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) lives and works in Helsinki. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including at Fotografiska in New York, Stockholm and Tallinn; Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Schlassgaart, Luxembourg; Kunsthalle, Helsinki; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and Beraro Museum, Lisbon. Tuori’s works have been acquired by several major collections, such as EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, the Serlachius Museum, the Finnish Museum of Photography, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Malmö Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, as well as numerous private collections.Tuori has also realised several public artworks in Finland.

Immediate Nature
6 Feb – 2 Mar 2025

exhibition view

Immediate Nature 2 ⎜ Niila, 2023
archival pigment print, framed
183 x 140 cm
ed. 6

Immediate Nature
6 Feb – 2 Mar 2025

exhibition view

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cloud #5, 2025
pigment print on washi paper, framed
47 x 60,5 cm
ed. 6

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

Sky (Round) 5, 2018
pigmenttivedos, Diasec, 12 mm akryyli /
pigmenttryck, Diasec, 12 mm akryl /
pigment print, Diasec, 12 mm acrylic
∅ 90 cm, ed. 6

Water Lilies 14, 2020
Two sizes: 160,5 x 210 cm | 82 x 105,5 cm
archival pigment print, framed, museum glass
ed. 6

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 #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

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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
Lives and works in Helsinki

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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2025
    • Immediate Nature, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
  • 2023
    • Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, Great Britain
  • 2021  
    • Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland
    • Clervaux, Cité De L’image, Luxemburg
  • 2020
    • Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, Great Britain
  • 2018
    • Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, Great Britain
  • 2016
    • Time Is No Longer Round, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
  • 2014
    • Galerie Taik Persons, Berlin, Germany
    • Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  • 2012
    • Photography and Video, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
    • Forest, DAAP Galleries, Fotofocus, Cincinnati, USA
    • Forest, Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2011
    • Forest, Gallery Effearte, Milan, Italy
  • 2010
    • Institut Finlandais, Paris, France
  • 2009
    • Pro Arte Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia
    • Spiral – Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
    • EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
  • 2006
    • From the series: THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS, Galerie Anhava, Project Room, Helsinki, Finland
    • Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum, Turku, Finland
    • Waterfall, Galerie Anhava, Project Room, Helsinki, Finland
    • Haninge Konsthall, Sweden
  • 2005
    • Otto Dix-Haus, Gera, Germany
  • 2004
    • Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
    • Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
    • Galerie SPHN, Berlin, Germany
  • 2003
    • Galerie Anhava, Project Room, Helsinki, Finland
  • 2002
    • Bogeyman and other works, Gallery Kluuvi, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1999
    • Picture of Power, Finnish National Archive, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1997
    • Visitor, Gallery Zebra, Karjaa, Finland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

  • 2024
    • Photographs, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, Great Britain
    • Vienna Contemporary, Austria
    • In Bloom, Fotografiska Tallinn, Estonia
    • In Bloom, Fotografiska New Yor, USA
  • 2023
    • Kaspar David Friedrich – Art for a New Age, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
    • In Bloom, Fotografiska Stockholm, Sweden
    • The Veneer of Happiness, Persons Project, Berlin, Germany
  • 2022
    • Morning Coffee on the Roof of a Town, Serlachius Museums, Finland
    • Eye on Nature, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
    • Our Choises – A Selection from the Hämeenlinna Art Museum Collection, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland
  • 2021
    • New Perspectives Through Photography – 25 Years of the Helsinki School,
    • Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
    • Impressions – From Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Collection, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
  • 2020
    • A Fresh Breeze from the North – The Helsinki School at Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübec
  • 2019
    • Domaine de Chaumont-Sur-Loire, France
    • Histories of Faces: Belting Variations, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
    • together with Kim Simonson, Ålands Konstmuseum, Åland
    • Topsy-Turvy, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
  • 2018
    • New Territory: Landscape Photography Today, Denver Art Museum, USA
    • Vexi Salmi Art Collection, Kajaani Art Museum, Finland
  • 2017
    • Audience Curated Media Art, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
    • Maailma On Toinen, Villa Roosa, Orimattila, Finland
    • Me: Self Portraits Through Time, Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
    • Real Celebration, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
  • 2016
    • Meadows and Wilderness, Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä, Finland
    • Romanticism and the Sublime, Lubomirov / Angus-Huges, London, Great Britain
    • Haje – Out of Chaos or Was It the Other Way, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
    • Everything Will Be Alright – Kumu Art Film Festival, Kumu Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
    • The Dream of Flying, Brandts art museum, Odense, Denmark
  • 2015
    • Skyward, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg von der Höhe, Germany
  • 2014
    • Go-Betweens: The World Seen Through Children, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2013
    • Fotográfica Bogota 2013, Colombia
    • Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland
  • 2012
    • Light | Wood, Chile Design Biennale, Santiago de Chile, Chile
    • The 7th Wave – Wihuri and Visual Art, Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
  • 2011
    • In Motion – I Rörelse, Fotogalleriet Format, Malmö, Sweden
    • Fiskars Ruukki, Finland
    • Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland
    • Forest, Serlachius Art Museum Gösta, Mänttä, Finland
    • Waters – vesiä – amanz!, Kuopio Art Museum, Finland
  • 2010
    • Solitude, international video art exhibition, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
    • It´s a Set Up, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
    • Highlighted, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Nordic Art Triennal 2010, Eskildstuna Art Museum, Sweden
    • Close to Nature, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Germany
  • 2009
    • Finlandia 200 – Finnish Portraiture 1809-2009, Meilahti Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
    • Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
  • 2008
    • Artic Hysteria Onscreen, MoMA, New York, United States
    • Galerie les filles du calvaire, Brussels, Belgium
    • An Lanntair Arts Center, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
    • Crac Alsace, Maan asema / La position de la Terre, Altkirch, France
    • Frauen Porträts, Overbeck-Gesellschaft,  Lübeck, Germany
    • The Helsinki School – La nouvelle photographie finlandaise, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
  • 2007
    • Galerie les filles du calvaire, Paris, France
    • Centre photographique d´ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault, France
    • Kuntsi Museum for Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
    • Helsinki School, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
  • 2006
    • Landscape, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
    • Helsinki School, Borås Art Museum, Sweden
    • Helsinki School, Langhans Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
    • XI Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
  • 2005
    • ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, United States
    • Timebandits, Råhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Unheimlich Jung, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Germany
    • Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
    • Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere, Finland
    • Location One, New York, United States
    • White Box, New York, Unites States
    • Helsinki School, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2004
    • Bror Hjurths Hus, Sweden
    • Galerie Roellin | duerr, St Gallen, Switzerland
    • 30 by Taik, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
    • Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
    • moi suomi – Das Finnische Film – und Kulturfestival, Berlin, Germany
    • Galerie Photo du Pôle Image Haute-Normandie Rouen, France
  • 2003
    • 46664 – Concert, Cap Town, South Africa
    • KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
    • Galerie Nathalie Parienté, Paris, France
    • USINE COROT, Marseille, France
    • Meeting Place, a touring exhibition, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
    • The 108th Annual Exhibition of Finnish Artists NUORET, Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
  • 2002
    • Masters of Arts, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
    • Photography and Video, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
  • 2000
    • (SIC), CuLTUREN, Västerås, Sweden
  • 1999
    • Spaces, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland

PUBLIC WORKS

2024               Public artwork at Runosmäki, Turku, Finland
2022               Tyyssija, Turku Student Village Foundation, Turku, Finland
2018               New Children´s Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
Hyvinkää Hospital, Finland

PUBLICATIONS

2021 Posing Time Flipbooks, Serlachius Museums 2021
2020 Santeri Tuori, Time Is No Longer Round, Hatje Canz
2009 Santeri Tuori, Forest, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, 2009
2006 Santeri Tuori, Posing Time, Kerber Verlag, 2006
2004 Santeri Tuori, Karlotta (Still #1-19), Galerie Anhava 2004
2004 Santeri Tuori, Photography and video 1998-2003, Galerie Anhava 2004
2001 Vallan kuva – valokuva kontrollipolitiikan välineenä. (Pictures of Power)
Publishers: Musta Taide and The Finnish Museum of Photography

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art
The Finnish Museum of Photography
Frac Haute Normandie France
Helsinki University
Hämeenlinna Art Museum
Malmö Art Museum
Brandts Klædefabrik: Museet for Fotokunst
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
The Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Art Foundation Collection
Serlachius Museums
Sir Elton John and Daved Furnish Collection
Wäino Aaltonen Art Museum
Private collections in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Lichtenstein, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA