Upcoming solo exhibitions:
2024 Fotografiska Tallinn
2024 Galerie Helder, The Hague
2024 Albumen Gallery, London
Past solo exhibitions:
2023 Retrospective at Belfast Exposed, Belfast
2023 Behind my back at HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Dresden
2022 Hanging on at Mazars, Berlin
2022 Hanging on at HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Dresden
2022 Fearless at HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Dresden
2021 Fearless at Helsinki Photo Festival, Helsinki
2021 Hanging on at Valokuvakeskus Nykyaika, Tampere
Past group exhibitions:
2021 Luontoretki at Nastolan Kesänäyttely
2021 Shadow in Light at Galleria Kookos
2019 Helsinki Photo Festival main exhibition
2019 Helsinki Photo Festival Pyhän Birgitan puisto outdoor group exhibition
2018 Generation group exhibition at Jyväskylä art museum
2017 Generation 2017 group exhibition at Amos Anderson art museum
Awards & nominations:
2022 Hellerau residency prize winner
2019 Helsinki Photo Festival best image winner
2019 Helsinki Photo Festival open call winner
Member of:
Suomen Valokuvataiteilijoiden liitto (Association of Photographic Artists in Finland)
Represented by:
Galerie Helder in the Hague
Albumen gallery in London
In media:
12/2023 Cover Story in HBL
11/2023 YLE morning show
10/2023 Cover story in Uusimaa https://www.uusimaa.fi/paikalliset/6296043
06/2022 Finnish art agency SHIFT 2022 https://www.finnishartagency.com/meet-shift-artist-svante-gullichsen/
06/2021 Gup Magazine
01/2021 Yle https://yle.fi/a/3-11727977
01/2021 Yle https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/1-50745488
Svante Gullichsen is a photographer living in Helsinki, Finland. He is an auto-didact artist. His photographs have been shown in several exhibitions, including the Nastola Summer Exhibition 2021, and at the Helsinki Photo Festival, where he won the Best Photo Award 2019. His successful debut exhibition "Hanging on" was held at the Photography Centre Nykyaika in Tampere early in 2021. He has previously participated in several other group exhibitions, including at the Amos Anderson Art Museum in Helsinki and the Jyväskylä Art Museum. In spring 2022 he will participate in two exhibitions in Dresden, Germany, as a finalist in the Hellerau portraits competition and winner of the residency prize. In 2020, Gullichsen and Elina Brotherus gave a joint lecture at the National Museum of Finland. He has also discussed his art at the Nuori taide 2021 event and reported on his work on YleX, Mtv3 news and Yle online news. He has also received honourable mentions in Finnish exhibitions and competitions.
Gullichsen wants to use his art to convey his understanding of the human mind and it’s challenges. For him, making art is a lifeline: a world where he can openly discuss his own sorrows and thoughts. He uses his art to talk about difficult and even taboo subjects. His ongoing projects have been telling a story about living with an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Gullichsen's works are photographs, most of them self-portraits. He mostly uses himself as a model for his own works: using his own body seems the most logical way to tell his own story.
Gullichsen usually depicts the challenges of the human mind through nature. The naked human body in the middle of the forest looks very natural and very strange: soft skin against hard rock. He is interested in the contradiction between man and nature and Gullichsen tries to find a perfect harmony between himself and the raw forest environment. The Finnish archipelago is a never-ending source of inspiration for him, and most of his work is created in the Porvoo archipelago.
