Valtteri Kleemola
Valtteri Kleemola (b.1989) is an artist from Helsinki who works with photographs and photo-editing. Kleemola is also the subject of the photographs, but the roles taken by Kleemola vary. Valtteri’s Worlds is Kleemola’s photography series, which is created from hundreds of self-portraits using social media tools and aesthetics. The series is Kleemola’s own self-invented project. […]
Jyrki Haapala
Jyrki Haapala is the writer and director of a film trilogy in Karelian language. With a dance artist’s background, Haapala approaches film narration especially through movement and rhythm. The scenes with a strong atmosphere are woven together through music and the verbal narration is bound together in a way to float on the visual and […]
Marianne Schmidt and Malin Karlsson
Marianne Schmidt (b.1978) and Malin Karlsson (b.1974) are working as artists at the Inuti studio, Stockholm. In art, Schmidt and Karlsson explore general and social structures through personal experiences. By using different techniques, including drawing, sculpture, film and language, they aim at understanding their own world, but also others’ mysteries. OAF curators’ comments: “Artists from […]
Sepi Kumpulainen Band
Seppo Tapani “Sepi” Kumpulainen, or “Kalevankatu’s singing caretaker”, is a Finnish performer of proactive folk music, of songs and comedy music. Kumpulainen made a first breakthrough in the early 1990s. Sepi’s best-known songs from that time include ”Mä oon mahtava mies” (“I am a mighty man”), ”Hirviö tuli mua vastaan” (“A monster came towards me”), […]
Sam Heat
Sam Heat is on the move with the utmost emotion and an open mind. Heat has left behind unnecessary music idioms. Heat’s material is approaching the total flow of consciousness. Melodies and harmonies range from pop and blues to freer expression. The English lyrics include flashes from black sausages, different chili varieties and even whiskey. […]
Rudewolf
Rudewolf aka Rudolf Väliaho is a 27-year-old self-taught grime artist. Music has been Rudewolf’s passion since being little, ever since listening to the radio in the family home. Rudewolf found their own voice while working at Kivimedia when, on a break, a co-worker showed Rudewolf the AJ Tracey music video for “Naila”. “I was sold […]
Kent Sidvall
Kent Sidvall is Swedish artist, writer and jazz singer who portrays his surrounding world with an open mind and with a precise, arty and gentle mannered style. Kent Sidvall recorded the album ”Victory For The Cool Jazz” in 2016, now available on Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music and other streaming platforms. In 2022, Sidvall also releases […]
Kalle Salonen Band
Kalle Salonen is a Finnish groove jazz musician whose main instrument is the Hammond organ. Over the years, Salonen has hosted the Hammond Club at Bar Loose and the late Elmu venue in Nosturi, Helsinki. Salonen has also worked as a radio show organist at Radio Helsinki. Kalle Salonen Band takes influences from funk, jazz […]
Jussi P Niinku Pekka
Jussi P Niinku Pekka plays experimental folk in Finnish, brain folk (in Finnish “aivofolk”). Brain folk echoes the focal points of the gray area of consciousness. The lyrics are psychedelic and assertive and they take advantage of the opportunities of the diversity and complexity of the Finnish language. High-pitched guitar sounds are often combined with […]
Eeva Lusenius
Eeva Lusenius is a singer, songwriter, whose songs deal with the everyday things of life, at the same time with a serious mind, but with a big heart and humor. If the chicken tastes delicious Lusenius makes a song about nuggets and of course, of a delicious dip! Lusenius also performs as the singer and […]
