PRACTICE

Tero Puha is a Finnish multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between photography, filmmaking, drawing, printmaking and spatial installation. Across these fields, his practice explores the relationship between body, identity, desire and visual culture — how human presence is shaped, idealised and transformed through images, media and performance.

Combining conceptual thinking with sensuality and visual precision, Puha’s works often exist between intimacy and construction, seriousness and irony. His projects frequently examine masculinity, beauty, consumer culture and the body as both personal experience and cultural surface.

Rather than separating media into fixed categories, Puha approaches photography, moving image, printed matter and installation as interconnected forms of visual storytelling.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography forms the central foundation of Puha’s artistic practice. His photographic works explore the human body as both emotional presence and constructed image — balancing vulnerability, desire, distance and performance. Working between portraiture, staged imagery and conceptual photography, his projects often question how identity is produced through visual culture.

Selected projects

  • Equals (1996)
  • Autopsy of Love (2002)
  • Intimate Light (2022)
  • Carrington’s Garden (2023)

FILMMAKING

Puha’s moving-image works combine cinematic language with the sensibility of visual art. His films explore identity, social roles, intimacy and memory through carefully composed imagery, understated humour and psychologically charged atmospheres. Working across experimental short films, hybrid narrative works and installation-based moving image, his practice moves fluidly between fiction and visual essay

Selected projects

  • Nine to Five (2019)
  • Original (2020)
  • Variables (2023)
  • Everyman Kissing Exercise (2026)
  • The Editor (in progress)

PRINTMAKING, DRAWING & PUBLICATIONS

Drawing and printmaking introduce a slower and more tactile dimension into Puha’s practice. Many projects begin with hand-drawn imagery or analogue processes that later evolve through photogravure, risograph, offset printing or artist-book formats into layered combinations of image, material and narrative.

Artist books and limited editions play an important role within this body of work, merging visual art, design and physical object-making into intimate collectible forms.

Selected projects

  • Innocence ’93 (2025)
  • Rough Innocence Calendar (2026)
  • Pale Fire (2027)

INSTALLATIONS & SPATIAL WORKS

Puha’s installation-based works combine photography, moving image, objects, sound and graphic elements into immersive environments that often blur the boundaries between exhibition, performance and constructed reality.

These projects frequently reflect on masculinity, branding, consumer aesthetics and media culture while inviting the viewer into psychologically and visually staged spaces.

Selected projects

  • Shop of Basic Needs (1997)
  • Love and Lust Museum (1999)
  • Man Gang Showroom (2001)
  • Swap and Go Organ Fair (2003)
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