Current and upcoming exhibitions:

  • January 10th to 27th, 2026 We Were Never Here, solo show at Galleria Rajatila, Tampere. Opening on Friday Jan 9th, 2026 at 6-8 PM. Welcome!

  • March 2026, group exhibition at Galleria Toinen Silmä, Helsinki

  • July 2026 WOUND, solo show at Varikko Galleria, Seinäjoki.

  • August 2026 WOUND, solo show at Galleria Uusi Kipinä, Lahti

    Select exhibitions:

  • September 2025: We Were Never Here, solo show at Photographic Centre Peri members´ exhibition & group show at Tampere Photo Festival

  • 27.6-27.7.2025. In the Window - The Intimate Touch of the Gaze, group show by the Finnish Darkroom Association at Filmverkstaden, Vaasa

  • 22.5.-26.6.2025. Muistoja valosta, group show by the Finnish Darkroom Association, Kamerataivas, Killinkoski

  • 4.4-30.4.2025. We Were Never Here, group show at Galleria La Fiaba, Jyväskylä

  • 2.1-12.1.2025. We Were Never Here, solo show at Galleria Kalleria, Helsinki.

  • Nov 2023-May 2024 Aetas, Winner of Oikokatu Open Call fall 2023, organized by LUOVAKE, the Centre of Creative Photography, the city of Jyväskylä and TAIKE Arts Promotion Centre. Aetas-series was publicly displayed as 8 artworks on the street Oikokatu, Jyväskylä.

  • 2022 Suvi Eestis, group exhibition at Fotografiska Tallinn café

  • 2017 Suomi 100 – 10 photographers from Finland, group exhibition at the National Center of Modern Arts of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk

Born 1974. Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Email: pauliina at pauliinatuomikoski.com IG: pauliina_tuomikoski

Education: Master of Arts: Photography at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture 2025 -> MD, PhD at Helsinki University, Finland

Member of the Association of Photographic Artists, Finland

Positions of trust: Finnish Darkroom Association, Member of the Board, 2022->, Laila Pullinen Foundation, Member of the Board 2023->

In my work I look at the emotional tensions within the persons themselves, in relation to the surrounding world, and other people. To balance feelings of closeness and distance, to exist somewhere between fear and daring, constitute the core of my artistic work.