Aleksi Jaakkola

Aleksi Jaakkola is a Finnish visual artist based in Reykjavík, Iceland. His interdisciplinary practice explores the relationship between humans and the environment through site-specific investigations and embodied research. Rooted in phenomenological engagement, Jaakkola’s work seeks to access the essence of place and foster dialogue with landscapes and other-than-human agencies.

He works across media including photography, sound, video, drawing, performance, found materials, and poetic writing. His methods involve sensory observation, meditation, and stillness in the field, combined with research into geology, anthropology, folklore and environmental science. These approaches allow him to map subtle processes, interconnections and material memory within ecological contexts.

Over the past decade, Jaakkola has conducted field-based investigations across the Nordic region, presenting outcomes in exhibitions, performances, and collaborative projects. Stones and water play central roles in his practice—as elemental carriers of memory, transformation, and exchange. He holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture from Aalto University. His ongoing research contributes to contemporary discourses on materiality, environmental aesthetics, and post-anthropocentric perspectives in art.

 

Image: Saana bear stone from Field_Notes – The North Escaping, 2023. Photo: Aleksi Jaakkola.