Josefina Nelimarkka's Arctic Clouds exhibition at Cultural Centre Valve

Working at the intersection of art, science and ecology, Nelimarkka reveals the hidden dynamics of the atmosphere and our relationship to it. The gallery transforms into a multisensory environment where light, sound and data visualize weather systems and planetary change.

In Arctic Clouds, Nelimarkka’s long-term experience of art and science continues with studioentropia, Athens-based exhibition designers-architects Yota Passia and Panagiotis Roupas specialised in spatial and conceptual exhibition design and Jussi Parikka, curator, writer, and media theorist who has worked extensively on elemental media and aesthetics.

Arctic Clouds is part of the Lumo Art & Tech festival. As part of the programme, the Arctic Clouds talks series brings together an international lineup of speakers, including Irini Papadimitriou, Aslak Aamot Helm and Lilian Kroth to discuss current themes in art, science, and environmental knowledge.

The exhibition has been created in collaboration with University of Oulu and Vaisala Oyj and Arctic Clouds exhibition's opening event will take place on13 November at 6-9 pm at Cultural Centre Valve. The opening event is free and open to all.

Josefina Nelimarkka

Josefina Nelimarkka is an interdisciplinary artist based between Paris and Helsinki mediating the elemental forces that underlie the ways we live, think, feel and act. Engaging with natural materials and ephemeral technologies, she explores air, presence and atmospheres of perception across transient landscapes and entangled climate futures.

In her research-based practice, weather is political, experiential and potential. Through meditative installations of light, glass, moving image and sound as well as spatialised real-time data environments, she approaches atmosphere as a shared continuum holding hybrid bodies, weather systems and planetary processes together. Air becomes both material and medium, shifting between visible and invisible, between present and deep time, between environmental and cosmological possibilities.

Arctic Clouds – Symposium on data, sensing and experience in the air on November 14

As part of the programme, the Arctic Clouds Symposium brings together an international lineup of speakers from art, academia, and curating to discuss current themes in art and science and environmental knowledge. The symposium will be held on November 14 at 11:00-15:00 at Cultural Centre Valve.

Speakers include curator Irini Papadimitriou, researcher Aslak Aamot Helm, a researcher in philosophies of nature and history of science Lilian Kroth, and Josefina Nelimarkka. You can learn more about the Arctic Clouds symposium programme on the Oulu2026 website.