, the cooperative society which maintains
the technical system,
and the Internet node of the Cable Factory"...
electric verse written by living Finnish and Finland-
Swedish poets
This site maintains lists of Finnish Culture sites,
too.
"M U U is an artist run organisation based in Helsinki, Finland. Its 250 members work in the fields of media arts, performance, installation, environmental art, conceptual art, critical theory, and in various interdisclipinary projects."
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