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Red curtains open like the entrance to a circus tent. Above them hangs a single word: Huimaa! – Finnish for “dizzying,” “breathtaking” or “amazing.”

Inside the exhibition hall, oversized clown trousers dangle from suspenders beside colourful costumes, juggling clubs and faded black-and-white photographs of performers from another era. A unicycle hangs nearby. ...

When you walk into Rushan Nasretdin’s art studio in the southern Finnish town of Järvenpää, you don’t see paint tubes, palettes and canvases. Instead, birch bark, branches and rocks line the shelves. There’s a woodsy, fresh smell and you feel your shoulders relax, as if you just stepped into the forest.

That’s because most of Nasretdin’s art supplies don’t come from a ...

When Katja Pantzar moved from Canada to Finland in the early 2000s, she planned to stay for one year to explore her Finnish roots. More than 20 years later, she is still there and thriving.

“I fell in love with the lifestyle and the many aspects of life in Finland that made sense to me,” Pantzar says when we meet at the Oodi Library in central Helsinki, which she frequ...

Finland’s internationally acclaimed architectural heritage has received its latest global recognition as Aalto Works, a collection of 13 buildings and sites designed by Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto, joins the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The Aalto Works ensemble comprises  examples of modern architecture across Finland, showcasing the work of one of the country’s most i...

Lifting off

Born in a barn in Finland, Kelluu is redefining how humanity observes the planet.
 For Jiri Jormakka, cofounder and head of sales,
their northern roots are a strength.

“Our airships complement existing methods like drones, helicopters and satellites, but we bring something none of them can: precise, continuous and scalable coverage of vast areas. They don’...