Meet our Cultural Personalities
Oulu2026 Cultural Personality: Valentino Tignanelli
Our culture personality of the week is Valentino Tignanelli. He is a designer and architect.
Oulu2026 Culture Personality: Rap artist Sana
Our cultural personality of the week is Sanna Rönnberg, better known to the audiences as Sana, under which name she has been making music since...
Art in the City: the Oulu2026 mural
“In winter it might change people’s lives. They look at this painting and they remember that summers in Finland are always very nice.” A piece of...
Cultural personality of the week: Rumon Gamba
This week’s Cultural Personality is Rumon Gamba. A lifetime of playing and studying music has lead him to where he is now.
Cultural personality of the week: Transistori
Our cultural personality of the week is Transistori, an experimental sound art collective from Oulu and the highlight of the “Farewell to the...
Culture personality of the Week: Petri Kuusela
Our Cultural Personality of the week is Petri Kuusela, an Oulu-based guitarist, producer, songwriter and educator. Petri says he has been given the...
Cultural Personality of the week: Charles Gil
This week’s Cultural Personality is Charles Gil, Festival Manager heading the Raahe Jazz on the Beach for the seventh year running. Hailing from...
Oulu2026 Cultural Personality: Jetta Huttunen
The eighth ART Ii Biennial that took place this June featured ecologically sustainable environmental and sculpture art for the northern environment within the areas of significant cultural heritage in Ii and the Ii Environmental Art Park. Involved in the ART Ii Biennial organisation since 2018, Jetta hails from Oulu but has also lived in Lapland for long periods of time.
Cultural Personality of the week: Anna-Mari Nousiainen
Our Cultural Personality of the week is Anna-Mari or Ansku Nousiainen, who describes herself in her Instagram bio as: “Failed film-maker, mediocre...