17.-28.9. Kalle Vainio: The Land Where It Always Rains

Opening Wed 17.9. 17-21

18.-21.9. 15 - 19

23.-28 15 - 19

The Land Where It Always Rains is an immersive installation by multidisciplinary artist Kalle Vainio. It weaves together reel-to-reel tape machines, field recordings, and video projection into a meditative exploration of rain and its endless cycles. The fourth iteration of the work turns its focus to memories of rain—personal, collective, and ephemeral.

The installation is never static: shifting light and the gradual wearing of the tapes continually reshape its atmosphere. Built with vintage reel-to-reel recorders, it pays homage to the tape-looping practices pioneered in the 1940s and later embraced by artists such as Pierre Schaeffer and John Cage.

The work has been shown in various forms at the University of the Arts Helsinki (2023), Gallery Utopia / Society for Sound Art (2024), and Flow Festival Helsinki (2025).

Kalle Vainio is a versatile artist whose work explores different dimensions of experiencing time—its cycles, erosion, and disappearance. He often works with tape recorders and related techniques, transforming the old into something new. Under the artist name Project Vainiolla, he has released several solo albums, performed at numerous festivals, and created interdisciplinary concert projects. He has also composed music for film.