Kiia Karjalainen

About the Artist

Kiia Karjalainen (b. 1992) operates between printmaking, drawing and paper art. The starting point for the works is the description of and reflection on artistic work, with paper serving as the main material. The sheets of paper are built into spatial installations when they display in both physical and conceptual forms. The sketchbook recurs in Karjalainen’s works as a metaphor for thinking and creating, as the source of artistic work.

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Exhibitions

Kuvan kevät 2026

15.5.-14.6.2026

In my work, I reflect on the forms of one’s own space, one’s own space to think and work. I think about one’s own space on paper. Ideas come from a space that is necessary for the refinement of ideas. Paper stores those thoughts; on paper they exist for the first time. It carries thoughts forward while the sketchbook serves as a tool. A sketchbook is a work surface, an opportunity, an archive. It is its own space between the covers.

I build my installations in dialogue with the exhibition space. The space sets boundaries and frameworks for my practice. By observing the space, I try to find the suggestion it offers for the arrangement and form of the work.