Stories of Modern Finnish Design and Art – a guided tour by curator Tero Kuitunen. The guided tour takes you behind the scenes and offers insight into the exhibition’s context and development process. The eleven designers and their artistic works are introduced in depth and the central themes of the exhibition further explained. Tero Kuitunen is a spatial and product designer based in Helsinki, Finland. He has graduated as a designer from the Applied Arts MA programme at the Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture. Currently he is working as a freelance designer in several

Wild at Heart – A Collection of Modern Finnish Design and Art is curated by young designer Tero Kuitunen , that offers its viewers a look into the protean world of contemporary Finnish design. Finnish design is known abroad for its high quality and distinct silhouettes. Often, the design pieces that come to mind are somewhat subdued with clean lines and natural colours. There is also often an egalitarian side to them as Finns consider the ability to address societal problems and offer solutions to them a hallmark of good design. However, there is more to Finnish design than that. The name

The finnish stringquartet Briosa is coming to Budapest for the tenth Quartettissimo String Quartet Festival at Károlyi Castle. Performing at Károlyi the 29th of September will be Aino Yamaguchi, Ida Westerlund, Julie Svacinova and Siiri Nieminen. All group members are students at the Sibelius Academy's Junior Academy and are between 15-17 years old. They have also been students at the East Helsinki Music Institute. Come and see young finnish talents. You can find more information of the event on this website .

Conductor maestro Jorma Panula is back in Budapest for the 5th time for his Masterclass for Conductors. The Masterclass is held between the 21.8-26.8. The Masterclass is open for all applicants from all age ranges and the participants for the class have been chosen based on their applications. A selected few from the class will be chosen to perform on the final concert the 26.8 at Vigadó, one of Budapests historical concert venues. You can purchase tickets for the final concert from here and read more about the masterclass from here .

FinnAgora is back from a summer break, well rested and full of energy! We have started working and have a lot of different and exciting events for this fall. We attended this years Sziget Festival and supported finnish artists like Alma. This weekend the finnish illustrator JP Ahonen will be at Fekete Zaj festival. L1 Dancefest will take place in Budapest from the 1-4 of September, where the finnish dancer Taneli Törmä will be performing his piece LOCATION X/ Distortion. To keep up to date of our events order our newsletter available in Finnish or Hungarian. Also you can follow us on social