Selected objects

Kukkilintu (Solstice bird)
Objects, 2025
Stoneware ceramics & candles

Photos: Szymon Sokołowski

World eggs
Objects, 2020 – 2030
Stoneware earthenware ceramics

The art project “World Eggs” explores idea of a new world emerging from imaginary bird eggs. The story is an updated version of the first chapter in the Finnish national epic “Kalevala”, where the world was born from seven eggs. These eggs gave birth to the stars, the sky, the earth, and the sun—the world we now live in.

In 2020, Alanko wanted to provide a new perspective and spirit to the story towards unity and creation ; a dream of a better world being born in the time we live in now. The goal of “World Eggs” is to bring together numerous different elements, details, characters, and differences in appearance and color that each egg in this project symbolizes. These are the important qualities of nature and humans needed for a better world to be born.

The project started in 2020 and it will end in 2030.

Eternal Botany
Ceramic installation / Objects, 2025
Stoneware and raku ceramics
(Untitled pieces)

Eternal Botany traces the unseen connections between human, animal, and plant spirits—an entanglement of forms, memories, and transformations. I imagine botanical mutations beyond familiar flora, fragments of a future archive. Stoneware, layered through high-temperature ceramic firings, holds onto what remains. A quiet endurance. A record of nature in flux.

Where time ends
Ceramic installation / Objects, 2021
Stoneware ceramics, light
Installation for Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Part of FLASH3 light biennale

Where Time Ends (Mihin kaikki päättyy) was conceived in response to the theme of the 2021 FLASH3 – Light and Death Biennale.

Each star-shaped piece in the installation pulses with its own rhythm, symbolizing both illumination and extinction. These stars represent more than celestial bodies; they evoke the mysteries of time beyond death, astrology, and the countless wishes humanity has projected onto the night sky for centuries. The work invites reflection on the nature of existence, the passage of time, and the unknown that follows life’s end. Comprising 3 to 9 large stoneware ceramic stars, the installation draws direct inspiration from real stars, with the number of stars varying depending on the exhibition space. The result is a contemplative meditation on the vastness of the universe and our fleeting presence within it.

The work is produced in collaboration with Mateusz Krain.
Year: 2021

Pulikka
Wood installation / 2021
1st price in the public art competition for Thohmajärvi main library
(The installation is permanent)

Size: 8m x 6m

The artwork has been assembled from 300 traditional Karelian rolling pins.
Rolling pins have a long history of use, spanning centuries, right up to the present day, in crafting “Karelian pasties.” The making of Karelian pasties and the techniques involved are integral to Karelian culture.