Tatu Tuominen

Tatu Tuominen (born 1975, Helsinki) is a Finnish visual artist whose work explores the relationship between the printed image and its history. His pieces are based on source images drawn from diverse repositories such as books and various collections of photographs, prints, and drawings. The imagery ranges from 16th-century etchings to modernist architectural plans.

In Tuominen’s artistic process, the appropriated images undergo transformation, taking on different material forms and contemporary contexts, thus acquiring new meanings. In his practice, Tuominen utilizes a multimedia approach covering collage, installation, moving image, computer-operated intaglio, cut paper, and more. His artwork spans from intricate small-scale intaglio to building-sized etchings on concrete.

Tuominen currently holds the position of Lecturer in Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. He earned his Master’s degree from the same institution in 2006. Since then, his work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Finland and internationally. Notable venues include MoCA Shanghai, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, and HAM Helsinki Art Museum. In recent years, he has also completed several commissioned public artworks across Finland.

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Tatu Tuominen’s A Split Second reflects on the construction and preservation of cultural memory. The images in the artwork are appropriated from a series of drawings attributed to the workshop of Antwerp neoclassicist artist Andries Lens who lived from 1739 to 1822 and taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.

A group of these drawings exists only as fragments — their lower halves lost, the upper portions preserved as though spared by an act of mercy. The result is uncanny: Why were the drawings torn? Why were only the upper parts saved?

Two of the drawings take center stage, forming a sequence. The figures — a putto and a classical god referencing antiquity — are caught in a dialogue of gestures. The artwork is a two-frame moving image, in which centuries collapse into a single, disjointed instant between the two images. Now transplanted into the present, they linger ghostlike in the cityscape of Antwerp in 2025.

The drawings are a recent acquisition to the historically significant Print Room collection of Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp — a UNESCO World Heritage site that works daily to preserve and extend the afterlife of art. This artwork was created with valuable assistance from the museum.

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