New Jazz From Finland is arranged for the second time in Budapest in December. New Jazz From Finland is a collaboration between FinnAgora and Budapest Music Center and brings exciting contemporary acts from the Finnish jazz scene to Hungary. This year Mopo and OK:KO are booked for shows at Budapest’s Opus Jazz Club. Mopo is a collective of three talented musicians from Finland. The energetic trio saw the daylight in the fall of 2009, when the musicians brainstormed as a result of a bar-fight. Mopo ("a moped") accelerates easily from zero to speed of light, but mostly the trio steps on the gas

In the prestigious Faur Zsófi Gallery opens the exhibition called OFFSPACE – The Art of Infinite Space by Finnish artist Jussi Niva and Hungarian artist Zsófi Barabás. Jussi Niva, who graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts1989, works with paintings that challenge the border between two and three-dimensional. This particular technique makes the geometrical shapes of his paintings to change depending on where the viewer is standing. Niva´s paintings were exhibited already in 1992 at Documenta, one of the most important contemporary art exhibitions in Europe. After that he has had

So you like your food delivered to your door. Awesome. How about your art? The creative pioneers from Wolt Finland and Kallan & Co. are visiting Budapest Design Week 18.10 to share their visions about bringing art closer to home. Design Delivered is a first of its kind initiative, living on the borderline between state-of-the-art food delivery and contemporary design. Due to big interest in the Wolt project Design Delieved the evening discussion is already sold out, but the event will be filmed and shared in FinnAgora's media channels after the event. More info coming soon. Information

Musician Hilja Grönfors together with the other founders of the Finnish Roma Culture Museum were in Budapest for ten days to establish collaboration with Hungarian Romedia Archive. During their visit, with help of FinnAgora, the group organized an event to announce that the museum will open in Helsinki. At the event Hilja Grönfors performed together with Hungarian Romengo orchestra, the publicist of Roma Culture Museum Angelika Nikkinen gave a speech about the museum’s significance for younger Roma generations and museum’s curator, film director Katariina Lillqvist told about museum’s

Finnish video artist Salla Tykkä's work will be on display at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. The exhibition opens on the 6th October 2018 an continues until January 2019. The exhibition is one of the biggest ever of an Finnish artist in Budapest. Salla Tykkä began her career in the mid-1990s. Her short films have been shown not only at international exhibitions but also in film festival competitions. For her work Giant, also on display at the Ludwig Museum, she received the Canon Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2014. According to the Curator of the Ludwig Museum