Born 1974. Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Education: MD, PhD at Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland. Ongoing: Master of Culture and Arts, Arts Academy at Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Positions of trust: Finnish Darkroom Association, Member of the Board, 2022-, Laila Pullinen Foundation, Member of the Board 2023-
In my work I look at the emotional tensions within the persons themselves, in relation to the surrounding world, and other people.
To balance feelings of closeness and distance, to exist somewhere between fear and daring, constitute the core of my artistic work.
Contact:
pauliina at pauliinatuomikoski.com
IG: pauliina_tuomikoski
Upcoming exhibitions:
July 2026 WOUND/wound, solo show at Varikko Galleria, Seinäjoki.
Sep 2025 We Were Never Here, solo show at Photographic Centre Peri members´ exhibition.
July 2025 In the Window - The Intimate Touch of the Gaze, group show by the Finnish Darkroom Association at Filmverkstaden, Vasa.
Selected exhibitions:
22.5.-26.6.2025 Muistoja valosta, group show by the Finnish Darkroom Association, Kamerataivas, Killinkoski.
4.4-30.4.2025 We Were Never Here, group show at Galleria La Fiaba, Jyväskylä.
2.1-12.1.2025 We Were Never Here, solo show at Galleria Kalleria, Helsinki.
Nov 2023-May 2024 Aetas, Winner of Oikokatu Open Call fall 2023, organized by LUOVAKE, the Centre of Creative Photography, the city of Jyväskylä and TAIKE Arts Promotion Centre. Aetas-series was publicly displayed as 8 artworks on the street Oikokatu, Jyväskylä.
2022 Suvi Eestis, group exhibition at Fotografiska Tallinn café.
2017 Suomi 100 – 10 photographers from Finland, group exhibition at the National Center of Modern Arts of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk.