White Nights is a site-specific exhibition shaped by the industrial architecture of AaltoSiilo, where industrial systems, technological infrastructures, and cultural rituals are approached as active environments.
White Nights is a site-specific exhibition shaped by the industrial architecture of AaltoSiilo, where industrial systems, technological infrastructures, and cultural rituals are approached as active environments in which human action encounters counterforces embedded within the site itself.
Through works exploring urban transformation and ecological relations in the context of modernism’s material legacy, human perception no longer stands at the center, but fractures within systems operating with increasing autonomy.
Alongside the exhibition, participating artist Jaakko Myyri unveils the artwork Crow’s Feet, built from the original materials of AaltoSiilo. The work builds on a conjunction of industrial modernism and the perspective of avian life, forming a bond through material fragments that offer an elevated, non-human point of view.
In Jaakko Myyri’s Dweller Model, audiences enter an embodied encounter with a system in a state of full automated governance, an auditory system that models an agent moving across the exhibition space as human control begins to slip.
Jihyoung Han’s Nostalgia Bunker installation depicts a transitional state in which the old world has disappeared and the new has not yet fully emerged. The work presents a public telephone booth that references the collapse of social structures such as the state, corporations, and the nuclear family. Its exterior, covered in graffiti and stickers, represents resistance to neoliberal spatial control as well as the self-organization of marginal communities and the redefinition of identities.
Members of the South-Korean Daeju collective (Dan Kim, Juae Park, Jin Hong, Grim Park) work site specifically in Oulu through shared making processes, merging elements from Korean and Nordic craft communities. Through video, ceramics and paintings, they treat identity and tradition with collective gestures where cultural memory becomes relationally reshaped.
Part of the official Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture programme.
Welcome to the opening at 3.6. 18:00!
