Santeri Tuori at Fotografiska Tallinn

Works by Santeri Tuori are featured in Fotografiska Tallinn’s exhibition In Bloom, among works by 17 artists from around the world. The exhibition highlights nature through the medium of contemporary photography and video art, offering a glimpse into its portrayal in today’s art. It is a symbolic-philosophical exploration of the sublime nature, of the reconstructed, guided and controlled environment, and of the untouched wilderness of nature.

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.

In Bloom is curated by Jessica Jarl and Maarja Loorents, and was previously seen at Fotofrafiska New York and Stockholm. The exhibition runs until 27 October 2024.

Image: Santeri Tuori, Forest 44, 2019, archival pigment print

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Jani Ruscica nominated for Ars Fennica 2025 prize

Jani Ruscica has been nominated as one of the candidates for Finland’s most significant fine art prize, Ars Fennica! The award is presented annually to a visual artist in recognition of distinctive artistic work of high merit. A joint exhibition showcasing the nominees’ works will be on display at HAM Helsinki Art Museum from 24 October 2025, to 15 March 15 2026. The winner 2025, selected by Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, will be announced in the spring of 2026.

“Jani Ruscica works across mediums of moving and printed image, sculpture and performance. Central to the artist’s practice is the slippage and simultaneity of meaning animated by forms that move, stretch, shape-shift, and exceed the borders of time, space, and bodies. Working with fragmentary signs or images we think we already know, Ruscica deploys the pseudo-familiar to undermine immediate legibility in favour of precarious, improvisational processes.” –Camilla Granbacka

Photo: Diana Luganski

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Essi Kuokkanen in Cologne

Essi Kuokkanen takes part in a duo exhibition Regular Volley with artist Björn Knapp, at La Felce gallery in Cologne, Germany. The exhibition runs until 29 September 2024. Regular Volley deals with emerging feelings and with what might happen when we allow them to come and take over. In Essi Kuokkanen’s paintings bodies intertwine, a dog supports someone through what seems like a turbulent phase, and something new grows out of a puddle of tears.

Image: Essi Kuokkanen, Emotional Support, 2024, oil on canvas, 78 x 60 cm. Photo: Eetu Huhtanen