Ilja Karilampi

Ilja Karilampi's work explores music and pop culture narratives, creating new effects, journeys, and alternative ways to look at ourselves and the surface. Essentially a storyteller, his output over the last decade has been reflecting his own role as the producer and his aesthetic interests in glamorous social realism. By means of unorthodox graphic design, video editing, laser cut aluminium, UV stickers and rhythmic musical gestures, he assembles conceptual and sculptural narratives of urban life. Originally from Gothenburg and educated at Frankfurts Städelschule, Karilampi has exhibited at Revolver Galería, Lima (2020); Carl Kostyal, Malmö (2019); Erik Nordenhake, Stockholm (2018); Kiasma, Helsinki (2017), La Plage, Paris (2015); and MoMA PS1, New York (2012).