Tuure Leppänen (b.1999) is a Helsinki-based visual artist working with lens-based art. In his work, themes of memory, lived experience and feelings of belonging and disconnect are studied with a photographic gaze. Leppänen’s practice departs from theoretical writing and discourse around photography. By adapting and appropriating the medium’s documentary character, he aims to expand the scope of human experience beyond the body’s immediate senses and vicinity. A question recurs throughout his work: How do machines affect the way we remember the past, experience visual contemporaneity and head towards the future?
Leppänen is pursuing a Master’s degree at The Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, having also attended Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien. His works have been exhibited in galleries and off-site venues in and around Helsinki, as well as internationally. In 2022, a collaborative residency project with Xiao Zhiyu, and hosted by sabl.live, was exhibited in Espace Arlaud, Lausanne. He has made collaborative works with Sheung Yiu, recently shown in his exhibition at WMA Space, Hong Kong in 2024.
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Education
2023 – Master of Fine Arts
Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki
2024 – exchange semester
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien
2019 – 2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts
Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki
Selected exhibitions
Solo and duo exhibitions
2024 Warm Echoes, Sargfabrik, Vienna (AT)
2020 The Other Actor, Pocket Gallery, Helsinki (FI)
Group exhibitions
2023 Lux Söderlångvik, Söderlångvik gård, Kimitö (FI)
2022 Imaginaires Vibrants, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne (CH)
2022 BFA Exhibition, Kuva/Tila, Helsinki (FI)
2022 Loota, Vapaan taiteen tila, Helsinki (FI)
2021 Ebb and Flow, Kuva/Tila, Helsinki (FI)
2021 Uomilla, Galleria Albert IX, Helsinki (FI)
2021 Speck Mail, The Museum of Technology, Helsinki (FI)
Residencies
2022 sabl (CH)
Publications
2021 At Minute 0 Past Every Hour