{"id":27340,"date":"2026-07-22T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/archives\/table-ronde-avec-les-artistes-de-guarding-the-baltic-sea\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:46:56","slug":"artist-talk-guarding-the-baltic-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/en\/right-now\/artist-talk-guarding-the-baltic-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist talk: Guarding the Baltic Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five artists-in-residence participating in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goethe.de\/ins\/fi\/en\/kul\/sup\/sea.html\">Guarding the Baltic Sea 2026 project<\/a> will share their artistic practices, research processes, and ongoing work engaged with water bodies. The event offers a unique opportunity to discover how contemporary art can contribute to environmental awareness, generate new forms of knowledge, and open conversations about the challenges and possibilities facing the Baltic Sea region today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the talks, we will begin with an introduction to the Guarding the Baltic Sea project by curators Taru Elfving and Julia Lohmann. After that, the artists will present their work in an open-discussion format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Free entry upon registration. The language of the event is English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Laure Vigna (FR)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mia Tamme (EE)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Noora Sandgren (FI)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rasa Weber (DE)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robert Fusco (FI)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Weronika Zalewska (PL)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guarding the Baltic Sea is a project by EUNIC Finland and Goethe-Institut Finnland, French Institute of Finland, the Polish Embassy in Helsinki, and the Estonian Embassy in Helsinki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EUNIC \u2014 European Union National Institutes for Culture \u2014 is Europe\u2019s network of national cultural institutes and organisations, with 39 members from all EU member states and associated countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-theme-palette-3-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/institutfranaisdefinlande\/2322059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">REGISTRATION<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for an afternoon of artist presentations exploring our relationship with the sea, waterways, and aquatic ecosystems!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1039],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-right-now"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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