**The Lahti International Poster Triennial celebrates its 50th anniversary!**

**Finland hosts 22nd international poster exhibition** 

  
**June 6–August 17, 2025, Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva** 

**Opening ceremony June 5, 2025**

  
The Lahti International Poster Triennial will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2025\. Continuing a tradition that began in 1975, this graphic design competition and exhibition will now be held for the 22nd time in Lahti. To honour the triennial’s 50th jubilee, the theme of our special anniversary category will be ‘freedom of expression’. Although this inherent human right is protected in many countries, free speech still remains under threat in many parts of the world.

  
**The triennial is a collaboration between:**

  
* Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva
* Grafia, Association of Visual Communication Designers in Finland
* The Finnish Friends of Posters Guild

Category C (Freedom of Expression) can be submitted anonymously and free of charge.

fee for Category A (Cultural, social and ideological posters) and Category B (Environmental posters).

The winners will be announced and the prizes will be presented at the opening of the exhibition. All participants who submitted posters are cordially invited to attend the opening on June 5, 2025.

  
Prizes:

  
Grand Prix €5000

The Grafia Tapani Aartomaa Prize €4000

The Lauri Tarasti Environmental Poster Prize €4000

The Lahti Prize €3000

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