Jorma Puranen
Lives and works in Helsinki
Studies
1973 - 1978
University of Art Design, Helsinki
Academic teaching
1980 -
University of Art Design, Helsinki
1995 - 1998
Professor, University of Art Design, Helsinki
Selected one person exhibitions
2004
Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin
Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
James Flach Gallery, Stockholm
2002
Photogallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FIN
Gallery Christian Dam, Oslo, N
Blue Sky Gallery/Oregon Center for Photographic Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
2001
Museet for fotokunst/Brandts Kldefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2000
Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Siida-Smi Museum, Inari, Finland
1999
Muse de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
1998
Impressions Gallery, York, UK
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
1996
Galerie Minima Peliti, Roma
Gallery G, Helsinki, Fin
1995
Galerie le Lieu, Lorient, F
Galerie Braggiotti, Amsterdam, NL
Fotogalleriet, Oslo, N
Galerie Photo du Theatre de lAgora, Evry, F
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea;
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, UK;
Picture House Gallery, Leicester, UK;
1994
fotogallery, Cardiff, UK
Konstens Hus, Lule, S
Institut Finlandais, Paris, F
1993
Galerie Suzel Berna, Paris, F
Centre de Dveloppement Culturel, Tarbes, F
Galleri Index, Stockholm, S
1992
Valokuvagalleria Hippolyte, Helsinki
1991
Galerie Krivy, Nice, F
Selected group exhibitions
2004
Momentum-Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
30 by Taik, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
River Deep Mountgain High, National Touring Exhibitions, Norway
Carnegie Art Award, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen;
Kopavogur Art Museum, Iceland;
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Victoria Miro Warehouse, London
New Realities, Fotomuseum, Reykjavik, Islanti
2003
New Realities, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
Dominated by Water, Vantaa City Art Museum, Vantaa , Finland
Verarbeitete Fotografie, Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin
Fünf Positionen finnischer Fotografie, Kunstvererin Schwerte, Schwerte, Germany
Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Finnland, Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin;
Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim;
Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg;
Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel;
Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus;
Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan, Poland;
Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland
Carnegie Art Award, Royal Art Academy, Stockholm
Designing the Quietness, Ozone Living Design Center, Tokyo, Japan;
Copper Smithy, Fiskars, Finland
2002
Nouvelle photographie finlandaise, Caf-Crme/Photographie Contamporaine, Luxembourg
Mare Balticum, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen
The Politics of Place, Bildmuseet, Ume, Sweden;
Edsvik Konst. Kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden;
Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Valokuva ja video, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Fin
Korrelaatioita, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
Faces and Figures, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
Pohjoiseen ja etelään, Purnu Art Center, Orivesi, Finland
2001
Strange Reality, Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin
Landshapes-Records of Action, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, USA
Faces and Figures, Scandinavian House, New York, USA
Nordic Art 2001, Röda Sten, Gothenburg, Sweden
Fotographia Metafisica, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
Lost Homelands, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal;
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
Finsk Foto, Galleri Christian Dam, Oslo; Copenhagen
2000
Breathless! Photography and Time, Victoria Albert Museum, London
Une Histoire Finlandaise, La Galerie Photo, Montpellier, France
Three Beginning Roads in Finnish Contemporary Photography, Kari Kenetti Gallery, Helsinki
1999
Landshapes, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, USA;
The von Leibig Art Center, Naples, Florida, USA
Lost Homelands, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Canada;
McKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
vocation, Marche Bonsecours, Mois de la Photo Montreal, Canada
Auf der Suche nach der Verlorenen Zeit, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Nordiskt Foto, Skövde Konsthall, Skövde, S
1998
Cartografs i aventurers, Cultural Centre of the Fundaci "la Caixa",Barcelona;Lleida; Vic,Spain
Continental Drift, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Le Violon dIngres/Play it again, Royal Concert Hall, Amsterdam
Finnish Art Triennial, Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki, Fin
Under/Exposed, Stockholm Underground, S
Shadows, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Fin
1997
Le muse photographique, 19mes Estivales Photographiques du Trgor, Imagerie,Lannion, France
Du bois des arbres des artistes, Muse des Beaux Arts, Chambry, France
Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Fin
Dislocations, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Fin
Forest, Kuopio Art Museum, Fin
1996
Myth and Landscape, European Cultural Centre, Delphi, Greece
Heimat, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany
Document, Tampere, Fin
1995
Art, Resistance and the English Garden, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris, F
Galerija Gabrijel, Sarajevo
Vents du Nord, Cellier de Talant, Talant, F
Disrupted Borders, London Regional Art and Historical Museum, London, Ontario, Canada
1994
Europe Rediscovered, Turbine Hall/M/S Kronborg, Copenhagen, DK
Jorden, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, S
Fotodiffusione, Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino, I
Balticum Biennale, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Fin
Tulkinta-Interpretation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Disrupted Borders, PhotographersGallery, London, UK;
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK;
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, C
1993
Una Luce dal Nord, Acquario Romano, Roma
Siivellä-On Wing, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
Disrupted Borders, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
Nordlys, Nikolaj Kirke, Copenhagen, DK
Second Nature, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Scotland;
Shetland Arts Trust Gallery, Shetland;
StillsGallery, Edinburgh, UK
1992
Wasteland, Fotografie Biennal Rotterdam III, Rotterdam
I International Meeting of Photography, Saaremaa, Estonia
Decennium-Finnish Photographic Art of the 1980s, travelling exhibition Finnice, Kerava Art Museum, Fin
1990
Side Gallery, Newcastle, UK
1989
Kaltlicht, Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf
1988
Questioning Europe, Fotografie Biennal Rotterdam I, Rotterdam
Houston Fotofest, Houston, USA
Utopia and Memory, travelling exhibition
1987
Ateneum 100/Claireobscure, The Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki
1986
Directions-Finnish Photography 1842-1986, Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki
1985
Nordic Night-Nordic Light, Asahi Pentax Gallery, Tokyo
Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Maison Europenne de la Photographie, Paris, F
Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, S
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Muse de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, S
Museet for Fotokunst/Brandts Kldefabrik, Odense, DK
Norsk museum for Fotografi-Preus fotomuseum, N
Bibliothque nationale, Paris, F
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
The Finnish Museum of Photography
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Fin
Helsinki City Art Museum, Fin
Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum, Turku, Fin
Oulu Art Museum, Fin
State of Finland
Etnografisk Museum, Oslo, N
Vantaa City Art Collection, Fin
Espoo City Art Collection, Fin
Wihuri collection/The Art Museum of Rovaniemi, Fin
Saastamoinen Foundation, Fin
Artothque, Grenoble, F
Centre de Dveloppement Culturel, Tarbes, F
Viktor Barsokevitsch Photography Center, Kuopio, Fin
Lule Municipality Art Collection, S
Rauma Art Museum, Fin
Galerie le Lieu, Lorient, F
Galerie de Theatre de LAgora, Evry, F
Collection de Dorint Htel, Bruxelles, B
Bibliothque H. Vincenot, Talant, F
Imagerie, Lannion, France
Samiske Samlinger, Karasjok, Norway
Publications
1999
Imaginary Homecoming, Pohjoinen Publications, Oulu(Fin)
1992
Ateneum, The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki (portfolio)
1989
Alpha Omega, Opus, Helsinki
1986
Maarf Leudd-Photographs of the Skolt Lapps, Opus, Helsinki
Prizes
1992
PhotoFinlandia Prize
1988
National Prize for Finnish Photography
Selected bibliography
Henning Wettendorf, "Jorma Puranen", Katalog, Journal of Photography Video, Vol 14, 2001, Odense, Denmark
Elizabeth Edwards, "Jorma Puranen-Imaginary Homecoming-A Study in Re-engagement", in Raw Histories-Photographs, Anthropology and Museums, Berg 2001, Oxford/New York
Aperture 158; Photography and Time-winter 2000, New York
Marta Gili, "Cartografs i aventurers: narradors dhistries", Fundacio"la Caixa", Barcelona, 1998
Ruth Charity, "Curiosus Naturae Spectator/Jorma Puranen", Portfolio 27, Edinburgh 1998
Nikos Papastergiadias, "Curiosus Naturae Spectator, Continental Drift, Europe Approaching the MillenniumPrestel, Münich/New York, 1998
David Brittain, "Lie of the Land", Creative Camera, April/May 1998, London
Elizabeth Edwards, "Beyond the Boundary", in Rethinking Visual Anthropology ed. by Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy, Yale University Press, 1997
La Recherche Photographique 20 - LAilleurs, printemps 1997, Paris
Sylvain Maresca, "Essai de comparaison entre les approches photographique et ethnographique" in La Photographie - Un miroir des sciences sociales, LHarmattan, Paris/Montral, 1996
John Stathatos, "Myth and Landscape", exhibition catalogue, 1996
Boris v. Brauchitsch, "Das Schweigen im Walde", exhibition catalogue, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen, Germany, 1996
Min-Jung Yang, "Jorma Puranen", The Monthly Photographic Art Magazine, Seoul, South Korea, 10/1996 Jean-Christian Fleury, "Curtis, Puranen, Lvi-Strauss/Photographie et ethnologie", Photographies Magazine, Avril 1995, Paris
Elizabeth Edwards, Imaginary Homecoming / The work of Jorma Puranen, Social Identities/Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Vol.2, 1995
Robert Pujade, "La Photographie Comme Science Fabuleuse/ A Propos des Images de Jorma Puranen" , exhibition cataloque, 1994
Helena Demakova, "Rauma Biennale Balticum 94", exhibition catalogue, 1994
Jean-Christian Fleury, "Jorma Puranen", Photographies Magazine, December 1993, Paris
Sunil Gupta, "Disrupted Borders", Rivers Oram Press, London 1993
Mika Ripatti, "The Stations of the Gaze/ Crossroads of Absolution", Index / Contemporary Scandinavian Images, Stockholm, 1/1993
Jan-Erik Lundström, "Returning to Saami Country: The Photographic Art of Jorma Puranen", Scandinavian Review, Winter 1993