Tuomas Laitinen

Finnish | 1976

Tuomas Laitinen is a Finnish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1976. Their work is currently being shown at Kai Art Center in Tallinn. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art have featured Tuomas Laitinen's work in the past.Tuomas Laitinen has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Art in America and The Art Newspaper. The most recent article is Ars Fennica 2023 Nominees Joint Exhibition Opens at Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma written for ArtDaily in September 2023.

Artist's alternative names: Tuomas A. Laitinen

Misfit , 2012

Aluminimum frame, transparency print and LED

35.433 x 1.968 x 43.307 inches (90 x 5 x 110 cm)

This Way , 2012

5K Red Digital Cinema Video transferred to QT ProRes 422 file on USB stick, stereo

Vista Point , 2014

Master format HD Apple Prores 422, screening format: mp4, no sound

6:07 minutes

Current Exhibitions

Tuomas A. Laitinen & Kristina Õllek: Cyanoceans

Kai Art Center

Tallinn | Estonia

Jan 26,2024 - Aug 04,2024

Past Exhibitions

Ars Fennica 2023

Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art

Helsinki | Finland

Sep 08,2023 - Jan 28,2024

Hommage á Lauri Anttila

Uniarts Helsinki, Kuva/Tila

Helsinki | Finland

Dec 01,2023 - Jan 14,2024

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Articles

Ars Fennica 2023 Nominees Joint Exhibition Opens at Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma

ArtDaily 13/09/2023

The nominees for the 2023 Ars Fennica award are Henni Alftan and Tuomas A. Laitinen from Finland, Lap-See Lam from Sweden, Camille Norment from Norway, and Emilija Škarnulytė from Lithuania.

Reaching Beyond the Human

Art in America 02/02/2022

A SERIES OF TEN TUBULAR BLOWN-GLASS sculptures, each the size and shape of an internal organ, sat on curvy, custom-built fiberboard tables distributed like islands in an archipelago throughout the Yeh Art Gallery at St. John’s University in New York this past fall.

Art on a Finnish Island and Manifesta in Marseille: Our Guide to the Brightest Biennials and Festivals in 2020

The Art Newspaper 01/01/2020

Prospect.5 commemorates the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and its all change as Liverpool Biennial gets a new director

Coverage

“ ..Laitinen is an artist whose work fuses moving image, 3D animation, light, sound, installations and spatial interventions... ”
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International Studio & Curatorial Program

“ ..Laitinen’s discoveries in Helsinki’s underground world are both familiar and unknown... ”
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Helsinki Contemporary

“ ..A key theme that emerges from Laitinen’s working process is the circulation of energy and matter, along with the role played in this by humankind... ”
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Helsinki Contemporary