Jaakko Autio

Sound and media artist, Oulu, Finland

Works

EN / FI

INTER series

INTER listens to what arises between people, or when a person meets their surroundings. Each voice belongs to someone and is heard in relation to the others. What emerges as sacred or newly meaningful in this space can quickly fade. The works make room for these moments and for the trust that may grow with them: we can go on from here, even while unsure and without yet knowing where we are going.

INTER, Jurmo on the island of Jurmo.

INTER, Jurmo
Jurmo, Finnish Archipelago, 2026

INTER, Held installation view.

INTER, Held
Galleria Oiva, Ylivieska, 2026

RE series

The RE series turns towards the body and renewal: returning, remembering and sounding again. Shared choral material takes different forms in an ironworks landscape, an open pavilion, a whispering spiral and a gallery encountered through headphones. RE-SOUND develops this material in collaboration with Akasaka’s paintings. The series culminated in RE-BIRTH.

RE-BIRTH at MUU Helsinki.

RE-BIRTH
MUU Helsinki, 2025

RE-VERB installation view.

RE-VERB
Aine Art Museum, Tornio / KITA, Joutsa, 2025

RE-DITUS installation view.

RE-DITUS
Möhkö Ironworks, Ilomantsi / Halkosaari Pavilion, Lappeenranta, 2025

Visitors listening to RE-FLORIS among paintings at Villa Suruton.

RE-FLORIS
Villa Suruton, Savonlinna, 2025

Border series

In the Border Series I listened for the traces geopolitics leaves in people, and looked in singing together for a space where one’s own voice and belonging to a place could take shape amid languages, histories and borders.

On the Border at Kreenholm, Narva.

ON THE BORDER
Narva, Tartu, Porvoo, Helsinki, 2022–2023

OrigiNation installation view.

OrigiNation
Joensuu, Tartu, Tallinn, Kerava, 2023–2024

Harmony in Displacement at Haihatus, Joutsa.

Harmony in Displacement
Haihatus, Joutsa, 2024

Possible Worlds.

Possible Worlds
Narva Art Residency, 2024–2025

Collaborations

Collaborations with Akasaka bring sound into relation with drawings, paintings, generative image and live performance. The documentation also opens up the artists’ working practices.

A visitor and a generative video work in Meeting Point.

MEETING POINT
Akasaka & Jaakko Autio · Yö Galleria, Helsinki, 2024

RE-SOUND: paintings and headphone stations.

RE-SOUND
Akasaka & Jaakko Autio · Galleria Aski, Turku, 2025

Children kneel at the water loudspeaker with headphones on, Tartu Art Museum.

Memories of the Leaning Building
Lundahl & Seitl in artistic collaboration with Jaakko Autio · Tartu Art Museum, 2024–2025

An interactive sound installation for children and families, with two water loudspeakers and a whispering wall. The work page includes an exhibition film, artist interview and curatorial research.

Other works

OWLA at Oulu Art Museum.

OWLA
Oulu Art Museum, 2023

OWLA brings human voices and water into a shared listening space. The work page also includes Sara Oussaiden’s dissertation and a visitor’s account of their experience.