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Kustaa Saksi is a Finnish artist and designer based in Amsterdam, specialising in graphic storytelling through patterns, textile art and installation. Ideas of nature seen from the abstracted edge of perception pervade all of Saksi’s work.
Saksi (b. 1975, Kouvola, Finland) builds worlds of playful, paradoxical and troubling yet inviting shapes and environments pulled out of the ordinary. Combining organic qualities with uniquely detailed textures with rich colour palettes and experimental material use, Saksi is interested in creating contemporary spaces, objects and atmospheres. His abstracted Hypnopompic tapestry series sits somewhere between the states of dreaming and awakening
– surrealist and sensational. Using traditional jacquard weaving techniques, he combines natural fibres such
as mohair, alpaca, cotton and wool with rubber, metal, acrylic and phosphorescent yarns to create complex
digital to analog textures.
Saksi’s works have been exhibited at Victoria & Albert Museum, Cooper Hewitt Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, TextielMuseum and Kunsthall Stavanger as well as galleries in New York, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Singapore, Berlin, Madrid, Milan, Hong Kong, Mexico City and Tokyo. Saksi has produced commissioned artworks for companies such as Nike, Issey Miyake, Ferragamo, Lacoste, Bergdorf Goodman, Marimekko and Swedese.
Saksi’s works have been exhibited at Victoria & Albert Museum, Cooper Hewitt Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, TextielMuseum and Kunsthall Stavanger as well as galleries in New York, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Singapore, Berlin, Madrid, Milan, Hong Kong, Mexico City and Tokyo. Saksi has produced commissioned artworks for companies such as Nike, Issey Miyake, Ferragamo, Lacoste, Bergdorf Goodman, Marimekko and Swedese.
Video (TextielMuseum)
Article (The New York Times)
Selected Exhibitions
2019 First Symptoms
Finlandsinstitutets Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden. SS
2019 Untitled Art
Embarcadero, San Francisco, USA. GS
2018 Winter Group Show
Gallery Fumi, London, UK. GS
2018 Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art
The Former Faculty of Biology, Riga, Latvia. GS
2018 Simply Scandinavian – Nordic Design 1945–2018
TextielMuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands. GS
2018 IC-98: 2016–2018 (A World In Waiting)
Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland. GS
2018 Collectible
Vanderborght, Brussels, Belgium. GS
2018 Artists’ Kalevala – Echoes from the Past
Kerava Art Museum, Finland. GS
2018 Echoes – 100 Years in Finnish Design
Felleshus, The Nordic Embassies, Berlin, Germany. GS
2017 Hotel Panorama
PAN Amsterdam, The Netherlands. GS