Josefina Nelimarkka participates in the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Her artwork is presented at the Finland Pavilion as part of the official programme. By bringing art and culture into this international dialogue, Finland highlights the vital role of creative imagination in addressing climate change – demonstrating how the power of art can foster awareness, empathy and deeper engagement with our shared environment.
You are welcome to join us for a multisensory experience of art, clouds and atmosphere, drop in anytime.
The Cloud Hour at the Finland Pavilion:
Tue 11.11. 18-19:00
Mon 17.11. 18-19:00
Tue 18.11. 18-19:00
Wed 19.11. 09-10:00
Wed 19.11. 18-19:00
Find here the Finland Pavilion programme: https://www.clc.fi/cop30
In collaboration with Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research INAR – University of Helsinki, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland & Embassy of Finland in Brazil.
The Cloud Hour is powered by VAISALA measurement technology.
"Clouds appear as ethereal, yet they hold extensive data on the atmospheric conditions and hydrological processes that shape our planet. The Cloud Hour is a possibility to pause, reflect and imagine within the mysteries of clouds."
The Cloud Hour
Josefina Nelimarkka invites the visitors of COP30 to enter into the experiential space of clouds where art and science merge, calling for a profound recognition of our entanglement and collective responsibility within the shared space of air.
The Cloud Hour is an immersive video and sound installation that unfolds the hidden rhythms of our atmosphere, inviting audiences to pause, reflect and experience the planet’s climate system in a new way. Through the unique interactive technology, the artwork makes visible the unseen forces and interconnected processes of the hydrological cycle. By translating scientific data into a multisensory experience, Josefina Nelimarkka reveals how artistic imagination can deepen our understanding the atmosphere and strenghten our relationship to the living world.
The Cloud Hour reminds us climate action begins with perception. Bringing art and clouds as part of the Finland’s COP30 pavilion, Josefina Nelimarkka encourages a deep listening of the environment that goes beyond observation towards an atmospheric consciousness that precede and sustain every decision we make.
“The air inside the glass connects the present day to the unknown horizons of the future. I am fascinated by the notion of embodied knowledge in the materiality - within the environmental processes that surround us – and by how air holds data and memory of the planet’s transformation, carrying the past within each breath and offering us the possibility to act toward the future.”
The Flow of Time
Glass serves as a sensuous medium for engaging with air and the hydrological cycle – to sculpt and imagine within, to reveal the unseen forces that sustain the atmospheric circulation. For Finnish artist Josefina Nelimarkka, the dialogue between material and atmosphere lies at the heart of her artistic practice, with glass becoming a beautiful container to explore the delicate, interconnected worlds of air and water. Formed through air and breath, her glass sculpture calls us to imagine the sensitivity of the climate system that holds the weather – to recognise that air as a living continuum that connects all beings, where every breath is an act of participation in the atmosphere.
For a long time, the artist has been studying the complex cloud and aerosol interactions and water cycle in collaboration with climate scientists. Clouds remain one of the biggest uncertainties in the climate system. When the clouds are brought into art, they move from the factual into the sensorial realm and the cloud emerges as a possibility for imagined futures. At COP30, the glass sculpture reflects the fragility of the hydrological cycle and the fact that we are also made of water.
Josefina Nelimarkka is an interdisciplinary artist working across environment and experientality. Through ephemeral technologies and scientific collaborations, her artworks bring forth presence and the sensitivity of the invisible realms of air and climate. For over a decade, she has been dedicated to culture-based climate action – translating scientific data and atmospheric phenomena into shared spaces that awaken perception, empathy, and responsibility toward our shared planet.