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Santeri Tuori

Forest #51, 2022

Pigment print

203 x 139.5 cm

Santeri Tuori has a very personal relationship in his approach to nature, much like the Impressionist painters of the 19th century. Although he uses the photographic process to create his images, his subjects have their roots in traditional landscape painting and drawing. By observing and measuring nature's ever-changing growth from season to season, year after year, Tuori uses his photographs as means to encapsulate the passage of time. This conceptual process is achieved by layering one photographic negative upon another to create his own imaginary landscape.

Milja Laurila

Interiors (Tulips), 2024

Pigment print, paper, polyester film

140 x 107 cm

Unique

Milja Laurila’s newest series Interiors utilizes images of female patients from historical medical books from the early 20th century, gathered throughout most of her artistic career. She identifies with these anonymous women by unraveling their imagined stories, filtering them through her bodily senses. Laurila feels their literal presence within herself as she gently navigates the diagonal lines inside her own body, using them as her eyes in creating her works. The women chosen from her archive of found images, collected over the span of more than a decade, have become both deeply familiar and uncannily intertwined with her sense of self as a collective memory. Inserting her own emotional moments and places into the images, she creates a multiple-layered narrative where the past meets the present. Her unique photographic collages, poignant with sensitivity, provide a reflection on the position of women in society.

Paweł Ksiażek

Composition 02 (Susanne), 2021

Oil on canvas

160 x 150 cm

Paweł Książek’s main medium is painting, though he can be easily called an interdisciplinary artist. His interests lie in the roots of modernism. On the basis of archival photographs and film, Książek finds common motifs for seemingly disparate themes, which he in turn connects in a collage-like-way on canvas.

Marcin Jasik

Untitled, 2024

Acrylic, marker on canvas

190 x 190 cm

Marcin Jasik's abstract paintings carry their own visual literacy, which he then reduces through his own aesthetic filter to create a feeling of open spatiality. His canvases emit a sense of lightness in how he utilizes an effortless score of gestures and strokes through a series of applied lines and shapes to create a state of ocular tensions. Jasik builds up his reduced narrative by using thin layers of paint and acrylics to choreograph his own synaptic compositions in his visual pursuit of what’s essential, the essence behind what we see but feel. They represent his pursuit to form a new perspective on how to balance the material world with the spiritual.

Sandra Kantanen

Meadow 08, 2023

Pigment print

126.5 x 97 cm

Sandra Kantanen has been delving into the world of landscape photography for two decades. Her fascination with creating idealized, surreal scenery stems from the traditions of Asian landscape painting and how they depict nature. Kantanen states: "During my stay in Asia, I learned that most of the sacred mountains they had depicted for thousands of years had been almost completely destroyed by pollution and tourism." Hence, her interest in places marked by history or environmental disaster, and the need to discern what’s real and what’s not. However, her path traverses a gray area that lies between an Eastern way of seeing and a Western sense of romanticism.

Nanna Hänninen

In Beaty We Walk #1 (Joshua Tree National Park), 2024

Archival pigment print, acrylic paint

55 x 84 cm

Nanna Hänninen, who has played a pivotal role within the Helsinki School since the late 1990s, was one of the first Finnish female artists to work conceptually, utilizing the photographic process to realize large abstract images. Nanna Hänninen’s works often refer to a wide variety of social phenomena and psychological motives and patterns in human behavior, such as the feeling of power, sense of ownership or the feeling of being an outsider, and how over time our private experiences become part of a universal, collective experience. In each of her series, the artist deploys a mix of sculptural, installation and photographic processes through which she is pushing the possibilities of experimental practice.

Grey Crawford

Umbra #14, 1977

Silver gelatin print

50,5 x 66 cm

Grey Crawford was born and raised in Southern California, USA, and was one of the first West Coast artists who challenged the photographic medium through his darkroom experiments with both black and white and color photography. His early 1970s black and white photographs, from his Umbra series, combine the dense urban landscape images of Los Angeles with his darkroom experiments. Inspired by the basic shapes and forms used by the California Hard Edge painters John McLaughlin and Karl Benjamin, Crawford distinguished himself from the popular topographers of that era, such as Lewis Baltz. He infused these geometric forms, utilizing his own masking and filter techniques, which he developed during his studies at the Rochester Institute.

Katarzyna Kozyra

Summertale: Snow White, 2008

Archival pigment print

105 x 70 cm

Kozyra is Poland’s most famous female artist. In the 1990s, she and artists Artur Żmijewski and Paweł Althamer started the critical art movement. From the beginning, Kozyra broke social taboos like nudity, old age, and death, making her controversial in conservative Polish society. Her performances and interactive events challenge traditional artist-audience boundaries, while her videos tackle key human issues such as identity and transgression.

Zofia Kulik

Garden (Libera and Flowers) 11, 1996
60 x 50 cm
Archival pigment print

Zofia Kulik is one of the most famous Polish conceptual artists, known for her black and white photomontages that often combine political criticism with a feminist perspective. Thematically, she focuses on the relationship of man and woman, the individual and the mass, as well as on symbols of power and totalitarianism. A further pivotal part of her work is the phenomenon of mass-media, and its influence on consumers.