Seminar Elina Brotherus & Svante Gullichsen

Accomplished Finnish photographer Elina Brotherus meets emerging Finnish talent Svante Gullichsen to introduce their works and approaches in photography.

© Elina Brotherus, Arabian Landscape with a North-European Woman Trying to Blend In (Tree), 2019, commissioned by The Wapping Project, London.

Elina Brotherus (b. 1972, Helsinki, Finland) works in photography and moving image. Her work has been alternating between autobiographical and art-historical approaches. Photographs dealing with the human figure and the landscape, the relation of the artist and the model, gave way to images on subjective experiences in her recent bodies of work Annonciation and Carpe Fucking Diem. In her current work she is revisiting Fluxus event scores and other written instructions for performance-oriented art of the 1950s-70s. Another ongoing interest is photographing in private houses by architects like Alvar Aalto, Friedensreich Hundertwasser or Michel Polak, where Brotherus takes roles of various imagined characters and brings a tranquil human presence to these iconic spaces. Elina Brotherus started exhibiting internationally in 1997. The artist’s works are in 66 different public collections and she has published ten monographs.

© Elina Brotherus, Portrait Series (Gelbe Musik with Sunflowers), 2016

© Elina Brotherus, Plage de Sebald 3, one half of the diptych, 2019

Svante Gullichsen (b.1994) is a Helsinki-based photographer whose work varies from strong Nordic and mystical atmospheres to warm and insightful commissions. At the very core of Gullichsen’s work is the relation between human and nature as well as the fundamental relation between darkness and light. Gullichsen’s works have been shown in the Generation 2017-2018 exhibition series and can be found in private collections.

© Svante Gullichsen, All the walls I've built, 2017

Svante is an open-call winner at the 2019 Helsinki Photo Festival on the theme “Anarchy” and won the best image that year.

© Svante Gullichsen, As if the ice kept me still, 2019

Svante Gullichsen