Guarding the Baltic Sea

Guarding the Baltic Sea is a multidisciplinary art project set on the island of Vartiosaari, located in the Helsinki archipelago in Finland.

Bringing together artists from Finland, France, Germany, Estonia, and Poland, the project seeks to develop artistic practices that combine knowledge, empathy, and action to raise awareness of the ecological challenges facing the Baltic Sea and other bodies of water.

The French artists selected for this program are the filmmaker duo Camille Zisswiller and Nicolas Lefebvre.

The initiative consists of five artistic residencies on Vartiosaari Island between May and September 2025. These exchanges will lead to workshops, public discussions, and a final exhibition, accompanied by a multidisciplinary conference on the environmental challenges of seas and oceans, particularly the Baltic Sea.

You can find the project’s home page at the Goethe-Institut Finnland’s website– check it out to learn more!

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.

EUNIC – European Union National Institutes for Culture – is Europe’s network of national cultural institutes and organizations, with 39 members from all EU member states and associated countries.