Jorma Puranen

Finnish | 1951

Jorma Puranen is a Finnish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1951. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Persons Projects have featured Jorma Puranen's work in the past.Jorma Puranen's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 674 USD to 26,395 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 26,395 USD for Icy prospects (no. 17), sold at Christie's London in 2007. Jorma Puranen has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Berlin Art Link Magazine and Saatchi Online. The most recent article is Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Purdy Hicks written for FAD Magazine in July 2023.

Shadows and Reflections 79 - Jorma Puranen

Shadows and Reflections 79, 2013

print mounted to acrylic glass and framed

image 125 x 100 cm

Icy Prospects 2, 2005

Colour coupler print, Diasec mounted

152 x 125 cm (59 7/8 x 49 1/4 in)

Icy Prospects 17

C-print, diasec

65.5 x 84 cm

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

Shadows, reflections and all that sort of thing #22

By Jorma Puranen

-50%

below mid-estimate

Christie's Amsterdam

'Landscapes in Full Color #9', 2012

By Jorma Puranen

Bukowskis, Online

”Afterimage”, 2012

By Jorma Puranen

Bukowskis, Online

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Past Exhibitions

Portraiture as Social Commentary

Persons Projects

Kreuzberg | Berlin | Germany

Nov 18,2023 - Jan 27,2024

Winter Exhibition

Purdy Hicks Gallery

London | UK

Dec 08,2023 - Jan 18,2024

Jorma Puranen: They Could Hear a Faraway Thunder

Galerie Anhava

Helsinki | Finland

Sep 07,2023 - Oct 01,2023

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Articles

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Purdy Hicks

FAD Magazine 12/07/2023

If you visit Purdy Hicks you are likely to meet one of the very approachable directors, Nicola Shane or Rebecca Hicks – Jayne Purdy stays more in the background, as does Rebecca’s husband, curator and writer Alistair.

Exhibition focuses on a selected group of artists from the Helsinki School

ArtDaily 02/05/2023

Persons Projects is presenting the group exhibition Refractive Landscapes.

Open Call for Artists Development Programme Residency 2020 in Luxembourg

Berlin Art Link Magazine 23/12/2019

The European Investment Bank Institute is offering an artist residency programme for one visual artist or an artist duo.

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Coverage

“ ..Puranen photographs the model's face will remain in the background, light and shadows play brings familiarity to replace sensitivity and a sense of strangeness, a fleeting moment, and power for centuries... ”
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Sinebrychoff Art Museum

“ ..By a face veil strangest lights and varjoin, Puranen creates models of the face of a new kind of mystery and opens our eyes to the fate of the models... ”
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Sinebrychoff Art Museum

“ ..It is a recurrent theme in Jorma Puranen’s work for many years, investigated in various series and through various methods... ”
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Galleri Flach

“ ..Puranen focuses on the scarred and scraped glass surfaces, making the negatives themselves appear as tales in its own right... ”
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Galleri Flach

“ ..Puranen states "for fifteen years I have been engaged in landscape projects in which I have prevented direct admiration of the natural scenery by putting something in between the viewer and the subject”... ”
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Gallery Taik Persons