Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Collection Fondation Thalie, Brussels-Arles
EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Finland
Design Museum Helsinki, Finland
Finnish Cultural Foundation Art Collection / Mäntyniemi, Official Residence of the President of Finland, Helsinki
The National Museum of Finland, Finland
Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
Kerava Art Museum, Finland
Hyytiälä Forest Station / University of Helsinki, Finland
TextielMuseum, Netherlands
Rabobank Art Collection, Netherlands
Buitenplaats Doornburgh, Netherlands
Saastamoinen Foundation, Finland
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Finland
Private Collections
Honours
Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland, 2023
Selected Press
The New York TimesT Magazine / The New York Times
Financial Times
Artforum
The Art Newspaper
Apollo
Connaissance des Arts
Télérama
Corriere della Sera
Nikkei
South China Morning Post
Helsingin Sanomat
Wallpaper
Monocle
Domus
Frame
AD Architectural Digest
Dezeen
Selected Literature
Monographs
Kustaa Saksi: Cosmos. Texts by Jessica Hemmings and Niina Tanskanen. Garret Publications, Helsinki, 2023.
Offpiste – In the Land of Kustaa Saksi. Gestalten, Berlin, 2009.
Exhibition Catalogues
Majevski, Mirja (ed.). Systema Naturae. Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, 2017.
Lipps, Andrea, and Ellen Lupton (eds.). Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 2016.
Call to the Wild / L’Appel de la nature. Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, 2020.
Writing on the Work
Skovsgaard, Katrine. The Headache Chronicles. PhD thesis, Royal College of Art, London, 2026.
Rekkali Jensen, Zeynep. “The intricate world of Kustaa Saksi: A journey through art, science, and design.” STIR, 3 January 2024.
Barrett, Helen. “Weaving migraine visions into psychedelic tapestries.” Financial Times, FT Weekend, 8 July 2023.
Kontkanen, Minna. “A Woollen Waterfall” (in Finnish). Suomen Kuvalehti, 25 May 2023.
Kihlman, Asta. “Woven visions and dreams” (in Finnish). Turun Sanomat, 5 September 2022.
Valjakka, Timo. “In Kustaa Saksi’s psychedelic tapestries, visions, dreams and hallucinations take concrete form” (in Finnish). Helsingin Sanomat, 22 July 2022.
Boutoulle, Myriam. “Kustaa Saksi, hallucinations tissées.” Connaissance des Arts, no. 797, November 2020, pp. 88–89.
Chapman, Lara. “When Migraines Lead to Art: Kustaa Saksi’s ‘First Symptoms’.” TL Magazine, 4 February 2019.
Daniel, Diane. “A Dutch Laboratory That Paints in Yarn.” The New York Times, 5 December 2018.
Kong, Daniel. “Textile artist Kustaa Saksi delivers a world of psychedelic visions and dreamscapes.” South China Morning Post, 4 April 2016.
Ho Yi. “Getting trippy with textiles.” Taipei Times, 26 March 2015.
Hemmings, Jessica. “Kustaa Saksi.” Selvedge, Spring 2015, pp. 31–34.
Films
Koodi (2021) by David Verbeek
Residencies
Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, 2025
Talks
Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, 2025
In dialogue with the exhibition Pekka Halonen: An Ode to Finland
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 2016