Santeri Tuori

Sky #9, 2011–2012
pigment print
150 x 185,5 cm, edition of 3
45 x 55,5 cm, edition of 6

SANTERI TUORI’S works are elegant and they have a marked appeal to the senses. The aspect of time essential to photography relates in an interesting way to Tuori’s collage-type method. A single piece contains pictures of many different moments, and even from different years. His work is characterized by the logic of layeredness, covering and revealing, with individual works consisting of several layers of images. The layers translucently visible through each other contain both black and white and colour photographs.  

Santeri Tuori (b. 1970, Espoo) lives and works in Helsinki. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group  exhibitions at venues including Serlachius Museum Gösta in Mänttä, Schlassgaart in Clervaux, Luxembourg, the Purdy Hicks Gallery in London, and Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire in France. His most recent group exhibitions include venues such as Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä; Kunsthalle Helsinki; Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck; Beraro Museum, Lisbon; and Rovaniemi Art Museum. There are videos and photographs by Tuori in many public and private collections in Europe, Japan, and the USA.

Sky #27, 2015
pigment print
105 x 158cm, edition of 6
40 x 60 cm, edition of 6

Forest #30, 2016
pigment print
110 x 135 cm, edition of 6
40 x 49 cm, edition of 6

Time Is No Longer Round
2 Feb – 28 Feb 2016
exhibition view at Galerie Anhava

Water Lilies #16, 2020
pigment print
framed
183 x 137 cm, edition of 6
56 x 40 cm, edition of 6

Time Is No Longer Round
2 Feb – 28 Feb 2016
Exhibition view at Galerie Anhava

Waterfall, 2006
still
DVD, video projection
14 min 23 sec

Forest #24, 2015
pigment print
85 x 143,5 cm
Edition 1/6 + 2 ap
45 x 76 cm
Edition 1/6 + 2 ap

Forest (Reddish 1), 2009
Two channel HD video projection, 5.1 surround sound
7 min 25 sec

Sea, 2004
DVD, video projection
4 min 6 sec

Forest (Lush 1), 2009
HD video projection, stereo
6 min 54 sec

Karlotta (Still #4), 2004
56 x 76 cm
digital C-print, Diasec
edition of 5

Tokyo View #2, 2009/2016
pigment print, framed
20 x 35 cm
edition of 6

Selection of available works. For the full list, please contact galerie(at)anhava.com

Sky #30, 2015
pigment print, framed

Size I: 105 x 158cm / frame size: 119 x 172 cm
Edition 1/6 + 2 ap
Size II: 40 x 60 cm / frame size: 53 x 73 cm
Edition 1/6 + 2 ap

Water Lilies #9, 2020
pigment print, framed

Size I: image: 183 x 137 cm / frame: 196 x 150 cm
Edition 2/6 + 2 ap
Size II: image: 93,5 x 70 cm / frame: 105,5 x 82 cm
Edition 1/6 + 2 ap

Forest #9, 2008–2011
pigment print, framed

Size I: 150 x 218 cm / frame size: 170 x 238 cm
100 x 145,5 cm / frame size: 117 x 145,5 cm
Edition 2/6 + 2 ap
Size II: 70 x 102 cm / frame size: 84 x 116 cm
Edition 1/6 + 2 ap

Forest #22, 2015
pigment print, framed

Size I: 85 x 143,5 cm / frame size: 99 x 157,5 cm
Edition 1/6 + 2 ap
Size II: 45 x 76 cm / frame size: 58 x 89 cm
Edition 1/6 + 2 ap

Sky #28, 2015
pigment print, framed

Size I:
225,5 x 150 cm / frame size: 245,5 x 170 cm or
158 x 105 cm / frame size: 172 x 119 cm
Edition 3/6 + 2 ap
Size II: 60 x 40 cm / frame size: 73 x 53 cm
Edition 1/6 + 2 ap

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SANTERI TUORI’S (b. 1970) works are elegant and they have a marked appeal to the senses. He has total command of the latest means of making images, using them to create new, original works in which an experience or recollection of nature is combined with an observing gaze and selection.

The aspect of time essential to photography relates in an interesting way to Tuori’s collage-type method. A single piece contains pictures of many different moments, and even from different years.

Tuori’s work is characterized by the logic of layeredness, covering and revealing, with individual works consisting of several layers of images. The layers translucently visible through each other contain both black and white and colour photographs. The artist occasionally applies reverse, negative images in his compositions. Almost eight metres wide, the work gives the leading role to a landscape of clouds, its large size emphasizing the relationship of the viewer’s body and the image. In the photographs of forest subjects, the gaze rises to the dense branches of the treetops. In the urban landscape extending to the horizon, the moving colour image projected on the black and white photograph shows how dusk falls on a city. The points of light of cars flit along a main thoroughfare and the lights gradually begin to shine more and more intensively. Full of details, the photographs are tranquil and almost manic at the same time.

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SANTERI TUORI

Born 1970

EDUCATION
2003 Master of Arts, University of Art and Design Helsinki
2000 Bachelor of Arts, University of Art and Design Helsinki
1999 – 2000 Hochschule der Künste Berlin
1999 Master of Law, University of Helsinki

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2016
    • Time Is No Longer Round, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki 2014 Galerie Taik Persons, Berlin
    • Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
  • 2012
    • Photography and Video, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
    • Forest, DAAP Galleries, Fotofocus, Cincinnati
    • Forest, Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen
  • 2011
    • Forest, Gallery Effearte, Milan
  • 2010
    • Institut Finlandais, Paris
  • 2009
    • Pro Arte Foundation, St. Petersburg Spiral – Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
    • EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo
  • 2006
    • From the series: THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS, Galerie Anhava, Project Room, Helsinki
    • Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum, Turku
    • Waterfall, Galerie Anhava, Project Room, Helsinki Haninge Konsthall
  • 2005
    • Otto Dix-Haus, Gera
  • 2004
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
    • Malmö Art Museum, Malmö
    • Galerie SPHN, Berlin
  • 2003
    • Galerie Anhava, Project Room, Helsinki
  • 2002
    • Bogeyman and other works, Gallery Kluuvi, Helsinki
  • 1999
    • Picture of Power, Finnish National Archive, Helsinki
  • 1997
    • Visitor, Gallery Zebra, Karjaa

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

  • 2016
    • The Dream of Flying, Brandts art museum, Odense
  • 2015
    • Skyward, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg von der Höhe
  • 2014
    • Go-Betweens: The World Seen Through Children, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
  • 2013
    • Fotográfica Bogota
  • 2013
    • Hämeenlinna Art Museum
  • 2012
    • Light | Wood, Chile Design Biennale, Santiago de Chile
    • The 7th Wave – Wihuri and Visual Art, Taidehalli, Helsinki
  • 2011
    • In Motion – I Rörelse, Fotogalleriet Format, Malmö
    • Fiskars Ruukki
    • Hyvinkää Art Museum
    • Forest, Serlachius Art Museum Gösta, Mänttä Waters – vesiä – amanz!, Kuopio Art Museum
  • 2010
    • Solitude, international video art exhibition, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn It ́s a
    • Set Up, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
    • Highlighted, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
    • Nordic Art Triennal 2010, Eskildstuna Art Museum Close to Nature, Neuer
    • Kunstverein Aschaffenburg
  • 2009
    • Finlandia 200 – Finnish Portraiture 1809-2009, Meilahti Art Museum, Helsinki
    • Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
    • Art Basel, Art Unlimited
  • 2008
    • Artic Hysteria Onscreen, MoMA, New York
    • Galerie les filles du calvaire, Brussels
    • An Lanntair Arts Center, Outer Hebrides
    • Crac Alsace, Maan asema / La position de la Terre, Altkirch
    • Frauen Porträts, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck
    • The Helsinki School – La nouvelle photographie finlandaise, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris
  • 2007
    • Galerie les filles du calvaire, Paris
    • Centre photographique d ́ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault
    • Kuntsi Museum for Modern Art, Vaasa
    • Helsinki School, Stenersen Museum, Oslo
  • 2006
    • Landscape, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
    • Helsinki School, Borås Art Museum
    • Helsinki School, Langhans Gallery, Prague
    • XI Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä
    • Brussels Art Fair, One man show with Galerie Anhava
  • 2005
    • ISE Cultural Foundation, New York Timebandits, Råhuset, Copenhagen
    • Unheimlich Jung, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere Location One, New York
    • White Box, New York
    • Helsinki School, Kulturhuset, Stockholm 2004 Bror Hjurths Hus
    • Galerie Roellin | duerr, St Gallen
    • Art Basel, Art Unlimited with the project 46664
    • 30 by Taik, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense
    • moi suomi – Das Finnische Film – und Kulturfestival, Berlin
    • Galerie Photo du Pôle Image Haute-Normandie Rouen 2003 46664 – Concert, Cap Town
    • KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
    • Galerie Nathalie Parienté, Paris
    • USINE COROT, Marseille
    • Meeting Place, a touring exhibition, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
    • The 108th Annual Exhibition of Finnish Artists NUORET, Taidehalli, Helsinki
  • 2002
    • Masters of Arts, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki Photography and Video, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere
  • 2000
    • (SIC), CuLTUREN, Västerås
  • 1999
    • Spaces, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art
The Finnish Museum of Photography
Frac Haute Normandie France
Malmö Art Museum
Brandts Klædefabrik: Museet for Fotokunst
KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art
The Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Art Foundation Collection
Wäino Aaltonen Art Museum
Private collections in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and United States