"Serbia is in the European Union today," Ambassador to Finland Sasa Obradovic said at the opening of the "Applied Nostalgia" exhibition on September 20 at the EC Representation in Helsinki. Twenty photographs of Helsinki by Serbian art photographer Marija Piroski and twenty photographs by Belgrade-based Finnish artist Tanja Mikkola have been exhibited, grouped in pairs, aiming to point out the similarities between the two cities and their lives.

The photographic exhibition, hosted by the Ministry of European Integration in the capital of the country holding the EU Council Presidency, was organized this year in honor of the jubilee - 90 years of Serbian-Finnish diplomatic relations.



Welcome speeches were given by Tamara Delic, Assistant Minister for European Integration of Serbia, Johanna Sumuvuori, State Secretary of the Finnish Foreign Ministry, Belgrade Mayor Zoran Radojicic, Chair of the Helsinki Executive Council Otso Kivekas, and Tanja Mikkola, one of the authors of the exhibition.



The exhibition runs through September 30.