Matilda Keränen

About the Artist

Matilda Keränen (b. 1996) is a visual artist based in Helsinki, working through painting and spatial installations. Her practice is grounded in themes such as corporeality, subjectivity, desire and otherness, which unfold through logics of repetition, mirroring and transition. She is interested in creating spaces where reflections briefly converge – like a play of mirrors in which something lost or longed for can be momentarily reached. 

Alongside her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Keränen has studied at Zurich University of the Arts and Accademia di Brera in Milan. Keränen’s works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad. Her works are included in private collections as well as in the collections of the Finnish National Gallery. 

Exhibitions

Einladung

31.10.-23.11.2025

About the artwork

“it is an imaginary figure, which, just like the soul, the shadow, the mirror image, haunts the subject like his other, which makes it so that the subject is simultaneously itself and never resembles itself again, which haunts the subject like a subtle and always averted death.”

         – Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

Violet is an oil triptych installed in the space. The figures in the painting create a mirror-like reflection, where they are close to each other, and yet out of reach. The work’s composition alludes to ancient mythologies, Sappho, metaphors, and iconographic imagery. At the same time, however, it creates a corporeal reality in the present. The work depicts sexuality and passion, but above all, love is at its core.